Uber Cool's 1963 C10 LWB Fleetside in England

[Grizz1963]

Originally Posted by uber cool

Off on a 700 mile road trip tomorrow to pickup a C10 grill from Norfolk, then on to Kent to see Martin and Rian to collect a straight 6 engine and box. So that'll be about 10 hours driving if traffic is good, So it will probably be bad, so think I'm in for a long drive tomorrow.

But excited my truck will then have a face and make brum brum noises

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You think thats tough??

Martin and I drove up to Derbyshire. Had to see his V8 drive, then remove it and get back home to do a BBQ.

Looking forward to meeting you tomorrow Andy.

No BBQ though.

[Ta2Don]

Originally Posted by Grizz1963

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You think thats tough??

Martin and I drove up to Derbyshire. Had to see his V8 drive, then remove it and get back home to do a BBQ.

Looking forward to meeting you tomorrow Andy.

No BBQ though.

WHAT??? No BBQ??? WHere's Ian?

Sounds like a day!!!

[uber cool]

Originally Posted by Grizz1963

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You think thats tough??

Martin and I drove up to Derbyshire. Had to see his V8 drive, then remove it and get back home to do a BBQ.

Looking forward to meeting you tomorrow Andy.

No BBQ though.

I'll settle for a tea and biscuit then

[Grizz1963]

Originally Posted by Ta2Don

WHAT??? No BBQ??? WHere's Ian?

Sounds like a day!!!

Not my home.

Originally Posted by uber cool

I'll settle for a tea and biscuit then

Best you tell Martin, it will be a looooong day.

Are bringing company?

[uber cool]

No, I'll be on my own, even the dog wasn't impressed with the idea of 10 hours + in the car. I'll be doing a detour via Norfolk to pick up a C10 grill and headlights on the way down

[uber cool]

Drove down on Thursday to see Martin and pick up his straight six engine for mine. Should have been a nice 5 hour journey, got stuck behind several breakdowns and crashes on the motor, ended up 8 hours to get there. Loaded up the engine in the trailer, had a brew and got the guided tour of Martins truck. I reackon He'll have it on the road for summer.
Rian nowhere to be seen ? Apparently he said something about going home to dye his beard and do his nails, I'm sure Martin said something like that, lol. Anyway set off home at about 10 pm, got round the corner went over a speed bump, engine fell over and split the oil filter (Oops). Reloaded it more securely and got home about 2:30am. Unloaded the engine and box.
On route to Martin's yesterday i did a 100 mile detour to collect a C10 Grill, come with a free alloy Grill, the chrome one is beat up but for free i was having it, even if it ends up as garage wall art. Also more gifts arrived via the postman, a nice new twin brake master cylinder.

[Ta2Don]

Glad you made it through all the delays and fun stuff...

[uber cool]

strapped on the inlet,exhaust manifold and carb off Martin's (mjh1965) engine. Swapped over the dizzy too as the new (to me) one is electronic and the old one was points and condensors which was all seized up.

Set the timing to approx 4deg BTC, although it took me a while to figure out the datum point on the harmonic balancer was wrong because it has spun slightly. So made a new datum and set the timing roughly. had a can of fresh petrol strapped up to the fuel pump. Cranked it over a few times with the coil disconnected to get oil pressure up and fuel into the carb. Connected the coil, cranked it over again and fired write up. Although no exhaust on and the throttle jammed wide open, so think gave everyone in the neighborhood and myself a shock.

Add a return spring to the carb and rigged up a mechanical oil pressure gauge, run again and reading 40 PSI on a fast tickover.

Next steps to hook up the radiator, check valve timing, change the oil, make a side exit exhaust with silencer and run again. Then I need to think up a solution to the missing propshaft.

[botsdots]

Was just browsing your thread and noticed your brake shoes are swapped back to front incorrectly. My understanding, though there seems to be some debate, is that the brake shoe with the larger/longer friction surface goes toward the rear of the vehicle. My father-in-law was GM factory trained and insists that's the proper way. Might read up on that and decide for yourself

I'm impressed with what you can do without having parts at your fingertips. I get impatient just having to wait for parts to come the next day from 100 miles away.

[Grizz1963]

Impressive progress Andy.

I guess you had one of those speed crazed Meerkat grins on your face when the motor fired up.

Well done.

[uber cool]

thanks the comments re brake shoes, I'll check that out when I rebuild them. I would love to have Chevy parts just 100 miles away. That would be heaven! In one one it will make it a true hot rod and hybrid. I need to get the truck together as standard to get the UK MOT test complete and then UK registration. Once I've done this it might have either a V8 fitted or turbo the existing inline 6 motor.

[uber cool]

Originally Posted by Grizz1963

Impressive progress Andy.

I guess you had one of those speed crazed Meerkat grins on your face when the motor fired up.

Well done.

To be honest when the throttle jammed wide open I nearly shat my pants as I was inside the cab and as I had hard wired the coil straight to the battery, I had to jump out the cab and run round and pull the wires off the battery. with no exhaust fitted my mate who has a chevy caprice police car and is 1 street away came round shortly after, he said he was in his kitchen and it sounded like a Lancaster bomber had flown over his house at low altitude

[uber cool]

Originally Posted by Grizz1963

Impressive progress Andy.

I guess you had one of those speed crazed Meerkat grins on your face when the motor fired up.

Well done.

On reflection with a brew in my hand it was more like 'Rabbit caught in headlights' look on my face when I realized turning the ignition key did not kill the motor

[Ta2Don]

Originally Posted by uber cool

To be honest when the throttle jammed wide open I nearly shat my pants as I was inside the cab and as I had hard wired the coil straight to the battery, I had to jump out the cab and run round and pull the wires off the battery. with no exhaust fitted my mate who has a chevy caprice police car and is 1 street away came round shortly after, he said he was in his kitchen and it sounded like a Lancaster bomber had flown over his house at low altitude

as Grizz says… "Antisocial Thuggery!"

[uber cool]

Nice day on Sunday, so got a little more done. Put it's face on but still no eyes.


had the generator missing, so found a brand new one on ebay for a ford fiesta just 2 miles away for £10. So thought I'd give that a go. Bit of good old fashioned ingenuity of bracket engineering ( ie using what i had lying about) and it was soon in place. Moving the tensioning bracket to the lower water pump mounting bolt got the tension back into the correct arc for adjustment. Now need to order a lucas 3 pin type plug and work out how to convert from dynamo to generator.


Wanted to run the engine but had no spare rad hoses, so looked to borrow off my Galaxie, as that's sat at the side of the garage feeling sorry for itself.

tada , ready made parts bin

Meanwhile over in the front garden eldest daughter decided she wants to repaint the tot rod and add flames

Sun going down, semi arty shot

I have a video to add of engine running and this time with a silencer added, but its taking ages to upload.

[Ta2Don]

Adapt and Overcome!!!

As for the semi arty shot...

[uber cool]

small update, got the radiator in place and fitted a new brake master cylinder, then need to replumb for the twin system. Also had a mega ordering spree. So all this due to arrive in the next week or so

2 x window winders
2 x door handles
Oil filter
Battery
Battery clamp
Battery terminals
150 m cable (various colours)
Rear light housings
Red rear indicators
Headlamps
Headlamp dip switch
25 m of copper /nickel brake pipe
Various brake pipe fittings
Horn
Various cab switches
Screen wash pump and bottle
Fuse box
Various relays
Headlight wiring loom
Alternator connectors
2 x window winders
2 x door handles
Oil filter
Battery
Battery clamp
Battery terminals
150 m cable (various colours)
Rear light housings
Red rear indicators
Headlamps
Headlamp dip switch
25 m of copper /nickel brake pipe
Various brake pipe fittings
Horn
Various cab switches
Screen wash pump and bottle
Fuse box
Various relays
Headlight wiring loom
Alternator connectors

Old single system, lid been missing for years, so was full of water

Only one place for it

that's bettter

[Average Joe]

Lookin' good!!

[uber cool]

woohoo parts arriving 4 boxes over the last fews days, its like christmas day. I know what I've ordered but its still exciting to open and see the parts.

[uber cool]

Also decided to go full air ride front and rear, so picked up this 2nd hand kit off ebay. Bags will need swapping out but worth it for the control valves, compressor and remote switching


Hopefully if it's not raining tomorrow will be a truck day ..............yippee!

[uber cool]

Had a long list of jobs rattling around in my head, so decided to write them down. I've written the list in a special code that only I can understand.......Well thats a lie even i cant read it today.


My mum says bad handwriting is the sign of either a good Engineer or Doctor, I'm no doctor, unless of course I start calling myself the Rust Doctor. So I must be a great engineer.... or more likely just have terrible handwriting.

I expect the list to shrink and grow a little, but hopefully more shrinking than growing.

[ibrown50]

Andy, I didn't think it possible but I do believe your hand writing is worse than mine, I bet your spelling isn't though
Air bag kit looks like a good buy

[uber cool]

Originally Posted by ibrown50

Andy, I didn't think it possible but I do believe your hand writing is worse than mine, I bet your spelling isn't though
Air bag kit looks like a good buy

If you tell me what the list says I'll be most grateful

[uber cool]

Fitted the new window and door handles However on the drivers side the splines were completely shot, luckily I found this under the seat. I'm guessing the PO must have bought these to replace.




first shiney bits on the truck and maybe the first things that actually work




New ignition switch and start button, 2nd thing to work


It can also see now it has eyes



next to sort out hornets nest of wiring and fit a fuse box

[Palf70Step]

Nice to see progress being made. It sort of reminds me building my 55 Belair when I lived in northern Japan. I had a conglomeration of parts under the hood that came from every know Japaneses and old US military vehicle you could think of.