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Re: Over 25 Years Later, Finally My 71 C-10 Truck Build
Mike, great job on the bike, I laughed pretty good on the comment of having a check, and house! Congrats on her graduating! Is she the last now? That sucks to hear of the trans issue but it worked out really well all in all. Good luck and have fun on Power Tour. I'm not going to make it again. We just got a new to us house and I'm getting ready to put a fence up and a half a million other things.
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Congrats on the house. Connie and me are still looking. Nothing for sale here out of town right now. Gonna get me a shop. A real shop. I love my garage, but there's no room. It's like a tick that's ready to pop. We're looking for a small acreage. A farm site with a couple good buildings on it. Got the fan controller yesterday. Should be able to get it in this weekend. Another note on the tranny thing. I was wondering how I lost the cover in the first place. There is supposed to be a wire retainer clip thingy for it. Looking through the old pics, mine was missing. Maybe it never had it. I've never taken it off as far as I can remember. Never had a need to. They are kinda pressed in tight, but mine obviously worked its way out. Pic from about 5 years ago... 
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05-22-2015, 08:09 PM
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Good luck finding an acerage. That's what we wanted and still do. It'll have to wait though.....
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And I have been getting things done on the truck. Time to post the evidence. Last weekend I did get the radiator mounted. The new one is just a bit thinner than the 4 core I took out. It's about 1/4" thinner in the rubber mounts.   It also is about 1/4" taller in the mounts. I don't think the radiator itself is any taller. Its just how it's built where it sits in the mounts. To get it down a bit I cut an edge off the rubbers...  If you don't have a fan shroud like me (and you don't) I doubt there would be any issues using the OEM mounts and clamping it down. With just a little trimming I could get my shroud over it ok.  Shroud on...   The next job was the new fan controller. I didn't mount it in the vehicle like the instructions say and I hope that doesn't bite me in the ass later but it also said not to mount it near any of the computers or other electronics. So that didn't leave me many options. I will try to make a cover for it but I'm not too worried about it getting wet where I mounted it.  I needed to change how the bottom of the fan shroud was held in place and came up with a simple solution. Just a ell bracket that mounts to the bottom of the radiator support. A few screws and it should be good.  Mounted. Needs a touch of paint and a couple more screws into the shroud itself.  Need to clean up the wiring a bit and make a cover, but it's in and works as designed. I let it run for about an hour. Mostly just sitting in the driveway and just a couple blocks of driving around. It never went past mid way on the temp gauge. The fans will run for a couple minutes after you shut off the engine and thats long enough to cool the radiator down. It really seems to transfer the heat fast. Of course the real test is on the road and thats coming Saturday. Something else on my hit list was replacing a couple U bolts on the lower control arms. When I rebuilt the front suspension last year I cross threaded one and had to buy a replacement. The new ones were a lot beefier than the OEM parts and only cost about $6 I think. So I bought another pair for the other side...  Tonight I got started on replacing the blinker switch in the steering column. Total PITA but it needed to be done. The new part is installed but I need to finish the electrical part. I have a few helpful tips I figured out doing it and will share those on my next post. Whats left is to finish the blinker switch, maybe see if I can make the horn work like it's supposed to, if I have time I'd like to swap the tach with the new one I have, change the oil, pack and go. On a side note, I bought another crew cab. A 4x4 this time. I'll post something up on that soon too. But it's late and I have to work tomorrow so have a good night everyone.
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06-02-2015, 08:28 AM
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Looks like a good fit on the radiator. You should be about ready to power tour not huh....
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06-02-2015, 05:54 PM
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06-02-2015, 09:12 PM
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Nice work on the radiator, and cool to hear you got a 4x4 crew cab now too!
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    I've seen this truck before at my sisters place. It belongs to a friend of hers. I had no idea the guy was interested in selling it. If I had I would have got this one instead of the brown one. It's a 1982 C-30, that has a 78 front end (all new parts). It was originally a dually 2wd, but he converted it to 4wd with parts from an 82 K-20. It has a 454 and 4 spd manual tranny, NP205 transfercase, Dana 44 front and 60 rear. I'm not getting the truck as seen in the picks. It has a 6" suspension lift and 3" body lift. The wheels are 16.5" with 38" bias ply mudders on them. He wants the wheels and since they are the 16.5" I'm fine with that. The bed has rust in the cross sills but he is swapping another bed onto it that is mostly rust free and has a good tailgate. He will remove the body lift (I don't need it). The steering was scary loose and he will be replacing some of the worn parts and changing the oil for me. It also comes with 2 good GM front doors. It will need rear doors, rockers, cab corners and a couple floor patches. Also will need the clutch replaced but it didn't slip much when I drove it. The brown one will be for sale as soon as I get back from power tour. Today I finished the steering column up. I got the wires run, except for the power to the shift indicator. I even got the horn working! I was noticing that the idle didn't always get down to where it should and I lost the spring for the throttle return. So I made a bracket and got a new spring in there. I got the other 2 screws in the shroud bracket. Here's a tip for doing the blinker switch. The wire harness with the plug will not fit through the column assembled. You need to pull the terminals out of the plug. It took me a few minutes to figure it out but there are a couple little tangs, one on each side that you need to bend in. I used a dental pick to do it. The terminal slides right out once they are bent in.  The wire for the shift indicator needs the plug removed also. It has one tang on the back side.  My mess yesterday. I figured if I didn't get it back together I would just use a visegrips to steer and use hand signals.  I also remembered that I bought a new shift indicator piece a few years ago and wanted to get it in since I had it all apart anyway.  But my shifter is not lining up as it should. It's too far to the left. Need to figure out how to fix that eventually. It's all back together and working good though. Still need to do the oil change and I was thinking during my drive back from the girlfriends place that I should check the rear diff oil too. A wash and wax and rain X on the glass and it's good to go. Still might do the tach replacement if I have time. And for those that may have forgot or didn't know, I'm getting this car tomorrow. FINALLY! After about 2 years or more of knowing about it and over a year of talking to the owner. It's a 46 or 47 Olds Series 78 Dynamic Cruiser Club Sedan. He's hauling it to my place tomorrow morning and taking my 79 Mazda RX-7. I get some cash in the deal also.   After I finish up the Jimmy (which has been on hold cuz of everything else I've been doing) the olds is next on the project list. As of now, my plan is to get a denali XL or escalade with the AWD and single speed transfer case and use it as a donor for the complete chassis and drop the olds body on it. Will it work? I'll find out eventually. Thanks for reading. Good night.
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06-03-2015, 09:11 AM
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I've spent the last day reading through your thread, the title and story behind the truck is similar to mine so I was hooked at post one. What an awesome read, the truck turned out great. I learned a bunch from your trials and triumphs and will surely reference your thread again when I get in a pinch. Thanks again for taking the time to update the thread through the years, these truck projects can be overwhelming at times when we do them as hobbies between a daily job, family time and life in general. Seeing how you stuck with it over the years to the finish helps those of us just getting started on a complete tear down.
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Tonight I got the new tach installed. The only thing left on the dash/column work is to look at a wiring diagram so I can plug in the shift indicator light. Everything seems to be working good. Glad I checked the rear diff oil though. It was a pint low. It's about ready to go. Now I just gotta get myself and the boy ready. The olds didn't make it here today. Mechanical issues with the tow rig. Should be here in the morning. Here are a few more pics of it from when I looked at it way back when.
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06-04-2015, 12:33 AM
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06-06-2015, 09:54 AM
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Hitting the road.
Our Lady of blessed Acceleration don't fail me now.
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I like that Olds! Very nice aquisition.
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That's very cool old Oldsmobile! Nice score on the crew cab too.
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06-04-2015, 07:49 PM
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That olds will be so cool! It doesn't look horribly roted out either. Nice score on the 4x4 crew cab too!
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Hope your land deal works out. You need it for your car lot.
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Not much done to the truck today. PLugged the wire in for the shift indicator, worked on sealing up windshield leaks and door gasket leaks. The weather forecast pretty much shows rain every day at each venue. Might as well minimize the amount of moisture that is getting inside. I drove it to a small local cruise night and everything seems to be great. I'll try and post stuff during the trip. I have a better phone now for doing things like that. I really need this break from work.
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Have a safe and great trip! I'm sure you'll snap some pics a time or two too.
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Alright. I'm gonna try and get started posted some picks from hot rod power tour 2015. I'm also going to invite anyone interested to look me up on fb if you want. I have a lot of picks posted there too. Michael Wells in Sleepy Eye MN.
Made it to Madison, WI with no issues. One of the first vehicles we saw was one of at least 3 busses that were making the trip. They were really set up for the long haul...      They even brought a couple pit bikes...   Here's another big rig making the trip. It might have been carrying another car but I never saw it loaded...    One of my favorites from last year was there with kicker again. I really love this car and maybe I can emulate some of the style into my olds...     A beauty from Rad rides by Troy...     I don't think this made the trip but was just there for the day...  My son is a huge fan of hot rods roadkill so he was pretty excited to see this rolling through...  I have more pics, but not uploaded yet, from the first day. Here are a few shots from cars at the hotel that night. This bug roadster was badass. I think they did the long haul too.            That's all I have time for tonight. I got a lot going on right now and eventually I'll get it all on here.
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Sweet! Keep posting pics of the Power Tour for those of us who can't make it. I am a huge fan of Roadkill too, to it is cool to see a sneak peak of what a future episode holds.
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I apologize for not posting much lately. Been busy. Trying to buy a new place and buying and selling other trucks, etc. Anyway, here's some pics from the tour.
Not part of the power tour, but available for other tours...  The Mississippi River north of La Crosse  The boy got to meet his beater idols...  At the event  Some pics from the road...     I'm not a silver back gorilla, more of a silver chinned one...  I love finding the weird stuff...     This 2 tone was kinda unique I think because the white was more of a cream color. Nice truck...   Loved it...   One of the nicest K-5s on the tour...    One of my favorites...   My dream car...   
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More trucks. I really think there were a lot more 67-72 C-10's this year than last. Lots of really nice trucks and ones I didn't see last year.
 Well supplied. The advantage of driving a wagon on a road trip...     Surprise...       I talked to the owner of this one for quite awhile. He had some good stories.  I used to think these were ugly but compared to a nissan cube they are beauties...  This next one was a monster. Built on a dodge truck frame using hudson bodies (I think). Took the guy years to build it. Definitely different and got a lot of attention...      
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