1984 K10-The Rock
 

This is a truck a buddy of mine donated to help get the shop up and running. Pretty nice truck to begin with, needed a lot of little things. But we’re going to take it from nice to Killer! Plans include paint (midnight metallic blue), cowl hood, Lund moonviser, chrome bull bar, chrome roll bar, chrome nerf bars, LED headlights and turn signals, LED 32” light bar behind the grill, blue LED wheel well lights, replace those goofy tail lights with stock, and new belt line chrome.

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Here’s some more pictures of the truck we started with.

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Oh the inside we’re giving it a 1000 watt bluetooth stereo, digital gauges, new door panels, a new steering wheel, cleaning the carpet, dash mat, blue LED accent lighting, and replacing the tank selector switch/multi-function switch.

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The engine actually sounds REALLY healthy as it is. It’s a 350/700R4 combo with a very aggressive cam, And it has long tube headers. There’s a few things we’ll be addressing like converting from manual to electric choke, but mostly we’ll be focusing on cosmetic. Plans are it will be repainted red with black finned aluminum valve covers, a natural aluminum intake, spun aluminum Dual snorkel air cleaner with functional ram air, and a serpentine belt drive off a mid-90's C/K. And the plan is to make the A/C functional again.

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Day 1

Spent the day stripping down accessories to get at the motor for a deep cleaning. The last picture is what all we took off.

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Day 2

Didn’t get much done today. Had to run to Sedalia. My $350 80x40 sign had the phone number transposed! Had to bring it back to get it fixed!

We did however get the majority of the motor cleaned and the cowl hood on!

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Nice. My 82 has non-working AC and I am considering a serpentine swap too. Good truck to start with.

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Day 3

So today we finished cleaning the motor and masked it off for paint. Last picture is the motor in it’s first coat of Hot Rod red!

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Then on to the multi function switch. Some genius cut the wire right at the switch, nothing to chase the new wire with! Both pictures are of Emma struggling with that.

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We finished the evening by taking out the grill, in preparation for the new headlights and 32" light bar!

Both Alex and Emma are taking tomorrow off for some project that’s due Thursday. So no updates till Thursday.

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So we started today by stripping off the masking, and taking off the intake and valve covers. We discovered roller rockers under there! And zero sludge in the lifter Valley, which leads me to believe it hasn’t been very many miles since the rebuild!

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Then we put the Edelbrock Torqer intake manifold on it and the SoCal black finned aluminum valve covers on it and it looks Killer! A total transformation! Exactly how I pictured it!

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Its coming along! Keep up the progress.

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This is the motor as it sat last night. Dist. Stabbed, new oil filter, crank case full, carb, and everything bolted down

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Then we decided to harness the power of the Sun with the headlights! These are "The Rock’s” new peepers...

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This is the overall look so far. Methinks it’s looking pretty nasty!

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Oh, and we decided to add some tunage. Those are 12” Kenwoods and a 1000 watt Pioneer amp!

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so today we decided to put a 32” LED light bar behind the grill. It required some fab to make it fit, we have some tweaking tomorrow.

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Here’s the engine as it sits tonight. Header’s, plugs, wires, cap/rotor installed. We were going to go to my buddies on Saturday and get the serpentine drive, but on Friday night his wife’s heart attacked her. So he spent the weekend at the hospital.

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Looking good..!!!

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Lookin' good!

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We put a Lund moonviser on her. Looks pretty toughy now!

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We also swapped out those stupid looking euro-trash tail lights in favor of some repop OEM ones. Vast improvement!

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So we put a new reverse flow water pump on it and the serp pulley’s for the wp and crank. The bottom picture is of the serpentine drive we scored for this project. It was donated by a 92 K1500.

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These are the stock gauges we’ll be replacing with Intelletronix digital gauges.

The second 2 are how far we’ve torn the interior apart to replace things

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For some reason Chevy always has a narrower track width in the rear! They say it’s so the rear tires don’t go in the same track as the front (for traction).

Well I don’t like it on a street truck! So we added 1.25” billit spacers to each side.

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Much better!

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Here is the new digital gauges installed in the OEM cluster. We are now wiring them. Pictures today.

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That stock horn was really bothering me, so we opted for an air trumpet horn. We decided to mount it behind the grill so there was nothing between it and the offending driver but space and opportunity!

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Here’s the digital gauges all mounted in the OEM cluster

And here’s with the key on!

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So we didn’t get to terribly much done today. We did finish cleaning the dvr side bracket and accessories. We struggled getting the AC clutch off the pass side. We will tackle that tomorrow.

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Although it doesn’t look like got much done, we actually accomplished quite a bit.

We got all the wiring done. All prettely loomed. Using cloth wire covering. We also cleaned the Alternator and painted the pulley/fan

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We finally got the serpentine drive on! Looks killer! Just need to get a different belt (deleted the smog pump).

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after like three trips to the parts store, we had the right belt!

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lookie what I picked up for $80! Saved me like $530! I’m going to have it powder coated in "super chrome". With LED lights it ought to set the truck off pretty good!

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Some 6x9 boxes we made a template for. Brought the template to my friend with a plasma table to precision cut it for me. If this works as well as I expect, they will be for sale on my website.

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We got a whole lot done today, but not much picture worthy. Our roll bar had 3 light tabs welded to the front of the bar. I thought they showed be on the back and that there should be 4 of them. So Alex set out to make that happen

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Kick panels are finally in and wired

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Going to pick up the roll bar from powdercoat tonight. Here’s a couple teaser pics

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We made up for a day accomplishing basically nothing with a day of many things!
dechroming in process. 3rd pic is our new roll bar in place. The last two are completely dechromed and cleaned