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Well i wish i would have done this sooner but i didnt have the best computer but heres whats been done so far.
disc brakes from a 71 c10
ball joints all around
350 from the junkyard
turbo 350 tranny that was in the truck when i bought it
new b&m unimatic shifter
sunpro mini tach
sway bar from 70 c10
bigger big block fan= worst idea ever
power steering and brackets from a tow truck with headers
oak bed floor
powder coated bed strips
bench seat from a 71 c10
got glass replaced(took like 3 freaking times before we stopped breaking glass)
master cylinder

This is whats been done, now what id like to do
350 roller motor
700r4 transmission
tubular control arms
custom adjustable trailing arms
new bumper with driving lights that i will paint black
overflow tank for coolant
bigger transmission cooler
eather a fan shroud(have to use a fan other than the bb)
or electric fan from a ford winstar
put my !@#$in posi in
new carb
new intake
camaro rear sway bar
radio
hook up my kinda deluxe dash cluster with a working throttle knob..

So this i guess would be considered as my im still driving it but building it up at the same time build thread :metal:LOL Oh and the pic under the bed was the one with my old valve covers, awsome but i feel in love with the m/t aluminum valve covers

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Here are some pics before it was ever road worthy:smoke: Sorry for being so disorted, horrible camera:waah:

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And some more., The bottom one was basicly its whole first step to being painted. Ugh i hated sanding sooo much but it didnt turn out too bad when i sprayed it, no bubbles or runs :D

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Awesome build so far? Its so much more fun to work on them once they're road worthy and driveable lol.

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Well today i advanced my timing to find that sweet spot to try and make my beast run a lil better, didnt turn out to bad when i went to pic up my lil bro a church but i wont know for sure till i do more testing. but for now i have to get ready for work :/

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Omg yes lol. I can say never a dull moment with working on blackout lol

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Looking good

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Thank you. I have to really say thank you to midnight blues for really helping me out with blackout, it couldnt have been done without him:)

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Your welcome for the help
it was a very slow build some times
it felt like years before anything
actually got acomplished

With the mi. your are putting on it you sure are enjoying it
please just dont wreck it

btw I bet you didnt tell anybody what you paid for the truck.

OH YHEA YOU STILL OWE ME THE DOLLAR!:lol:


KIDS!

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im probrolly goa paint mym/t valve covers tommorow and leave th fins polished.Ill post pics up when there done. I wanna rip the motor out sooo bad so i can paint my firewall and frame, in due time, maybe when this motor gets tired or when i do my tranny swap.

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Ok i went to the pottsville cruize today and coming back home my one buddy noticed i was smoking off the passenger side. I was like !@#$ i hope im not losing oil again but no.. tranny fuild cause the po ran rubber line all the way to the front. the lines were sandwiched between the rad so i had line ive gotten from a truck before so rather than wait for the rubber to get dry rotted from the heat of my header i decided to run metal line tward the front:sumo:


first pic shows some leakage around frame and crossmember
second one shows the PO great tranny line layout
third is the line im using
fourth one is showing the two metal lines. notice where the metal lines are leading to

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There are two holes off the side of the valance that were perfect to run the remainder of rubber line. I will show where im talking about. fourth pic shows that the line now has legitament protection from those toasty headers:devil: and the last one shows the two lines going up into the valance

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To think i done all this through midnight lol. Thats what happens when you work third shift:four:

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Well i got alot done soo far, put on my fan shroud and i been poking at the mystery why my truck is a hard starter, well i went all gun hoe and ripped the carter off to put in an old holley... however the carb leaked but it started right up, just leaked all around the gasket and accelerater pump. So now im gonna have to invest in a quadrajet and get things running back like the factory wanted it. Wish me luck...Oh i feel sooo much pain in me wallet lol

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I like the bed that sure turned out nice, I'm partial to flat black, what kind of paint have you been putting on the truck?

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Thank you, that was all from a lumber mill and whatnot, alot of people asked how much i paid for the kit and i said well the wood from the lumber mill was about 70 somthin dollars plus the months it had to sit for half a month. The paint is satin black, it was just rustoleum that i thinned out alot. The paint went on pretty good for being sprayed from a cheap paint gun. :chevy:

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these builds need not be expensive to be good

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:hiya:
Sorry to hear you are having carb problems.
Make sure you get your rebuilt quadrajet from someone who has a good reputation that way you dont have another problem with it.
Maybe even someone on the boards here with a good reputation might have one they rebuilt correctly or know someone who has one that is rebuilt correctly to sell.
Not just anyone can rebuild one and do it right.
Its just like anything else there is the right way and the wrong way.
Ya know you could also just get a rebuild kit for that Holley ;)

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Well the only problem with the holley is that it hits the vaccum line for the transmission behind the intake, Sooo rather than just buy another adapter plate i bought a nice used intake manafold (THE HOLLEY CONTENDERR) sorry had to do that:lol: But its literally almost the same as the edelbrok performer rpm, just with a holley name. Reason i did this is just so i can just use the spreadbore carb. Besides i believe the holley is a 4165/4175 is a !@#$% to tune. Just another thing to sit on the wall for now. But i will be taking pics along the way with the intake removal and install soon:metal:

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Ok now ive been prepping the intake, i put it in the little blaster to get it smoothed out and make it look nicer

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The blaster wasnt working 100 percent but it was able to get some of the bad pitting, So i decided to paint my intake orange. I believe it will look nice longer then just keeping the intake bare and also it will have a stock appearance to it when it goes on:metal: Now i will start getting ready for the installation soon:smoke:

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the sticker in the lower right corner of the back glass, is it for you or did it come with the truck? My son has that sticker in all of his vechiles.

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The time has come finally to do it:metal: I took normal precautions, like but the motor tdc and marked were the pointer pointed tdc and where the dizzy pointed straight, example such as the center of the intake. I was very suprised how clean the inside was. My truck at one time did lose alot of oil from the bolt hole in the front passenger side corner( fell out and just poured oil all over the place). cam lobes looked good ect. here some pics of the teardown:lol:

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Some more pics:metal:

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For the intake gaskets, i used felpro with the blue outline around the ports. used rtv to bead the front and back seals and generously used some on the edge of the gaskets. Now to put my pretty intake on lol

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Now i have to thank the local auto parts store in bernville for charging me 340 dollars for the gaskets(even though the refunded me i paid with card so it took almost a week to get my money back). And charge me 20 !@#$%* dollars for a 45 degree angled heater fitting... Oh well my monster is back up and running:metal: Thats all that matters to me :D

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The only sticker i put on was the hotrod thug sticker. The other one was on the truck to support firemen from the PO but i decided not to take that off.

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Looking good, you did a very nice job with the paint. Hope it dont leak on you.

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Thanks lol and no it hasnt leaked on me, Im gonna be at the strausstown car show this sunday, hope to see some cool trucks there :metal:

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Well i just got my heavy duty headlight harness installed in my truck and my lights have never looked so lively before. sorry i forgot the camra for the first part of the build.

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I tucked the wiring in the stock loom behind the radiater. the pic are just the test fit just to check to see if the relays worked. it uses one of your headlight sockets and then just takes all the strain out of the wire from the switch, so instead of all of the electric flowing through the switch it just flows through the relays and now the switch doesnt have to souly power the lights. Now the relays are doing most of the work ;) Now these pics are the complete wiring:metal:

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I decided to take a drive to blue marsh. took some pics and then it started raining lol

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one more lol:chevy:

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Now i am on the lookout for a smaller air cleaner, the one i got is arcing off of one of the sparkplug wires on the dizzy, wish i just had a longer stud but no cash, no money, just dreams till i get paid lol:chop:

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Well tonight i decided to finally put in my van tilt column, My three on the tree column was getting really worn and i was getting p***ed off at my horn button... It would unlatch itself from the one corner and then beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee eeeeeep until i ripped the horn button off the wheel..
Sooo when i was doing this swap i realized that i wouldnt be able to use the steering shaft that goes to the steering box. Because it was a one piece deal so lucky me i almost forgot that i pulled an intermediate shaft from another truck before.

Well when i test fitted everything it looked like the columb was gonna be way too shart but the shaft i had has little plastic inserts inside in cause you would get in an accident and dont get impailed by the wheel.. drilled out the plastic and got the bfh out and wailed down on the iside of the shaft till it would be the right length.

Put everything back in and tidied up the wires under my dash and solderd wires that had twist ties you would use at home. To top off my column installation i put the 67-68 wheel back on and man it feels perfect. I love the stock steering wheels to theses trucks. :lol: Ill get pics up soon of the finished product. Sorry for no pics, camera is dead right now :waah:

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On another note i found out my big ET air filter is rubbing against my hei :banghead:. Shouldnt be a problem for long im on the hunt for a 10 inch air cleaner or a nice stock one:metal:

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Been a while since i updated but i have been chasing down a massive oil leak/fixed. bought gas from a gas station that was half water/kinda fixed. and now im replacing the timing chain hopefully before my son comes into the world:lol: also replacing the oil pan gasket with a one piece:metal: will try to get more pics up soon. kinda hard doin it off my xbox

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Looks like the headlight harness is a real good upgrade, how much was the harness
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Lol this is so true.
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It was only like forty bucks. Got a lot of Chinese writing on the package but overall I am very happy with the setup. It was weird how it had me wire the plug into the passenger side headlight plug but it came out really nice and doesn't look out of place:lol:
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