1972 Chevy C10 "OrngsikL"

[orngsikL]

About 2 weeks ago, I sold my 2008 GMC extended cab short bed, dropped 4/6. To fund this project. (no more note either!!)

Found the truck on craigslist in Mississippi, contacted the PO a few times by email. Me and a good buddy left one morning, with a trailer, and me full of doughnuts and redbull, after working nights to go get it. I was tired, but it was worth the drive.

here's a shot of the craigslist ad.


took about 2.5 hours to get there from home, we rolled up and seen it, checked it out and took it for a few spins.


loaded it up and headed back home, had a guy ask to buy it at the gas station in mississippi. But we kept on rolling.



I couldn't stop looking behind the truck, It was like christmas morning.

Got the truck home.



She's got some rust, but not much.





Not sure what the steering wheel came out of? Pontiac??


I think i've had it about two weeks. Since then i've checked all the rear lights, got them working. Pulled the dent out of the drivers door, not perfect, but just for the time being, we wanted to see how bad it was and I will have to replace it.

Got the coolant temp and battery voltage aftermarket gauges hooked up to make sure all that is working. Truck runs a 160 with airflow and 190 idling, so i'm good there. Battery voltage shoots up to about 16V while cruising and around 12V while idling, not sure of this is right or if the gauge is off a bit?? Haven't hooked up my volt meter to the line yet. Had an oil leak at the sending unit line going to the gauge in the cluster, it was loose, tightened it up and no more oil leak. The oil dip stick was leaking too, needed an o-ring. Replaced the driver side motor mount a few days ago.
Overall the truck runs damn good. Took it on about a 30 mile trip the other day and the only problem I had was the voltage gauge started bouncing from 12 to 18v, pulled over and we smelled something burning, but couldn't find anything smoking or wires hot to the touch. Got back in and kept going with no more issues. I had a fire extinguisher in the truck just in case..haha.

Motor is a 350 with a mild cam, holley 650 carb, edelbrock intake and some longtubes going into dual flowmasters. It lopes real good. I don't know anything about the internals. History on the motor is that it was in a monte carlo SS that the PO was friends with the owner and the owner of the mcss wanted a big block right after he finished this engine, so the PO got it and swapped it in, said to have 30k on the motor.

The transmission is a th-350. Said to have been rebuilt recently. We used an online calcualtor based off of mph from my phone gps (dash gauge is working but not accurate, off by about 10-15 mph) and i'm thinking the rear end had around 4.10 gears.

Ordered a few parts the other day from sokyclassics.com
Got a turn signal cam, gear shift indicator and all the parts that make it function, front bumper hardware, electrical wiring manual and hood stop bumpers.

Got bored the other day before pulling the dent and layed some paint on the tailgate



I've been pinstriping for about 3 years now but it's been a full year since i've pinstriped anything. Gotta get back in it.

Future plans - they're on the way. Just keep watching...

[lil hoodlum]

Nice project! Cool story about going to get it. Looks like a fun project! Really nice job on the pin striping. Looks good!

Keith

[orngsikL]

ok more progress.



turn signals wern't canceling. ordered some new parts from sokyclassics.com and installed em. one side will cancel now but the other will not. i went to oreilly's and bought their help kit and it doesn't fit, so i tired using the springs from the kit, still didn't work. Went to napa to try and buy just the springs, well, they don't sell them anymore. so i'll play with that later.

drove the truck to work, about a 20 mile trip to work, and it did well.

hooked up the pcv system, had to order a special 90* fitting from edelbrock that goes into the top of the intake manifold. while doing that, i finished it all up and was going to put the carb back on and one of the lug studs stripped out, so i got to use a heli-coil for the first time. Worked very good!
So, got all that back on and working good.

Got a call on 11/1/11 that my title and plate was in and went pick them up.

Last week, I took a trip to Kelly's (sharpshooter)'s house and he had an extra front bumper. Picked it up, came home and installed it and fixed some chaffed wires and got the turn signals working. On the way home, I stopped in Port Allen at Love's truckstop and picked up some mexican blankets, i'll get a pic soon.(I'll rewire the whole truck when it's apart)



Took the truck on a few more local trips. I kept hearing this slapping noise that was speeding up as the truck was accelerating. I thought it was a u-joint, but it wasn't. Took the left rear drum off and a chunk of shoe fell out...time to do rear brakes

Didn't take any after pics, everyone knows what that looks like. Truck stops 500% better now, haha. Glad I got that fixed.

that's it for now...placed an order for more parts...pics to come

[72BlckButy]

Great looking truck!

Can't wait to see what else you do.

[FRENCHBLUE72]

Awesome looking ride congrats on the score.

[orngsikL]

forgot to put this one up

[lil hoodlum]

Any new updates?

Keith

[orngsikL]

Got some parts in. Waiting til after xmas to see what else comes in and ill post it all up at once.

Since i brought the truck home, its always leaned down on the right front, come to find out the driver spring wasnt in the pocket at the top, so i popped the lower balljoint out of the lca and repositioned the spring, put about 100a miles on her last saturday. More to come soon!
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[1low69swb]

Looks like a good start. I like ur red silverado too. Wat drop do u have on it?

[orngsikL]

5/7 on the red truck

[1low69swb]

Thanks! thats where i want mine to sit.

[doubleb's69]

Nice Truck. I love the striping. I stopped striping for a couple years and it took me a while to get over the shakes from not doing it in so long. I still don't do it as much as I would like. That black and white look great over the orange. You also have a nice style, very vintage lookin'.

[mr.chevy]

I second that those are some awesome stripes. Can you do that to the back of my truck? ...............Lol

Nice truck man!

[shawno72]

Great find. Mind if I ask what you paid for the truck initially?
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[orngsikL]

Got some parts for christmas


inner and outter rockers for both sides
3/8 air line
upper bag brackets and lower cups (using the cups on the rear)
new door locks
new dome light
Step notch (not pictured)

More parts still in the mail, just waiting on em to come in.

[lha1992]

Very nice truck you got there! Looks solid! Plus, you picked it up from my home town of Columbus, MS!

[darkhorse970]

Cool truck! I like the orange.

[shawno72]

Sweet Christmas gifts. Will be watching the rear bag install.
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[orngsikL]

drove 3 hours to pick these up yesterday

[shawno72]

Nice score. 3 hours isn't to bad, I plan on driving about 7 hours round trip to pick up a motor soon.

[orngsikL]

got my high hump in yesterday from "teeitup" on here.

made a patch panel and welded it up.

this is my first welding project i've ever done.

[orngsikL]

go some more stuff in yesterday

[shawno72]

Nice score. You going to bag the front and rear?

[orngsikL]

yup

[shawno72]

Keep the updates coming.
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