1972 Chevy C10 "OrngsikL"

[orngsikL]

been busy with work and other stuff.
got her a new home...




and did some work. made a bed puller out of some 2x4s and used an engine lift and got the bed off.
Pulled the rear end out and put it under the other frame.

should get more done soon!

[orngsikL]

boxing in the frame for bag mounts

start of the crossmember



mocking up the bars

getting the bars square

mocking up upper bar placement


How do my uppers look? will these angles work?

[Xeen]

Did you consider locating the uppers on the outside of the frame?
Also I thought with a 4-link you couldnt have a static mount I was under the impression that you had to have a pivoting assembly to keep the distances between the arms equal so there is no binding, but what do I know I've never tried to engineer a 4-link before so I don't really know what I'm talking about, it's all a theory to me.

[orngsikL]

Originally Posted by Xeen

Did you consider locating the uppers on the outside of the frame?
Also I thought with a 4-link you couldnt have a static mount I was under the impression that you had to have a pivoting assembly to keep the distances between the arms equal so there is no binding, but what do I know I've never tried to engineer a 4-link before so I don't know what I'm talking about LOL

if I ran the uppers on the outside it wouldn't be triangulated. but i may have to go parallel and run a watts like or panhard.

[Hybridcx]

How did you make this work with the park/neutral switch? I want to do this but from what I can see I only will be able to move it about 3/4" before the switch hits the firewall.

Originally Posted by orngsikL

shortened my steering shaft today and pushed the column in a good bit!

before:


the shaft is collapsible, just drill out the 4 plastic spot fillers, and lube the heck out the shaft and hit it with a mini sledge and vola:

done:





got alot more room now, i like it.
next project is to chop the seat brackets and take some height out of em...

[orngsikL]

switch is just hanging under the dash right now. i think there is a way to notch out the steering column and run it outside the firewall.

[hydrojunkie]

Wow you have a great build thread going. Funny **** I was there for the hurricane. Issac. I'm a lineman. We worked in Baton Rouge. Man youve got some huge trees down there. Super friendly state. I'll be watching you bud.
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[hydrojunkie]

It was hot as hell down there.
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[hydrojunkie]

Speed humps. Lol. Never heard of that. To funny.
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[orngsikL]

haha, cool. Thanks for coming down and giving us a hand with the power. Don's is a pretty good place to eat, there's alot better places though lol.

Made some more progress on the rear end. Got it all cleaned up and primered and then painted in rustoleum flat black and installed a new chrome cover. Filled it with oil and it's been sitting for a week, no leaks so far.



If I could concentrate on one project at a time, i'd be okay haha. Been playing around with the daily too. Picked up some tahoe 20s, installed foglights 2 days ago and got 3.90s, cam, springs, pushrods and transmission cooler waiting to be installed.

[Mad Rods]

Sweet build bro!
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[orngsikL]

Originally Posted by Mad Rods

Sweet build bro!
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thanks

[hydrojunkie]

Yea I figured that bout don's. but it was close for us and I want to try gumbo and shrimp étouffée. We had a lot of fun down there. Anyway. Looking good bro.
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[hatred]

Need any help with anything let me know man. I'm always willing to help out (and learn). Provided the hunni-do list is caught up, I'm not at work, or working on my own truck..... LOL

[orngsikL]

Originally Posted by hatred

Need any help with anything let me know man. I'm always willing to help out (and learn). Provided the hunni-do list is caught up, I'm not at work, or working on my own truck..... LOL

Ok cool. I'd like to check your truck out too. I usually work on mine during the week when I'm done with my hunny-do list too, cause I'm on shift work and usually don't touch the truck on my weekends off. Got some more done yesterday. Ill post pics up tonight. My laptop motherboard decided to die the day before I left for lonestar roundup. Pm me ya number and maybe we can meet up one day. You don't happen to live off hwy 447 do you?
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[orngsikL]

Finally took out the trailing arm crossmember and cut the bottom frame humps out with a grinder, i wish i had access to a torch to heat em up and re-bend them, but i don't. So i cut the humps out and plated them back. So now the frame lays flat.

Got all my bag mounts in place. Got them all welded up and then decided to flip the frame over and weld up the bottom side of everything. Primered all the weld so it wont rust anymore.
Guess the next thing is to find a bag to run on the back that will fit without rubbing my upper link bars. The re-7s balloon out too much, so i may run a re-6 on the rear. Any suggestions?

[67cheby]

well I am a few pages late but nice work !

[orngsikL]

My wife bought me these for my birthday. Came in today

[Jmorales3181]

Thanks for looking in on my build. I haven't really been on this side of the forum. Truck is coming along nicely...doing some great work! Happy birthday man!
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[Jmorales3181]

Oops just noticed that post was back in April....happy belated birthday
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[orngsikL]

Originally Posted by Jmorales3181

Oops just noticed that post was back in April....happy belated birthday
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thanks


placed an order from porterbuilt monday and just did this...


now i'll go outside and setup my tint and wait for the ups guy to show up.

[orngsikL]

Waited all day for UPS to show up. He came about 7:30, then i got to unpacking and setting up...





came out nice



still got all of the passenger side pieces to paint. It ended up getting too cold to finish painting.

[62 short step]

Nice build!

[orngsikL]

Redid the rear bag setup on saturday. Ran out of daylight. Pics to come soon!

[orngsikL]

had some nice weather on sunday so i finally got to finish the rear bag setup. next will be shocks.