My 88 Silverado

[Ricky78045]

The First picture is the truck back in 2006, had the truck painted "professionally" and got a barely passable paint job. Non the less I love my truck and in this thread I'll go about sharing some pics and builds on my truck. Comments and suggestions would be appreciated.

[Ricky78045]

The SS bowtie was the first thing I changed.

[benoit454]

I like them wheels got a set outside in 14 inch version for gm cars and s-10's.

[Ricky78045]

i love em my dad bought them for me a long time ago, although I am going to put the stock rims back on, maybe paint them black, with the chrome beauty ring

[benoit454]

aaww man no way I'd leave them on it for sure, if anything strip em, sand em, and polish em.

[Ricky78045]

we'll see what happens, hopefully i make the garage room to bring the truck and work on it here

[Ricky78045]

Been a while since I've done anything to the truck but I'm slowly getting it done lol. I had a transmission leak and a oil leak, have no clue where the oil leaks coming from yet, but i found the transmission pan had a missing bolt, I replaced the bolt that was missing and so far no more trans leak, i did find that most of the tranny bolts were loose so i tightened them a bit. i found this crack and missing bolt, dont know if this is bad, anyone got any input.

[benoit454]

that's your flexplate/flywheel dust cover and uses a bolt to hold it on. I don't see it being a big deal unless it rubs or something.

[Ricky78045]

Thanks Chris, no rubbing its just cracked and missing a screw there, by any chance do you know the size?

[benoit454]

sure don't, I saw it online once but I forget what it was.

[75ChevyGuy]

HEX (1/4-20X1/2) I believe thats the size for it. Thats what the GM EPC is telling me.

[Ricky78045]

Originally Posted by 75ChevyGuy

HEX (1/4-20X1/2) I believe thats the size for it. Thats what the GM EPC is telling me.

Thanks 75ChevyGuy! I should be heading to autozone soon and buy a couple of them.
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[75ChevyGuy]

Was that the right size for you?

[Ricky78045]

Yes it was, thanks 75chev, now a piece of mind my cover won't fly off and hit some motorist lol. Update: well I posted this in another thread but here it goes, my wife and I had problems with the stereo speakers, had to bang on the dash and the rear pillar to get some speakers to work... As annoyed we were, I decided to gut the radio and left everything hanging, my wife soldered and "harnessed" all the connections. We had some of that red wire loom you can find at autozone and decided to tape it on the wires, similar to what the stock tail lights look, making sure no wire is pinched or nicked when sliding the stereo in, I'll post some pics of it when I transfer the pics from the camera. Wife was in a soldering mood, so she also soldered my rear driver tail light harness, had to buy a junkyard comnector, the ground wire was cut close to the plug. Now my stereo sounds like new! All I need now is to put a fuse on my amp and get a proper battery terminal for the amp, its disconnected as I type to "save battery". I also had a horn problem thanks to my grant wheel. The shoulder bolts that hold the horn stripped or something... Now i need to find out ehat size they are to reinstall the horn button, that will be on for decoration since i installed a horn bypass button. Now I need to learn how to read a multi-meter and find a little nasty electrical gremlin... Lol some update :p
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[stealthy '69]

Pretty cool little rig! We all love interior and motor pics, post em up. I've always like the split headlight trucks.

[75ChevyGuy]

Any updates on this project?

[Ricky78045]

hey guys, i hope everyones thanksgiving went well! had some problems with my internet service, but im back up, some updates to the truck have been new stock taillight housings, bulbs and circuit boards fixed the front passenger headlight that went out.

[Ricky78045]

Hey guys heres one of my engine bay. the chrome trim was lifting and tearing on the top part of the grille. i was thinking about getting a paintable one and paint it black. i would like to paint the air filter canister with some rustoleum and paint some of the engine bay.

[Ricky78045]

Took the truck to a friend of my dads to install the aftermarket radio back in the early 90's i think. well a friend and i had messed around with it after to install a new one but we didnt know what we had done and "patched it up" as best we could. Well I had mentioned before my wife soldered all the radio connections, and here are a few before and after shots:

Before:




After:






The radio has worked perfectly since after getting the wires soldered.
I also installed an RCA AUX cable(not pictured yet) for the old pioneer to work with my iPhone 3g(glorified ipod).
In the current sub setup(wired just not powered), I have 2 10in polk audio subs(not sure on model) and a 1000 watt jensen amp. The reason its not powered is because the amp wiring i have is 10awg(had a 300watt before) and the fuse thats close to the battery is missing. i was going to upgrade the amp wiring to power the 1000watt. anyone have experience with sub amps and wiring? lol id like not to mess up the trucks electrical system due to lack of information or improper installation, cant trust the best buy here in my city... they do horrible jobs :|

[hotrod 80]

Looks great , a few links of heat shrink slid on before the excellent solder job would have worked also .

[Ricky78045]

Thanks hotrod, we kinda did this last minute, that was her first time soldering anything we tried it because there was a parasitic short somewhere and i had assumed it was the nasty patch job i did with the radio. we noticed the reverse light wouldnt light up on the driver side and the battery seemed to drain within 2 days, and found the tail light connector ground wire severed and exposed(as if it were to be yanked but most likely it was melted by the triple digit heat here in texas). so we went to the junk yard and found the connector with pigtails and we soldered the new tail connector. Luckily that seemed to stop the parasitic drain, must have been making contact with all those bumps on the roads.

Edit: We were thinking about upgrading the radio receiver to a newer one, wife liked the idea of heat shrinking the new soldered connectors for the new headunit. She said it would be a more professional install and make it a permanent addon.

[hotrod 80]

All my outside and exposed solder joints get a spot of dielectric grease before heating the heat shrink and squeezing it out to prevent corrsion . Nice build .

[Ricky78045]

Originally Posted by hotrod 80

All my outside and exposed solder joints get a spot of dielectric grease before heating the heat shrink and squeezing it out to prevent corrsion . Nice build .

thanks for the tips. i should do that to all my exposed cables. i know the electric tape will melt off eventually. i really wanna keep it as professional and thats a tip that ill be trying soon thanks again

[Ricky78045]

well its been a while since ive posted in the forum or really done anything to the truck. still need to prioritize on what needs to be done to the truck. i had mentioned i was going to buy an amp kit for the truck and i went ahead and did that. its a "4 gauge" wire but looks more like an 8 to me... lol well it should be enough for the subs, i dont have hardcore subs or a competition amp that requires alot of power. im just waiting for the rain to stop so i can bring it in and start working on it. i had bought some red wire loom for the truck and used it when my wife and i soldered the radio harness to make our own shielded harness. i wanted to replace most of the looms in the engine bay cause the majority of them looked toasted and broken hehe. hopefully i can get some pics up soon of the progress ill be making.

[Ricky78045]

also forgot to mention, i need to buy primer and black paint(or maybe black primer) to fix my hook, the paint stripped off and its bare metal is exposed, already has a tiny rust spot, i need to sand it off before it spreads, anyone know what kinda grit to use in preping it?