1966 C10 Project Truck

[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.

[scoot_mcgrute]

Put the old girl to work over the weekend! I used the Jeep to pull the stumps out since it has super low gears in it and loaded the stumps in the Army Truck since it's got a super low tailgate compared to the Dodge. Handled it like a champ!

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Figured I gotta use it as a pickup now before the next stage happens

[scoot_mcgrute]

I've been having fun with the old girl, she hasn't needed much in the way of maintenance so I've just been enjoying putting miles on it. Wednesday, I cleaned up the garage so I could fit both the Jeep and the Chevy in it and I'm starting to prep for a couple upgrades to the rear suspension this winter. More than likely it'll have coilovers on it and I'm going to be making a new panhard bar and mounts so I can adjust my roll center. Step 2 of making it handle a bit better



I also had a little fun at my buddy's house yesterday, this thing is too much fun!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VynJxi-w8AM

[The Rocknrod]

Originally Posted by scoot_mcgrute

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.

So was it the float?

[scoot_mcgrute]

Originally Posted by The Rocknrod

So was it the float?

I turned the mixture screw out a half turn and it seemed to be happier. It's been a lot cooler lately and that seemed to help it as well. There's still a slight miss at idle but it's nowhere near what it used to be.

[scoot_mcgrute]

I've been pretty busy helping a buddy out with some really cool car projects but since those have died down a bit, I was able to tinker on the old pickup last week a bit. I needed to replace the fan blower motor but couldn't get it out of the truck by itself so I yarded the whole heater box off the firewall. Everything I've touched on the truck, I have cleaned up and repainted so it all looks nice. The heater box was something that I wanted to clean up for a while now and I was able to sand blast it and hang it on our powder coat line. It sure turned out great!

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I've also been fixing some of the small things that have come about and I gotta say, I'm super happy with the truck. There's still a few things that need to be addressed still but for the most part, it's a good driving little truck! I also ordered up some new suspension components that I'll be getting installed in the coming weeks. Going for a 5.5/7 drop instead of the 2/3 drop. It should look killer!