Chevy3100's 1970 GMC 3/4 Ton

[chevy3100]

Well, I bought this a couple of months ago as it was going to be my new daily driver I was going to sell my Caddy CTS as I had a new job that didn't require a 4 seater car, and I could get away with having an old pickup (much more character than a new one). Anyhow, the new job didn't work out, but now I have both the CTS and finally got this truck ready to roll.

In all honesty, the truck didn't need much work. I bought it relatively cheap (for this area anyhow) from a kid who had done a bunch of work to it, then proceeded to have the oil line to the cooler blow off on the freeway on his way to get it smog checked.... Needless to say, he had moved between doing work at this time from his parents house to a condo where he was not allowed to work on the truck. I guess it sat for a few months, and he finally had put it on craigslist as a parts truck. Being as it was close to me and I always liked the 67-72 GM Trucks, I figured I'd take a look. Ended up towing it home that day with my little guy since we decided it was a keeper. The PO had replaced all of the tires, brakes, master cylinder, mirrors, marker lights, exhaust and a few other things to get it through provincial safety inspection (he had brought it up from Washington state). He only got about 400km on it before blowing the thing up....

Since it is a 3/4 ton with leafs, it's not worth a ton, but I got it for $3200 and now with a quick engine swap, some paint on a few things and a couple of new parts (gaskets, engine mounts, etc) it is running and driving. I just need to do a little tuning on the carb to get it through the driving portion of our smogger tests.

Here is the truck when I brought it home:


Getting the engine ready to pull:


Donor engine truck - 1987 Blazer 4x4 that had a 350 in it hooked up to a 5 spd. I just wanted the engine, the guy offered to deliver the truck to me and pick up the carcass when I was done pulling it -


10lbs of %&#$ in a 5lb bag....


It's a lot easier to pull an engine when you get to use a sawzall and sledgehammer to remove the body work. I was thinking it was going to be a pain to unbolt the trans, but I didn't want to have to dropped the t-case out either, so on a whim I through a jack under the body of the blazer and jacked up, took about 2 seconds to break off all of the body mounts and get the body lifted about 8" off the chassis, made for plenty of clearance.