C10 engine rebuild-finished!
 

It .. is ... A-live! I got my baby back and the surgery made her better than she was before!

Got my inline 6 rebuilt this last Saturday. I posted a link to photos of the tear-down. Now I have photos of the reconstruction. http://homepage.mac.com/elgatoloco/PhotoAlbum6.html

She sounds like I've never heard her, starts oh so much easier, and runs like a brand new truck. We replaced the main bearings, rod bearings, piston rings, put a new fuel pump on, new fuel filter, new points, new condenser, new gaskets & seals, scraped the pistons clean, honed the bores, did a valve job, set the timing and painted the engine. Whew, I think that's all of it.

68ChevC10

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1968 Chevrolet C10 Stepside. My driver. Aint life cool.


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Cool man, have fun.
CoryM

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1970 heavy duty C-10 fleetside sport truck. Vancouver B.C. Canada
http://www.geocities.com/chevroletc1070


"Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high."
Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae, Canadian Army

I assume that's the original carburetor. Looks like a 2G. Did you rebuild that?

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'69 3/4 ton C20 2wd w/ 350ci/400THM and a wood bed!
'69 3/4 ton Custom 20 2wd w/ ORIGINAL 350ci/4sp Manual and a wood bed (parts beast).
Seattle, WA.

*See pics of my trucks and project at www.webshots.com!

The carb's not original. It is a Rochester single-barrel, though I'm working on getting a 2-barrel for it. What I really need is an original air cleaner for this one. What I've on there is an old Rochester cleaner off an old 50's model car. Couldn't find a cleaner at the junkyard that would work.

If anyone's got a cleaner that would fit and wants to get rid of it, let me know what you want for it.

The next project is to replace the manual-shift steering column with a automatic one I bought off a guy. Make it a column-shift auto, hook in the backup lights that are currently disabled due to a DSOM rigged floor shifter and it's fun times ahead. Plus, I'll be legal and inspected and all that. http://67-72chevytrucks.com/board/ubbhtml/smile.gif

68ChevC10

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1968 Chevrolet C10 Stepside. My driver. Aint life cool.




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That's an old monojet? Wow.

You know if you want to move to a 2G it wouldn't be all that tough. You can find them easy (at least I can here). They usually get tossed for the ever-popular performer 4bbl, and I think they're easier to get cleaner covers for too.

Nice work. Good luck.

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'69 3/4 ton C20 2wd w/ 350ci/400THM and a wood bed!
'69 3/4 ton Custom 20 2wd w/ ORIGINAL 350ci/4sp Manual and a wood bed (parts beast).
Seattle, WA.

*See pics of my trucks and project at www.webshots.com!

congrats and nice lookin truck.

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69 c-10. turquoise. 350 motor with 400 trans. long fleet. headers and dual flowmaster exhaust. K & N air cleaner, aluminum wheels and radials, stereo system and a bed liner.

I like it, congrats on keeping the 250!! I wish I had done the same...

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http://hometown.aol.com/racedvl/racedvl69index.html

Woodstock,IL.northwest of Chicago

It's not what you buy, it's what you build!!

I did not climb to the top of the food chain, to become a vegetarian.

For some pics of my truck.

How much did the rebuild cost you? I am gutting my inline in a few weeks, to be replaced with a 350. But was just curious how much it did cost to do all that work?

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currently
1972 Long fleetside
250, inline 6 with 3 speed manual

Soon to have
a freshened up 350
staying with the 3 spd
new rally wheels
fresh paint
custom flatbed with stacks!!!

The rebuild cost me two Saturday's, one Sunday and about $350 in parts. I don't even want to think what a shop would have cost to do what we did.

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1968 Chevrolet C10 Stepside. My driver. Aint life cool.