1969 K10 CST Full Restoration

[cornerstone]

Originally Posted by IronCanine

Tell me you wouldn't love it if there was a ChevyLand YouTube channel, or JoesJunk, or Jocko, or Mel, or Wes, or fill in the blank.

Are you listening Discovery Channel? I’d like to see Jocko do an interview with of all the above mentioned experts.

[Ol Blue K20]

Originally Posted by cornerstone

Are you listening Discovery Channel? I’d like to see Jocko do an interview with of all the above mentioned experts.

X2, it would be a great show!

[IronCanine]

Here's a step I omitted from the build thread, that I thought I'd throw in now--mainly because I haven't seen this issue discussed on the board. On both the Blazer and this truck, the reproduction door jamb switches were longer than OE and in fact too long for the doors to close properly. I shortened the switches on this truck as I did on the Blazer. It's not too much trouble to deconstruct the switch. The plunger, the sleeve and the spring all require shortening. You lose the ringed part of the plunger shank that engages the plastic stopper in this process, so I added some new grooves for retention. I glued the plastic stopper on after shortening and reassembly, using a clamp to hold it closed and keep pressure off the glue while it dried. Our donor cab was a '69 A/C version, but it was a base trim level...so we had to drill and tap the hole (I don't guess I had to tap the hole, but I did). The final pic is during fitment (after shortening) before the fenders went on.

[IronCanine]

We installed the horn and new A/C vacuum canister that I got from Roger last week. As you know I had to replace the horn because our original one didn't work and our original vacuum canister got dinged by the hood. When I was thinking about how we were going to deal with the clearance issue on the canister, I took a look at pics of my 70 K20. The angle of the bracket was much flatter than our bracket...and also flatter than the pics of other KE A/C trucks that I've collected. Unfortunately it was the only pic I had of a 69/70 KE A/C truck with the "can"-ister version of the reservoir. All I had were pics of 71-72 trucks with the plastic reservoir. And a search of the the board and the internet at large was surprisingly fruitless. In the end, we didn't flatten the angle as much as my 70, just enough to comfortably clear.

[IronCanine]

A 72 Blazer rolls into Eric's shop this weekend. I'll enjoy just being a spectator on that one. But it means that after a final spit polish and detail today she had to leave the nest. So we trailered her up and took her to a little truck and car daycare not too far up the road. It's nice and warm. She'll have some new English and German friends there...and though there aren't many trucks, at least she's got a few GM cousins to hang with. My brother and his family are headed up tomorrow and will get to see her complete (in person) for the first time. And he'll get to put mile #5 on her....and however many more he wants.

[jocko]

Originally Posted by cornerstone

Are you listening Discovery Channel? I’d like to see Jocko do an interview with of all the above mentioned experts.

Beautiful build Brad, and thanks for taking the time to document it in such detail - what a great thread.

As for that Discovery Channel gig, I'm not sure I'd last very long in show business...

[IronCanine]

Originally Posted by slick copper

Nice Build!

Thanks!

Originally Posted by jocko

Beautiful build Brad, and thanks for taking the time to document it in such detail - what a great thread.

As for that Discovery Channel gig, I'm not sure I'd last very long in show business...

Thanks for the kind words...but I must disagree about the show business. You've already got a built in audience here. Hell, I'm subscribed to most of your threads right now. You get a YouTube channel...get in the weeds on the finer points of these trucks, and my friend we are there. I'm actually surprised a channel like that doesn't already exist.