Project "BLACKOUT"

[BlackedOut67shorty]

Now i have to thank the local auto parts store in bernville for charging me 340 dollars for the gaskets(even though the refunded me i paid with card so it took almost a week to get my money back). And charge me 20 !@#$%* dollars for a 45 degree angled heater fitting... Oh well my monster is back up and running Thats all that matters to me

[BlackedOut67shorty]

Originally Posted by Tinkermc

the sticker in the lower right corner of the back glass, is it for you or did it come with the truck? My son has that sticker in all of his vechiles.

The only sticker i put on was the hotrod thug sticker. The other one was on the truck to support firemen from the PO but i decided not to take that off.

[midniteblues]

Looking good, you did a very nice job with the paint. Hope it dont leak on you.

[BlackedOut67shorty]

Thanks lol and no it hasnt leaked on me, Im gonna be at the strausstown car show this sunday, hope to see some cool trucks there

[BlackedOut67shorty]

Well i just got my heavy duty headlight harness installed in my truck and my lights have never looked so lively before. sorry i forgot the camra for the first part of the build.

[BlackedOut67shorty]

I tucked the wiring in the stock loom behind the radiater. the pic are just the test fit just to check to see if the relays worked. it uses one of your headlight sockets and then just takes all the strain out of the wire from the switch, so instead of all of the electric flowing through the switch it just flows through the relays and now the switch doesnt have to souly power the lights. Now the relays are doing most of the work Now these pics are the complete wiring

[BlackedOut67shorty]

I decided to take a drive to blue marsh. took some pics and then it started raining lol

[BlackedOut67shorty]

one more lol

[BlackedOut67shorty]

Now i am on the lookout for a smaller air cleaner, the one i got is arcing off of one of the sparkplug wires on the dizzy, wish i just had a longer stud but no cash, no money, just dreams till i get paid lol

[BlackedOut67shorty]

Well tonight i decided to finally put in my van tilt column, My three on the tree column was getting really worn and i was getting p***ed off at my horn button... It would unlatch itself from the one corner and then beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee eeeeeep until i ripped the horn button off the wheel..
Sooo when i was doing this swap i realized that i wouldnt be able to use the steering shaft that goes to the steering box. Because it was a one piece deal so lucky me i almost forgot that i pulled an intermediate shaft from another truck before.

Well when i test fitted everything it looked like the columb was gonna be way too shart but the shaft i had has little plastic inserts inside in cause you would get in an accident and dont get impailed by the wheel.. drilled out the plastic and got the bfh out and wailed down on the iside of the shaft till it would be the right length.

Put everything back in and tidied up the wires under my dash and solderd wires that had twist ties you would use at home. To top off my column installation i put the 67-68 wheel back on and man it feels perfect. I love the stock steering wheels to theses trucks. Ill get pics up soon of the finished product. Sorry for no pics, camera is dead right now

[BlackedOut67shorty]

On another note i found out my big ET air filter is rubbing against my hei . Shouldnt be a problem for long im on the hunt for a 10 inch air cleaner or a nice stock one

[BlackedOut67shorty]

Been a while since i updated but i have been chasing down a massive oil leak/fixed. bought gas from a gas station that was half water/kinda fixed. and now im replacing the timing chain hopefully before my son comes into the world also replacing the oil pan gasket with a one piece will try to get more pics up soon. kinda hard doin it off my xbox

[chevy88]

Looks like the headlight harness is a real good upgrade, how much was the harness
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[chevy88]

Originally Posted by Tinkermc

these builds need not be expensive to be good

Lol this is so true.
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[BlackedOut67shorty]

Originally Posted by chevy88

Looks like the headlight harness is a real good upgrade, how much was the harness
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It was only like forty bucks. Got a lot of Chinese writing on the package but overall I am very happy with the setup. It was weird how it had me wire the plug into the passenger side headlight plug but it came out really nice and doesn't look out of place
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[sstaten69]

looks like a sharp truck.

[midniteblues]

here's a pic of your shortend tilt colum that you put in.
i took this pic awhile ago

[BlackedOut67shorty]

For the longest time I have had carb issues, I had a carter that made my truck miss a lot and had an eddy that made it run right but wouldn't idle down below a thousand rpm... Even though it costed a case of beer I now have a Holley that runs perfectly on the truck such a pain in the arse least my truck is now running properly again also fixed my window too
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[1985_C10]

im doing the same thing as you, building it while im driving it. lol. mines not coming along too fast though.

[BlackedOut67shorty]

Originally Posted by 1985_C10

im doing the same thing as you, building it while im driving it. lol. mines not coming along too fast though.

Lol they never do really, I just had to get my truck towed back home 30 miles cause the tranny fluid drained out the pan gasket, that was fixed quick after a nice new gasket hopefully maple grove raceway will have some good parts for me, wish meh luck
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[Druman]

nothing like some fresh paint, looks good.

[BlackedOut67shorty]

Been a while since I posted on my build thread, gave her a tune up and used accel 300+ wires and routed them under the headers, I'm planning on putting my aluminum valve covers back on and get them painted crinkle black. Right now trying to fix my brakes since the back part of the master is bone dry. Here's a pic of the way I routed my wires
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[BlackedOut67shorty]

For some reason it seems it doesn't want to resize my pics and only gives me an option to put one on, sorry ill try to get pics later
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[1968k10blue]

Is there any chance you might be able to give a part # on that headlight harness?

[BlackedOut67shorty]

http://www.lmctruck.com/icatalog/cb/full.aspx?Page=76. Heres the one I used.. might splice a ceramic connector on the end when I get better bulbs.
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