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Re: How to: Ruin a perfectly good C10
You have to be itching to get started.The suspense is getting to me and it's not my build!
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Re: How to: Ruin a perfectly good C10
Are you now going to have to raise the bed floor ?
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Re: How to: Ruin a perfectly good C10
No doubt--I've now found shelf space for it all, but it took some doing. Not sure where I'll put the rest when it arrives
Hoping it's just a winter project, but we know how these things go... Quote:
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Re: How to: Ruin a perfectly good C10
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Re: How to: Ruin a perfectly good C10
Bueller?... Bueller?... Bueller?...
You have to have something to show us by now... You don't want the natives getting restless, do you? ![]()
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Re: How to: Ruin a perfectly good C10
I think we are all getting restless waiting to hear some news!! Even if it is just saying you have been too busy to work on your truck with your wife's car being a priority
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Re: How to: Ruin a perfectly good C10
Any updates?
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Re: How to: Ruin a perfectly good C10
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Re: How to: Ruin a perfectly good C10
Here's what the suspension looks like out of the boxes. It's all been to powder since, but no pics of that
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Re: How to: Ruin a perfectly good C10
I thought you had gone with an air setup. I can't wait to see how it sits with an extreme coil-over!!!
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Re: How to: Ruin a perfectly good C10
Yay new parts!
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Re: How to: Ruin a perfectly good C10
You ever need a hand in the garage, let me know. Eagerly waiting to see the next round of changes.
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Re: How to: Ruin a perfectly good C10
Hey! I offered help! Lol actually, to be honest, equal amounts of help and envy...
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Re: How to: Ruin a perfectly good C10
47 pages deep and the project has a long way to go! Wow. I am impressed. I am looking forward to seeing this through. My goal is an extreme coilover drop on mine as well. Good work bud.
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Re: How to: Ruin a perfectly good C10
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Started assembling the porterbuilt bits. They are powdercoated in a color called evo grey that is matte metallic and flips from silver to almost black, depending on the lighting. I like it!
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Re: How to: Ruin a perfectly good C10
Oh, and I nabbed this complete running 5.3 yesterday for $350. Thinking I may swap it in while the truck is apart. Adds to the complexity, cost, and timeline. We'll see...
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Re: How to: Ruin a perfectly good C10
Nice score on the 5.3, I like the color of the powder coated parts too!
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I don't need much encouragement, haha. Already looking at swap parts. Slippery slope, I tell ya...
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Re: How to: Ruin a perfectly good C10
Congrats!!!!
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Re: How to: Ruin a perfectly good C10
really if you have all of the right swap parts it will only add an extra day of work (excluding wiring). There is so much out there now with all of the conversions done, that everything, with maybe excluding a wiring harness, can be bought and make for a plug and play swap. The harness could be done in a solid day with no interruptions, and you don't get easily distracted like I do LOL.
If I was you, I would collect all of the parts, and build everything you know you can with the truck apart. Like the battery tray that will need to be moved onto the driver's side. I would probably even start working on the wiring harness and do as much as you can before the truck is torn down. That way the truck is down for as little of time as possible. Just my personal thoughts here.
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Re: How to: Ruin a perfectly good C10
Thanks, I couldn't say no
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Re: How to: Ruin a perfectly good C10
Nice to see the steam building up on this project again! It gets me motivated to get to the garage and work on mine!
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