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I have car A.D.D.
Join Date: Feb 2009
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Re: BigRed 81 crewcab dually
That will work...if you tweak it some.
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Location: Palmer, Alaska
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Re: BigRed 81 crewcab dually
![]() "go big or go home" I said as I walked home ![]() how about hell yeah! and again.....HELL YEAH!!!! ![]()
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Re: BigRed 81 crewcab dually
It's so much easier to try and spend other people's money.
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I have car A.D.D.
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Re: BigRed 81 crewcab dually
^^^^^Joe, are you drinking again?
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Re: BigRed 81 crewcab dually
Nope, why?
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I have car A.D.D.
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Re: BigRed 81 crewcab dually
Nothing really. Just gotta give you a hard time.
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Re: BigRed 81 crewcab dually
![]() cool man, keep me in line ![]()
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Re: BigRed 81 crewcab dually
cool bro, nice find!
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Location: kansas city Ks
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Re: BigRed 81 crewcab dually
Lol I originally called the craigslist seller to buy his 79 crewcab 3/4t but he sold it already. Luckily for me his 19yr old little brother was selling the 81 dually that he had bought from a farmer that used it to pull his horse trailer ever so often. Then it dropped a rod and ruin the head and piston since he didn't want to fix it so i pretty much stole it from him. I have now decided to just put that engine back together then maybe down the road do a 5.3 or 6.0 swap. I will take pics as the engine rebuild comes together in the next couple of days.
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Re: BigRed 81 crewcab dually
Sweet!. Great find. It's nice to win every so often.
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Re: BigRed 81 crewcab dually
NICE! I've been checkin out dually builds for inspiration.
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Re: BigRed 81 crewcab dually
We've come into a Snag, literally the piston was getting stuck at the top of the cylinder wall, I guess the rod damaged it just enough to create problems. So back to the drawing board. As mentioned above, I bought the truck from a 19yr old kid but Luckily for me his older brother is a wyotech grad and has numerous chevy projects, so I'm buying his spare 454 engine out of a RV motothome with only 70k miles, he already replaced the cam and lifters and we got a holley carb, aluminum edlebrock intake, new heads (since old ones had rod busted through) new distributor, plugs and wires, exhaust manifolds are still good, new water pump, new gaskets obviously. Hopefully BigRed will be able to come home with me sometime this weekend. Plenty of pictures to come...
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Re: BigRed 81 crewcab dually
^^ hopefully you get it home this weekend, and make sure to take WAY TO0 MANY pictures
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Re: BigRed 81 crewcab dually
Not much progress, I did get a chrome rear suburban bumper and a back window so I can take off the cab sleeper.
Here are a couple of pix for inspiration... Last edited by BGRAFX; 05-02-2010 at 09:32 PM. |
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Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: Waterloo, IA
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Re: BigRed 81 crewcab dually
is there a brand name on that bunk??? I'v been trying to find one for about 4 years now with no luck, looks like a hell of a starter truck
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Join Date: Jun 2009
Location: kansas city Ks
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Re: BigRed 81 crewcab dually
Sleeper cab Is for sale...but I will see if I can find out where it was made. The truck is currently going through an engine overhaul so I will edit this when I get the info.
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Redneck Customs Bumpers, IA
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Re: BigRed 81 crewcab dually
I appreaciate that, the pictures of the truck when you started looked like one that my friend sold a couple years back, they had 2 both red with bunks on them, but he couuldn't remember the brand of them when I asked and they came with the trucks when they bought them so he let them go with them
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Re: BigRed 81 crewcab dually
how is the engine coming?
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Re: BigRed 81 crewcab dually
Used the spare 454 engine out of a RV motothome with only 70k miles, he already replaced the cam and lifters and we got a holley carb, aluminum edlebrock intake, new heads (since old ones had rod busted through) new distributor, plugs and wires, exhaust manifolds are still good, new water pump, new gaskets obviously.
So to further answer the question the old block has been pulled and flushed the radiator, put the water pump in and the heads on the RV block. sprayed the bolts to do the rear bumper swap. Last edited by BGRAFX; 05-05-2010 at 12:25 AM. |
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Re: BigRed 81 crewcab dually
Got tons of pics of pulling the old engine....
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Re: BigRed 81 crewcab dually
Rebuilding the 84 c30 RV engine....
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