Birth of a C10

[918RICO]

Yeah, I just started loading my truck tonight. It's a 64. I just painted part of the dash housing and thought of ordering the white decals for the gauges. I ordered the Tach from a place in CA, it was under $300.

[918RICO]

Here are some pics of my truck...

[Rich 5150 69]

Sweet truck Rico

[losthope]

Nice truck rico!

Well since i have a car that's my custom style car , i decided that the truck was going to be influenced by the lowrider style and build it with some "bomb" flavor, So i added more accessory stuff to it:

first i added a peep mirror shade:


Then window vent shades:



Steering wheel spinner knob:


Pipe holder ,i actually do own a pipe that I puff on at my pops house i just got to remember to bring it back next time im there.


Then i replaced the plastic crap the auto store's sell you for windshield wipers for these trucks that dont work worth a crap:



I wanted to buy "cat eye" headlight covers ,but didnt know if i wanted to run the "jeweled headlight visors also so i bought one too see what it looked like im kinda digging it...thgats why only one headlight has a visor in these pictures:




I had robbed the cd player out of the 66' to put in the 73 bug i picked up for the ol' lady ,so then i was given a brand new cd player that was missing the face plate,I also needed a cd player for my 54 ford so i looked up the model number and went out and bought the same exact one, now i just swap the face plate between my two cars,so i pretty much got two brand new cd players for the price of one pretty smart i think



I also add the red vent window "breezies"

until next time.......

[LILJP's66]

where did you find the window shades and the pipe holder?

[losthope]

Originally Posted by LILJP's66

where did you find the window shades and the pipe holder?

window shades you can get at lmc,brothers,or http://www.truckandcarshop.com/

and the pipe holder i got at so-cal speed shop, or you can get them on e-bay

[glendale]

looking good dude.your left cat eye is a bit off center.

[MTBADBOB]

The red wheels look awesome with the rubber! Very nice score on the truck, the winshield trim & tailgate are worth that alone!

[Rich 5150 69]

Tim the red button blade holders do work well except you need to load them with the natural rubber blades thin style refills, they don`t work well with the silicone blades.

[losthope]

Originally Posted by Rich 5150 69

Tim the red button blade holders do work well except you need to load them with the natural rubber blades thin style refills, they don`t work well with the silicone blades.

I will have to remember that..for some reason i never remember to just buy the refills and always get a new unit,except for the one time i did try to get refills, napa,kragens,and auto zone didnt carry the right size refills and only could offer me the cheap plastic units that flip flp around on the arm. i order some for my 65 from jims chevy in rancho(with out red thingys), that i liked and then ordered these for the 66 from truck and car shop in orange ca. i didnt/dont know what the red things are to be honest but go with the red theme of the truck.

[Rich 5150 69]

Amco used to sell the thin natural rubber in a large blade pack, I could get four refills out of it, the only problem with nat rubber is they only last a year, the heat cooks them.

[1963c-10]

Love th ework you've done, glad your up and around and doin ok. Keep up the solid work on the bolt

[hopped up]

I say put the visors on both headlights. Looking good man !!
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[losthope]

Latest up date:

Went to pick-n-pull on thanksgiving weekend when everything was 1/2 off,and got some front bumper brace's, a 1 1/4 sway bar off a 80's c20 and then pulled a rear sway bar off a camero it all came to $35:


First thing i wanted to tackle was the rear sway bar, after taking the links of the ends of the bars(because they will be installed opposite of the way the came off camero) I mocked the bar up:


the brake bracket on the axle has to move and since i didnt want to undo the brake lines i just carefully cut it off:




then i centered the bar on the axle:


used the old wear marks to mark the axle:


then since the camero axle is 2 3/4 the saddles have to be ground out to fit 3" axle:


Then bolted it all together had to bend the tips of the ubolt back to 2 3/4 to go thur the saddle using some big pairs of channel lock pliers saw somewhere else someone welded the saddles on but i wanted mine to be bolt on:


i the let the truck down and the frame was resting on the bushing hold downs so i had to move mine over since my truck is so low with out a c-notch, once i get my c-notch ill see about moving them back over to the very end:


next i mocked up the link bracket and drilled holes and as you can see their is about a one inch gap where the bracket will be bolted on the link on the bar:


All they had at home depot was some thin walled square stock so i just bought some big nuts and used them as spacers and bolted it together and it is strong as hell if i find some solid stock of aluminum or thick walled square tubing ill redo it;


Then i measured for my link,you want the bar to be parallel with the ground for the bar to work right:


Measured where to cut the link spacer and i am using a new bolt thats threaded the camero had a bolt with a shoulder that the threads only went so far:



bolted it all in and cut the excess of the link bolt and its installed:



everything was repeated in steps on the other side the only thing left to do is make a new bracket holder for the brake lines. I plan on doing bed wood, rear tank and c-notch so i didnt worry about painting it untill i take the bed or the bed wood out plus it match's the rest of the under carriage . next up front sway bar!

[losthope]

Since Im waiting on my front swaybar frame brackets to be made and shipped to me i decided to tackle some small stuff I've been putting off,first i wired in some headlight relays which made a huge difference,sending the power straight thur the relays to the headlights bypassing the headlight switch,much brighter:




then i extended the stock throttle linkage arm so the rod is level when it pulls:




Then i was crawling around under the back off the bed of the truck looking at how i wanted to relocate the rear shocks i saw something sitting inside the rear frame,it was a magnet key holder pulled it out,pried it open since it was rusted together and found some keys, gas cap key,ignition key,door key...the gas cap is long gone, the ignition was punched when i received the truck so i have to replace that, but the door key worked on both doors now i have a key!! SCORE!


Not a whole lot done but something.

[protrash64]

Cool find with keys, losthope!! What year of Camaro did the swaybar come from? I like that upgrade.

[losthope]

Originally Posted by protrash64

Cool find with keys, losthope!! What year of Camaro did the swaybar come from? I like that upgrade.

1982 to current camero's heres a write up on how to do it:
http://www.low69cst.freeservers.com/CamaroBar.htm

[protrash64]

Nice!!! Thanks for the link.

[Rich 5150 69]

Cool Tim , coming right along with it, I`ve picked up my relays, but have not had the time to install, also want to put m starter on a relay ( ford )....

[losthope]

Thanks Rich !I think it is a simple but very effective upgrade and really something smart and safe and suggest doing

Im going to update a couple things on the relays i did...first off im going to run two fusible links to the relays one fuse to each one. so if a fuse blows you will always have high beams or low beams ,unless somehow both fuses blow at once.....right now I have one fuse powering both relays.

Also i need to upgrade to sealed relays...I pulled these out of a ford probe(most full sized ford cars have them) in the junkyard they are located right by the drivers side hood hinge, unbolt one bolt and cut wires and your good to go with a set of heavy duty headlight relays with a relay bracket holder for a couple bucks ,im bend the bracket flat and mount it....next time im at the pick-n-pull im gonna grab a couple sets for spare's, heres the ones i pulled for my 54 ford im doing the headlight upgrade on next:

[chemlab]

love the mirror visor! i'm gonna try that on mine since i have the same peeps. mine is so close to drive, still have to fix my brake issue and a minor tranny leak (think its the dipstick). wish my bomba was road ready i could be driving that but its in a shop collecting dust till the truck is done

[LostMy65]

Yeah, I found a hidden key for my 66 mounted to the radiator support - unfortunately, it didn't work for the door.

Originally Posted by losthope

Then i was crawling around under the back off the bed of the truck looking at how i wanted to relocate the rear shocks i saw something sitting inside the rear frame,it was a magnet key holder pulled it out,pried it open since it was rusted together and found some keys, gas cap key,ignition key,door key...the gas cap is long gone, the ignition was punched when i received the truck so i have to replace that, but the door key worked on both doors now i have a key!! SCORE!

[LostMy65]

Originally Posted by losthope

first i added a peep mirror shade:

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I really like the mirror.

[losthope]

Thanks everyone on the compliments on the truck, I havent been able to work on it for the past week due to my 93 year old grandma having a stroke, i had been staying at the hospital out if town until she passed away on Monday due to the congested heart failure she had been fighting the stroke just did her in....When i got home the swaybar mounting brackets i was waiting on showed up so thats what i been working on:

lowered swaybar brackets:

ground off the rivets and drilled some holes and mounted them:

Used some dollar store oven cleaner to clean up the sway bar and bushing brackets i got at pick-n-pull:

painted the brackets and swaybar:

Then after fighting getting everything lined up i bolted it on, as you can see i needed the the swaybar mounting brackets(lowered type) because the power steering box hangs lower then the stock steering box:

Heres a picture of the swaybar next to the idler arm fits tight on this side also:

everything works and steers just fine!!! I took a couple pictures of it out on the street so you guys can see that it does drive got to adjust the brakes next..

[Rich 5150 69]

Sorry for your loss Tim, my condolances to the family, your truck is coming along nicely.