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Re: Structures 65 Chevy C10
looks like you have your axle seals in the wrong way, I don't know if that matters but it might, nice progress on the frame
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Re: Structures 65 Chevy C10
Nice progress. Looks real good.
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Re: Structures 65 Chevy C10
thanks
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Re: Structures 65 Chevy C10
can i make one suggestion? step away from the frame and clean the garage man! just kidding that truck is going to be super clean. very nice work!
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Re: Structures 65 Chevy C10
Your garage is clean compared to mine, to many projects going on, and the wife has started spring cleaning early,everything gets thrown into the garage...aaarrggg...!
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Re: Structures 65 Chevy C10
Man he don't need a clean garage,he's got a pretty clean kitchen floor.
![]() Oh,by the way pretty cool progress,its great when you can do it right the first time,and not take short cuts.Makes them all that much better.Keep it up! Last edited by low79fx; 01-30-2010 at 08:41 AM. |
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Re: Structures 65 Chevy C10
That is going to be one nice truck, your attention to detail is great. Keep posting the Pictures.
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Re: Structures 65 Chevy C10
Today I spent some time setting the engine. First I roughly trimmed about 1/2" away from the frame upper flange to set in the mounts. Then drilled the four new holes thru the cross member.
![]() ![]() It's almost like it was meant to go in a 60-66! A little notching of the frame and these manifolds would probably work, but I think I'm going to try and hunt down some Trailblazer SS manifolds. ![]() ![]() After test fitting the engine I took everything back out and smoothed out my frame trim. I also sanded that rust off that was underneath old cross member brackets. Then I laid down some black paint. ![]()
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Re: Structures 65 Chevy C10
Looks good! Nice tight fit.
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Re: Structures 65 Chevy C10
I was laying out the fuse block for the 5.3 and just didn't like the looks of piecing one together of parts from mouser. After browsing Alien's LS Engine FAQ I seen the link to current performance's stand alone fuse block. So I picked one up and got it in today. I think this thing is going to be just what I was looking for. I'll post more pics of the wiring job when I get a chance to get into it. I'll post up my wiring diagram too that I made.
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Re: Structures 65 Chevy C10
Nice work. The mounts look great.
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Nice work. Keep it going.
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Re: Structures 65 Chevy C10
looks like you have your work cut out for ya on the wiring. Have you check out Tomlambs thread. He had current rewire his 5.3 harness.
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Re: Structures 65 Chevy C10
oh yeah I've been thru tomblambs and everybody elses build threads. Tons of good info. As much work as I put into laying out the wiring it probably would've been smarter to send the harness out but I really wanted to go thru it myself. And really it hasn't been all that bad. Just a lot of time. Although we'll see how I feel about it when it comes time to crank the engine over.
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Re: Structures 65 Chevy C10
Looking good dude.
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I haven't given up on this project. I have been side tracked b/c I've been redoing a bathroom in the house and it's taking up lots of time and money. This weekend I wanted to spend some time with the truck though. I spent last night and today cleaning up the engine and taking note on anything I may be missing.
I used rustoleum brand 500 deg Engine paint. This was the first I had seen Rostoleum brand engine paint, but I went with it. I have used dupli-color in the past, but after using Rustoleum now I like it over the dupli-color. The Rustoleum doesn't have near the overspray that dupli color does. And it goes on a little thicker than the dupli-color, which I like. I saw another guy on here do up his ls engine like this and I thought it looked real nice. I decided to do mine up this way. Hope you like it. Here I have it hosed down and degreased. ![]() Taped up and primered. ![]() First I did the aluminum with Rustoleum Aluminum. ![]() Then the block was coated with just regular Rustoleum Red. ![]() I also degreased, scrubbed, washed and painted the accessory brackets. This is the compressor bracket on the left and water pump on the right. ![]() Here is the covers in red. Maybe long term I'll relocate the coils and get some new covers. ![]() Everything is pretty much back on (loosely). ![]() And because I've been dying to put these on since they came in the mail. I threw up the DT headers for a photo. Thanks to Tommy for posting these in his build thread. My wife was real happy when they showed up on the door step. They are the Doug Thorley THY-324Y-C and are originally for 67-72 ls conversion trucks but they seem to be working for the earlier models as well. Guess I'll find out sooner or later. ![]()
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Re: Structures 65 Chevy C10
I know this was an old post, but do you remember if the primer you used was a special engine / high temp primer, or if it was just regular metal primer?? I'm asking because I want to paint my engine but I can't find any high temp primer in the stores and I don't know if it is necessary or not ---- although I would think that it would be important to use if it was available.
OTE=structures;3897994]I haven't given up on this project. I have been side tracked b/c I've been redoing a bathroom in the house and it's taking up lots of time and money. This weekend I wanted to spend some time with the truck though. I spent last night and today cleaning up the engine and taking note on anything I may be missing. I used rustoleum brand 500 deg Engine paint. This was the first I had seen Rostoleum brand engine paint, but I went with it. I have used dupli-color in the past, but after using Rustoleum now I like it over the dupli-color. The Rustoleum doesn't have near the overspray that dupli color does. And it goes on a little thicker than the dupli-color, which I like. I saw another guy on here do up his ls engine like this and I thought it looked real nice. I decided to do mine up this way. Hope you like it. Taped up and primered. ![]() First I did the aluminum with Rustoleum Aluminum. ![]() Then the block was coated with just regular Rustoleum Red. ![]()
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Re: Structures 65 Chevy C10
The only thing I don't like about Rustoleum is if you want to paint over it after it dries, it wrinkles the bottom coat.
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Re: Structures 65 Chevy C10
I'm sure it does matter. I thought the metallic band went on the outside?
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Re: Structures 65 Chevy C10
Ah man I did put it in wrong. The spring goes toward the liquid. Thanks a lot for pointing that out.
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Re: Structures 65 Chevy C10
Nice work!! Just getting ready to pull the frame on mine. Needed some inspiration to create some motivation lol
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Re: Structures 65 Chevy C10
Nice work!!! Everything looks really good.
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Re: Structures 65 Chevy C10
Excellent progress. One step at a time and attention to details, nice work.
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