1988 chevy resto project

[loudnlifted88]

more pics

[loudnlifted88]

loaded up and on her way home

[69c10stepside]

Looks good, enjoy it!

[loudnlifted88]

Originally Posted by 69c10stepside

Looks good, enjoy it!

thanks i will as soon as i can drive it

[loudnlifted88]

well the rear main seal let go and is leakin oil everywhere i got the motor pulled out today after school been taking pics but forgot camera at garage so pics tomorrow

[Vega_67C10]

It looks good man. Life comes and goes and brings many unexpected things. Enjoy it, you'll never forget the experience.

[loudnlifted88]

Originally Posted by Vega_67C10

It looks good man. Life comes and goes and brings many unexpected things. Enjoy it, you'll never forget the experience.

thanks

[loudnlifted88]

motors back toget her with a fresh coat of paint hopefully be in tomarrow heres some pics

[Dub_X]

Lookin good man. Hey what tires are you running on your stepside? I'm looking for a set of meaty tires to run on my '88 when my Goodyear Tracker Radial 265/75 16s go bald....after I put them back on the truck lol. Haven't put them on my new wheels yet.

[loudnlifted88]

Originally Posted by Dub_X

Lookin good man. Hey what tires are you running on your stepside? I'm looking for a set of meaty tires to run on my '88 when my Goodyear Tracker Radial 265/75 16s go bald....after I put them back on the truck lol. Haven't put them on my new wheels yet.

currently on it now is goodyear wrangler td 265-75-16 there a nice tire in the snow and quiet on the road havnt really had them in the mud tho... i would really like 285's on it but money is tight and i stole these off my other truck

[loudnlifted88]

got side windows tinted 20% goning to do the back with 2.5% on thursday

[Dub_X]

They look good. When I can get some money I might look into it, but I haven't run my Trackers bald yet, and they're not even on the truck. I put 2000 Silverado wheels on my '88, and the Firestone tires that were on the wheels are still on it...except the front 2 are now flat lol. God I hate Firestone. I took my Goodyears off of the 4X4 wheels, and put low-profile tires on the 4x4 Chevy wheels and put them on my '86 Nissan lol. But once I Run those trackers bald I'm gonna look into some newer tires.

[loudnlifted88]

Originally Posted by Dub_X

They look good. When I can get some money I might look into it, but I haven't run my Trackers bald yet, and they're not even on the truck. I put 2000 Silverado wheels on my '88, and the Firestone tires that were on the wheels are still on it...except the front 2 are now flat lol. God I hate Firestone. I took my Goodyears off of the 4X4 wheels, and put low-profile tires on the 4x4 Chevy wheels and put them on my '86 Nissan lol. But once I Run those trackers bald I'm gonna look into some newer tires.

yeah i got them for 125 a piece mounted and balanced at a local garage and i have the newer rims that i had on this truck but there now on my ext. cab

[loudnlifted88]

motors back in

[loudnlifted88]

more pics

[benoit454]

did you change that idler pulley on the tensioner to a 6 rib? looks like it.

Also that's weird because I got the exact same bracket setup but my tensioner faces the other side, and I changed mine to 6 rib. makes me think mines wrong or something.

[benoit454]

after looking again it's a smooth pulley you got on it that's not gonna work right. For non a/c it's ribbed and looks like for a 6 rib and the rest of yours is 4 rib.

Mine had a/c on it before I changed it over to 6 rib non a/c

[loudnlifted88]

Originally Posted by benoit454

after looking again it's a smooth pulley you got on it that's not gonna work right. For non a/c it's ribbed and looks like for a 6 rib and the rest of yours is 4 rib.

Mine had a/c on it before I changed it over to 6 rib non a/c

thats the way it was when i got it. when i get the belt on ill post up some pics.

[benoit454]

that's weird lol but yea snap some pics when ya get it done.

[loudnlifted88]

here you go benoit454 yours is prob the right way compaired to mine

[benoit454]

that's cool man yours works as is, it pushes down on the belt sdo the smooth pulley is perfect and works great. what size is your belt? i think it's supposed to be a 80. I wasn't sure I figured mine was wrong, but th eonly way for that would be wrong tensioner with the stud in the wrong place or hole in the bracket in the wrong place. I went by the compnine diagrams for belt routing and autozones part numbers for the belt size. with a/c is 88 and w/o a/c is 80 i think.

[loudnlifted88]

Originally Posted by benoit454

that's cool man yours works as is, it pushes down on the belt sdo the smooth pulley is perfect and works great. what size is your belt? i think it's supposed to be a 80. I wasn't sure I figured mine was wrong, but th eonly way for that would be wrong tensioner with the stud in the wrong place or hole in the bracket in the wrong place. I went by the compnine diagrams for belt routing and autozones part numbers for the belt size. with a/c is 88 and w/o a/c is 80 i think.

i think its like a 54 ish its really small ony goes arounf crank water pump alt and power steering

[benoit454]

I think you might have done like me and put it around the crank wrong. I did mine that way when i rebuilt it, had a 78 or so belt with a/c and could NOt get one to fit with the tensioner pulley for the non a/c setup. I went on compnine and finally realized I had it wrong, I now can use factory sized belts that the local parts store pulls up.

http://www.compnine.com/index.php?u=...01&grouptype=B

check out the 2nd pic down on the left, that's the one you want or need to go by, but if yours works, no worries, as long as you know your belt size. Just make sure your water pump is turning the right way because it should turn reverse style for serp. setups compared to the old v belt setups that turned the same as the crank.

If you have a reverse flow pump and it's not turning the right way it can overheat, and vice versa, like if you have an ol style pump on it not reverse and you got the belt ran to make it spin in reverse etc.

[loudnlifted88]

Originally Posted by benoit454

I think you might have done like me and put it around the crank wrong. I did mine that way when i rebuilt it, had a 78 or so belt with a/c and could NOt get one to fit with the tensioner pulley for the non a/c setup. I went on compnine and finally realized I had it wrong, I now can use factory sized belts that the local parts store pulls up.

http://www.compnine.com/index.php?u=...01&grouptype=B

check out the 2nd pic down on the left, that's the one you want or need to go by, but if yours works, no worries, as long as you know your belt size. Just make sure your water pump is turning the right way because it should turn reverse style for serp. setups compared to the old v belt setups that turned the same as the crank.

If you have a reverse flow pump and it's not turning the right way it can overheat, and vice versa, like if you have an ol style pump on it not reverse and you got the belt ran to make it spin in reverse etc.

i guess it works fine it doesnt over heat any so i guess im not going to worrie about it to much but thats for the advice

[loudnlifted88]

did some more work today painted the bars in the back window black again because the paint was fallin off