1968 K10 Shortbed Stepside

['68OrangeSunshine]

Originally Posted by eodcoduto

I think she has had it for 3 years, but she needs regular sized long bed for the farm and this one just doesn't cut it. I will take a few months to get it closer to stock, and if a 292 pops up I'll swap it back in. I don't know how popular these are, but it definitely worth putting some work into.

I am very partial to Stepsides with factory 292s. I encourage you to mount one back in it. My '68 C/10 came with RPO L25 [292 L6] and the 4-speed Muncie SM 465. In 1977 I was stationed at MCAS Yuma, and rebuilt a '67 junkyard 292 up, and swapped engines. That block I ran 250,000 miles in 25 years. I rebuilt the original '68 block [I had put up in old AV8A avionics crates] in 2005, and I'm now running it. Odometer is at 407,000 on the chassis.
I notice you're at 29 Palms, and your handle begins with EOD.
Are you a Marine? And do things go BOOM at work?

[eodcoduto]

I will keep my eyes peeled for a 292, they don’t come up around me very often. I was out in the stumps for a while blwoing things up, and I retired about 4 years ago. 29 Palms stinks for young single guys but I had a great time out there.

['68OrangeSunshine]

Originally Posted by eodcoduto

I will keep my eyes peeled for a 292, they don’t come up around me very often. I was out in the stumps for a while blwoing things up, and I retired about 4 years ago. 29 Palms stinks for young single guys but I had a great time out there.

I never got to the Stumps. I was short. My Squadron did a short small element Det there in the late '70s. I stayed with the main body at Yuma. My Folks had moved to Tucson. I was commuting from Yuma to Tucson on non-duty weekends. When it seemed my stock 292 wasn't performing on that run. My stockcar boy buddies sparked me into a full metal rebuild at the base Special Services hobby shop. A thousand bucks and some weeks later, I was breaking in a 292 w/.030-over HD rebuild.
I secured a '63 292 core from an auto parts guy for $100 maybe 20 years ago. I'm thinking of putting it in a '67 K/10 Suburban.
Semper Fi.