A New teenage member!

[texasld]

Looks good!

[Lee H]

Lossen the mounts and towers, gives a little wiggle room. For really stubborn ones I've ground a little off the long bolts to make a slight bevel.

[Blue/72]

Finished wiring the engine up and started hanging some sheet metal today too!

[Old_Skool]

Looking awesome man !! Keep goin ..

[Blue/72]

Got all the sheet metal hung and the engine wired, plumed and all set up to try to fire. Just have to finish Instalung grill, bumper, cowl and a few other small prices this weekend and she will be done! Hope to be driving her to school by Monday!!

[doubleb's69]

Looks sweet! I have a soft spot for blue and white 67-72's. I had a 71 and my dad had a 72. Looking forward to more progress. When you get it fired up make a youtube video and post it.

[Blue/72]

Originally Posted by doubleb's69

Looks sweet! I have a soft spot for blue and white 67-72's. I had a 71 and my dad had a 72. Looking forward to more progress. When you get it fired up make a youtube video and post it.

I defiantly will if I can figure out how! Today I finished running the rest of the hoses, got the grill and bumper bolted on and aligned and all the little small pieces that were left like the headlight bezels, coolant, air cleaner and heat riser. I did notice that my inner grill has a broken tab so Im going to Try to find a nice original inner grill to replace it. My dad is at work until Sunday morning so I won't get a chance to fire it till then.

[Blue/72]

Well today was the day, I finally fired off the truck!! Yesterday was a day of frustration as we could not get the truck to fire. It was turning over, we had spark and fuel but it wouldn't fire. We also could not get the distributed to fall on TDC. After messing with it for over 3 hours my dad and I gave up and called it a night. Today we picked up a new set of points and started to work. We changed the points and managed to get the distributer in and when we went to fire it up we had the same problem. So we went to check the plug wires and I had them off by 2 cylinders. After fixing that we went to start it and it fired right up!! Great oil pressure, temp and sound. It sounds awesome!!!! 315 HP and 300 ft lbs of torque. It is a completely different truxm now. I still have to blast the hood hungers and fit the hood but I plan on driving it to school this coming week. All the hard work and $ has paid off and it feels great!!

[flashed]

Congrats on a job well done .

[Blue/72]

I have been driving the truck everyday to school since I finished up the engine. Has lots of power and drives great. Only problem I am having is when I accelerate from a stop the engine almost cuts out a little bit. If I slowly exelerate it is not as noticeable, but if I put my foot down a little bit from a stop it almost dies, then after a little bobble it accelerates as it should. Any ideas on what it could be?

[Blue/72]

And what's an update without a picture or two!

[Blue/72]

Another

[OlSmokey]

Hey I'm 18, And I had that problem too, make sure the timing is right, and also make sure the carb isn't jammed haha I used to have that same problem.

[steelhorse]

Could be a problem with the accelerator pump.

[68shortwide]

18 here also, and agree with Smokey.

[Blue/72]

Thanks guys, I think it is the timing also. The carb is a clean and not jammed or anything but I have not timed it since I first fired it up and tuned it for the first time. I have almost put 500 miles in it and my plan was to check timing at 500 so I guess will just do it this weekend!

[trkfrmr]

Great project! Love the truck and the story,I am currently restoring my 67 that Dad bought new and that I drove in high school thirty or so years ago.I like your steering wheel,what kind is it?
Keep up the good work!

[Blue/72]

Thanks! I believe it is a chevelle style wheel but not 100% sure as it was a Christmas gift

[Blue/72]

Updates: Had issues with the truck on hot starts so with a new pentronix unit to replace the points which did didn't help so that came out and a new MSD HEI distributed went in with new MSD wires and regaped plugs. This really helped and now the truck is the running better than ever and I can really feel how much more spark the truck has. Now he fun part, I picked up some NOS lower bed trim, NOS cargo light lense and NOS tailight bezels so I'm exited to get that in the truck. I also installed NOS upper bed trim I picked up on Craigslist for $50 for both pieces. Hopefully next I can find a sub to install under the seat. Plan is to pull the floor mat and install either a rapor liner or may sound deadener that won't make the original floor mat lay funny and to put the sub under the seat along with the amp and bass control dial.

[Blue/72]

Installed and ploished up

[justin4260]

nice truck dude I'm 17 and got a 70 c10 yours looks way better than mine does though. mine needs paint and interior work and engine work and and and and you know how it goes. but i love my truck to death wouldn't trade it for anything.

[Dean'smeanmachine]

nice work!

[Blue/72]

Been tinkering on the truck off and on for the past few months. Picked up an original valve cover at the Portland Swap Meet from a fellow member to replace my dented one and also got a new high quality set of valve cover gaskets to replace the cork ones I put on when we put the engine back together. I have a small oil leak and I am pretty sure that the new gaskets should fix it. Also looking at putting a shallow sub or two under the seat to give the truck a little better sound. I currently have a dual kenwood underdash speaker along with pioneer kick panels speakers which sound awesome but just don't have quite enough thump. Any suggestions on good shallow subs would be greatly appreciated!!

[Blue/72]

New carb and coil to help the truck with start-ups and MPG

[PAWS 72]

Great job. Welcome to the board. I wish my son would take better interest in his granddads truck like you have yours.