The 283 Rebuild Begins

[MacAttack]

Originally Posted by jason65

Any chance of progress pics from the chop?

Not so much. My 3-page list may be pressing this guy's patience a bit.

Mac.

[MacAttack]

So, I swerved by HB Transmission Friday afternoon to see if they’d auctioned off my truck, or, if it had been stolen again. The helper guy was the only one there - washing his truck before he closed the shop down and he was kind enough to let me walk under my truck, up on the rack.

I was truly amazed. If this thing might possibly work half-as-well as it looks, I’m going to be a happy camper. I instructed (via my 3-page list) them to go through my brake system (because I knew it was becoming dangerous) and what they did, along with the drive-line work and rear end rebuild, makes those units look like they did on the factory assembly line!

I’m going to leave this sleeping dog alone and not harass the owners over taking so long. The pile of parts that came off the under-carriage of that truck were truly scary - including the busted front springs. (And here I thought it was by gigantic caboose that was causing my C10 to lean toward the front-left corner.)

Mac.

[jason65]

Sounds good Mac. Was the spring busted at exactly 1 coil?

[MacAttack]

Originally Posted by jason65

Sounds good Mac. Was the spring busted at exactly 1 coil?

What, are you psychic?

[jason65]

Both of mine were busted at exactly 1 coil. I'm gonna put mine back in to help lower the front. I just wondered if it was just the nature of the beast or mine was just a freak deal.

[MacAttack]

Must be a basic design / manufacturing flaw. Every time I'd hit a good bump it sounded like a badger in heat under there.

[padresag]

Originally Posted by MacAttack

Must be a basic design / manufacturing flaw. Every time I'd hit a good bump it sounded like a badger in heat under there.

never heard a badger in heat before.
I think that you should get that recorded on video so that we can identify it when we hit a bump. we didn't even get a picture.
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