Papa's 67 step side (aka ANOTHER porterbuilt prison)

[gearys 5600]

Subscribed..

[smartass12]

Originally Posted by c10stepside

subscribed me and you have the same project going on exept mine is a 68 passed down from my grandpaw

Yeah they should be a lot of fun, I'll probly have a bunch of questions for you seeing as i have no idea what I'm getting myself into
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[50bomb]

What up bro? Didn't expect to see you on here. I am the one who bought the I6 250 off you. Great to see you on here!

[Tinkermc]

I guess I'm hooked and will tune in from time to time The hard work will be worth it in the end

[smartass12]

Originally Posted by 50bomb

What up bro? Didn't expect to see you on here. I am the one who bought the I6 250 off you. Great to see you on here!

So how is the i6 treating you? I miss her already.

[smartass12]

Originally Posted by Tinkermc

I guess I'm hooked and will tune in from time to time The hard work will be worth it in the end

I hope its worth it...Im about to punch the wall and i just started.

[50bomb]

I still havent started it but its in the truck now with the th350. I changed the valve cover gasket,flywheel,starter,water temp line,oil line. Just lil things right now but soon once i get electrical done it should be ready to start up again. I love it though gets me excited. Good to be able to seee your truck online. I will be watchin and learning on your build. ENJOY

[smartass12]

Originally Posted by 50bomb

I still havent started it but its in the truck now with the th350. I changed the valve cover gasket,flywheel,starter,water temp line,oil line. Just lil things right now but soon once i get electrical done it should be ready to start up again. I love it though gets me excited. Good to be able to seee your truck online. I will be watchin and learning on your build. ENJOY

Are you going to change the oil pan gasket? I could be wrong but it seemed to leak a bit from the pan. Could have been from the valve cover and making it way down. I love my dad to death but as soon as he got it from my grandfather
he didn't do much but drive it.

[50bomb]

I do have the gasket for the oil pan but just gonna wait to see what happens first. Looks like I might have to change the gasket on the intake manifold. looked alil out of place what mabye its okay. Right now my biggest thing I can not find is the Kickdown/tv cable brackets for the automatic trans setup. Lil by lil though we will get there. Once I get this truck going and set on the road I will cruise it over to your place. Maybe we can cruise our trucks side by side?

[smartass12]

Made a little bit of progress

[67cheby]

Nice progress !

[Tinkermc]

nice work

[smartass12]

Nate did all the hard work.......I take that back, i did a little hard work with all the rivets

[smartass12]

Been tring to fix a leak in my pool. Drained it, sealed a couple of potential problems, filled it back up....FAIL..still leaks...had to step away for it and work on the truck....My buddy Neal from Nine Iron Designs came by and welded in my rack notches..thanks buddy..



Was able to start the front afterwards

[67cheby]

Looking good !
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[Bennett68C10]

Looks great, subscribed for this build

[50bomb]

Any updates?

[Tinkermc]

is anyone Home? No news for about 6 weeks, wutz up?

[smartass12]

Sorry guys for the disappearing act, had a bit of marriage troubles but i think things are back on track so i can get back to work on the truck when i have free time.

[smartass12]

A little update but need help (will post this for nate too on his site to see what he thinks) Questions if anybody might have the answers.
1. other than some miscellaneous nuts and bolts this is all i have left to try to mount the upper and lower control arms. Nothing seems to work for the uppers, either to much slop or doesn't fit. anybody recognize this parts and if any are for mounting the upper control arm??? I believe i am missing the rod/nuts for the lower control arms unless i was to remove them from my old crossmember, which i don't believe to be true.

[smartass12]

Question 2 (screw up im sure). Look at where my dif is lining up un my notch, Obviously wrong (to far back). I followed nates directions to the tee (at least i think i did). My thought was to move the trailing arm crossmember toward the front of the truck to center the dif on the notch. Anybody see this to be a problem if i did?

[smartass12]

Got the front suspension mostly done. Thanks to Nate (and others) got the rear sorted out. For stepside the trailing arm cross member needs to be mounted as far towards the front of the truck. In case anyone is doing a stepper.

[50bomb]

Your truck is looking Great. Keep up the awesome work.

[67cheby]

Sweet, looking good !
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[smartass12]

Originally Posted by 67cheby

Sweet, looking good !
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Im ashamed to even post after seeing where your at on your build..top notch!!