The Old Duffer
 

Thought I'd start a build thread. Been making a bunch of progress & this is a great way to catalog the process.
Here's a pic the day I dragged it outta the barn it had been parked in for the last 20 years or so.

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Blew out all the fuel lines, rebuilt the carb & got the motor running smooth again. Did a little rattle can cleanup of the engine compartment. Just a temporary fix as the tired old 250 will be coming out & a fresh built 250 will be going in.

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The interior wasn't in too bad of condition but was definitely time for a good cleaning & refresh. So we gave the inside of the cab a fresh coat of the the original fawn. here's a before & afters.

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very nice truck to begin with.
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The White paint my grandpa had laid on 25 years ago was still in really good shape after some cleaning & clay barring so it was left alone. I decided to go with a metallic baby blue for the stripe & wheels instead of the red. Also went with some Wheel Vintique smoothies & Coker Classic wide whites & shaved the old farm truck mirrors, Antenna & Spotlight Also removed the old ranch rear bumper. All the chrome siding needed replacing as it was dented all to hell. Here's a quick before and after.

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Yeah it was really solid. My grandpa loved the truck & was always careful to keep it garaged.

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Here's a few more before the lowering & 4 wheel disc setup.

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Here's some post lowering shots

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Looks great. lot's of nice accessories on that truck.

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One great looking truck. I love the blue trim...really sets it off.

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The old tank had to go so we shaved the fuel filler & went with a 15 & 1/2 gallon 1961 schlitz keg in the bed

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The old 3 speed was just not cutting it so a T5 was procured & installed. Also bought a retro sun Tach & temporally put it under the dash but will eventually pull the gauge cluster & install it in the stock location as well as refurb the rest of the gauges.

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thats looking really good!!!!! dont see many white trucks in our body style

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Thanks man. I'm reall stoked at how it turned out.

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I'm debating on what to do with the bed. sadly a really cheap rattle can bed liner was sprayed in the bed. I've been looking into how to remove it & it looks like it'd be a huge hassle. so my thought is to pull the wood & strips & linex the bed in white linex or Fawn like the interior. the original wood is in pretty good shape but covered in the same crappy rattle can bed liner so I'm going to have that sand blasted then figure out what type of treatment to put on to preserve the wood. I stole these pics from another post where someone did the fawn bed liner & I think it looks pretty cool.

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I've been perusing this site for several years & the ingenuity & sweat y'all put int your trucks is inspiring. Truly love this year truck I've had several 1st gen K5's over the years but this is my first C10 & I'm totally hooked. Here's my current K5.

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Your truck is amazingly clean, nice work you have done with it!!
Can you tell me what your T5 transmission came out of?

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Thanks brotha, it's out of an early S10. was looking for a World Class out of a camaro but got a great deal on this.

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that k5 is sooo badass!!!
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I appreciate that. It's been a looooong build. close to 8 years in. Started with basically a tub & now it's getting pretty nice.

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Thanks Coulter, My Grandpa laid that paint over twenty years ago & it's still nice. Not perfect but the fact he did it makes me want to keep it.

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Thanks man. It's coming along.

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The blue really changes it up!! Great truck and great process. Its cool the paint ur grandpa laid was still good! Thanks for sharing.
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Thanks Man, I really love the blue. It looks way better in person than I've been able to catch with a camera.

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I've been working on putting some tunes in The Old Duffer, I've built a little setup to fill the space behind the tank & hold the sub enclosure in place & give me a place to mount the crossovers. I also am going to use this space to store a small amount of tools a fire extinguisher & a couple quarts of oil. I plan on Upholstering this area with the same semi metallic Vinyl that is on the stock bench. I Got a Kicker 10 in their truck box & it pounds pretty hard. Up front I have Kickers 6 & a half inch separates in the kick panels. everything is temporarily mocked in place while I figure out how best to mount them with out drilling holes in the sheet metal. Also Kicker has this killer little I-pod controller that works without any head unit which is exactly what I wanted. I don't want to cut my dash & I want the interior to look pretty close to stock & I don't care about CD's or the radio. Just hook up my iPhone & go. it has a remote that I just tuck under the seat & the only thing that looks modern are the kick panels but they'll be painted the same fawn as the rest of the interior.

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Your truck is looking very nice.

Have you tried paint stripper on the old bedliner? Quite likely blasting won't remove it very easily, and if it does, it may ruin the look of the wood underneath.

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capt is right on. do not blast the wood as it will pull the early wood out and make it wavy looking. strip it with methylene chloride type stripper and then wash it with lacquer thinner. light sanding and reapply finish
ron

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I really appreciate the input fellas, I really want the wood to look it's age. I don't want it to look shiny & new.

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you can always pee a little in the can of finish, that will change the characteristics of it a little
what is under that bed liner. for a finish on the wood. try just scraping it with something. the odds may be that it didn't adhere very well to the old finish and we can see what it is
ron

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Pee in it? For real?

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The next step is a new engine. I want to stay with the inline 6 cause I just think there cool, so I hired Tom Lowe from Autowerkz & inliners.org to build me a monster. I should be taking delivery of freshly built 250 bored 30 over with a clifford 270 cam & lump heads that have had the works thrown at em including roller rockers towards the end of July Then the thrash begins. Front clip will come off & engine compartment will be sanitized & repainted & rewired. I'll paint the frame rails, A arms 7 anything that needs replacing or repainting will be done. I had planned on running this weber 38 carb but have a F.A.S.T. fuel injection setup that will work killer so I think that's the new plan. heres the headers & the Clifford intake I've picked up. Also the block & much of the accessories will be painted the same electric baby blue as the wheels & stripe. Here's a link to a you tube video of a Tom Lowe built turbo 250 making 350 Horse & nearly that amount of TQ. ► 2:11► 2:11
That might be my future plan.

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Any updates? Looks great.

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Picked this up on Ebay this week! So stoked. Got it pretty reasonable compared to what I've seen them going for lately. Also it's been an incredibly long wait but my new Tom Lowe built 250 I6 motor should be here at the end of the week. Then Paint the block assemble all of the new shiny parts including my F.A.S.T. fuel injection take all that to the Dyno man. Should make around 300hp/300TQ the way it's been built. Then install. getting overly excited, might blow a gasket so Ill wait & post more later.

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Looks awesome, that is a clean truck to start with

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lot's going on right now. My new Autowerks Tom Lowe built 250 I6 finally arrived & the transplant has begun. Here's some pics.

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Hers some pics of the firewall & Wheel wells before & after paint.

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Now for the that new heart. before & after paint

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a few more. accessories being painted.

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& it's BLUE

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You do very nice work!
Love all the detail.
Also glad to see a white firewall.
I hate the spray bomb black firewalls that so many of these classic trucks end up with.