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Thanks Guys! I'll try to start a house thread soon. Picked up the transmission yesterday, rebuilt and upgraded. It should be overbuilt for the immediate needs. Also scored a fan setup from an 05-07 truck with relays and wiring, although I'm not sure it will fit. It's probably to big.
Chris - HRPT Long Haul 03, 04, 05, 13, 14, 15,16 & 18
74 Nova Project
66 Mustang GT Project
92 Camaro RS Convertible Project
79 Chevy Truck Project
1956 Cadillac Project
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It's been about 6 months since my last post on this project and the only thing I've done to it is stack building materials on, under and around it. The 4 season porch is nearly complete and we are starting on the master suite. It looks like we are going to be able to do Power Tour this year and I'd really like to take the truck. Unfortunately, I need to finish up the home improvement project as well as the following for the truck:
LS Swap - including new dual exhaust
AC
Body Mounts
Interior / Seat, Carpet, dash, seat belts, sill plates
Radio / Speakers
Lowering front and rear (probably 5/6)
Tires (current rubber is about 8 years old)
I'm going to try to spend some time on it each week, but I'm not real confident we can make it happen. Current state of the project:
Chris - HRPT Long Haul 03, 04, 05, 13, 14, 15,16 & 18
74 Nova Project
66 Mustang GT Project
92 Camaro RS Convertible Project
79 Chevy Truck Project
1956 Cadillac Project
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2018 progress was dismal as we finished the house project (which is actually not quite finished). We managed to score a couple of tilt columns for $60. One is decent and should work with minimal effort, the other is ok for parts. Both have cruise control though which I am hoping to have functional with the LS drive by wire.
Chris - HRPT Long Haul 03, 04, 05, 13, 14, 15,16 & 18
74 Nova Project
66 Mustang GT Project
92 Camaro RS Convertible Project
79 Chevy Truck Project
1956 Cadillac Project
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Chris - HRPT Long Haul 03, 04, 05, 13, 14, 15,16 & 18
74 Nova Project
66 Mustang GT Project
92 Camaro RS Convertible Project
79 Chevy Truck Project
1956 Cadillac Project
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I also finally got a Helicoil in the head for the broken exhaust manifold bolt. One of the issues I was concerned about was getting the hole square to the head as my initial attempts were clearly off. I have headers so the factory manifolds were disposable. Here is what I built as a guide:
Bolted to the motor to drill:
Chris - HRPT Long Haul 03, 04, 05, 13, 14, 15,16 & 18
74 Nova Project
66 Mustang GT Project
92 Camaro RS Convertible Project
79 Chevy Truck Project
1956 Cadillac Project
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New threads in place:
Here we can see that I should have drilled a little deeper as well as how far off my original attempt was:
Chris - HRPT Long Haul 03, 04, 05, 13, 14, 15,16 & 18
74 Nova Project
66 Mustang GT Project
92 Camaro RS Convertible Project
79 Chevy Truck Project
1956 Cadillac Project
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Christmas also got us new Tires. The Hot Rod article (http://www.hotrod.com/how-to/chassis...body-chevy-c10) I have been using for my guide on lowering the truck, called out 235/60 R15 fronts and 275/60 R15 rears. These tires are 26.11 and 28.06 inches tall respectively. A 295/50 R15 (rear) is 26.8 inches tall and 1.5 inches wider (section width) so we decided to use that for the rears. Armed with $625 in gift cards/certificates, I went to Discount Tire to get the new tires. I had ordered them over the phone so that they would be in stock when I arrived. Unfortunately, the guy that took my order set it up as a trailer because I was going to bring the rims in off the truck. After messing around for a while and inputting the truck information they told me that they could not sell me the 235/60 R15s for the front as the load rating was not sufficient. The closest they could get me to that tire was a 255/60/15 (.89 inches taller and 1 inch wider). I was worried that these might not clear, but 1badmonkey says they fit on his Suburban so I am hopeful.
Originally posted by 1badmonkey View Post[ATTACH=CONFIG]n1078565[/ATTACH]
with an 8" rim, the biggest tire i can run on the front is a 255-60-15Chris - HRPT Long Haul 03, 04, 05, 13, 14, 15,16 & 18
74 Nova Project
66 Mustang GT Project
92 Camaro RS Convertible Project
79 Chevy Truck Project
1956 Cadillac Project
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The next question was white letters in or out.
Chris - HRPT Long Haul 03, 04, 05, 13, 14, 15,16 & 18
74 Nova Project
66 Mustang GT Project
92 Camaro RS Convertible Project
79 Chevy Truck Project
1956 Cadillac Project
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After discussing it with novadriver, I decided that white letters might not be right for this particular application. Here is the old tire and a new rear side by side:
Tires coming home:
Chris - HRPT Long Haul 03, 04, 05, 13, 14, 15,16 & 18
74 Nova Project
66 Mustang GT Project
92 Camaro RS Convertible Project
79 Chevy Truck Project
1956 Cadillac Project
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Hoverconversion in progress:
Tires on the truck. Rear suspension is loaded front is at full dangle:
Chris - HRPT Long Haul 03, 04, 05, 13, 14, 15,16 & 18
74 Nova Project
66 Mustang GT Project
92 Camaro RS Convertible Project
79 Chevy Truck Project
1956 Cadillac Project
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I clearly now have way too much tire clearance. Time to fix that!
Chris - HRPT Long Haul 03, 04, 05, 13, 14, 15,16 & 18
74 Nova Project
66 Mustang GT Project
92 Camaro RS Convertible Project
79 Chevy Truck Project
1956 Cadillac Project
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The spindles and springs are 2.5" drop each and the flip kit/c-notch should get me a 6" drop in the rear. These are all Western Chassis parts from Summit. The polyurethane bushing kit is from Amazon. I had Monday off work this week so I decided to tear into the front suspension.
The one non original looking part in the whole steering and suspension system was the pitman arm. If you look closely, you can make out the nail they used instead of a cotter pin.
Chris - HRPT Long Haul 03, 04, 05, 13, 14, 15,16 & 18
74 Nova Project
66 Mustang GT Project
92 Camaro RS Convertible Project
79 Chevy Truck Project
1956 Cadillac Project
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