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Re: How to: Ruin a perfectly good C10
Nice parts, your truck just keeps getting better.
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Re: How to: Ruin a perfectly good C10
wohooo !!! road racing time
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Re: How to: Ruin a perfectly good C10
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Maybe not quite to that level, but I hope it's more stable and confidence inspiring on the streets--and the occasional on-ramp ![]() Posted via Mobile Device
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Re: How to: Ruin a perfectly good C10
What? No more squeeky, squeeky over bumps? Say it ain't so!
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Re: How to: Ruin a perfectly good C10
I'm a bit skeptical, but I'm willing to try anything twice! Worst case, I put some poly bushings on and slather 'em in goo...
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Re: How to: Ruin a perfectly good C10
Mo' parts! RedHead Steering Gear 'quick' ratio steering box and CaptainFab's D52 caliper rear disc brake brackets arrived today. At first inspection, both are high quality parts. The brackets were packaged nicely and will get sent out for satin black powdercoat with my control arms, Camaro rear sway bar, and some other misc pieces. Also received a set of C5 Hawk HPS pads for the front to match the current fronts that will be moved to the rear...
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Re: How to: Ruin a perfectly good C10
Does look awesome, absolutely a huge improvement!!! Hope there are no fitment issues with the pads installed. Laughed at the Men in Black II quote!!!!
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Re: How to: Ruin a perfectly good C10
great looking parts collection, cant wait to see it all on !
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Re: How to: Ruin a perfectly good C10
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Thanks- you and me both- the pile is growing... The Bilsteins arrived today! Can't say enough good things about my experience with eShocks.com- best price I could find on the Billys and FAST, FREE shipping. These shocks just exude quality. Worked 'em through their range of motion a couple of times and they are SO smooth and quiet. Impressed with the welds, paint, decals, boots--everything is just very well done--guess I've never had 'nice' shocks before ![]() Also fairly happy with rockauto.com these days--they sent me the wrong parts twice, but both times ended up in my favor. First, they sent me what were supposed to be Moog tie-rods, but ended up just being Federal Moguls. Gave me a FULL refund and told me just to keep 'em! ![]() Second- these rear brake rotors (AWD Astro fronts for the captainfab brackets) that were sent instead of the clearance items I ordered. They both emailed and called to tell me they were out of the items I ordered, but would send me a premium rotor at no additional charge. They are ATE (pronounced Ah-Tay) PremiumOne with 'elliptical slots' and 'MetaCote'. Not sure what to think about the 'wave' grooves, but I do like that they are rust-inhibitor coated and for the price, I can't complain too much...
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Re: How to: Ruin a perfectly good C10
Thats a great looking parts pile you've got going there! These mods are really going to make a difference in the performance of your truck. Cool stuff!
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![]() Ive got Poly bushings in mine and they have grease zerks built in for ease of lubrication, because lets be real here you have to get under the front end to lube suspension and steering parts anyway so whats two more zerks? |
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![]() I hope the handling and braking improves- I want it to be fun to drive, not scary ![]() Quote:
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Re: How to: Ruin a perfectly good C10
Your truck is taking shape nicely. The fleetside box was a big improvement. Your Blazer was really nice as well. It is taking shape quite well up here in Calgary, Canada. So what are your plans for the truck?
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Re: How to: Ruin a perfectly good C10
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Man, I miss that Blazer. Glad he's finally making some progress ![]()
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Re: How to: Ruin a perfectly good C10
Started some front-end tear-down today. Pulled the steering box to send back to RedHead as a core and the last pic is the 1.25 front sway bar, poly bushings, and ECE mounts for sale here to help recoup some more mod money. Also had a heck of a time removing the power steering pump- seems the pulley didn't want to separate from the shaft, but I finally won the battle...
Last time we'll see it look like this--shame, I feel like I just rebuilt all of this stuff not too long ago ![]()
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Re: How to: Ruin a perfectly good C10
I think George Jetson sent you those "Astro" rotors.
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Re: How to: Ruin a perfectly good C10
It is good to read allot of progress is going on here and that it looks to be going awesome! I cant wait to hear the feedback from all of this work!
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Re: How to: Ruin a perfectly good C10
Nice progress, bet you can't wait for those porterbuilt arms to show up so you can get everything back together. Interested in seeing how that Redhead steering box works out for you, I want to upgrade mine as well.
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Re: How to: Ruin a perfectly good C10
Wow $215, now I am really interested
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#822 |
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Re: How to: Ruin a perfectly good C10
Yeah, $216 plus $85 core, plus $32 shipping, netted me a $333 initial outlay--but subtract the $70 core return (after paying $15 to ship it back) and it's roughly $260. Still ~$100 cheaper than the AGR ($350 plus shipping) when it's all said and done. Those that live close to them can walk in with their old box and $216 and walk out with new. Another cool thing is that they will do custom requests, i.e; variable or quick ratio, different paint, etc, for no charge and with only a 24 hour turnaround. May get it mounted soon, pending available time...
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Re: How to: Ruin a perfectly good C10
Remind me again on your drop specs please? I'm eyeballing your shocks.
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Re: How to: Ruin a perfectly good C10
I hope you are making a complete parts list for me. I know when I get to the point of driving my truck I will want to upgrade everything like you are doing. I also know you are always looking for the most economical solution to get it done. Keep up the good work.
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In the front, the stock replacement 33033 Monroes are good until aired-out, in my experience, while using the stock lower control arms and stock style frame mounted studs. This is also the exact same shock that ART ships with their basic bag kits. The Bilsteins should have similar extended/compressed dimensions, but I will need to measure to verify and set mounts and/or bumpstops to accomodate. Out back, stock replacement 32301 'blue' Monroes again, with the aforementioned 2" blocks, which effectively give you 2" more shock travel plus ECE shock relocators. I have aired-out completely into the CPP bolt-in notches to the bumpstops without bottoming the shocks out. The Bilsteins are a few tenths shorter by my guesstimates- again, I need to verify compressed/extended lengths. All of this to say: They might work for you, depending on your setup. I will post more information on what I have to do to make them work as I get to that point. .....Just remembered--you're running the Hotchkis springs, right? These are the exact part# they ship with the TVS, but with their relocation brackets..... Quote:
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