1966 C10 Project Truck

[jcramsey]

Awesome work scoot! Apparently on these former government trucks you must have been required to open the doors from the inside with a roundhouse kick....my 62 water department truck has the exact same creases on both doors from smacking the fenders....and I love it

[scoot_mcgrute]

Originally Posted by jcramsey

Awesome work scoot! Apparently on these former government trucks you must have been required to open the doors from the inside with a roundhouse kick....my 62 water department truck has the exact same creases on both doors from smacking the fenders....and I love it

Now that's funny! I'll have to remember that line if anyone ever asks me about the creases

I drop the old girl off for exhaust after work tomorrow so I'm in the big push to get it all together. Last night I built the mount for the ECU. I put it in an S10 mount and made a couple little straps off the frame. Simple and effective!


I also started getting coolant in it and after a few minutes, I heard coolant hitting the floor and about **** a brick. Looked like it was coming from the head gasket so I was pretty bummed. I cracked one of the front steam ports open to bleed the air out of the system and forgot about that. Coolant was running from there, down the valley cover and down the back of the head. Phew!




Check the list out, it's getting down to the nitty gritty now, I love it!

[scoot_mcgrute]

Tinkered on it again tonight and got the idle under control by capping all the vacuum leaks. It runs good, can't wait to get it back from the exhaust shop and finish a few things so I can drive it! Hoping for a Saturday drive down to Cars and Coffee and general farting around in it.

[scoot_mcgrute]

Here's what caused me needing a tow home last week, the geometry for the pull style slave cylinder was off and it ended up bending and breaking the rod on the clutch fork side.



Saturday a friend came over and got my pinion angle shims installed while I built a new bracket for the slave cylinder. Got it all built, painted and installed and had my buddy press the clutch in while I adjusted the slave cylinder. After pushing the clutch in 3 times, the rod was bent again. Bummer.




After some brainstorming, I will be adding a heim joint on either end of the slave cylinder so it can move around a bit while the clutch fork operates. Crossing my fingers!

[scoot_mcgrute]

I'm working on something I didn't expect to work on for a while yet, converting the truck over to 5 lug so I can run some good performance tires for autocross and such. At the Portland Swap Meet in April, I saw some 18X9 aluminum rally wheels with 5x5 and 5x4.75 bolt patterns and really liked them so I kinda splurged a bit and picked them up. I wrapped them in a 275/40r18 Hankook Ventus R-S4 tire. The tires have a 200 treadwear rating and have really good reviews on an autocross course so even though they were a bit more than I wanted to spend, I couldn't go with anything else. They look awesome to boot!

Some knuckhead forgot to order lug nuts so this is as far as I could get last night.




Quite a bit of difference in height and width, my 235/75s on the right.


I'll be swapping the rear out tonight shooting to have it back on the ground tomorrow evening. It's going to look badass!

[outfield]

"Some knuckhead forgot to order lug nuts so this is as far as I could get last night."


Are you a knuckle head? Or a lug nut?

The tires and wheels look great, but they are sure tiny compared to the 235's, and I bet really tiny compared to the 37's on your Jeep.