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**Ironangel** · 05-01-2023, 11:05 PM

What a gem of a truck! CST and Cheyenne packages!

**68bowtie** · 05-01-2023, 11:12 PM

Super cool, keep the posts coming

**j_cst_10** · 05-19-2023, 08:29 AM

Out cruising to a local brewery. Was able to burn enough of the old gas out of it and refill with fresh. Runs and smells a lot better...

**Lost in the 60's** · 05-19-2023, 09:08 AM

Looks to be a later model replacement engine with the center bolt valve covers...LT1, I think ? That could explain the need for an electric pump. The engine may not have been assembled for a mechanical pump ?
For as much as the engine bay seems to have been messed with, it is amazing all the paperwork was still in the glove box !!
Hope you replaced the shift shaft seal on the trans too, they leak when the vehicle sits and fluid drains back from the converter. A slow leak will migrate along the pan rail and make it appear it is a pan gasket leaking.

**j_cst_10** · 05-19-2023, 09:19 AM

It’s the original engine. The late owner switched the heads for 80’s center bolt heads with hardened valve seats for whatever reason. I still need to retrieve the original parts from the garage.

The pushrod for the mechanical pump is seized. I tried to put it back to mechanical but couldn’t free it up. Ended up putting a different electric pump on and relocating it.

**Chevyland** · 05-19-2023, 09:50 PM

If that thing was in California, it would have already been through at least five tank fulls

Looking good, keep on truckin

05-01-2023, 11:05 PM	#51
Ironangel Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Falls City, Nebraska "100 Miles From Nowhere" Posts: 2,219	Re: My newest and perhaps greatest truck score to date What a gem of a truck! CST and Cheyenne packages! __________________ Michael of the clan Hill, "Two Seventy Two's" 71 1-ton Dually 350 4-Speed 71 C/50 Grain Truck, 350 Split-Axle 4-Speed 02 3/4 ton Express 14 Indian Chief Vintage 1952 Ford 8N, "Only Ford Allowed On The Property" "Be American, Buy American"

05-01-2023, 11:12 PM	#52
68bowtie Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Turlock, CA Posts: 8,340	Re: My newest and perhaps greatest truck score to date Super cool, keep the posts coming __________________ I live in California, but identify as a Texan "If a job's worth doing, it's worth doing well" Project "Little Sister" (70 c10 blue original paint refresh) Project "C10 Fever" (68 factory black 396 swb) Project "Blue Bomb" (70 c30 blue original paint refresh) Project "Vitamin C" (71 c10 orange original paint refresh)

05-19-2023, 08:29 AM	#53
j_cst_10 Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Cleveland, OH Posts: 575	Re: My newest and perhaps greatest truck score to date Out cruising to a local brewery. Was able to burn enough of the old gas out of it and refill with fresh. Runs and smells a lot better... Attached Images __________________ 1972 Cheyenne Super 20 Custom Camper 12 Valve Cummins/5spd manual 1972 Cheyenne Super Short Bed 557 Med Olive DK olive 1970 K5 Blazer Dark Gold 1966 Coronet 440 35k mile survivor 1991 Suburban 2500 454/4L80E 2wd 1985 Monte Carlo SS 383 Sbc, t-56 magnum 6spd and Ford 9"

05-19-2023, 09:08 AM	#54
Lost in the 60's Active Member Join Date: Mar 2022 Location: Twin Cites, MN Posts: 159	Re: My newest and perhaps greatest truck score to date Looks to be a later model replacement engine with the center bolt valve covers...LT1, I think ? That could explain the need for an electric pump. The engine may not have been assembled for a mechanical pump ? For as much as the engine bay seems to have been messed with, it is amazing all the paperwork was still in the glove box !! Hope you replaced the shift shaft seal on the trans too, they leak when the vehicle sits and fluid drains back from the converter. A slow leak will migrate along the pan rail and make it appear it is a pan gasket leaking.

05-19-2023, 09:19 AM	#55
j_cst_10 Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Cleveland, OH Posts: 575	Re: My newest and perhaps greatest truck score to date It’s the original engine. The late owner switched the heads for 80’s center bolt heads with hardened valve seats for whatever reason. I still need to retrieve the original parts from the garage. The pushrod for the mechanical pump is seized. I tried to put it back to mechanical but couldn’t free it up. Ended up putting a different electric pump on and relocating it. __________________ 1972 Cheyenne Super 20 Custom Camper 12 Valve Cummins/5spd manual 1972 Cheyenne Super Short Bed 557 Med Olive DK olive 1970 K5 Blazer Dark Gold 1966 Coronet 440 35k mile survivor 1991 Suburban 2500 454/4L80E 2wd 1985 Monte Carlo SS 383 Sbc, t-56 magnum 6spd and Ford 9"

05-19-2023, 09:50 PM	#56
Chevyland Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2013 Location: Ca. <-> Ma. Posts: 5,691	Re: My newest and perhaps greatest truck score to date If that thing was in California, it would have already been through at least five tank fulls Looking good, keep on truckin



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