Project Revive luciell

[Wwildman]

Well to start this off I owned this truck 7 years ago and sold it to a friend of mine then . My father and I purchased it up in the mountains of MD back in 95 .
I drove it down to NC as my daily .My friend has pretty much not touched the truck for over 2 years . that is where I come in to play . Here are the pic's when I picked it up from him




When I drove it home from High Point NC I knew I had my work cut out for me
Here is what I started with .
1. Fresh tune and clean the carb
2. replace the junk 3 speed shifter
3. Paint it all one color
Here are the latest pic's


Here are the pic's of the wheels I am going to use

[ZUBZ]

Nice, good luck with project.

Are you spraying the truck with tin spray?

[Wwildman]

painting the whole truck with spray paint .

[Wwildman]

This weekend is going to be a big weekend. My list include finish installing headlight's and front bumper ,paint the rims and mount the tires .

[Wwildman]

Well here are some update pic's

[Wwildman]

Here are the things I still need/ want to do
1. Paint left door and bed
2. Replace tailgate
3. tidy up the wiring under the hood
4. Reupholster the seat
5. Replace the body mounts and install all the bed bolts
6. Pull engine and reseal and paint firewall
7. Finish up exhaust
8. Get 2 inch drop spindles and 2 inch blocks

[Wwildman]

I have been busy with my truck . I have removed the junk floor shifter and put it back on the column ;while I was doing that I rebuilt the trans . I also added tips to the exhaust ,and installed sound deadner in the floor.Yesterday I finished up fixing oil leaks and cleaning up the engine bay .

Here is the new tips on the exhaust


Here is my seat cover I am waiting on the other one to arrive


Here is the solid rear window got rid of my slider


Pic of what the engine bay looked like before


Here is the after .

[Wwildman]

Well my second sarape arrived and I re covered the seat with both .


I also added 2 inch blocks to the rear

[67cheby]

nice progress, keep it up !

[Wwildman]

Originally Posted by 67cheby

nice progress, keep it up !

As of right now I do not have a job and doing things to make ends meet .While I am going to school on line , I do this in my spare time so I don't go crazy

[Wwildman]

Well I have been working in this truck and I have now installed aluminum corvette heads, 3 inch drop spindles , and painted it green .Here are pic's of the old heads off the truck cylinder walls and pistons look clean 43 year old truck.



Here is the color for now

[Wwildman]

In the next week or so I am going to install accuair , and a set of 15x7 supremes with 225/70/15 skinny whitewall tires.
here is a pic of the rims I am ordering

[Wwildman]

Ok so now the waiting game. I have ordered
a complete accuair set up from Slam Specialties 4 Astro Supreme Mags, New clutch , New crossmember and bed cover as well as a bunch of misc stuff.

[Wwildman]

Update: Parts have arrived and I started installing the notch and test fitting the wheels and full slam
Here are pic's of the notch install

This is the rear at full compression minus the 2 inch block

Here is the front at estimated full compression

[Wwildman]

Over the next few days I will post picks of the Accuair install