Project Snowball- Slow build

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Other than a cracked dash the interior is one reason I bought this truck.

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The lowering shackle and cut crossmember.

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And last but not least the cab that I started with will be sold. Had it blasted and painted. Oh well, live and learn. I will be pulling the NOS doors back off and putting them with the NOS fenders. I've had them for 20 years and by the way it's going I might have them another 20 years.

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Making a little progress. Got the 87 cab and front end off in one piece. I just now got the cab lifted up off the shortbed frame. Need to take t he shortbed frame out in the morning and start transferring all the fuel lines over and put on the new brake lines. After that the engine and trans will get transferred over with new mounts, paint the tanks and install fuel pumps. Then maybe we will be ready to set the 87 cab down on the frame and start buttoning up everything. Still a lot to do after all of that. More to come. After more than 10 years of not having my shortbed on the road things finally seem to be taking shape.

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I forgot to update since the truck is back home. The 87 is back together, running and driving. The money I had set back for body and paint work got spent on a 66 Nova I bought. Needed a little extra to buy it so I robbed from the shortbed fund. Oh well I can make that back up.

Anyway. I still have little things to iron out on the truck after being put back together. Nothing major though. I did reset the timing yesterday since whoever did it before had it out about 16 degrees. It ran rough and was spark knocking real bad. Now it starts easy, runs smooth and has more power. As much as these 4.3's can have anyway. Lol. I am swapping the rallies back on today so will have pics of that later.

I have started looking around for someone to do what little bodywork it needs and repaint it. Still up in the air on what paint scheme im going with and what wheels I want. Just glad it is back together. Going to try and get an alignment tomorrow if possible. Here is a few pics of the Nova I bought and robbed from the shortbed fund to buy. Also even though not great pics here is the shortbed as it sits now. Rally pics later.

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Forgot pic of Nova engine