1966 C10 Project Truck

[Bomp]

Truck is looking great.
Ground straps are good but to deal with the vapor lock you need a V8.

[scoot_mcgrute]

Originally Posted by Bomp

Truck is looking great.
Ground straps are good but to deal with the vapor lock you need a V8.

Best advice, ever! Soon enough

Everything seemed well on the way home until I stopped at the grocery store. From there to the house, it was idling rough again. I know I can get a thicker carb mounting gasket but will that really help?

I'm wondering if a 1/2" spacer would do me better but I'm not sure. I do know that the E10 gas has a lower boiling point, super helpful in the not vapor locking side of things. Not!

What say you guys?

[scoot_mcgrute]

I got my new steering wheel last night and slapped it on. I'm still in the undecided phase as it's quite a bit different than I expected. I was thinking the grip would be a smaller diameter than it is and the spokes seem larger than I was thinking as well. I'm after a similarly styled wheel, this has knobs on the backside, that will help me keep gripped on the wheel when I'm playing race truck. The search may continue but it should work for now.



I also smoked my clutch master cylinder over the weekend. I had a feeling the clutch rod was at too much of an angle but I wanted to see if it would be ok or not. Turns out that I got the or not . I'll likely get it swapped out this weekend so no big deal

[scoot_mcgrute]

Clutch master has been swapped out and bled. It took forever to bleed last time and was looking the same today. Not sure why I didn't think to run the hose into the reservoir last time. It sure cut down on the bleed time!

Moving the rod down on the pedal has resulted in a stiffer pedal, not surprised, with my 1:1 clutch system. I may go with a smaller master this winter, I'll wait and see how I feel driving it some more. The smaller wheel sure makes it feel like a different truck too!

That's all for now

[scoot_mcgrute]

Well, this old girl quickly became the daily driver after my last post. My Dodge has been suffering from death wobble since Labor Day Weekend and the Jeep has been grumpy as well. The Chevy has taken it like a champ!

I've since gotten the wipers working, the heater and defrost working and a few other little things done to it since I got it drivable. Shortly after getting the blower motor working again, it quit on me and I haven't been successful at removing the old blower motor since it hits the inner fender and I don't feel like beating the inner fender up that much.

I have had a recurring running problem where if it idles for more than a few minutes, it starts running really bad and tries to stall. Give it a little throttle and it's just fine. Thinking it may be electrical since I've working on the fuel side a bunch and it hasn't changed. Anyone have any insight to that?

[TJ's Chevy]

I have had issues like that, usually means the float level is wrong...can be to High or to Low. Or, the A/F screw needs to be turned out a tad.

[scoot_mcgrute]

Originally Posted by TJ's Chevy

I have had issues like that, usually means the float level is wrong...can be to High or to Low. Or, the A/F screw needs to be turned out a tad.

That would make sense, I'll turn the screw out a little bit and see what she does. I have it a 1.5 turns out now and now that I think about it, it never did it until I turned the screw in from 3 turns out.

[mattfranklin]

Awesome truck. Glad to see your V-8 moving ahead.

When you mentioned rough running with your 6 after getting warmed up and missing grounding straps, it reminded me about a Jeep vapor lock story.

We had a 1954 Willys M38-A1 that had that warm running vapor lock issue even on cold days. I had done some work myself and ignored those "dumb" grounding straps because they didn't look cool. As it turned out a mechanic friend diagnosed it and said the *fuel line* was acting as the ground and getting hot and boiling the fuel. When he reinstalled them the problem went away. Embarrassing for me.

Originally Posted by scoot_mcgrute

Best advice, ever! Soon enough

Everything seemed well on the way home until I stopped at the grocery store. From there to the house, it was idling rough again. I know I can get a thicker carb mounting gasket but will that really help?

I'm wondering if a 1/2" spacer would do me better but I'm not sure. I do know that the E10 gas has a lower boiling point, super helpful in the not vapor locking side of things. Not!

What say you guys?

[scoot_mcgrute]

Tinkered on the old truck yesterday. Not sure why but after lowering the truck down, the brake pedal got really soft. I've re-bled, replaced parts and even checked how the brake lines are routed and it's better but still not what it was. I'm still plugging away on that, my next thing to check is to get some shorter brake lines for it.

Before bed last night, I went and got the 5.3 on the engine stand and took the intake off so I could start sizing up what I needed for the car intake. Good and bad things happened. It turns out that before the guy sold the engine, he decided to wash it but not plug any of the holes. Bad to see water in it but good that it's at this stage. Everything is still in great shape, it just came with a little extra water

It sure has a great stance now!




First thing I saw when I pulled the intake, this is looking down the head


Oil pan was cracked, I'm glad I don't need this one




It sure made a mess when I turned it over!


All in all, it looked scary and disappointing but things really aren't all that bad inside. Run it and see what happens

[1966c10LS]

Your truck looks great! It does have a great stance. I'll keep watching your progress. Thanks for your input on the instrument questions I had.

[scoot_mcgrute]

Got quite a bit done yesterday. My buddy and his nephew stopped by and helped get the motor back together and the front clip off the truck. The 5.3 was super dirty but it's like new now! It's surprising what a few minutes and a little elbow grease will do. I yard ed the heads off when I found some loose head bolts on the intake manifold side, turns out those aren't critical to keeping the head on and I could've just retorqued em. Oh well, new LS9 head gaskets are on and will last a while. A few other friends stopped by throughout the day, at one point there was 6 of us tinkering!

Tomorrow dad and I will get the motor and tranny out of the truck and even the bed off if the weather plays nice.

[scoot_mcgrute]

No turning back now, I can't wait!

[LostMy65]

Originally Posted by scoot_mcgrute

It sure has a great stance now!

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Cool shot.
I'm surprised I hadn't posted in this thread yet.
I'm glad you kept the body as is - dings and all - and preserved the originality.
It has a unique nostalgic personality, rather than just another truck with a shiny paint job.

[scoot_mcgrute]

Originally Posted by LostMy65

Cool shot.
I'm surprised I hadn't posted in this thread yet.
I'm glad you kept the body as is - dings and all - and preserved the originality.
It has a unique nostalgic personality, rather than just another truck with a shiny paint job.

Thanks man! It's pretty easy to keep everything the way it is when you don't have money for a paint job

Got a bunch done over the weekend again. Saturday evening, we buttoned up a few things and this happened.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qHzbH5ai-c

Super excited, it fired right up first try. I still have a couple things to do, it's got some vacuum leaks I need to plug and such but it runs!

Last night, my dad came by and we busted out the front clip and the seat. It sure looks awesome sitting on the ground and almost assembled. I love how unsuspecting it looks

I drop it off for exhaust Wednesday night, hopefully the driveline is done this week because then I can drive it around this weekend. So stoked!