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Made some progress over the weekend. Sorry about the sideways pictures, any tips to rotating them? They were not sideways on my computer.

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No T-man,, the whole truck once it's back to a more street friendly version (unless someone were to make me an offer for it with the 660HP motor and all,, it's going to eventually)

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Been trying to finish blasting my frame,but keep blowing holes in the ball valve on the blaster hose. Already been through 4 valves in two bags of media. Ordered some stainless steel one today,so maybe next week I will have some new pics. Finally cooling off enough to get motivated. Only problem with that is now its Deer season.lol

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Oh I love the progress,just not the heat,lol

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headlights quit on me Saturday night after leaving a local cruise. So I figured I had better figure it out with Goodguys coming up this weekend in Bowling Green.
Narrowed the problem down to the dimmer switch. Had some high resistance in some terminals. So cleaned them up and did a little solder job. Put it back together and still no luck.
I would get power when I pushed down on the switch so I took it back apart. I filled the dimples in the spinner wheel with solder and now all is well.
I guess it had worn and created enough clearance that it would not make good contact.

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Thanks, Probably should have bought a new one, but did not want china junk.

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RKS NICE work on the PS adapter.

Bruce, I admire your tenacity - fix'n what you got - love it. I just bought a dimmer from NAPA and we'll see how long it lasts.

Last night I finished wiring and shrinking all my connections in the home-made harness going aft for lighting and fuel sender. Turned out good. Added ground wires in several places too.

Blazer tank filler and vent hose added. Tightened bed mounting bolts and touched up some paint underneath.

I'm trying to get it back on the floor so I'm buttoning up everything I can think of underneath!

So I installed and ran the speedometer cable my buddy gave me...

now to bleed the brakes and sit it back on the tires.

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Didn't get the brakes bled but I plinked a bit anyway

Turned the re-pop Stock gas tank cover into a back panel, finished my Civic door seals, rebuilt my instrument panel, modified my glove box door.

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Still have yet to bleed the brakes, but I do have doors that close and latch now.

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Loads of stuff, captured in my build thread.

However, also removed the old steering column.....

And tried out the "new" one.

Understood to be from a Chevy Day van of unknown vintage. Possibly 80/90's

I was wondering if anyone knows what it's cable operated section is for?

If you turn the ignition key beack and push it in after turning it to the "off" position, it activates a cable in there, but then you cannot remove the ignition key.

This component is in the way where I need to fit the column,so needs to be removed, but I have no idea what it's purpose is.

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Advice and help appreciated.

Thanks as always.

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I wiped the '66 down with some detailing spray....





...then went and beat on a Ferrari 360 Spider for a while :devil:

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I didn't unload my spare 10si alternator from the vacation car so it came along for the ride to Seattle, BC's sunshine coast, back to Seattle and finally home to Calgary again. This upsets me that I didn't have a place for it so on to the 66 C10 today it went. It only took about an hour and a half including the conversion from externally regulated. The bearings in the old one feel a bit rough so that's a good excuse to drop it off for recycling at a local alternator shop.

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I rebuilt my first carburetor but by the time it was done I was out of day light . So never got to test it and see if I did it right or not lol

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Since switching jobs. I now work in the town I live in :) so I took my new daily driver to work :metal: so pumped to be driving it consistently now.

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Officially bolted the '82 C30 front suspension into my '62 temporarily. Installed Hydro Boost onto bracket. Mocked up steering shaft. Stared at rear of frame for an hour contemplating brackets for new fuel tanks. I guess you could say I now have power steering and disk brakes!!

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Plus

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And one of these

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Equals

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But this

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Highlights the need for these

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And possibly

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As there is probably another 20-30 loads of this.

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One day I will get round to updating what I have been doing and why there is a rather large ‘red rash’ on Woody’s flank.

But until then…

P. :D

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Paul Y wins. Truck, chopping wood, beer can never be beat.
All I did was load a small block and th400 into my s10 and brought them home. Small block needs to be rebuilt, so that will be my life for awhile.

Almost done with the inside of a bedside, gotta finish welding up the outside Sean from the long to short conversion, the smithing about what coating it's going to get. Rust run is on it now to prevent rust u till I figure out if it's getting por15 and bedliner or...
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Dry fitting the tanks.

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I likr those tanks...Are they the standard Blazer style tanks?

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Possibly one of the best posts iv seen on this forum in a while. Well don't amight:smoke:

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Thank you Matt, appreciated.

P. :D

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Got the motor and trans out today. Good thing my boys came to help out. We had a tough time pulling the hoist back into the garage through the gravel. lol

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Sorry no pics right now, but I got my Vintage Air system all charged up and I now have AC and a heater that kicks butt, with fan speeds that are much better than my stock setup was. Just in time on the heat and fan part for the soon to be here winter. The AC worked very well down the hill in Denver where it was in the low 80's yesterday. If you want a super detailed thread on the install, go here http://www.67-72chevytrucks.com/vboa...d.php?t=468107 My install was done with all the VA parts and went well, and I did it with no help. Challenging, but rewarding.

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Got the rest of the frame cleaned up, primed and painted. Now for the a arms and torsion bars and I can start emptying some of the boxes,lol.http://i192.photobucket.com/albums/z...psooax5ys1.jpghttp://i192.photobucket.com/albums/z...pspgm8sydd.jpghttp://i192.photobucket.com/albums/z...pskx9jzqey.jpghttp://i192.photobucket.com/albums/z...psfqpbjkru.jpghttp://i192.photobucket.com/albums/z...pslykkq6v7.jpghttp://i192.photobucket.com/albums/z...ps34tnx6dl.jpghttp://i192.photobucket.com/albums/z...psa6gabwi1.jpg

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Looking good!

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Can you tell us more about the tanks? What size (gallons) and inches? Are these under a short bed or a long bed? Looks like a great idea.
Wiil you use a tank switch valve between them?

Thanks.

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Got the ididit tilt steering column and billet specialties steering wheel installed as well as the steering linkage down to the rack and pinion.
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While I was at it I installed the New Port Engineering wiper motor.
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And I started bolting on the OEM inner fenders and radiator core support I just had freshly powder coated.
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Hi. Theses tanks are one of the options from LMC. They are 21 gallons each. I can not remember the dimensions of the tanks, I'll measure them and post findings later today. This truck is a '62 GMC long bed. The '60,'61 and '62 frames are much wider in the rear than the '63 and newer frames. My original plan was to use just one tank but after mocking up the single tank I realized that two tanks would fit if I turned them sideways, I ordered the second tank that day. I'm going to run two stainless 3/8 lines to the engine bay and install a valve there.

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Does the steering column come with the holes in the column for the column support bracket to bolt up?

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It did not, I had to drill and tap them myself. Not sure why ididit doesn't just add a slotted bracket of some sort, but it was pretty easy to do it myself.

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Weird. My Ididit does have slots.

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Could be they couldn't accommodate those in the column shift, where as yours is a floor shift?

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Ahhh yes!!

I looked in the garage at the Ididit column for the '72 c10 and it has one short slot but it's not for mounting. Haven't had that column in that truck for fourteen years so I don't remember how it mounts but must be a clamp or something.

DLW
I'm really digging the gray and black. Beautiful truck!

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How long of a steering column did you go with? Also, how much are you past firewall in the engine compartment? I'd guess 5"....?

Been looking at Flaming River as well... trying to figure out why they are 125.00 more though.... NICE install!

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Im in the middle of a ididit colunm, 700r4 switch from a 3 on the tree,my new ididit colum has 2 slots to move in and out comes with bolts, colunm shift. DLW we arent far from each other should get together and shoot the ---- Ha Ha

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My brake reservoir emptied twice, when I looked down you could see the paint coming off the booster and on the frame. This master is only a few years old and I guess it failed. I changed it out and was hoping I didn't have to bleed the whole system. I pulled the truck out and was able to make the brake pedal go to the floor. I figured their was air in the line. Well when I went to bleed them the right front wheel was wet. I know the last time I put brake pads in the truck the line kinked when I put the caliper back on and I didn't know until I drove the truck. I think that is when the line was compromised and might have had a pin hole in it. Now I just have to change the line and bleed the brakes. woooo hoooo.

I touched up the booster and painted the Master Stainless Steel from Rust Oleum Professional

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Thanks for the compliment. I'd like to go shopping in your yard for some parts some time :)..

Not sure on total length, seems like I remember somewhere in the 30-31" range, but don't quote me on that. I can grab a tape and measure how much it comes out of firewall, it is at least 5" to the end of the shaft, probably more.

Well, then I don't know what the deal is with the slots then. I know others have also had to drill and tap with theirs. Maybe they made some changes recently. I bought part number 1150650030 which is the retrofit column for the 60-66. I would rather of had the slotted one myself.

Definitely should meet up sometime since your just up the road.