1965 C20 fleet side longbed DD low budget build.

[mattbert56]

Got my apache 20 badges in from another forum member hot rod 66 today.Thanks man. they will look right at home on my apache hood.

[mattbert56]

Oops forgot pictures.

[TJ's Chevy]

I was gonna say.... But never mind! Nice badges!

[mattbert56]

Haha know what u meen tj. Sure does stink when there's a thread thats 30 pages long and sounds super awesome and there no pictures. T_T. I think this week I'm going to restore them. Re finish the chrome and re painted t that red strip Below. How's your stepside comIng along? I say some single stage black In a can On your build, guess That's what your thinking for finished color?

[TJ's Chevy]

Originally Posted by mattbert56

Haha know what u meen tj. Sure does stink when there's a thread thats 30 pages long and sounds super awesome and there no pictures. T_T. I think this week I'm going to restore them. Re finish the chrome and re painted t that red strip Below. How's your stepside comIng along? I say some single stage black In a can On your build, guess That's what your thinking for finished color?

Two Tone is coming along. lol Slowly but surely. I'm painting the frame single stage black and the body will be blue and silver.

[mattbert56]

Started disassembling the front driveshaft. Nice couple of dents in that tubing ehh. Got the knuckles off and found some material for the center section. Going to weld it all up later this week. Also found some more hub caps my drink found em for 20 bucks. Have the matching front caps from a 4x4 just need to cut out a little more from the center of them. My locking hubs are slightly to big.

[TJ's Chevy]

With a front shaft that short you can easily to front wheel burnouts!

[mattbert56]

Hah. That's about the lengths of my uncles cj5s rear driveshaft haha. He's got a sm420. T221 and a gear vendor In the thIng. Hah. Fun to drive tho.

[newstedcomeback]

Originally Posted by mattbert56

welded up half my exhaust need to buy mufflers that fit. The super 40s. Are to big. But for now. 2 and a half inch straight pipes with turn downs tack welded on just to move the exhaust down. Sounds so much better!!! Also figured better keep the theme of In line going. So I did the exhaust inline

Im proud to see that you are putting the cut outs to good use. I have a flowmaster #942451 that is in excellent shape. I was going to use it, but I changed my mind. Ill let you have it for $20 if your interested. its a delta flow 50 series. 2.25" offset IN, Center OUT.

[mattbert56]

Those cut outs sound nice. I'm looking for dual mufflers unfortunately thanks tho. Plus I have 21-23 inches of room to play with the mufflers. They have to narrow like a glass pack so that they don't hang below the frame. I hate seeing exhaust pipe hanging low.

[newstedcomeback]

I almost went to the car show at the stoke ranch. let me know next time you go out. I hear buns & burgers has the shows on fridays.. you go to those? lets meet up.

[TJ's Chevy]

Dang you guys have all the fun down there. I have to wait until July for the Fabulous 50's show. lol Anyone wanna come?

[mattbert56]

Originally Posted by newstedcomeback

I almost went to the car show at the stoke ranch. let me know next time you go out. I hear buns & burgers has the shows on fridays.. you go to those? lets meet up.

Iv gone in the past but yeah man we should hit em up. We would be the biggest damn things there haha but doesn't bother me none. The show at stokes ranch was a good turnout. 300 somthing cars some really really cool cars. My tag when I rolled in was 284 or Somthing.

[mattbert56]

Tj. If my truck would go faster than 55 I would try and make it up to ya. I think until I re gear the truck she's staying in the state. :/ one of these days I want to bring her out to the big horn mountains up In Sheridan county Wyoming. Iv got a list of places I want to take the truck. After new gears. Cross over steering front disc conversion And a Real radio. That's more important hahah got to have some good tunes

[mattbert56]

Fit up my front driveshaft to the knuckles and ran two passes on. Em with the tig. Got a nice hot root pass and then did an easy weave pass over the first one. I know the knuckles are Ment to go inside the material but it's all I had to work with and I'm sure it's fine until I make a new one using a tractor slip sleeve and new knuckles. Also just purchased my 84 cubic feet argon cylinder for my tig setup at home. that should bring in some more Mulla.

[mattbert56]

Okay. So can anyone explain this. 1965 c20 sm420 drove fine but had a broken top. Where the shifters going In. Shifted ...but it was sloppy. OK now Here's where it's tricky. 1965 K20 sm420. Both tops of transmissions had same part numbers same throw. Just in better condition. Put the good lid on the c20 sm420 and the thing won't stay in second. Accelerating. Decelerating. Anything. And 4th gear wined like crazy. Horrible to drive. Just put the old top back on that the c20 trans came with. And boom shifts perfect. I get why it's shifting fine now. But why wouldn't it take the k20 top. Only thing I imagined is that it had a different wear pattern or the shift fork was bent because 4x4 are usually driven harder. Any thoughts? And I think it looks a little like an nv4500... it's my fake nv4500/sm420. but now she's a runner And fun to drive again. Also my front drivers side brake is not Working. Need to look into that next. Till then I just backed the adjuster all the way out.

[TJ's Chevy]

I believe there may have been a difference. lol Talk about whine...haha...drive my ol GMC...I ought show you all the skill it takes to drive that thing.

[mattbert56]

You ought to drive my 65 hahah that old 4x4 really let's u know it's running straight cut gears. Got 2 big old gear boxes sitting below me.

[61K10]

Matt-glad you got it shifting again. does it still wine in 4th? some changes were made in 64-67 so a little different than mine being a 61, and mine doesn't have the 2 ribs as yours. just need to get mine out and re-bearing it.

[mattbert56]

4th whines a tiny bit. But I was driving it like how the picture looked. No cover nothing. So after the cover and the insulated floor mat I'm sure I wouldn't have ever noticed it. Plus the straight pipes make anything hard to hear. Even your own thoughts. Hey looks like I'm going to be up around your area again this weekend think you'll be around to swing by to say hey?

[61K10]

will be here all weekend.

[mattbert56]

Well took the apache emblems and cleaned em up. Stripped off all old paint and polished the chrome up. The. Re painted red along the bottom. Also took my front 4x4 hubcaps off a 70s ish truck and the holes for the locking hubs were just a little to small for my hubs. So I modified them a little bit and mounted them on the lathe to shave off about 1/2 inch opening them up to 4.5 inches. Then cleaned em up and de burred Them. I'll post pics when I can get them

[hotrod66]

Originally Posted by mattbert56

Got my apache 20 badges in from another forum member hot rod 66 today.Thanks man. they will look right at home on my apache hood.

Cool you got them!

[mattbert56]

tha ks for sending those. They look a little different tho.

[TJ's Chevy]

The badges came out great man. Nice work on the hub caps. Dude...its pouring down rain here in Oregon. lol