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Last night, my buddy at Jacob Carroll Photography loaded up and got some shots of the truck around Portland. The truck never missed a beat, temp stayed fine even with all of the idling and slower cruising looking for spots. He sure has an awesome eye for pictures, this shot was taken down in the industrial area and I love how it turned out |
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06-28-2017, 08:42 AM | #2 |
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I hate you now...
Just kidding, that stance is perfect! Now that you are driving it more with this current set up, how do you like that Uni-Steer Rack set up? I looked back thru the thread, but I never saw what you did for the rear shock relocation, what did you end up doing?
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I haven't done anything with the rear shocks yet and I really don't have the harsh ride that I've heard about. I have the No Limit relocation kit but ran out of time to get them on before exhaust and now the exhaust runs right where the shock would be. I may look at the CPP kit but I don't know yet. |
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06-29-2017, 12:08 PM | #4 |
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So on the wheels, Front: 18×8″ – (4.5” Backspace)?
Rear: 18×9″ – (5″ Backspace)? http://classicwheeldeals.com/product...lug-truck-5x5/
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06-29-2017, 01:54 PM | #5 |
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18x9s all around with 5" of backspace or a 0 offset. The rear was actually the gating factor on my pickup because of the stepside.
I picked em up through here, came out to $575 shipped for me https://onlinewheelsdirect.com/rev-4691.html |
06-29-2017, 02:22 PM | #6 |
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Oh wow I think I found my wheels - Rev makes Chromed five spokes.
If I went with an 8 inch in front instead of nine (which I want) I'm going to have to do some tire and offset adjustment probably right? Wait that would just be 1/2" narrower on the front and back side right? (at zero offset) I can live with that.
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06-29-2017, 02:56 PM | #7 |
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With my old rally wheels, they were a 15x8 with 4" of backspacing so going to the 9" wheel and 5" backspace, the outside of the tire remained in the same spot and the inside of the tire moved in an inch. I would expect yours to be the same, the outsides of the tire will be at the same point but the insides would not be.
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Cool cause I'm thinking 245/45-18's in front would work for a 8 inch wide tire just fine.
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Sounds like that will work awesome
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Continue to always love this truck.
It photographs well, and looks great, as Bomp mentioned too.
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Hey scoot...on your old setup with the 292 and T5, what flywheel and starter were you using? I've got an 11" Astro clutch for my 250/T5 combo and it looks like it will only work with a 168 tooth flywheel which I think require a starter with offset bolt holes which my 250 doesn't have. Just trying to get it all sorted out. Thanks!
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07-05-2017, 12:13 AM | #12 |
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I used a 168 tooth flywheel and a starter for a 168 tooth flywheel. My 292 was a crate motor so maybe it had the right starter mounts but I'd imagine yours should have both options to bolt to.
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Ok cool, thanks. I've got a 292 that the flywheel came off of but I coulda sworn it wasn't drilled for the offset starter and my 250 wasn't either. I could be losing my mind though so I'll go back and check
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Nice save. Bumps and bruises, part of enjoying the truck.
For years my dad has wrestled his trailer ramps, I built my tilt bed trailer. Have never smashed a finger or had a ramp slid or fall. |
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I was thinking about a tilt deck trailer, would make loading this thing a walk in the park. I will be looking at longer ramps or an extension since this will occasionally be on a trailer and I don't want it to be a huge production like it was yesterday. Loading and unloading at the house is great since my driveway has a slope to it so I can back the trailer up so the ramps are flat. Lucky for me it doesn't spend a lot of time on the trailer
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Are we related? That looks like something that would happen to me!
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Tinkered with the truck a bit on Saturday, fixed my power steering leak, exhaust leak and also figured out why the clutch started acting up again. Between the C10 and my Jeep, I've got full weekends of wrenching . I headed over to a buddy's house yesterday to see what they have been up to and decided to throw my GoPro in the pickup. The good parts are at 5:00 and 11:00 for those that want to skip ahead. Enjoy! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbLgVYLSQhA |
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Finally got the old girl on the autocross track yesterday and I gotta say that I'm absolutely hooked! I was real nervous going in since I hadn't ever done an autocross before and I wasn't sure how the truck was going to do. Everyone was real supportive and happy to lend a hand when I needed it so the nerves went away quickly. We got 8 runs in and I was improving during my first 5 laps with the 5th lap being my best. For 6 and 7, my dad was riding with me and I slowed down a bit and then for the 8th lap, I beat myself and drove all wrong but was still pretty fast. For a simple suspension build on a 51 year old truck, I can't complain about anything, it was just way too much fun!
Here's a video from my fastest lap, it seemed like a lot longer when I was driving https://youtu.be/LOvkHTF_u-A |
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I've been keeping an eye out for a new cab with a big back window for some time now and I looked at a couple cabs with small windows that were better and worse than what I have at the same time. A big window cab popped up at a wrecking yard a couple hours away from the house so dad and I loaded up with the trailer and headed up Saturday morning with the intentions of bringing the whole cab back. Turns out, a guy has been looking at the cab for 3 weeks and beat us out by like 10 minutes, dangit! Overall, that cab was way more gone than what I had and he just wanted the big window panel. Feeling bummed, dad and I walked the yard in search of another big window cab that I saw in their inventory list the night before. We found it and the cab was untouched. Since it was a knee-knocker cab, I was only interested in the back of the cab so we went to work cutting the cab up. Pretty excited to add this to the list of winter projects this year
Dad starting the cuts at the roof Success! Felt like the trailer was a little overkill for this but we did head up with the intentions of bringing a whole cab back so I guess I had to use the trailer For the conversion, I will be cutting the interior panels out of each cab and spot welding the big panel onto my cab. That process looks to be pretty straightforward with minimal paint damage |
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I started this process recently also. Something I did notice when drilling spot welds on the inside of the panel, the outside panel isn't cut flush with the inside panel. I haven't put a ruler on it yet , but I'd guess it's 1/8 to 3/16 difference in some areas. I'm going to make a pattern of mine before I take it apart to make sure and transfer the opening to my truck so the glass fits right. I read something not long ago about a guy who cut his out and his glass was "loose" as he described it. That makes me wonder if it the outer panel needs that little extra length.
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Hit up another autocross yesterday, I'm very happy with how it does out there. I do have a list of things to fix this winter and maybe before then. I need a bigger sway bar and/or stiffer springs up front, the open diff is killing me, the steering isn't up to snuff, the bench seat is less than ideal and my anti-squat is all jacked up so I can't really put any power down in the corners. I'm going to see if I can swing a new front sway bar before the next event in September but the rest will come later.
My second lap, I decided to see what the threshold was for the crossover. Carried too much speed and well you'll see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWeNC8rFHX8 My best and last lap, ran a 42.815 which for the bumpy course, I was stoked to hit! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UmdmEzzpEY |
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Beat on the old girl pretty hard over the weekend with two autocross events, this thing is so much fun! I'm starting the winter upgrade list to get it to handle better and get it more competitive on the autocross course with the teardown coming soon. First thing will be to buy the Porterbuilt adjustable trailing arm crossmember so I can get proper traction to the rear tires and then a lot of little things to help the front suspension out.
Fastest test and tune lap https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lylr5cBSBH0 Fastest autocross lap https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuNJmnnYO08 Instructor lap https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WM-TOka5jlw |
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