"BUILD: 1970 C10 LWB--->SWB “Jumping Cholla”

[loudchevy]

Originally Posted by Chaparralman1974

I love seeing your progress man! It gives me motivation to keep moving forward with mine. It has been so miserably hot though, that I have slacked a bit. Looking great man!!

Clay

Originally Posted by rodstored-72

scott, agree with Clay! keep motivating us!

Thanks Gents! I'm glad I can help motivate the AZ crew

[zicc1835]

hey Scott thanks for the tip on the speedo cable and Speedway CM mine lined up real nice on the 700R4 .....close like you said but all good
Jess

[loudchevy]

Originally Posted by zicc1835

hey Scott thanks for the tip on the speedo cable and Speedway CM mine lined up real nice on the 700R4 .....close like you said but all good
Jess

Yup, that looks as close as mine is. Good to know it fits!

[loudchevy]

Labor Day weekend progress update...

I had bought a new set of power steering hoses from Speedway the other week but I'm going to return them. The lengths are perfect but the fitting that connects to the pump is a 45 degrees and it moves the hose too close to the header tube on cylinder #1. I found a set on Summit with a 90 degree fitting that should work much better. Since the serpentine belt setup I have on the 454 uses a new style pump, I needed to get an adapter (Part Number 605SOL) for M16 x 1.5 to 5/8 in.-18 inverted flare to make the hose fit up to the original steering box.

I finally got to install the new CPP tilt column. Pretty straight forward install with good directions included. The new column comes in a hard plastic case, almost like a rifle case, to protect it during shipping. Once that was installed, I put in my new rag joint at the gear box, new u-joint at the column, and a new shaft to connect everything together.

Next mini project was the transmission cooler and lines. The an fittings I had bought forever ago were the wrong size for the supply/return on the trans case so I'm stalled on running those lines until those pieces come in. I moved on to mounting the trans cooler. I went with a plate and frame over tube and fin coil. I've never liked the mounting style they send with any of these coolers (with the plastic studs that sandwich the heat exchangers of the radiator/cooler together) so I bend up and made my own brackets out of some 1"x1/8" flat stock and mounted it in front of the core support. I wanted to have the cooler on the passenger side of the core but after looking at the Vintage Air condenser coil that I will most likely run at some point, I saw that wasn't going to work out since the drier would be in the way. So I moved the cooler over to the drivers side and bend my brackets so that a new VA condenser coil assembly could slide right behind it. Hopefully my holistic planning pays off and when it comes time to do A/C and the coil can be installed with minimal teardown of the cooler setup. I need to pick up some bulkhead fittings to install in the core support to connect all the hoses from the remote cooler, radiator cooler, and the trans.

Inching closer to starting the engine

[loudchevy]

Just a few more pics of the front

[Chaparralman1974]

Nice work Scott! Are you happy with the CPP column so far? I am looking at getting one of those as well. My original column is beat to hell and I figured it would be better to just go with a new one vs. try to rebuild the old one. Plus it would be nice to have a tilt mechanism to boot. Also, are you going to leave yours black, or paint it the body color??


Clay

[loudchevy]

Originally Posted by Chaparralman1974

Are you happy with the CPP column so far? I am looking at getting one of those as well. My original column is beat to hell and I figured it would be better to just go with a new one vs. try to rebuild the old one. Plus it would be nice to have a tilt mechanism to boot. Also, are you going to leave yours black, or paint it the body color??

Clay

The new column seems like a nice piece so far. I still need to get a Steering wheel too. I was going to go the same route of rebuilding my old one, but once into disassembly, I saw it would just be nice to have a tilt along with all new plastic pieces, bearing and electrical connections. I'm just going to leave it black