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Nice looking truck man! I like all your solutions. Always nice to see a custom solution pulled off well! Ill be watching. :)
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Nice job on the licence plate bracket! Congrats, that woman deserves some kind of reward!
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Stop being modest John your truck looks great up close, dents and dings and character.
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Hello, and I hope everyone had a good Christmas! After a long hiatus, I'm getting a little bit done on my C10.
After a very busy few days at home with lots of family visiting, I've whisked my wife off to a "romantic" night away. I'm camped out at a Fairfield Suites beside the Buffalo NY airport. Don't tell my wife, but the over-nighter was just a ploy to get some after-xmas deals at Harbor Freight, and what ever else I can find. ;) In the past few days, I finally got around to disconnecting and discarding my voltage regulator. I followed Sharps40's detailed instructions here: http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/s...d.php?t=599559 Junk... |
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Another thing In haven't gotten around to doing is to reduce the brake pedal leverage since converting to Power Brakes. Pretty touchy, it is.
I was very impressed with how Chevyrestoguy dealt with the misalignment of the pedal pushrod, starting with post #324 here... http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/s...446527&page=13 I spent a couple hours in the woods looking for and retrieving a pedal assembly to pillage for my "bellcrank" mod. After getting it home and dismantling it, I took a look under my dash and realized that I may not have enough room :dohh:! I flush-mounted my master/booster, so it sits back a few inches more than normal. Oh well, I'll see what I can figure out when I get back to it. |
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Happy New Year John. Good to see some progress
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Happy New year John, I have a the same brake pedal lever problem so the link was really helpful :thumbs:, looking forward to seeing how you fix yours.
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just read your thread and i think that truck has the right owner… good clean solutions to every problem. love the stance and the rallys and the cool blue color, the shifter on the T5 change was well explained and something definitely worth doing.
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Dale & Ian, Happy New Year to you guys, and everyone else on the forum. :metal:
Hi Clem, thanks for the kind words. I don't know if I'll ever build a truck to the high standards that you and many other talented builders on this forum do on a daily basis. For now I'm happy to have a cool C10 driver that I can improve a little at a time. |
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Sometimes a driver is 100x more fun than a show queen where you worry about the next idiot with a belt buckle getting too close.
You have certainly built the right truck. |
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A little bit here and there and soon it will be just the way you want it, till tomorrow.
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I started the changeover to Power steering. Thanks to Captainfab's adapter plate, mounting the Steering Box was quick and easy. I aligned the supplied template to the original mounting holes by shining a small flashlight from the inside of the frame rail, thru each hole. It worked well. After drilling the new holes, I cleaned up the frame and sprayed it and the back side of the adapter plate with weld-thru zinc primer. I welded the plate in place and mounted the steering box.
For the steering column, I cut the rag-joint flange off the same donor truck that I pulled the steering box from. I bored it out until it would just slip over the steering shaft. I drilled two holes for plug-welds, and welded around the shaft as well. A little satin-black paint, and that's that. Now to get the pump, and pulleys sorted out. I have a bunch of random parts to choose from. |
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That's a really neat installation, great idea boring the old rag joint, looks great
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MMM power steering cool. Umm if you wanted to paint your hand it works better if your not holding anything ;)
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I'm finally getting back on to the C10. I had a rough stretch at work... overwhelmed with work, and lots of stress preparing tooling for a site job at a power plant. Then, just after getting thru that, we had a surprise safety inspection by a Ministry of Labour rep. These inspections are never fun, but we got thru it relatively unscathed.
On a happier note, three weeks ago I gave away my eldest daughter. Funny thing is, I've never spent so much to "give" something away :lol:. We all had a great time at the wedding. So nice seeing family and friends from all over. Here's a pic of the beautiful bride and her always proud daddy. |
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I was working on the power steering, trying to put a pump and bracket together from a bunch of odds and ends. I decided that I hate the way the factory brackets looked, so I threw something together from some 1/4" stainless steel plate. It took a couple tries, but I have something that looks pretty good and lines up nicely with the existing pulley.
The weather was so balmy last sunday that I wheeled my "stand on" polishing setup and shined up my new bracket. We're back to winter weather again, -25C this morning (that's 13 below in Fahrenheit). |
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Congratulations on losing a daughter, but hopefully gaining a man to speak to....;). Am sure that like most men, you need that. Sometimes.
I love that stand on polisher. It may just be an idea for future copying. Your machining looks excellent. Ohhhh, and -25'C ? That is just crazy. I was driving last night and my car showed 2'C and I thought it was chilly. |
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Glad the wedding went well and they're always a great excuse for a "knees up" with family and friends
Great job on the bracket, it looks fantastic, funny my throw togethers never look that good :lol: what's the story with the hard tail (sporty?) in the background with rear slick, I'm intrigued |
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I like to poke fun... here's an exerp from my speech at their wedding: "If you’re in the area next summer, keep an eye out for a little red Fiat Spider. It’ll likely be at the side of the road with the hazard lights on, waiting for a tow truck. I'm sorry Eric, I’m exaggerating... the hazard lights probably don’t work either." It got a few laughs. I made a couple of those rolling pedestals. They're very handy. The bottom plate and the top is made from stainless. We had a bunch of surplus 1/4" 304 stainless plate at my work that they decided to scrap. I hid as much as I could for future projects, like the ps pump bracket I just made. |
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I picked up a Tig welder a few years ago, so that's when I started really working at the bike... mostly for welding practice, lol. I made all the pieces for that hard tail, and a frame jig to align things. I narrowed a trailer fender, made the oil tank, seat and seat hinge out of stainless, narrowed some Electraglide bars, and mounted some late Sporty mid controls. The rear tire isn't a drag slick, its actually a drag front tire for a car. I saw some chopped Harleys in Japan running these kind of tires and I like the way they look. I wanted a 15" rear wheel, but I couldn't find one to match up with a Harley hub. Harley hubs are 40-spoke, and all the Japanese wheels seem to be 36-spoke. Then one day I found a 40-spoke hoop on ebay. It came off a 2003 Triumph Bonneville America. I found some spokes to marry the rim and hub together and got it laced up... a first for me. Don't laugh, but my first plan was a rat-chopper with an early VW Beetle sized snow tire on the back. I eventually went with the Hoosier. It has a pretty round profile, so the bike should at least be rideable. We'll see... |
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Johnny,
As good as this site is sometimes it is too big and moves too fast so you miss great builds. Glad you took the time to comment on my ramblings which meant i found yours!. Really impressed with your work and, like Rian, will be borrowing your idea for the standable stand. Congratulation on your daughters wedding, I have a long time to wait until I walk Beaker down the aisle. Or at least that what I tell myself, she might have other ideas! Keep warm. P. :D |
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Congrats John. Looks like a good time. Your ps bracket turned out great. You should definitely put the bike in the back of your truck for some car shows next summer that thing is sweet.
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Yes its hard to keep up with everything on this forum, and it can be very time consuming, lol. For me, its all about sharing ideas and learning from others. |
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Ha ha that was my plan. I meant to take the bike and C10 to the Unfinished Nationals last year, but I didn't have my truck together in time. I'll see you there this year. I'm pretty sure you'll be bringing home some awards! |
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Congratulations on the wedding John and nice job on the PS pump bracket :metal:
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I'm just back from a little road trip...
I was toying with the idea of attending the nascar races in Atlanta. On kinda short notice, Wifey and I decided to stretch it out a few more days to do a little sight-seeing. We spent a couple days in Nashville and saw a show at the Grand Ole Opry. We moved on to Mobile Alabama for a few days of relaxation. I toured several wrecking yards, but never really found anything I needed. I was impressed with a couple very well organized "u-pull" yards where all the cars were on stands, and arranged in rows neatly by make. I also saw some real sh*t piles! |
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We've been to Florida many times, and my wife has always wanted to see alligators but for some reason we've never gotten around to it. While in Mobile, wifey got her wish and we took a drive to a place called Alligator Alley where we each got to hold a 'gator (with the mouth taped shut, lol). On the way there, I spotted three C-10's in and around a shed on a rural property.
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We did a quick day-trip to New Orleans. It was my 2nd time there, wife's 1st. Fun walking around the French Quarter, but too many Scam-Artists trying to take advantage of Tourists. Next up was Atlanta...
The plan was to attend all 3 Nascar races... Xfinity & Trucks on Saturday, the Sprint Cup on Sunday. I've always been a huge fan of Motocross, and as it happened, the Atlanta round of Monster Energy Supercross was on the same Saturday. We decided that rather than drive the 45 minutes to the Atlanta Motor Speedway twice... we'd stay in the city on Saturday... see the Georgia Dome and go to Supercross. Sunday, we had a hot sunny day for Sprint Cup. It was an awesome weekend! After the race we started our drive home. After a couple hours, we stopped for the night. Every year, I look for a Joe's Crab Shack (my fave restaurant chain!) and tonight was the night. We really enjoyed some great meals on this trip... seafood, Mexican, Po Boy's, and surprisingly good...Turtle soup. |
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Driving home, I was checking around to see what wrecking yards were near I-75 that I could stop to take a quick look. Near Knoxville TN I stopped at a "pull-a-part" where it was suggested that I check out Sonny's in Blaine TN. I searched, and saw that it's been mentioned on the forum before.
A little hard to find... address is 1375 Smith Hollow Rd Blaine TN,37709 Once we found it, I was surprised that all these old cars were dragged up this pretty steep hill to their final resting place. I was pressed for time by now, so I just ran up and down the hills taking pics. I was surprised to see how much good 50's & 60's sheetmetal was still there, though not necessarily C10's. Some pics... |
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I love a good junk yard.
Great pictures and congratulations! P. :D |
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Looks like a great adventure honeymoon and the fact that you got a girl who likes what you like… priceless. congrats.:metal:
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Thanks guys!
Clem, I must've confused you with pics of my daughter's wedding. My wife and I will celebrate our 30th anniversary this year. But you're right... I'm lucky that she puts up with me, and actually likes many of the same things I do. |
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sorry, i'm easily confused. just another senior moment.:lol:
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