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Became a member of the '73-'78 club, 4x4 club, & 1ton club all in the same day!
So anyway I think I've covered most of the sub forums here on the board.
'47-'59 with some cabs and chassis parts no complete trucks '67-'72 with 3 or 4 trucks '88-'98 with my '94 S-10 with a few of those. Well anyway Last week I bought a '79 K30 Dually so now I'm a member of the '73-'87 crowd as well. '79 K30 with a Dump Flat Bed. 400 Small Block, TH400 Auto, NP203, D60 Front, & I think a D70 Rear. (Motor & Tranny are supposedly rebuilt, aren't they all:lol::lol::lol:) It does have a New intake & carb as well as a reman plow pump. The Dump Pump is Electric/Hydro which is nice, no PTO set up to deal with. Seems that someone changed the front end at one point cause it is not a dually D60 it is a SRW 60 :confused: but hey that is just fine by me, makes it worth more ;) Iwas contemplating sell the D60 and swapping in a 44 as I won't be wheeling the truck. Probably just some plowing & firewood/trash hauling. Who knows. I'll probably just leave it alone for a little while and fix some of the small things. Oh yeh and it even came with a compementary Gun Rack :metal: Photobucket is not being cooperative with me tonight, I'll try to get some more pics later. http://i152.photobucket.com/albums/s...y/P1010245.jpg http://i152.photobucket.com/albums/s...y/P1010244.jpg http://i152.photobucket.com/albums/s...y/P1010238.jpg http://i152.photobucket.com/albums/s...y/P1010247.jpg |
Re: Became a member of the '73-'78 club, 4x4 club, & 1ton club all in the same day!
It appears to be a K30 clone. Too many 1 ton features missing such as hydraboost brakes.
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I was thinking the same thing about the brakes. I'm wondering if the Hydrobost had issues and they swapped that setup into the truck. Who knows what it is exactly. - Vin comes up as a K30 as well. Seems like alot of work to clone. Possible that it was a regular 8' pickup with the flarefenders on the rear? |
Re: Became a member of the '73-'78 club, 4x4 club, & 1ton club all in the same day!
Nice looking work truck. If you get a chance, check the wheelbase length. I'm having an optical illusion!
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cool truck.. tiem to get ti ready for snow, time ot make some money with it.. looks good
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The dump should be able to make me a few bucks on the side though. Maybe I can find a plow set-up cheap somewhere that is made for the truck, and make a little extra with that as well. |
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No matter what it really is, it looks good.
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Sweet, where in CT you located? I'm in the North Haven area
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It does seem kinda short huh? I checked it today - 134" ???? (135.5 I guess then) 131.5", 135.5", & 159.5" seem to be the options for a Cab&Chassis According to this http://www.73-87.com/7387info/brochu..._vs_ford13.jpg |
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Well a small update. (I've been a little slow working on this thing as I have been busy with customer's cars etc.)
The 400 Motor had a few issues. #1. it was skipping badly, during some dectective work I found a broken rocker arm stud on the #7exh valve (very last one on the driver's side under the booster. #2. I thought it was a little noisy in the bottom end. I hooked up a manual guage and found out that it had great oil pressure cold, but had 0 when hot. :lol: So @ that point I decided to just swap out the motor. I was lucky and found a rebuilt 350 in an '81 4x4 with less than 500 miles on it. With the reciepts for all the parts and work. Needless to say I cleaned it all up, regasketed everything as it had been sitting around for a while. I also redid the exahust as it was a "harry the hacker" setup I also located an '83 4x4 with a correct & complete 8' plow set-up. That's the next project. Anyway here's some pics for you to look at: http://i152.photobucket.com/albums/s...y/P1010347.jpg http://i152.photobucket.com/albums/s...y/P1010348.jpg http://i152.photobucket.com/albums/s...y/P1010349.jpg |
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looking real good. that should be a fun plow truck
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That black paint looks nice. I wanna tow something with that truck:metal:
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I like it....
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COOL! I see you went back to stock manifolds...good IDEA!
-Lance |
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great score on the new motor.. should make a good plow truck to..
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did you end up sticking to the Meyer plow?
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I bought a '83 Chevy K20 with a Complete Fisher 8' setup. So everything will match now (including the pump). The only thing that I need is the correct pump bracket for the motor, as the '83 had some homemade thing (It was originally a diesel truck converted to gas, so they must have made a new pump bracket and scrapped the old one. I'll get some pictures once I get the plow all on & working. Right now I'm building a Hyd. Tank for the Dump unit. The PO used a gallon jug and epoxied a fitting to it for the tank:lol::lol: I'm building it because I couldn't find one skinny enough to fit behind the seat. |
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