My other truck, Daryl. 1979 C10 Stepside.
 

I had a build thread but in a fit of rage at Photobucket I deleted all the pics, now it's kind of dead and no one get's past the first page lol.

So, while on a trip to Arkansas I picked up this 79 C10, had a nice 406 with 882 heads, cam, Edelbrock intake, crappy Edelbrock carb, TH350, your basic little hot rod truck.

It ran well, rode well, the dumped exhaust was obnoxious, but was a fun little truck, I drove it home.

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Interior was rough and not really functional, heater didn't work, hoses bypassed, controls non-functional.

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Found some treasures inside the heater box lol.

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Nice looking truck to start with.

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Thanks, it was a fun trip and adventure!

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The vinyl floor was trapping alot of poo and nonsense underneath.

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Got my nephew to help me out with door pins.

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Cleaned the floor up best I could.

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Coated it in POR 15, big waste of money.

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Put it away for the winter,

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Cool project - going to be a fun one!

Do you leave the bases on the truck and not remove the fenders when you did the hinge pins? I need to do my passenger side, and I need to remove that fender too, mostly just curious.

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Good luck keep the updates coming....

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I was able to leave the bases on and just pull the door with the fender on.

I used the Dorman pins, and they didn't fit their own bushings... I had to turn them down a bit on a lathe, but I wish I had used the GM ones that apparently fit correctly.

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sweet truck brother!

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Awesome, thanks! And good to know. I'll use the GM ones instead since I don't have a Lathe if I get stuck in that situation.

Can't wait to see where this goes. A snotty 406 sounds pretty fun.

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Daryl came back out in the spring, BTW, in the craigslist photos, it was yellow/red two tone like the tailgate... When I showed up Daryl (the previous owner), was putting his last empty can of Krylon down.. I was a bit pissed about that, the price came down significantly lol.



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I drove it around a bit, not alot, just enough to terrorize the neighborhood, put a Quickfuel Slayer carb on it, tuned it up, it ran well. Had 882 heads, a not stock solid cam, headers... Your typical little hot rod, maybe 300 hp, fun stuff.

Sanded on it and found some holes and bondo, nothing like Michigan, but enough to irritate me a little more lol.

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I seem to have lost some pics, but I went all in, there was "surface" rust coming up through the rattle can primer because he had just sprayed over it previously. It would ahve wrecked the truck before long.

I shaved the drip rails and a spot where a CB antenna had been punched through the roof.

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One day I was in the junkyard on unrelated business and happened across a curious thing in a 1500 Silverado.

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The head casting number gave it away for me, made me look closer.

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So in spite of the silly comments from people who clearly watched 3 seconds of the video before firing up the keyboard, it was a 6.0 and it was in a 1500, and it did come home with me :smoke:

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Tejas mounts, Elgin Cam, 862 heads, 10.5:1 LQ4, TBSS manifolds,

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Can you take a pic of how those garage doors work? I have never seen anything like that before. Very cool.

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I haven't either, they are kind of a pain, I'll do that for you this afternoon, I saw your post before and forgot.

First fire video, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8OjJwF6b3Y

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So what you do is push the side towards the outside back, into the garage, then pull the whole thing sideways, and it rolls along the track and goes up against the outer wall.

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Since I fired the engine and it didn't explode, I've moved on to finishing the transmission rebuild.

I need a bushing and a washer that probably won't show up until after the weekend, so I'm kind of stuck, bit of a bummer.

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It seems that when I'm all motivated and set to go, that parts show up slowly. But when I can't seem to get fired up for the next truck task, the parts sit there and taunt me.

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Yeah, same lol, or if I have time, I'm broke, if I'm not broke, I'm busy lol.

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I'm really negligent lol.

Trans is in, driveshaft is in, fuel tank and pump are in.

I believe I have a mismatch in TAC/harness/pedal, because it's not firing the injectors now, inspite of having a super ground at the back of the head. I'm going to head to the junkyard sometime soon and grab another tb/Tac/pedal combo to test.

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So, I started my truck like, 6 weeks ago. Other than no pedal response, all was sweet. Reasonable oil pressure, nothing exploded, good times.

Fast forward 4 weeks, I'm buttoning things up, starting to figure out how to finalize the wiring, buying 300 headers... Suddenly the injectors won't fire. Probably a TAC/Pedal/Harness problem.

Last Friday, I grab a new pedal, TAC, harness, and for funsies, a TB at the junkyard, all from a smashed truck, so it should all match and work since it drove to the scene of the accident.

Hook it all up, have pedal response, all is great. Obviously I probably screwed up the harness when I adapted the 6.5 diesel pedal.

Since I have water in it now and I want to check for leaks, I go ahead, crank her over. Fires up, sounds sweet, instantly blows oil everywhere, total gusher. Entire pan emptied in less than 2 seconds.

It's done this once before, I thought I just screwed the filter up, I fixed it and went about my business. So I check it now, and sure enough, the filter gasket is blown out. WTF??

So I'm thinking, idk, assembly lube? It tends to turn to goo or whatever. Drain the oil, the 4 oz left, comes out black, great... Blow compressed air up through the filter hole, gauge registers pressure, pull gauge, air shoots out the top of the block, not obstructed.

Turn to the internet for help like a fool, everyone focuses on .0003 of paint on the filter gasket surface, ignoring the fact that it will crank oil right out the gauge port, and even up to the rockers.

Pull oil pump, pan, pickup... 17 gallons of oil on my driveway now. I've learned to embrace it, I just roll in it now, don't even care, whatever, oil is my life. Everything is clear, clean, whatever....

Rig up hose to air compressor, shoot oil through block at 140 psi, shoots out pushrods... All should be well.

REassemble... Fire it up... oil everywhere, again, instant filter failure. Cut filter open, it's clean, clear, and unobstructed.

Pull apart, check relief valve in oil pump, really because I was pulling the oil pump to pull the cam, to punt the entire engine. I was done with it. Is the block cracked somewhere? idk, but I'm over it, I've spent the price of a 5.3 on oil and filters by now.

but, for giggles, i pull the plug on the pump over the relief valve... The thing is stuck, all the way up. I have all the oil pressure, all the time, probably in excess of 100 psi at idle.

FML... New oil pump on the way, we'll see how it goes tomorrow lol.

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I had to chuckle a bit.... at your expense. Hopefully the new pump takes care of it. You have too much work and money in that motor for it to be giving you a hard time.

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It should be here today lol, hopefully all is well going forward.

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New pump solved that issue.

Got new core support mounts on, put the front end back on, took the factory wiring harness out and threw it in the trash.

Current struggle is that I don't have the little spacers that go in the alternator bracket and they were 20 bucks to buy, and also my pedal seems to be losing communication with my TAC, inspite of replacing the harness.

So I need to get a fuseblock and get it wired so I can get the OBD port working and see what the error codes are.

Also need to get the alternator installed so I can get the belt on and let it run for longer than 20 seconds.

I'm thinking of adding in some Flowmaster glasspacks to make it bearable, it's loud lol.

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Brief drive today,

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Sounds good. Glad you got the engine thing figured out.