1970 C10 SWB - Project "Sprout"

[Tomahawk30]

I hauled my 69 GMC 4x4 stepside over to the body and paint shop last week (that I'm trading for the body, paint, and engine work on Sprout), and while I was there I spent some time removing excess wiring, air lines, and saddle tank fuel lines. I also bought some Simple Green and a bunch of shop towels and spent a couple hours cleaning up the engine bay... It was looking pretty sad with the shiny new engine buried in decades of grease and grime! I definitely have more work to do (replace hoses, new longer plug wires, plastic spiral wrap to bundle the wiring more cleanly, a bit more grease to remove behind the engine, etc...) but I was surprised how well the paint on the firewall cleaned up with some scrubbing.

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There's a bunch more pictures and a semi-crappy engine running cell phone video in my flickr gallery (in my sig) but I wanted to get something posted so I don't get completely behind on my build thread!