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Re: 1972 Chevy 4wd Longhorn Project: Never Ending Changes
Well, lost TOTM to a pretty nice SWB.
 Thanks Meatwagon83 for nominating the truck! Anyhow, I took last Friday off to get some badly needed work done to the pumpkin truck. I didn't get any drive time in the 72 this weekend. About the middle of last week my daily driver, 98.5 dodge 2wd 2500 with a 24v 5.9, 5 speed with 470k on it, started having issues with the fuel pressure. I limped it for 3 days back and forth to work. I decided the first day that Friday I would be taking off to work on the 72 to hopefully get it longer distance drive able. My heater core was leaking and I unhooked it, I never took the time to install any of the heater ducts, control cables, and never wiried in the hvac circuit when I installed the new aaw harness. (Those punks don't include the hvac harness in the new harness assembly. Really??) Also, my ford project I've been working on has been one pain in the ass right after another. The block is back at the machine shop and may need line bored. Apparently 7.3psd blocks tend to move when arp main studs are installed. I also found conflicting info about the switch from powdered metal rods to forged and decided just to have the bottom end balanced to prevent any early failures or issues. So, now that project is on hold-ish, I finally got a 12v cummins block and crank back from the machine shop. It is a full rebuild that I need to have done by October 16th. I also have a 24v at the machine shop that should be done mid week. Then I need to put that back together. My wife thinks I have a crank problem. I swear they're not all mine! I knew my time was going to be very little to work on the my truck and with the Dodge on it's last leg, I knew I had to get work done on the 72. I've had some led bulbs and a new RH head light housing, since it cracked, setting on the table for a while. (LED in LH head light in pic for comparison to standard bulb) I got all that installed. I got the heater core replaced, installed a new blower motor, and started working on more wiring. I had all the wiring ran from under the dash up to the cargo lamp, but never finished hooking all that up. I was lacking a cargo lamp switch at the time I did that work. I had one, I just couldn't find it. So I ordered a new one. Yeah, I found the other one after the 2nd new one showed up. Haha Now I have an operational cargo lamp, 3rd brake light, I finally wired the gauge lights in for the dakota digital cluster, got 1 light wired in for the hvac control head, and wired in the hvac circuit. Who guessed all day Friday would not be enough time to get all that done? I had to go drive semi on Saturday. I got to work on it Sunday evening about 2 hours.
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Ryan 1972 Chevy Longhorn K30 Cheyenne Super, 359 Inline 6 cylinder, Auto Trans, Tilt, Diesel Tach/Vach, Buckets, Rare Rear 4-link and air ride option Build Thread 1972 GMC Sierra Grande Longhorn 4x4 1972 Chevy Cheyenne Super K20 Long Step side tilt, tach, tow hooks, AC, 350 4 speed 1972 C10 Suburban Custom Deluxe 1969 Chevy milk truck 1971 Camaro RS 5.3 BTR STG3 Cam Super T10 1940 Ford 354 Hemi 46RH Ford 9" on air ride huge project Tired of spark plugs? Check this out. Last edited by Dieselwrencher; 10-03-2016 at 08:51 PM. |
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10-03-2016, 07:27 PM
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Re: 1972 Chevy 4wd Longhorn Project: Never Ending Changes
On Sundays are my daughter's soccer games. She has a lot of fun and I'm trying not to miss any if I don't have to. She has the pink socks on in the pic. They don't keep score, but they all have a blast.
 Today, before I went to work, I got the heater duct work installed, re-installed my RH inner fender, and started installing new flexible duct work under the dash. I need to install 3 more sensors and modules for the DD cluster. I'd like to install my gps speedo as well but I don't know what I did with it. Hopefully this week I can drive it to work at least once. But, I still need to install my Boyd welding tank, and finish my bed floor patch panel. Never enough time. 
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Ryan 1972 Chevy Longhorn K30 Cheyenne Super, 359 Inline 6 cylinder, Auto Trans, Tilt, Diesel Tach/Vach, Buckets, Rare Rear 4-link and air ride option Build Thread 1972 GMC Sierra Grande Longhorn 4x4 1972 Chevy Cheyenne Super K20 Long Step side tilt, tach, tow hooks, AC, 350 4 speed 1972 C10 Suburban Custom Deluxe 1969 Chevy milk truck 1971 Camaro RS 5.3 BTR STG3 Cam Super T10 1940 Ford 354 Hemi 46RH Ford 9" on air ride huge project Tired of spark plugs? Check this out. |
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10-03-2016, 11:56 PM
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Re: 1972 Chevy 4wd Longhorn Project: Never Ending Changes
Friday may not be long enough to get all that done, but wow you did do a lot. Funny when your at work fridays take forever to end, at home never long enough. Block looks good.
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10-04-2016, 02:55 PM
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Ryan 1972 Chevy Longhorn K30 Cheyenne Super, 359 Inline 6 cylinder, Auto Trans, Tilt, Diesel Tach/Vach, Buckets, Rare Rear 4-link and air ride option Build Thread 1972 GMC Sierra Grande Longhorn 4x4 1972 Chevy Cheyenne Super K20 Long Step side tilt, tach, tow hooks, AC, 350 4 speed 1972 C10 Suburban Custom Deluxe 1969 Chevy milk truck 1971 Camaro RS 5.3 BTR STG3 Cam Super T10 1940 Ford 354 Hemi 46RH Ford 9" on air ride huge project Tired of spark plugs? Check this out. |
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10-03-2016, 11:24 PM
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Re: 1972 Chevy 4wd Longhorn Project: Never Ending Changes
Glad to hear you have been able to work on it! Does your third brake light happen to be a kit or is it something that you made?
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10-04-2016, 02:52 PM
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Re: 1972 Chevy 4wd Longhorn Project: Never Ending Changes
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**On edit, I found the pics of it.**
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Ryan 1972 Chevy Longhorn K30 Cheyenne Super, 359 Inline 6 cylinder, Auto Trans, Tilt, Diesel Tach/Vach, Buckets, Rare Rear 4-link and air ride option Build Thread 1972 GMC Sierra Grande Longhorn 4x4 1972 Chevy Cheyenne Super K20 Long Step side tilt, tach, tow hooks, AC, 350 4 speed 1972 C10 Suburban Custom Deluxe 1969 Chevy milk truck 1971 Camaro RS 5.3 BTR STG3 Cam Super T10 1940 Ford 354 Hemi 46RH Ford 9" on air ride huge project Tired of spark plugs? Check this out. Last edited by Dieselwrencher; 10-04-2016 at 03:07 PM. |
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10-04-2016, 03:26 PM
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Re: 1972 Chevy 4wd Longhorn Project: Never Ending Changes
prolly could solder sumtin together using protoboard and some wiring if those led light things dont fit the housing
  seen people break stock fittings of lightbulbs and soder a bleu led with a resistor in series to that
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i got a job again and having fun at it too idea's for the trucks and the order of things to do are taking shape and get closer to being realized , a few more months and i be able to start building for real i complete 2 of the trucks intoo running fashion one custom and one basicly stock the thirth will be sacrificed for parts |
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10-07-2016, 08:31 PM
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Re: 1972 Chevy 4wd Longhorn Project: Never Ending Changes
I haven't had any time to touch the truck the rest of this week. Today my sons were out with me and were wanting to help out. So I gave them their new flash lights. Then I look out and see both of them under the longhorn. Then the youngest comes in the garage and asks for some paper towels. he wanted to clean under the truck. I said have at it!
It looks like I have 2 truck nuts for sure.
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Ryan 1972 Chevy Longhorn K30 Cheyenne Super, 359 Inline 6 cylinder, Auto Trans, Tilt, Diesel Tach/Vach, Buckets, Rare Rear 4-link and air ride option Build Thread 1972 GMC Sierra Grande Longhorn 4x4 1972 Chevy Cheyenne Super K20 Long Step side tilt, tach, tow hooks, AC, 350 4 speed 1972 C10 Suburban Custom Deluxe 1969 Chevy milk truck 1971 Camaro RS 5.3 BTR STG3 Cam Super T10 1940 Ford 354 Hemi 46RH Ford 9" on air ride huge project Tired of spark plugs? Check this out. |
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10-10-2016, 11:20 AM
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10-10-2016, 01:50 PM
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Re: 1972 Chevy 4wd Longhorn Project: Never Ending Changes
That's quite the crew!
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10-11-2016, 05:57 PM
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Re: 1972 Chevy 4wd Longhorn Project: Never Ending Changes
They will probably end up with more dirt on them than the paper towels but they will love it.
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10-10-2016, 12:43 AM
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Re: 1972 Chevy 4wd Longhorn Project: Never Ending Changes
Haha awesome, you know you're doing a great job!
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10-26-2016, 09:59 PM
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Re: 1972 Chevy 4wd Longhorn Project: Never Ending Changes
I got enough done on it that I have been driving it some. The trans controller has to be sent back and reprogrammed. For some strange reason at slow speeds, the controller says it's seeing 50-67mph wheel speed when the gps says 10-15mph and tries to lock the torque converter. Not cool. I took it off and installed some toggles switches. I still have plenty to do to it but I have too much other work to do too.
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Ryan 1972 Chevy Longhorn K30 Cheyenne Super, 359 Inline 6 cylinder, Auto Trans, Tilt, Diesel Tach/Vach, Buckets, Rare Rear 4-link and air ride option Build Thread 1972 GMC Sierra Grande Longhorn 4x4 1972 Chevy Cheyenne Super K20 Long Step side tilt, tach, tow hooks, AC, 350 4 speed 1972 C10 Suburban Custom Deluxe 1969 Chevy milk truck 1971 Camaro RS 5.3 BTR STG3 Cam Super T10 1940 Ford 354 Hemi 46RH Ford 9" on air ride huge project Tired of spark plugs? Check this out. |
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10-27-2016, 08:16 AM
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Re: 1972 Chevy 4wd Longhorn Project: Never Ending Changes
Nice looking engine Ryan!
I have a little 3 cylinder Long tractor engine you can rebuild next
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10-27-2016, 03:51 PM
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 I have a 24v 5.9 I'm doing now, then a 7.3PSD. Been a crazy year.
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Ryan 1972 Chevy Longhorn K30 Cheyenne Super, 359 Inline 6 cylinder, Auto Trans, Tilt, Diesel Tach/Vach, Buckets, Rare Rear 4-link and air ride option Build Thread 1972 GMC Sierra Grande Longhorn 4x4 1972 Chevy Cheyenne Super K20 Long Step side tilt, tach, tow hooks, AC, 350 4 speed 1972 C10 Suburban Custom Deluxe 1969 Chevy milk truck 1971 Camaro RS 5.3 BTR STG3 Cam Super T10 1940 Ford 354 Hemi 46RH Ford 9" on air ride huge project Tired of spark plugs? Check this out. |
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11-02-2016, 04:50 PM
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Re: 1972 Chevy 4wd Longhorn Project: Never Ending Changes
I've been daily driving this for a week now. I've put 500 miles on it and it is getting 16.8-17.5mpg. No real issues so far. The lower coolant tube was leaking Monday, and I have a weird thing going on with the RH turn indicator on the DD cluster. I'm not sure if it is the flasher or what yet. It runs really good. I had a Dodge that wanted to play last Friday but he didn't have enough. This truck will be a ticket getter. I need to get the cruise control put on it.
Here are some pics of it from this past weekend.
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Ryan 1972 Chevy Longhorn K30 Cheyenne Super, 359 Inline 6 cylinder, Auto Trans, Tilt, Diesel Tach/Vach, Buckets, Rare Rear 4-link and air ride option Build Thread 1972 GMC Sierra Grande Longhorn 4x4 1972 Chevy Cheyenne Super K20 Long Step side tilt, tach, tow hooks, AC, 350 4 speed 1972 C10 Suburban Custom Deluxe 1969 Chevy milk truck 1971 Camaro RS 5.3 BTR STG3 Cam Super T10 1940 Ford 354 Hemi 46RH Ford 9" on air ride huge project Tired of spark plugs? Check this out. |
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11-03-2016, 08:13 AM
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Re: 1972 Chevy 4wd Longhorn Project: Never Ending Changes
Killer pictures Ryan! your truck looks right at home on the farm.
thanks for sharing |
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11-03-2016, 08:45 AM
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Re: 1972 Chevy 4wd Longhorn Project: Never Ending Changes
killer shots ryan , truck looks really good,
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11-03-2016, 03:54 PM
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Re: 1972 Chevy 4wd Longhorn Project: Never Ending Changes
Love the pic's.
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11-03-2016, 06:17 PM
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Re: 1972 Chevy 4wd Longhorn Project: Never Ending Changes
Thanks guys. I've been using it as a truck lately too. Hauling a new to me cabinet, scrap, and even a 7.3 psd block. no, it wasn't scrap!
I hauled 10 mounted semi wheels and tires too. Those were work putting in the bed.
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11-03-2016, 08:32 PM
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Re: 1972 Chevy 4wd Longhorn Project: Never Ending Changes
Man this thing is sweet, nice pictures!
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11-04-2016, 09:06 PM
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Here's a pic of the 24v I'm building now. It is a beast. Colt Stage 4 cam, ported and polished head, ARP rod bolts, and head studs, 160hp tuned P-pump with a 4k kit, 7x.010 injectors, and a pusher intake. When the owner can swing a better turbo, it'll be an animal. I finally got around to installing my license plate lights. I'm satisfied with these other than the wires are ultra thin. You have to be real careful hooking them up. I got them from LMC if you're looking for some.
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11-07-2016, 09:43 AM
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Re: 1972 Chevy 4wd Longhorn Project: Never Ending Changes
Nice lights! The LED light I used had like a 32 gage wire I don't even think there was 2 strands, they could use slightly stronger wire.
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11-08-2016, 12:02 PM
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Re: 1972 Chevy 4wd Longhorn Project: Never Ending Changes
Kool B&W's Ryan!
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11-08-2016, 06:33 PM
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Re: 1972 Chevy 4wd Longhorn Project: Never Ending Changes
Awesome. Looks fantastic!
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