New Daily Driver

[NewType72]

I definitely second WarMongers idea of hardline all the way to the carb definitely safer than sorry

[C10_ustacould]

Originally Posted by tune_1

Great to see you at work on another truck. The small steps look good.

Dwight

I have mixed feeling about the truck, I'm trying to keep the costs down but it's tough to do these days. People are paying high prices for these trucks and it's creeping into the parts side.

Originally Posted by Dieselwrencher

Nice work on the truck, and the trans looks nice. Send Rob up here and have him do my side fill too would ya?

Thanks, It's tough to get on his schedule you're going to have to have your people get with his people.

Originally Posted by NewType72

Very sanitary build love it!

Thanks

Originally Posted by 68Gold/white

The steering column fiasco IS a lot of fun. Just don't force anything. It all fits together....

We'll see if I take this on or order one from Kevin at Kev's Classics.

[C10_ustacould]

Originally Posted by WarMonger

Good looking truck. Think about hard lining the fuel line from the pump to carb. these trucks burn down all the time for that reason and you have a good looking one. Hate to see it go up in flames.

Originally Posted by NewType72

I definitely second WarMongers idea of hardline all the way to the carb definitely safer than sorry

I'll have to look into it but I was wanting to use one of these with all braided line and aluminum hardline in the frame rail. But I'm not sure it will work with the manual choke carb.



Y'all know your new vehicles have rubber hose in the fuel systems with much higher pressure, right?

[knomadd]

Originally Posted by C10_ustacould

I'll have to look into it but I was wanting to use one of these with all braided line and aluminum hardline in the frame rail. But I'm not sure it will work with the manual choke carb.

Y'all know your new vehicles have rubber hose in the fuel systems with much higher pressure, right?

I have (had) braided line from the pump to the carb on my small block. Since the pump is hard mounted to the block, there isn't a need for flexible line between the pump and carb. It's also a relatively maintenance free part if you go hard line. As opposed to having to check the flex hose (rubber or braided, still deteriorates much faster than metal) once in a while for cracks and failures and replace the flex line every so often.

You really only need the flex line between the frame and the pump to allow the line to flex with the engine/trans. As long as nothing else is a moving part, hard line should work fine. Also, most newer vehicles are using nylon (plastic) line since ethanol eats rubber pretty quickly. Heat becomes a concern with the nylon stuff though.

[gringoloco]

Watching this

[C10_ustacould]

Let's talk disc brakes. I'd like to upgrade to... No, I NEED to upgrade my brakes. I liked the performance of the 4-wheel disc setup I had on the stepside, it was a mix of ECE and CPP. Recently a well known builder warned me to stay away from CPP parts, I'm guessing he's seen some failures or quality issues. I like the fact that CPPs modular spindles keep the track width, but I'm more concerned about buying anything that may fail later. With this in mind I'm think of a couple scenarios. Opinions? Experiences?

1.) ECE 2.5" drop spindles with factory style single piston calipers, factory iron M/C with stock proportioning valve, and ECE rear drum upgrade kit. All this from ECE would be around $1400 + shipping




2.) Custom built 4 wheel disc brake kit using factory Corvette brake parts, McGaughy's spindles, and a Wilwood M/C with proportioning valve set up. $2500



3.) CPP 4 wheel disc kit. $1545 + shipping

[gringoloco]

Keeping 15s? 6-lug? Have you looked into any of the captfab rear brackets? I think you can put together a 4 wheel disc setup for much less than those, unless you like the convenience of a kit.

Only issues I've ever heard of from CPP arise from customer service.

[C10_ustacould]

Originally Posted by gringoloco

Keeping 15s? 6-lug? Have you looked into any of the captfab rear brackets? I think you can put together a 4 wheel disc setup for much less than those, unless you like the convenience of a kit.

Only issues I've ever heard of from CPP arise from customer service.

I am planning to keep the "15 Rallys, although I may buy a set of 15x10 for the rear. If I do buy new/different wheels it will likely be a smoothy with a stockish center cap so I won't need anything that looks fancy. The captfab brackets are great but I don't think he has anything that uses a caliper with a parking brake which is important to me. I'm really leaning towards the ECE disc/drum setup, it fits with my keep it simple and inexpensive intentions with this truck.

[C10_ustacould]

Originally Posted by gringoloco

Keeping 15s? 6-lug? Have you looked into any of the captfab rear brackets? I think you can put together a 4 wheel disc setup for much less than those, unless you like the convenience of a kit.

Only issues I've ever heard of from CPP arise from customer service.

WHOOPS! It looks like Captainfab has a bracket using 6 lug rotors and Eldorado or Camaro calipers. Going to have to look into it.

[Malamute]

Just hopped in, I like the upgrades.

[Palf70Step]

Missed seeing you back into a truck. This one looks super good. Hope to see it at a future CTC event.

[C10_ustacould]

Originally Posted by Palf70Step

Missed seeing you back into a truck. This one looks super good. Hope to see it at a future CTC event.

Yep, it was tough to stay home from CtC this year, but I have to be smart with my vacation and my $$. Hope to see y'all next year.

[gringoloco]

Originally Posted by C10_ustacould

I am planning to keep the "15 Rallys, although I may buy a set of 15x10 for the rear. If I do buy new/different wheels it will likely be a smoothy with a stockish center cap so I won't need anything that looks fancy. The captfab brackets are great but I don't think he has anything that uses a caliper with a parking brake which is important to me. I'm really leaning towards the ECE disc/drum setup, it fits with my keep it simple and inexpensive intentions with this truck.

C5 won't work with rallies (or many other wheels, for that matter). I say:

DJM drop spindles-$220
ECE 6-lug rotors-$200
Calipers, balljoints, etc from rockauto

Captfab rear setup

I think you can put it all together for around $1k, just guessing. Requires a little planning/leg work, but to mee, that's half the fun

[knomadd]

I agree with Chris. The only issues I've heard and read about with CPP are customer service driven. I personally bought the Modular drop spindles just to be able to run bigger brakes in the future and a bonus is the narrower track width. I just made sure to buy them from a board vendor so I didn't have to deal with CPP directly.

As for brakes, I went with Wilwoods, but I wanted the look too. I've read a few times that 4 wheel disc on a truck isn't really necessary, but if you plan on towing, racing or anything like that, it can't hurt. I hear McGaughy's and ECE are similar to the CPP kits for stopping power, but I don't have personal experience with any of them. Good luck!

[Gus350]

I like option #1

I like one phone call, one order. I don't have time to chase parts and hope I'm ordering the right ones.

[C10_ustacould]

I ordered the first part of my brake upgrade today, and I am hopeful it turns out well. The quote, "There's a sucker born everyday" is bouncing around in my head. I ordered a master cylinder/proportioning valve and a pre-bent line kit from Performance Online. Never ordered from them so I'm cautious. Also, I tried the pre-bent lines from CPP with my stepper and because I swapped the '68 crossmember for a '73 my brake upgrade wasn't the norm, so I ended up not using their lines. Unfortunately, I have no idea what happened to those lines. Anyway, a friend of mine has a spare set of new 12" 6-lug rotors I can get on a deal and I'll be ordering CPP modular spindles and caliper brackets soon. Who on the board sells CPP? Everything else I can source at my local parts store. For now I'm going to try and get the rear drums working better with the front discs, but at some point I'll do a 6-lug rear disc conversion. I hope to have all of the parts required by the veteran's day weekend so I can take advantage of the extra day off to do the swap, can't have the daily driver down too long. We'll see...

[gringoloco]

Sounds like a solid plan. Do us a favour and measure before/after track width with the CPP modulars

[C10_ustacould]

Originally Posted by gringoloco

Sounds like a solid plan. Do us a favour and measure before/after track width with the CPP modulars

Will do!

[knomadd]

I bought mine from Matt from Matt's Classic Bowties, I believe his forum name is MCB Matt. He has several threads in the Vendors Marketplace.

[C10_ustacould]

Originally Posted by knomadd

I bought mine from Matt from Matt's Classic Bowties, I believe his forum name is MCB Matt. He has several threads in the Vendors Marketplace.

Thanks Duane, I'll check with them.

[C10_ustacould]

She gone!!!

[Malamute]

What? What's next?

[C10_ustacould]

Originally Posted by Malamute

What? What's next?

Don't exactly know yet. Maybe a convertible for my wife or maybe another C10, will be a few days to a week before we know.

[flashed]

Convertible Chevelle's are fun ,I have one .

[Advanced Design]

Catching up ...reading about brakes and expecting to see brake upgrade pictures, nope...congrat's and have fun finding the next one.