65 c20 revival

[Paul Y]

Love the art on the door and fender!

This is going to be very nice when done.

Good work.

P.

[88Stanger]

SpudWrench

Welcome, I just noticed this, nice run so far. By the way, nice to see a close by local truck! I'm just down the road a bit. I am working on a 1966 short bed.

[SpudWrench]

Originally Posted by 88Stanger

SpudWrench

Welcome, I just noticed this, nice run so far. By the way, nice to see a close by local truck! I'm just down the road a bit. I am working on a 1966 short bed.

Ahhh I’ve been found out. We’ll have to meet up sometime!
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[SpudWrench]

Summer has been fun so not a whole lot of cool updates. Doing a lot of paint work. Was hoping to make it to a truck meet this weekend but that’s not happening lol. Will have some cool updates soon. She’s getting really close
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[88Stanger]

Originally Posted by SpudWrench

Ahhh I’ve been found out. We’ll have to meet up sometime!
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LOL, your license plate was the first give a way and then I seen the door... LOL just about 40 Miles away.
anyways, you know I have alot of older parts and some new ones that I am not in need of or will be selling.. if you are interested. I can take some pics and send to you.
I have a new frame cross piece that the rear trailing arms attach to that I am not using. (the damn name of that piece is escaping me)

[SpudWrench]

Exhaust is in. Not sure if I’m happy with how I laid it out. Will probably redo it. Bed is on. Trying to track some original tailgate latches, seems I don’t have them. Lots of work ahead still. Dad helped out big time with paint, matches up really well. On to the bed now

[cwcarpenter98]

Sweet! Good to see it back on the road

[caseyjones]

How is this truck coming along?

[SpudWrench]

Well… still got it. She runs great still. Life has been crazy. New house and twins. Right now the bed has had a lot of work patching auxiliary tank holes. Awaiting clear coat. Summer got away from me this year. Have a disk swap from a 72 and looking for a 14 bolt with better gears than 4:10. She runs like a champ and don’t want to give up my original 283/420 combo yet but an ls swap is definitely taunting. Got a power steering kit. A lot of interior stuff ready. I need to upload pics and will do so. Hoping to have lots of updates this off season. Lots of stuff stored and ready to go in. I’m planning to put it in 1/2 ton springs and a very minor drop. I’m leaving it 8lug, she’s a beauty of a c20 and tossing back and forth the idea of putting on some Detroit smoothies and utilizing my original center caps.

[caseyjones]

Ha ha, that looks fun! Thanks for the update-the lettering on that truck is great.

[SpudWrench]

Some updates!

While waiting for weather to improve so I can finish color matching the bed and clearing the truck I decide to basically redo all the chassis work I’ve already done… sigh. Super excited though

Picked up a 79 squarebody front end, disassembled it and should be back from my powder coater in a week. Ordered captain fabs brake booster and power steering adapter. Gathered up 2 power steering boxes ones from a 72 and ones from a 76, they look identical. Still trying to hash out my parts for the booster and dual master upgrade, Picked up a 69 c10 12 bolt. Doing a full rebuild on that with 5 lug conversion axles from Yukon. Will post pics of the rebuild when finished. Currently all torn apart and awaiting a coating before new bearings go in. Going to order cpp modular 2.5 modular drop spindles, waiting on a good OT check to come in cuz them spindles are pricey. Scored on market place on bell tech 1” front springs and 2-3” rear springs with 2” blocks. Should put me at 3.5/5 drop. Waiting on a set of staggered 18” ridler 606 wheels i back ordered. Told I still have another 30 days at least. Going to assemble my front and rear end ahead of time and swap it all in at once in one big move. Lots of work ahead. Should have a flood of pictures coming in as we head into spring

[SpudWrench]

Parts mountain lol

[SpudWrench]

Ridler 606

[Shifty One]

Sad to see a fellow 8-lugger go to the dark side, but it's still going to be awesome!

[SpudWrench]

Originally Posted by Shifty One

Sad to see a fellow 8-lugger go to the dark side, but it's still going to be awesome!

Man I knew I’d get called out! Shifty it was a really hard decision and I battled it for a long time. I had no intentions to do this until the last 6 months. I’m leaving the c20 badges on it though. Combination of 3/4ton axle ratios, cost of suspension components and how much of a pain to find factory type wheels that would take my center caps and didn’t need to sell my soul for made me pull the trigger. It was just so much easier to go all in on 1/2 ton stuff. I still feel halfway guilty about it haha, all the 3/4ton stuff will get stored indoors for safe keeping, never know maybe one day it’ll all go back in.

I think it’s gonna be awesome too!

[SpudWrench]

Thinking about plating up the air vents and covering up the kick panels too. Going to lay down a layer jute padding before carpet kit goes in. My gas tank has been relocated and I picked a set of 6x9 cab corner speakers mounts from 73-87.com.

Any have recommendations on cheap and practical jute padding?

[Shifty One]

Originally Posted by SpudWrench

Man I knew I’d get called out! Shifty it was a really hard decision and I battled it for a long time. I had no intentions to do this until the last 6 months. I’m leaving the c20 badges on it though. Combination of 3/4ton axle ratios, cost of suspension components and how much of a pain to find factory type wheels that would take my center caps and didn’t need to sell my soul for made me pull the trigger. It was just so much easier to go all in on 1/2 ton stuff. I still feel halfway guilty about it haha, all the 3/4ton stuff will get stored indoors for safe keeping, never know maybe one day it’ll all go back in.

I think it’s gonna be awesome too!

I forgive you, but you may have to appease the Chevy Gods by creating an awesome build....

[SpudWrench]

Freshly powder coated squarebody suspension. Assembly required

[rbruno68]

This will hopefully be on my list soon. Did you have to tape the treads on the bushings or did the place that powder coated it do it for you? Did they tape inside the A arms where the bushings are threaded? How about the tie rod ends.
Thanks,
Rob

[SpudWrench]

Originally Posted by rbruno68

This will hopefully be on my list soon. Did you have to tape the treads on the bushings or did the place that powder coated it do it for you? Did they tape inside the A arms where the bushings are threaded? How about the tie rod ends.
Thanks,
Rob

So I sent these out actually, my coworker does this as his side business and has a commercial set up. He uses a special kit known to powder coaters that is made for plugging all your bushings and tapered holes. I can ask him what the kit is called though

[rbruno68]

Originally Posted by SpudWrench

So I sent these out actually, my coworker does this as his side business and has a commercial set up. He uses a special kit known to powder coaters that is made for plugging all your bushings and tapered holes. I can ask him what the kit is called though

Thanks. I am going to start shopping a few places near me to get prices for doing my frame. I plan to ask them if they cover the treads before getting coated. If they said, "that is something we don't do", I wanted to know from your experience if companies did it. If you friend has a kit and does it professionally, if the companies I talk to don't have a kit or never heard of covering threads, that might tell me all I need to know about the company.
Thanks,
Rob

[SpudWrench]

Originally Posted by rbruno68

Thanks. I am going to start shopping a few places near me to get prices for doing my frame. I plan to ask them if they cover the treads before getting coated. If they said, "that is something we don't do", I wanted to know from your experience if companies did it. If you friend has a kit and does it professionally, if the companies I talk to don't have a kit or never heard of covering threads, that might tell me all I need to know about the company.
Thanks,
Rob

That’s crazy, If they don’t know how to cover threads and special holes they are missing out on a lot of business in my opinion. I’ll try to find out more and send you a message

[SpudWrench]

Steam cleaned, wire wheeled, steam cleaned again. Por-15 and top coated. This 12 bolt coil rear is ready for reassembly

[SpudWrench]

Tried out the solid pinion spacer for the first time on this rebuild. Was kind of a pain but think it will be worthwhile when I eventually pick up an Eaton trutrac.

My 2jet dumped about a half gallon of gas and into my block and flooded my plugs last weekend had to pull every one out and wire wheel them lol. Not really a big deal, was just a needle and seat issues, really like my 283 but am ready for some more HP, think an LS swap will be in the works.

[SpudWrench]

Super excited how my custom high hump cover turned out