Shucks First Build

[smpoulin01]

Looks really good!

[Cape Codder]

Happy B-Day and congrats on finishing the truck. Where are your tail lights? I would hesitate to just run the strip.

[Dads79GMC]

Happy B-Day! Here's your safety briefing: "BE SAFE!!!!"

[NewType72]

Happy belated! Hopefully the hangover today is worth it when looking at this gorgeous truck, almost makes me want to build a stepside myself

[Shucks]

Thanks for the birthday wishes! I survived my 21st, hah.

So with some birthday money I went and bought a new intake manifold to try and fix my light throttle hesitation I've gotten since forever ago. My original intake was a single plane and I went to a dual plane thinking that would help from the research I've made. Unfortunate basically nothing changed. But it looks nice none-the-less...




If anyone has any ideas of what it could be let me know! What it does is only in drive or reverse it'll stumble until I give it enough gas. Won't do it in park or neutral. When driving it'll stumble around the 1200-1600 RPM range.

[Dayton601]

Was trying to research it, I had one that did that also, seems my vacuum on the distributor wasn't working, after wasting money and swapping two carbs that's what i came up with, changed out the vacuum part of the distributor and it was like night and day on the take off, not that it will fix your problem, but its worth checking a little closer, also what size carb are you running, allot of times bigger is not better,

[Shucks]

Originally Posted by Dayton601

Was trying to research it, I had one that did that also, seems my vacuum on the distributor wasn't working, after wasting money and swapping two carbs that's what i came up with, changed out the vacuum part of the distributor and it was like night and day on the take off, not that it will fix your problem, but its worth checking a little closer, also what size carb are you running, allot of times bigger is not better,

I just did some work and re timed it and found out my vacuum line off my distributer was plugged into the wrong port so my timing was off. It runs a lot better but still have the slightest hesitation. My problem was worse before with my old distributer, I had the same issue you had. I ended up just getting a new distributer.

[aggie91]

Missed out on the 5th, but Happy Birthday a few days late. You should be very proud of the work you have done on this C10. Now, go out and enjoy it!

[Cape Codder]

I have followed this since the beginning and just went back to the first post. I must say I am very impressed with the finished truck. I have been doing body work for 45 years and am very impressed with the fact that you have first of all stuck with it to the finish and then finished it with such high end results. You should be very proud of yourself. You have learned a hobby and a trade. If you need a job you have rolling proof of your talent. A rolling resume.

[Shucks]

Thanks! And thanks for the kind words cape, means a lot!

Pretty much all buttoned up besides fun stuff I want in the cab. But I'm happy with it the way it is!

[smpoulin01]

You did a great job, looks awesome! You should be very proud of yourself.

[Cape Codder]

Now I wonder how the tailgate would look with the letters painted to match the wheels? You know they are never really finished.

[Shucks]

Originally Posted by Cape Codder

Now I wonder how the tailgate would look with the letters painted to match the wheels? You know they are never really finished.

Exactly my thought. Except I wondered about pin stripe around the letters that color.

[Jrgunn5150]

It's looking great! One question though, where did you get the grill with the emblem?

[Shucks]

Originally Posted by Jrgunn5150

It's looking great! One question though, where did you get the grill with the emblem?

Original grill with an LMC emblem.

[Jrgunn5150]

Originally Posted by Shucks

Original grill with an LMC emblem.

Sweet, thank you.

[st1]

REALLY nice!!! I like your style.

[Shucks]

So photobucket decided to make me pay for photos and unfortunately I'm not paying so, all the pictures are gone from this point on.... bummer.

[aggie91]

You did a great job on this truck. You should be proud! Those of us that followed along remember all the work you put in. But hopefully you still have access to the pictures and you can do your own "photo" album for this project.

I feel you pain on what photosuckit did, all of my builds in my signature are nearly worthless now. My "Henry" build is my first one that I am doing differently with pictures loaded directly from my PC to the thread.

[moregrip]

Am I smoking crack or do you not have tail lights?

Sweet a$$ truck man!

[rusty76]

Truck looks great.

[Willowrun]

Very nice work! Not enough built stepsides out there and your's looks great. I'm really liking the rim/tire combo. Did you end up with the size rims and tires you mentioned a few pages back?

[Shucks]

Originally Posted by Willowrun

Very nice work! Not enough built stepsides out there and your's looks great. I'm really liking the rim/tire combo. Did you end up with the size rims and tires you mentioned a few pages back?

Yessir. 255/45/r20 and 295/40/r20 Nitto G2 tires with 20x8 and 20x9.5 wheels.
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[Claytona08]

The finished product looks great! I tried to go through the thread but the photos are broken thanks to Photobucket. Do you happen to have a pic of the truck when you started?

[Shucks]

Originally Posted by Claytona08

The finished product looks great! I tried to go through the thread but the photos are broken thanks to Photobucket. Do you happen to have a pic of the truck when you started?

Yeah photobucket really killed me on this one. But I do have most of my photos still. Heres a rundown.