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Temporarily dropped it 3in. In the back

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Better watch out for the cops, that's a lot a grass. lol..

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Was thinking about installing a one piece glass I have for a cleaner look. But love the slide glass to remove the heat from inside. Decided to black out the silver finish to see if that looks better. I may be keeping this one in there for now.

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Got my new lowering kit from CPP today, they forgot to ship the spring retainers for the rear springs, but everything else seems to be good quality got the front installed still need to install front and rear sway bars and the rear springs.

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Added some bed bling....flush mount fender bolts from Brothers

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Corrected my hood pin to latch alignment issue by shimming the lower latch out a bit. Left the gap filler panels off for now - thinking about grill inserts before I reinstall

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I went ahead and pulled the engine and transmission. Got them seperated. Going to get the engine bay all cleaned up and ready for install. Surprisingly the radiator was full and the coolant was bright green. Hopefully it passes the pressure test. Going to use some kind of rust inhibitor black paint for the inner fenders and core support. And try to shine up the fire wall. I think it will look good with the newly sealed and painted motor.

Not sure why some pics turn themselves sideways. but y'all get the point.

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Looks like fun.

Here ya go.

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Sand blasted the rear axle housing and other parts, ordered my drop spindles :chevy:

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Thanks. It was the first engine I have ever pulled. I have been making a lot of progress lately. Really getting excited about fixing my dad's truck. My goal is to have it driving by April for the Lonestar Roundup to cruise down a local street here in town called congress where everyone cruises what they got.

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Changed ends in the garage. Going to take a break from bodywork and sheetmetal and do some suspension work.

Got it up in the air at a good working height, ready to scrape who knows how many years of gunk and grime off and replace, refresh and repaint everything.

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I'm nervous just looking at that pic. I'm doing the same thing you are right now. I have altitude sickness so I keep it a little closer to the ground. Previously down in the picture before your post. My truck on rims while pulling the engine.

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Got to drive her into work this morning! This was my first "long" trip since putting her on the road, 35 miles one way, everything seems fine so far!

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don't know why it double posts!

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I put the caps/rings back on the wheels. Did a quicky spray can respray on the top so it looked decent again (fixed rust from back window when it was pulled/replaced). Added the CST badges and after I took them off 10 years ago, I put the C10 fender badges back on, although I don't like the factory spot, I moved them a bit :D

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getting ready for paint

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Man I love this truck.

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paint soon

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Putting the caps and rings back on made a huge difference...really like the look! :metal:

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On Sunday I built a relay harness for my headlights that plugs into the original harness to activate the relays.
It hooks up to the power junction block and the harness has relay plugs that are mountable (haven't mounted them yet). So as for today I got to try it out since this was the first day I have driven my truck in the dark. Man what a difference.

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Tonight I stitched up the rear passenger bedside in the slightly modified fashion of board member "65standard". I decided to bring my light openings along instead of asking him to borrow his presses that he so kindly offered to loan out to members. I really don't like the paint color on my truck so I'm not too concerned about saving it.
I really appreciate 65standards thread, he gave me the inspiration to give it a shot since I can't really afford new short bedsides at the moment👍🏼

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Gaylord (r) bed cover. Getting painted next week

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Since it was such a nice November day, I took ol goldy locks to town to pick up my new toy that just showed up. I'm officially ready for winter now! Almost 50 years separate their build dates, and the sled's MSRP is more than quadruple of the C10.


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My 69 orig came with reflectors , I wired up the side marker lamps.

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Cleaned remaining parts from the column tear down and removed the brakes down to the booster bracket.

The rear brake line to the back of the combination proportioning valve was on real tight. Discovered you need to support the valve and its bracket with a big crescent wrench, when tightening/loosening that brake line. Bent the bracket, but I was able to bend it back. Lesson learned.

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Installed cigarette lighter in place of the "lighter delete plug"; installed rubber bumpers for glove box door so it opens when you push the button, and replaced the original all black lights and wiper knobs with ones with the stainless trim, so that they match the radio and the new lighter.

Tomorrow, if all goes well, I'm going to install the little metal plate that covers the small hole in the firewall on the right of the steering column. Mine came with tape covering the hole, and it looks like factory, as there are no holes for the plate attachment sheet metal screws, indicating that there never was a plate there. Since the tape was falling off, this will seal the cab interior from the engine bay noise.

Don't worry though, cause if I ever want to, I can return it to the way it rolled out of the factory.

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Installed cigarette lighter in place of the "lighter delete plug"; installed rubber bumpers for glove box door so it opens when you push the button, and replaced the original all black lights and wiper knobs with ones with the stainless trim, so that they match the radio and the new lighter.

Tomorrow, if all goes well, I'm going to install the little metal plate that covers the small oval hole in the firewall on the right of the steering column. Mine came with tape covering the hole, and it looks like factory, as there are no holes for the plate attachment sheet metal screws, indicating that there never was a plate there. Since the tape was falling off, this will seal the cab interior from the engine bay noise.

Don't worry though, cause if I ever want to, I can return it to the way it rolled out of the factory.

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Put some Packard 56 series 3 contact connectors on new LED side markers for the 72 C20. Just need to wire the rear markers to act as turn indicators now.

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Attachment 1587721 Took the engine back out of the frame after getting the break in runs done so I can take it to the dyno shop and see how my engine build went.

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Waiting on quickfuel technology to send back my carb.. putting around on this small carb sucks lol

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"LeRoy" got his grill on........

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Where did you get that beautiful grille please ? .

I bought a " GM HERITAGE " grille that was worse than my old slightly dented original one ~ no way could it be made to fit .

I'd love a nice one just like yours .

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I got it local here in Houston at Outback Truck Parts. Paul and Tracy are great folks to deal with.

For something like this I prefer to purchase local so I can "put my hands on it" and make sure it is a quality part. Bought the inner grill as well.

We had one of our larger swap meets this weekend and some of the replacement grills I saw were pretty bad...over spray on the paint and some with small dents and scratches.

Hope you find a good one.

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I stopped in at outback Friday after I left the Conroe swapmeet.. yea I noticed also some of the replacent grills at the swapmeet weren't something I'd wanna receive in a box..

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I just tried ther web site, it's all screwed up .
http://www.outbacktruckparts.com/default.aspx

They're in Spring, Texas now having just moved I guess .

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I'd call them direct tomorrow, they are closed today.

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Added some more bling...chrome master cylinder

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Got my eBay door hinges disassembled and ready for new pins/bushings. Only took the shop press, a lot of hammering, grinding the head off one of the pins, and a fair amount of cussing. But they're disassembled (almost, got a few roll pins to drill out) and ready for a proper cleaning, repainting, and new pins/bushings.

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Greetings fellow North Dakotan! I'm originally from Grand Forks, living down in Albertville, MN as my wife's family is from down here.

I took a few loads of leaves over to the leaf pile last night. We dropped a new to me, used 350 in this and I'm still ironing out all the issues with it. Ran pretty well, considering I need a little carb fine tuning......

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Outback Truck Parts just when through a change of ownership. The new owners are trying to get a handle on the inventory, then they are going to work on the website.

Give them a call, they are excellent to deal with and really nice folks.