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Old 10-23-2010, 12:25 PM   #1
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Silver Dollar

Silver Dollar: is a Project I started last year in December, I am About 90% done with it. When I first started I wanted to do a nice restoration on a truck over the course of a couple of years, instead I set myself up by doing a full on custom restoration, for $6500 and in 6 months. Needless to say That didnt work! I have worked on it every day feverishly for the past 9 months ,Over my deadline and way over my budget. I was still plugging away until last month when I got it running for the first time. As soon as It started and ran, It seamed like a world of stress was lifted off of me. and Now for what ever reason I Dont want to spend any time on it. It seams Iv lost my motivation.

So im going to restart a build thread from where I started Back in December. and hopefully in a few weeks this thread will be caught up with the build and I will have the truck finished.

A little about the Truck: It is a Hybrid of 69-72 parts. It is a short bed, (the bed was cut from a long bed). the chassis was lowered 4/6, Porter-built rear trailing arms, 4 wheel disc brakes, a 02' 5.3l, 4l60e, Custom House Of Kolor Paint, Ultra leather interior, and a lot of little custom stuff here and there.

I did manage to take pictures along the way. so here we go!
In December I bought a junk 69 shortbed, the only thing worth keeping was the chassis. unfortunately the bondo infested bed and rusted out cab became scrape money.
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Old 10-23-2010, 12:47 PM   #2
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The Chassis was completely strip of anything that I wasn't going to use or was unsightly, I Removed what seamed to be like 400 rivets and every damn one fought me, all the way out.
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Old 10-23-2010, 01:08 PM   #3
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once everything was striped off I had the Frame Sandblasted.
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Old 10-23-2010, 01:18 PM   #4
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Then I coated the frame with KBC Coatings semi gloss. http://www.kbs-coatings.com/
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Old 10-23-2010, 01:24 PM   #5
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Old 10-24-2010, 02:19 PM   #6
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Picked up a set of 18" Boss 338 wheels. Have to machine the rotor hub down for them to slide on. But they look great






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Old 10-24-2010, 02:54 PM   #7
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Started the front streering and suspension, 2.5" drop spindles, 2" drop coils all new bushings, tierods, ball joints, piman and idler arm





Steel braided brake hoses, and Classic Performance Tubular engine mounts and crossmember



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Old 10-24-2010, 03:25 PM   #8
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Re: Silver Dollar

looking really nice!
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Old 10-24-2010, 03:31 PM   #9
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cleaned up the 12 bolt, added rear caliper brackets, slid it under the frame and mounted it up with a set of Porterbuilt rear 3" drop trailing arms, Classic Performance adjustable rear panhard bar, 3" drop springs and Bolt in C notch.





I ran the rear brake hoses through the frame to give it a nice clean look



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Nice! Love the PB stuff!
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Old 10-24-2010, 04:03 PM   #11
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I scored a 02" 5.3l and a 4l60 from a guy who was going to put it in a S/10 but couldnt finish it. I came with solid engine mounts and Sanders Headers. cleaned it up with easy off oven cleaner (I saw a guy on the forum used so I thought Id give it a try. works great).Put new gaskets and injector O rings in it. Then I painted it Chevy orange.
I wont be using the soilid mounts instead I bought a pair plates from a ebay, and used a set of stock engine mounts from a late 70's truck. The engine fell right into place just like it came from the factory.







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Old 10-24-2010, 04:12 PM   #12
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The engine mounts I wont be using. for sale if anybody is interested. $25


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Nice! Love the PB stuff!
Yea me to. I saw those and knew I had to build a truck for 'em!
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Old 10-24-2010, 07:56 PM   #14
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Looks awesome !! Cant wait to see more
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Old 10-25-2010, 12:39 AM   #16
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Old 10-25-2010, 12:23 PM   #17
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Awesome Project! Subscribed.


Oh by the way, who modified your rotors? I had to go through that too.

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Oh by the way, who modified your rotors? I had to go through that too.
A local machine shop. he put them on a lathe and turned it down. I had to take a little off the spindle as well and flatten the cap out. it was a little extra work, but for the price of the wheels and how good they look I would do it again, and probably will.
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A local machine shop. he put them on a lathe and turned it down. I had to take a little off the spindle as well and flatten the cap out. it was a little extra work, but for the price of the wheels and how good they look I would do it again, and probably will.
Fortunately for me I have access to a full machine shop and I did my own. HERE Your right about the price it was hard to beat for great looking rims.

Now let's see some more pics of your build!
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Fortunately for me I have access to a full machine shop and I did my own. HERE Your right about the price it was hard to beat for great looking rims.

Now let's see some more pics of your build!
I see you actualy cut the cap and welded back together, did tou still have to take a little of the spindle or would it clear? did you use the 1-1/4 rotors or the 1"? I was on that boss 338 wheel thread and am surprised how many people would shy away from these wheels. even though several others have described exactly how to do the modification. Unfortunately for me I bought the wheels before I knew they wouldn't fit. So I had to figure it out on my own, before I found the thread. Ill gets some more pics up in a little bit.
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with help from Brendan at lt1swap, I did my own harness. All you need a good work station or a unused pool table. and some alone time so you can concentrate. I spent about 10 hours on it over the coarse of a week. it was pretty simple. His web site has the list of the wires you need to keep and what you dont. http://lt1swap.com/index.htm




Just cut a few of the connectors off.
remove the wires you dont need from the connectors and pull each unused wire out of the harness

retape everything your gonna keep.

the pile on the right is what I had taken out.


I also installed a completely new wire harness in the truck using a mini fuseblock.

I check all my connections with either a multimeter or the battery charger.


making sure I have the wiper switch hook up right



and this is the panel I came up with. it has the fusees for the power wires for the engine harness plus all of the relays I am going to use. It should be a little cleaner when its finally done.
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I see you actualy cut the cap and welded back together, did tou still have to take a little of the spindle or would it clear? did you use the 1-1/4 rotors or the 1"? I was on that boss 338 wheel thread and am surprised how many people would shy away from these wheels. even though several others have described exactly how to do the modification. Unfortunately for me I bought the wheels before I knew they wouldn't fit. So I had to figure it out on my own, before I found the thread. Ill gets some more pics up in a little bit.
Yes, I did have to trim some off the spindle shafts and did have to use silicone to hole the center caps on. I didn't like that part of the swap. Yes they are the heavy 1.25" rotors too.

My kid has been driving his truck everyday since we installed them with no issues and they look great too.

Great job on doing the harness yourself! I am hoping to try to do my own too. Hopefully, I can. Who did your computer?
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Brendan from Lt1swap. I had it back in a couple of days. I had a few issuse at start up (Injectors stuck from sitting)and I contact him and he help me out.

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