Uber Cool's 1963 C10 LWB Fleetside in England

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Couple of jobs this weekend, new accelerator pedal fitted, so wont wear a hole in my shoe now
First job was to straighten the old linkage as I guess the PO had bent it to work without a pedal.

Managed to heat it with a gas torch without setting fire to the interior, which is always a good result

New rubber pedal in place


Next up I checked on the front brake hoses..............hmmm these are past their sell by date, news ones on order


checked out the front suspension and steering and made another list of required parts


Once i'd scraped off the old dirt and grease the suspension was in surprising good condition, needs a coat of paint before this goes back together.


this was from just one suspension arm


Next need to adaptor the lower arms and cross member to take the front air bags

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Mark was round again today with his girlfriends son Ben, who was a great help with body prep and sanding (put me and Mark to shame). Must get some action shots next time, rather than after we have finished.

The blue paint was a bit too glossy so Mark had the paint guy added a matting agent, which has made it look a lot better.

As usually I was in charge of the less obvious work, such as new brake lines and rebuilding the carb, which still managed to over fuel, so think we need to bite the built and get a carb rebuild kit and new brass float to replace the plastic float which according to a little bit of google research apparently deteriorate with fuel over time.







removed the scuttle panel to fit new washer hose and clean the jets, whilst it was off gave the panel a coat of new paint.

The bonnet (hood) had too many layers of paint and filler that had got moisture underneath so decided to strip and reveal the horrors underneath.



and that was it for another day.

[Palf70Step]

[mjh1965]

Well done Andy it's nearly there . Help as well . As they say if you get them interested in old cars they will never have any money for drugs . Best of all she will be able to mend her own car when she gets older .

[ibrown50]

Good result Andy, you're making much better progress than me! I agree with Martin, get them interested in old cars they'll never have money for anything else

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Eldest daughter isn't really interested but youngest always has been from about the age of 4, has her own overalls too. On Sunday we are going watching BTCC British Touring Cars racing near us and she is really excited.

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As I'm using sidelights (parking lights) built into the headlight I had to cut a section of the grill out to clear the sidelight. This then allows me to use the parking lights just as indicators.

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On my return from France after watching Le-Mans 24hr I popped in to see Martin, picked up a Propshaft, pairs of front wings and pair of reverse lights last weekend.

Fitted the reverse lights last night to use as rear indicators, should have been a 10 min job but ends up 2 hours as found the lamp holders corroded, so needed to install new lamp holders, luckily I had 2 new lamp holder in stock.









Also tried out a colour on the side and going to give it the patina look. Like the colour but need to sort out the patina effect, have some rust paint to try and might introduce a bit of grey primers also.

[ibrown50]

Rear lamps look great and the colour is perfect for a "patina" finish, it's gonna look awesome

[mjh1965]

Rear lamps look good . Best way to add indicator lamps for the UK MOT and keeping it looking stock . It was good to see you and did ŷou go home the way I suggested ?

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Originally Posted by mjh1965

Rear lamps look good . Best way to add indicator lamps for the UK MOT and keeping it looking stock . It was good to see you and did ŷou go home the way I suggested ?

Yep sure did, top tip

[Grizz1963]

You certainly know your way around Andy.

Looking real good.

Sorry I could not pop over the other night, was being held captive by XL spreadsheets. And 90 minutes at that point was just not available.

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Originally Posted by Grizz1963

You certainly know your way around Andy.

Looking real good.

Sorry I could not pop over the other night, was being held captive by XL spreadsheets. And 90 minutes at that point was just not available.

Thanks Rian, no worries plenty time to meet in future at shows etc. more important you get your new job off to a good start.

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This morning started out wet play day


So decided to fabricate some brackets for the rear air bags. started with some 75 x 40 box section and made it up as I went along.




Then need to make some brackets for the bottom of the air bag, so turned this

into this


Bit of air bag control relay temporary lash up to get things moving

Air bags in place and brackets welded to chassis and trailing arms


With this success moved into the exhaust, got a stainless back back but only 2" outlet Boo....... So grafted on a 3" stainless pipe with a slash cut for good measure.



worked out how to route the exhaust up over the axle and clear in full height and lowered. But that can be tomorrows job.

[mjh1965]

That looks really good Andy . Are you going to fit air on the front as well ? The blue looks very familiar . I'd even go as far as to say it looks like the colour of my truck when I picked it up



Keep up the good work it's always good too see home grown ideas

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Originally Posted by mjh1965

That looks really good Andy . Are you going to fit air on the front as well ? The blue looks very familiar . I'd even go as far as to say it looks like the colour of my truck when I picked it up



Keep up the good work it's always good too see home grown ideas

Thanks guy's yep looks the same colour, match the rocker cover now

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Yes air bags going on front too, just need some more ' make it up as a go' for that too

[mjh1965]

Andy if I had known you were going too match the rocker cover on my old engine I would have painted it pink just for the hell of it

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Originally Posted by mjh1965

Andy if I had known you were going too match the rocker cover on my old engine I would have painted it pink just for the hell of it

I had a mate that painted his truck pink to match his wife's hairdryer it looked awful.

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going for this sort of look

[Ratz]

Hey Andy,
Thats it exactly how it should look, but that will be the winter project eh!

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Originally Posted by Ratz

Hey Andy,
Thats it exactly how it should look, but that will be the winter project eh!

sure thing, MOT first

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small update.

Monday was a bummer night, struggled with the exhaust routing. So gave up and moved onto to try the propshaft. major bummer its the wrong model and wrong all together, its too short on the front and rear shafts. So went to bed not a happy bunny.

Wednesday got back on it and having consulted with a local Propshaft shop decided it will be best to have a complete new 2 piece prop made.

Next job to tackle was the air valve body , compressor and tank mounting, the lazy option would be to install in the bed and cover with a box. However it feels like a cop out and will bite me on the arse in future if I want to replace the load bed wood or just use the full bed the transport stuff around.

So after many cups of tea, lying on the floor and pulling faces like this.



I came up with the idea of a frame slung under the bed and attached to the outside of the chassis rail.
Ignore the temp wiring lash up, that will be rewired. But think I need a larger air tank for 4 bags.


control paddle is pretty clever, you can do each corner on its own, combine front and rear only , or middle switch does all 4 corners

[Ta2Don]

No fire after working with torch...

Good call on the brake hoses...

[ibrown50]

It's amazing the difference a bit of cleaning and scraping can make, looks so much better already. I did something similar then gave it a coat of red oxide primer (Wilkinsons own make, cheap as chips and works brilliantly), when I say "I" I actually mean my son Jake, he fits under the fender better than I do!