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Re: 83 c10 re-innovated, air ride
« Reply #150 on: September 22, 2009, 06:11:48 PM »
yeah keep the drive alive. You made more progress than others would make in years.
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Re: 83 c10 re-innovated, air ride
« Reply #151 on: October 02, 2009, 03:38:00 PM »
Finaly got some time to draw up some parts to get lasered, lower link mounts i remade out of 1/4 instead of 3/16 like i had, just to be on the safe side.. Made some brake caliper brackets for my rear disc conversion, and also got the ball joint brackets lasered as well hopefully the upper A-arms will be done this weekend

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Re: 83 c10 re-innovated, air ride
« Reply #152 on: October 02, 2009, 03:38:52 PM »
Oh, and the Watts link-links finally got tigged, so thats also on the list of things to do
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Re: 83 c10 re-innovated, air ride
« Reply #153 on: October 02, 2009, 06:27:48 PM »
Awesome job the dan. Keep up the good work. Can't wait to see it finished.
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Re: 83 c10 re-innovated, air ride
« Reply #154 on: October 13, 2009, 09:48:03 PM »
Go dan, put up some more pics and a status update.  cant wait@!
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Re: 83 c10 re-innovated, air ride
« Reply #155 on: November 15, 2009, 03:07:20 AM »
So we have to move out of this shop, which sucks, because moving a project from one place to another isnt fun at all, let alone the rest of the stuff i have in there, butttt, it gives me motivation to get things rolling :)

cross drilled brake rotors , new bearings obviously cleaned up the spindles etc..

rears all set now, got the timken set20 breaing/seal set. we will see how those work out, its a pretty rediculous bearing set up. $40 a bearing >:(, fitted the lasered brackets and kept it simple with c10 front calipers

and of coarse the poser shot, i like the 20's more and more every time i do something new to the truck and have to add them to the picture


As for some new updates, i flew out to Sema last week, and had me thinking of drafting a 69c10 dash into my truck, kinda switch it up a little
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Re: 83 c10 re-innovated, air ride
« Reply #156 on: November 16, 2009, 04:14:00 PM »
wow that sucks you have to move, how come tho, building sold or something? but the truck is looking good and coming along nicely post more pics and new ones of the new buliding/garage your moving to. 8)

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Re: 83 c10 re-innovated, air ride
« Reply #157 on: November 16, 2009, 11:54:43 PM »
The other shop will have 3 phase and an air conditioned office, is closer to home and is in between home and work, which is perfect, plus the place im with now doesnt let you keep a car outside overnight and the new place has windows!

tonight after a 12 hour grueling school day i made it to the shop and got the front end ready for the upper A-arms, rear bags and it will be a roller!

I finish welded the whole 4-link


and got the other lower control arm and spindle mocked up


the uper arms are almost done, im so pumped :)
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Re: 83 c10 re-innovated, air ride
« Reply #158 on: November 17, 2009, 03:33:46 PM »
ya im pumped for you this truck is awsome, i cant say it enough, i love everything youve do to it, this new place sounds great i wish i could find something like that around my house and a buddy or two to split the rent with, i mean i have a grage to use but it has no eletric, so i have to run extension cords from the inlaws house to the grage and it dosent have a concrete floor or heat, so i can only work seasonly so it sucks otherwise id prob be alot futher along with my truck, but keep up the awsome work and cant wait to see more. 8)

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Re: 83 c10 re-innovated, air ride
« Reply #159 on: November 17, 2009, 05:01:36 PM »
great work and a lot of patience... love your thread.
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Re: 83 c10 re-innovated, air ride
« Reply #160 on: November 17, 2009, 05:22:17 PM »
The dan:

Did you make these?



Where is your new shop gunna be? Are you putting a lift in there?
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Re: 83 c10 re-innovated, air ride
« Reply #161 on: November 19, 2009, 10:56:58 AM »
The dan:

Did you make these?



Where is your new shop gunna be? Are you putting a lift in there?

Yes, lasered them out of 1/4, were moving from wallingford to industrial park road in middletown/cromwell



Figured out my lower arms will work till next winter or some other time to make them, so i need a new front driver lower control arm since i smashed it when i hit a tire and rim on the highway a while back

fount out my bags wont lift it enough for my ride hight, so i purchased a set of "slammed specialties" AKA firestone re8 bags that will give me 9 inches of lift, instead of 6
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Re: 83 c10 re-innovated, air ride
« Reply #162 on: November 20, 2009, 07:26:45 AM »
I had RE8's on a big block dually a few years back, lifted gloriously. That is a pretty mega bag for a small block though, you probably could of gotten away with the RE7.

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Re: 83 c10 re-innovated, air ride
« Reply #163 on: November 20, 2009, 04:21:33 PM »
Today was a bad day, i wrecked my DOM bent Control arms, ends up the properties of the DOM i had wasnt what i thought it was and fter i cut the slots to sandwich them onto the ball joint brackers, they cracked in two ans split the while way up
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Re: 83 c10 re-innovated, air ride
« Reply #164 on: November 26, 2009, 02:07:42 AM »
sorry about the spelling on that previous post, Iphones suck, anyways heres the new shop:
Bathroom and office in that corner:


spent the past couple days etching and epoxying the floors = easy clean up



and the office:


and its next door to my work which means progress should be good
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