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Re: How to: Ruin a perfectly good C10
Awesome progress Chris! Everything looks great!
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Thanks a lot! This snowball is really gaining some speed ![]() You got it, super simple mod. Almost too easy...
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Re: How to: Ruin a perfectly good C10
Well, I just finished reading all 61 pages and I have gotta say... I really dig this truck!!! Looking forward to seeing it heading towards reassembly.
And, I had a PK Ripper back in the day (someone broke into our house and stole nothing but it out of my bedroom ![]() |
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I had a similar experience with my Hutch “lawsuit” bike. Pretty sure it was one of my asshat “friends” that made off with it. I loved that bike and the PK, but this Big Ripper is great for cruising with the kids. I have been eye-balling the Hutch re-release XL26, though...
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Re: How to: Ruin a perfectly good C10
I was always a Redline guy, I had several Haro Masters too. I used to be on a freestyle team actually..
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Re: How to: Ruin a perfectly good C10
Haro, Redline, Hutch, Diamond back man that brings back some memories!
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Re: How to: Ruin a perfectly good C10
A few years ago...
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Re: How to: Ruin a perfectly good C10
Minor progress this weekend, got the square nuts welded in for the high-hump and temp installed it. Loads more clearance! It may need to come out again for trans and shifter install and will receive a coat of sealer when it gets bolted down for the last time.
Also patched the inner-inner cowl (upper firewall?) panel, which had a bunch of pinholes and some larger rot. All clean metal now and coated in POR-15 semi-gloss ![]() The infanti (eBay) firewall shave panels seem to fit well, but the blower hole in the new cowl is WAY off. No worries, the cowl panel will need a fair amount of work before install. The fit is actually really good, but it requires some cosmetic repairs, in my opinion ![]()
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Truck is coming along awesome!!
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and I’m quite sure I know which di€kweed ‘friend’ aquired my Ripper. For my grown up bike, I have a 26” Specialized A-1 Competition Mountain bike (one of there first full suspension bikes). Last edited by nlped; 01-16-2018 at 11:13 PM. |
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Re: How to: Ruin a perfectly good C10
Yep. 24" Supercross with a ton of AtomLab parts, sold it though. Still have a 20" Supercross MXP park/dirt bike. I really loved to ride BMX. Local track and skate park closed so bike just sits now.
Me riding the quarter pipe at the skate park in Tallahassee. Me (white shirt) with Greg Hill during a seminar at our local track quite a few years ago. The 20" jump bike. ...sorry for cluttering up your thread.
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Re: How to: Ruin a perfectly good C10
Thanks! Hit a little bit of a roadblock today. Tried fitting an American Racing VN215 and the bore is too small to fit my Kore3 front brakes... Guess new wheels will have to wait for another time
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Re: How to: Ruin a perfectly good C10
Ok, back to trucks. Made some progress stripping and shaving the firewall. Welded all of the unneeded small holes and the heater pass-through closed. The plan is for a ‘mild’ shave, which will retain the essentials and keep a somewhat stock but custom feel. We’ll see how it goes...
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Re: How to: Ruin a perfectly good C10
Sa-mooooooth(ish)... all of the holes are filled. Waiting for my corner piece to arrive from an eBay seller before I call it done and ready for body work. In the meantime, the cowl panel needs some love before install
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Re: How to: Ruin a perfectly good C10
The firewall looks great. That re-pop cowl looks a bit wrinkly in the corners, I'm assuming that's where you are going to be focusing your "love"?
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Re: How to: Ruin a perfectly good C10
Looking good! Im liking the cleaned up firewall.
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I spent some time today welding the three pieces of the cowl panel together as well as filling the blower hole. It still needs a bit more lovin’ before installation, but we’re getting closer Thanks! I’m kinda digging it, too
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Re: How to: Ruin a perfectly good C10
Firewall “smoothish” looks good!
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Re: How to: Ruin a perfectly good C10
Thanks, Keith! I’m ready to close the door on this and get back to the fun stuff
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Re: How to: Ruin a perfectly good C10
Is there anything you can do to make the cowl fit better? I'm finding there is like a 1/4" keeping it from sitting flush around the curved areas. Just curious what you did in these areas.
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Re: How to: Ruin a perfectly good C10
I got it fitting pretty decent after quite a bit of massaging the flanges, trimming the inner structures, and eliminating the overlaps where the multiple pieces are spot welded together. My technique is to get it in place, then trim and hammer as needed to bend it to my will. Multiple installations and removals. Body hammers on the flanges and brute force. Self-drilling #10 screws also help to pull things into place (and hold it in place while I continued to hammer and plug weld). It would be fully installed now if I hadn’t run out of shielding gas...
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Looking good! I kinda wish I would have pulled my cowl apart now.
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