72 long bed stepper

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I have a straight 6 in my 72 c-10 that started giving me fits shortly after I bought the truck. The first thing I did in the attempt to get it back running was to do a tune up. I replaced the wires rotor plugs cap and coil. The damn thing started running worse so next I checked the inlet of my carb to find that there was no filter and that the last time it was “rebuilt/rigged” someone did it wrong. I purchased a remanufactured carb from National Carburetor in Jacksonville fl, the sales man was cool but he got fired shortly after taking my order and I ended up waiting an extra 2 weeks to get my carb and they had their $ from day one that pissed me off real good. When I got it home fuel was pouring down the side of the carb on to my exhaust manifold so I thought it would be best to bring it back to them. They rebuilt it and it made their test engine run like a beast. When I put it on my truck it ran like a sick dog… I called a guy to come look at my truck and after a few trips up and down my street with him under the hood sitting on the wheel well I the only thing that changed was I was forty dollars poorer. My wife saw my truck going down the street with a little man under the hood and freaked out… lol I let the truck sit for about a year after that I didn’t even log into the site much after that either. My cousin gave me a 350 that had a bad wrist pin on one of the pistons, but I never did anything with it except put it under the table in my garage. Then in December I went through one of the worst events I had ever faced in life. I didn’t come out of it the way I wanted but it could have been much worse, I thank God for keeping me through it all and I don’t think I have gone more than 48 hours without coming to tears since it all happened that morning.
Well somehow I decided to start messing with the truck again I changed my distributor to an HEI and replaced the wires again don’t ask why but I did. Made a new fuel line from my new fuel pump to the carb and….. Still the same problem it idles very smoothly but bogs down and dies when I get to 3rd gear. So I say to hell with the stinkin truck until a deacon from my church tells me to come get a 350 from him that he had laying around in his garage. He has been trying to sell me this engine ever since I got the truck but I never would bite so he ended up giving it to me even though the engine came out of a van it is a 2bolt main but that is fine since it was free. I tore it down pressure washed it 3 times and put it on the stand to get it ready for paint. I am going to put timing gears on it. If I can get my hands on a compression tester and the cylinders are still within specs I am going to see about a nice “RV” cam or something that will work well with whatever gears I have on my truck and the 3 speed. Tomorrow I am off to rusty acres for a serpentine belt assembly…




This is my truck...



i put it on jackstands to keep from pissing off the neighbors


i picked up a better set of wheels on craigslist, the other set a bad rim...


the original fuel line set up


the new fuel lines with HEI dist



The 350 minus the 700 r tranny no complaints its free! he had a shopping cart for an engine stand smh


my wife was pissed when she saw i bought that lift







She hasnt seen the engine stand lol






I dont have any one helping me so i bought an engine leveler also help me when i line up the engine and tranny...