Birth of a C10

[hotrodhomi]

Love the background in this shot.

[losthope]

Ya have two yardbirds, I feed them all the time so they follow me around the yard like dogs, really domesticated will jump up on your arm if you hold it out straight!

[62 Bowtie]

Whats up Tim man I dig everything you've done with this truck keep up the awsome work those dots are hella cool

[glendale]

looking good dude.your left cat eye is a bit off center.

[MTBADBOB]

The red wheels look awesome with the rubber! Very nice score on the truck, the winshield trim & tailgate are worth that alone!

[Rich 5150 69]

Tim the red button blade holders do work well except you need to load them with the natural rubber blades thin style refills, they don`t work well with the silicone blades.

[losthope]

Originally Posted by Rich 5150 69

Tim the red button blade holders do work well except you need to load them with the natural rubber blades thin style refills, they don`t work well with the silicone blades.

I will have to remember that..for some reason i never remember to just buy the refills and always get a new unit,except for the one time i did try to get refills, napa,kragens,and auto zone didnt carry the right size refills and only could offer me the cheap plastic units that flip flp around on the arm. i order some for my 65 from jims chevy in rancho(with out red thingys), that i liked and then ordered these for the 66 from truck and car shop in orange ca. i didnt/dont know what the red things are to be honest but go with the red theme of the truck.

[Rich 5150 69]

Amco used to sell the thin natural rubber in a large blade pack, I could get four refills out of it, the only problem with nat rubber is they only last a year, the heat cooks them.

[1963c-10]

Love th ework you've done, glad your up and around and doin ok. Keep up the solid work on the bolt

[hopped up]

I say put the visors on both headlights. Looking good man !!
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[losthope]

Latest up date:

Went to pick-n-pull on thanksgiving weekend when everything was 1/2 off,and got some front bumper brace's, a 1 1/4 sway bar off a 80's c20 and then pulled a rear sway bar off a camero it all came to $35:


First thing i wanted to tackle was the rear sway bar, after taking the links of the ends of the bars(because they will be installed opposite of the way the came off camero) I mocked the bar up:


the brake bracket on the axle has to move and since i didnt want to undo the brake lines i just carefully cut it off:




then i centered the bar on the axle:


used the old wear marks to mark the axle:


then since the camero axle is 2 3/4 the saddles have to be ground out to fit 3" axle:


Then bolted it all together had to bend the tips of the ubolt back to 2 3/4 to go thur the saddle using some big pairs of channel lock pliers saw somewhere else someone welded the saddles on but i wanted mine to be bolt on:


i the let the truck down and the frame was resting on the bushing hold downs so i had to move mine over since my truck is so low with out a c-notch, once i get my c-notch ill see about moving them back over to the very end:


next i mocked up the link bracket and drilled holes and as you can see their is about a one inch gap where the bracket will be bolted on the link on the bar:


All they had at home depot was some thin walled square stock so i just bought some big nuts and used them as spacers and bolted it together and it is strong as hell if i find some solid stock of aluminum or thick walled square tubing ill redo it;


Then i measured for my link,you want the bar to be parallel with the ground for the bar to work right:


Measured where to cut the link spacer and i am using a new bolt thats threaded the camero had a bolt with a shoulder that the threads only went so far:



bolted it all in and cut the excess of the link bolt and its installed:



everything was repeated in steps on the other side the only thing left to do is make a new bracket holder for the brake lines. I plan on doing bed wood, rear tank and c-notch so i didnt worry about painting it untill i take the bed or the bed wood out plus it match's the rest of the under carriage . next up front sway bar!

[losthope]

Since Im waiting on my front swaybar frame brackets to be made and shipped to me i decided to tackle some small stuff I've been putting off,first i wired in some headlight relays which made a huge difference,sending the power straight thur the relays to the headlights bypassing the headlight switch,much brighter:




then i extended the stock throttle linkage arm so the rod is level when it pulls:




Then i was crawling around under the back off the bed of the truck looking at how i wanted to relocate the rear shocks i saw something sitting inside the rear frame,it was a magnet key holder pulled it out,pried it open since it was rusted together and found some keys, gas cap key,ignition key,door key...the gas cap is long gone, the ignition was punched when i received the truck so i have to replace that, but the door key worked on both doors now i have a key!! SCORE!


Not a whole lot done but something.

[protrash64]

Cool find with keys, losthope!! What year of Camaro did the swaybar come from? I like that upgrade.

[losthope]

Originally Posted by protrash64

Cool find with keys, losthope!! What year of Camaro did the swaybar come from? I like that upgrade.

1982 to current camero's heres a write up on how to do it:
http://www.low69cst.freeservers.com/CamaroBar.htm

[LostMy65]

Yeah, I found a hidden key for my 66 mounted to the radiator support - unfortunately, it didn't work for the door.

Originally Posted by losthope

Then i was crawling around under the back off the bed of the truck looking at how i wanted to relocate the rear shocks i saw something sitting inside the rear frame,it was a magnet key holder pulled it out,pried it open since it was rusted together and found some keys, gas cap key,ignition key,door key...the gas cap is long gone, the ignition was punched when i received the truck so i have to replace that, but the door key worked on both doors now i have a key!! SCORE!

[chemlab]

love the mirror visor! i'm gonna try that on mine since i have the same peeps. mine is so close to drive, still have to fix my brake issue and a minor tranny leak (think its the dipstick). wish my bomba was road ready i could be driving that but its in a shop collecting dust till the truck is done

[Rich 5150 69]

Sorry for your loss Tim, my condolances to the family, your truck is coming along nicely.

[derail]

Sorry to hear about your grandma. I have a question about the front sway bar. Does it sit perfectly even on both sides? I just did this same upgrade with basically the same parts (lowered brackets, etc..) and mine sits a little more to the passenger side than dead even. Hope this makes sense. Were the holes already in you lower control arms? Thanks

[samuellg1977]

LH, sorry to hear about your grandmother.

John 10:27-29 “My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me. I give them eternal life, and they will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand. My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all, and no one is able to snatch them out of the Father’s hand.”

[losthope]

Originally Posted by Rich 5150 69

Sorry for your loss Tim, my condolances to the family, your truck is coming along nicely.

Originally Posted by samuellg1977

LH, sorry to hear about your grandmother.

Originally Posted by derail

Sorry to hear about your grandma. I have a question about the front sway bar. Does it sit perfectly even on both sides? I just did this same upgrade with basically the same parts (lowered brackets, etc..) and mine sits a little more to the passenger side than dead even. Hope this makes sense. Were the holes already in you lower control arms? Thanks

Thank you guys she has been saying she wanted to go,since she lost the capability of walking last year she was very independent and hated people taking care of her,plus fighting congested heart failure and other things i think she was just tired and the stroke was the last straw she was a neat lady and was loved and will be missed.......

"Derail" as far as the sway bar goes mine did have the holes from factory, i ran into a problem when i tried mounting it to one a-arm then to the frame mounts when i tried to mount it to the other a-arm it wouldnt line up like it was to long, what i had to do was mount it to both a-arms first then to to frame mounts to get everything to bolt up, just eyeing it ,it looks to be center its dark out side now so i cant measure it but if you need me to let me know and when i get a chance in the day time i can tell you if it is exactly in the center or not.

[derail]

No need to measure it for me. I might just go and take mine off and then reinstall it the way you described. It's not off by much, maybe 3/4 inch. Thanks again.

[losthope]

Another update!

Didnt get alot done since the holidays are here but did remembered to grab my smoking pipe while i was at my dads house on Christmas and he also gave me one of his many dash compass's he has:



And i did make it out to the local pick-n-pull and while snooping around picked up some small stuff,the previous owner took the front clip apart but never put all the bolts back in so i snagged some off a couple diffrent 60-66's trucks, then i found a washer bottle and bracket on a gmc , then pulled some jeep door checks/stops, and last thing i grabbed was a window gun rack:


while the washer bottle bracket and gun rack paint was drying i installed the Jeep Cherokee door checks, i used the front door checks because they have a shorter throw then the rear ones, or the stock ones so they help from getting the door dents(smiley face's) and will hold the truck door open on a hill but the front jeep checks have the double postion bumps and i didnt want the first position at all so i ground the first bump off:

Here you can see how the front jeep checks hold the door back from getting a dent you can see the difference with the existing dent from when the stock ones were in:


when i was done with that i bolted the washer bottle on:


last thing i did was cut down the gun rack and drill new mounting holes and mounted it:


Since here in California i dont think its legal to drive around with my shotgun in the window i just put my trusty baseball bat in and will use the top of the rack for my fishing pole

[Rich 5150 69]

Tim...you might want to carry a ball and glove with that bat....!

[LostMy65]

Look what I found:

[jbgroby]

Losthope,

You a pipe smoker too? I have several but i hav a favorite briar rouge finish that I use most. What leaves do you smoke. I like tinder box Vanilla Black Cavendish. Smell good enough for othe wife to not complain when I'm in the shop.