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My 85 chevy running good but has a leak somewhere on the tranny replaced the main seal already

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my first post...

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Just picked up my first Chevy truck of this vintage - 1984 K20 5.7 w/ a 350 crate motor. 4 spd manual (1-3 plus L - that's the 4 speed I assume...)

Trailered it home and have started to make my initial diagnoses. At the moment, my priority is to get it drivable so I can use the truck this winter.

It runs strong, although it has an oil leak and needs a choke adjustment. It will need a compete brake job (it had no brakes, so in attempting to bleed the system I found the bleeder bolts completely rusted and not serviceable). So that's my first project. Along with changing all the fluids.

Here's a pic from the trip home:

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Here's mine. '74 C20 with dually conversion, mild 383. I do a little of everything with it, towing, drag racing, tractor pulls, and some dune-running.

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I can see drag racing and towing but must be a beast being so heavy in the dunes, looks like a lot of tire though, guess once you get it moving...don't slow down right.:cf:

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Yeah, it was a challenge in the real soft stuff. Even with the large tires it makes so much low end torque that it just wants to spin. But damn is it fun. It weighs 4,985lbs with both tanks full of fuel.

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Looks like fun, wish I was there to go for a rip. Huge roosters, oh ya.:metal:

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Well here's mine again...1974 custom deluxe with an LSX 5.3/4L60E swap. Completed the swap during the summer and entered it in a burnout contest.

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Here's my '77 Chebby, standard bed, stepside, 350/th350.

Hope you like it. Got it reasonable, replaced a cracked head with some rebuilt ones from Craigslist. Paid $1k for the broken truck and a hundy for the rebuilt heads that were sitting in someone's garage for a couple of years.

I hope you like it.

Greg

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Here is my 1980 GMC. Just got it back from the body shop a month ago.

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Purchased this sweet old girl 24 hours ago... 90K on the clock, 250 cid, three on the tree manual, and the original spare tire, manuals, etc. Going to desmog the 250, tune it up a bit, maybe add a lumber rack. Leaving her a stock as I can, though a Clifford header and an HEI might not be bad additions.

Not bad for $1900!

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Was that truck in a hermetically sealed building ? that seat and dashboard looks cherry .

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It surely seems so! The story I got--and the records appear to back it up--is that the original owner passed sometime in 2010, and his best buddy bought it off the widow.

Trucks was always garaged by the original owner, and has been in a shop for the last several years, too.

It has what I believe is the original spare, bias-ply tires with an '84 date-code, and very little damage anywhere.. A small rust spot on the hood lip, and just the tiniest little bubbling along the rear fenders. I'll proabably leave it be for a while, and eventually repair the rust and have it painted, though it'll be the same color.

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Any engine pics ?

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As far as a lumber racks go there is one near me he wants $200 for its on Craigslist Oregon coast .

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I'll post up an engine pic in a day or so.

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[QUOTE=Oregoon;6921960]Purchased this sweet old girl 24 hours ago... 90K on the clock, 250 cid, three on the tree manual, and the original spare tire, manuals, etc. Going to desmog the 250, tune it up a bit, maybe add a lumber rack. Leaving her a stock as I can, though a Clifford header and an HEI might not be bad additions.

Not bad for $1900


Unreal. Love the interior. Paint wheels and hubcaps and you won't recognize it.

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That is one solid and super clean truck for $1,900, congrat's on your good buy.

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Thanks everyone. There are some truly gorgeous trucks on this site, and it's good to see some familiar avatars.

As for my new ride: I worked long and hard to scratch up some extra coin. Between a mortgage, student loans payments, two kids and a wife--all on a regional trucker's salary--it took some time to squirrel funds away and even more to search out a good buy.

For once, patience paid off.

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86 K20. 4.5" suspension lift, 3" body lift. 33"s. Still in process of slowly restoring the body.

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Looks tough! Square bodies sure do seem to weather well.

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Replaced 305 with 454

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Haven't posted yet, so here's Lester doing his thing:

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MY BABY

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What is the story on that truck ? it looks new .

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Truck does look new, with wood bed floor too.

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To see the project at the bottom

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Heres my 87 sierra
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nice truck

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More pics of my 1985 Chevy pickup and the neighbors I don't know what year beater diesel .
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1987 V30 with 3.5" HD Superlift on 35s but soon going to stock height and 265/75r16 E tires

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My free 79 454/400 c20 camper special.

Owner claimed broken crank, I found there was only one loose bolt holding the flexplate to the torque converter....

Also has shocks between bed and cab? Along with holes that lead to a threaded part for what I assume is camper tie downs never seen that before. I can take pictures

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Been Driving my '78 for a while now, 6.5 MPG and Loving it!

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nice truck. amazing you got for free. id like to see those shocks/tie downs.

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Shock absorbers between cab and bed are factory, they were an option for camper specials. Additionally the brackets at the ends of the front fenders are factory and were for forward shock absorbers up to the camper overhang. There is also camper tie-down brackets that pass through the bedsides. :mm:

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Yup I have those on the truck. I've had a 77, 78 camper special, and a 85. I've been around quite a few
Something I've never seen. Learn something new everyday! My first 2wd it was free so can't complain. I have duramax for when it gets messy.

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Right place at the right time. These people weye going to send it to pick n pull. I told em I would take it home. And bam running bbc I'm about $300 into it battery and a few things. Definitely needs some love this summer I'll be doing quite a bit of work to it.

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Glad you saved the truck, the shocks are cool, especially the in box type, have seen the outside shocks but never the box to cab shocks, even have a built in slot for the cab to box movement.