Brooke's 87 V10

[Captain Swampy]

The wiring wasn't hard to fix, just time consuming. Lots of splices covered with black tape. The engine harness was cut up when they swapped in a carbed 350 with a Turbo 350 tranny. We swapped the harness from our suburban in, along with it's TBI 350/ 700R4/and 208 transfer case. It's a much better package with the 4:56 gears.

[Captain Swampy]

We had to buy a new radiator. It's aluminum with plastic tanks. I'm not real happy with plastic tanks, but we haven't had a leak so far.

[Captain Swampy]

We put Brooke's headers on earlier this week and had the exhaust built over the weekend. Picked it up today. Sounds great! 

[Captain Swampy]

I have to thank everyone at our local Carquest for their help. Some parts were hard to find and I was getting a little cranky. They're really good people. Curt was still stopping and helping us get the body work right. We were getting pretty close to driving it!

[Captain Swampy]

Had a few small equipment failures. LOL. Still chasing down the last of the wiring gremlins.

[philo_beddoe]

Looking good Cap'n. Will you be painting

[Captain Swampy]

Eventually we'll paint it. Brooke bought a better box, but it needs some body work yet. The passenger side needs rockers, cab corners, and fender. Both doors are cheap aftermarket, so we need different ones. Brooke is still in high school, so it takes her a while to save money for each project. Now that the exhaust is on, I think she wants to fix the box and put it on. The weather has to get better though, it's been snowing like it's January lately.

[Captain Swampy]

We finally got it running. It ran really rough. Turned out that one of the new injectors wasn't spraying properly. You could see the difference in the spray patterns. It ran fairly well after we changed the bad injector. Even if stuff is new, it can still be junk  .

The first oil change went good til I dropped the filter! LOL

[philo_beddoe]

Yup, done that before. Just have her hit her old man up for a little loanski. Lol.  Just kidding, teach her to NEVER borrow.

Debt is dumb and cash is king.
- dave ramsey.

[LTZ C20]

Oil spill for the win....

[Irish_Alley]

no matter what it always seams i make a mess when changing oil or trans fluid lol. the one time everything was going good till my cummins was supposed to have 3 gallons and i found out it has 5.

[Captain Swampy]

Yup, done that before. Just have her hit her old man up for a little loanski. Lol.  Just kidding, teach her to NEVER borrow.

Debt is dumb and cash is king.
- dave ramsey.

Yes! That's why she's driving it now. We have thought about buying a different cab to repair while she's driving it. We don't have a shop though. The one in the pictures is our neighbors. We were in it for 8 months. Many thanks to Jeff and Cassie for letting us use it.

[Captain Swampy]

Oil spill for the win....

LOL

[Captain Swampy]

no matter what it always seams i make a mess when changing oil or trans fluid lol. the one time everything was going good till my cummins was supposed to have 3 gallons and i found out it has 5.

Hahaha, isn't that a sick feeling, expecting it to quit and it just keeps going? I cut the end off a 55 gallon barrel and put handles on it. Don't leave it under a truck that has an air drier next to the oil drain though. LOL it makes a heck of a mess in 10 gal of oil!

[Captain Swampy]

So after spending hours trying to figure out vacuum hose routing....... the diagram was there the whole time, LOL.

The radiator was low and wouldn't suck it out of the overflow tank. A little investigation and I discovered the hole for the overflow tube wasn't drilled through. Works great after I drilled through the tube.

We inherited a shop dog on the hot days