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73-87 Chevy _ GMC Trucks => Members Rides => Topic started by: chet on August 26, 2010, 12:35:49 pm
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Here a few pics of the truck I bought off my son. I think I've scored a complete front end clip for it and I'm going to go see it this weekend besides that the truck doesn't any rust and the only other dent is on the driver side bed. later
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had to figure out how to resize the pics so i could upload them. hope there not to small.
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Pretty small. Where are you hosting them? I use photobucket and when I post the pics, they are automatically resized. The first post is fine.
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He uploaded them, just upload a bigger picture.
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thx for the pic info. i was wondering if anyone had a schematic break down of the grill for a 87 with the four headlights on it. thx for the help later
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2 weeks ago I saw a Dodge 3500 with a V10 at one of the salvage yards. The truck had been rolled. I spent 20 minutes looking at that engine, because back when I ported heads for a living, I did a pair of those heavy iron monsters.
It sure is tempting. It is heavier than a 454, but offers better low-end and better top-end, stock versus stock, at a similar price.
I'm trying to scrape together the $250 I'd need to get it if it's still there. It had an automatic and a transfer case, while I'd convert it to a T56.
Last year I saw a Ford E350 with a Triton V-10, but aside from the difficulty of pulling a V10 from a van, it was hydro-locked, as is so typical of Ford modulars. It is lighter than the Dodge, mostly due to the aluminum heads, but only 425 or so cubic inches, well, I didn't want it. Even at $175. It would also take a T56, or a T45, or a TR3650, or a TKO.
COMP does cams for the Dodge Ram V-10, IDK about the Ford V10.
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It doesnt have a v10 (10 cyl motor). V10 replaced K10 in 87.
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(http://www.naioa.com/v2/modules/Forums/images/smiles/BangHead.gif) almost like having your Chevy called a dodge
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hey everyone hope your all going to have a good weekend. i got my fuel lines back i had a company down here custom make me some because i couldn't find any all steal lines but the ones i have work great. the tbi went in easy and the feed line to the tbi was good but they bent my return line wrong so i bent it with two channel locks that i have. beside that it went good no leaks any where. but i do have to replace my iac control sensor well not the sensor but the male plug that boots into it. it just fell apart on me when i pulled it out so tomarrow i'm going to a few junk yards to see if i can match it up. i did throw some pics of the other tbi that was messed up and break lines because there new and the rebuild tbi. enjoy ;)
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forgot the pics
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messed up threads on the tbi and cracked housing
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the rebuilt tbi
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It doesnt have a v10 (10 cyl motor). V10 replaced K10 in 87.
That got me a while back. I saw V10 in a title and expected to see a Viper motor in somebody's C10. I think that V16 GM motor would be way cooler though. 8)
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and just a pic of the engine with out the tbi on it
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yeah maybe i should change the subject to k10 instead so it wasn't miss leading
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You could, but then it would be wrong since K10 was for earlier trucks. Just keep teasing people.
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but then people would say "you have a k10 in 87 your sure its a 87" lol
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hey all well i replace my male plug to my iac but throttle is still stuck open wide. i read if you hold it above 35 it will reset the iac i did it's still stuck. should i just replace the iac itself? as always thanks for all and any future help ;)
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Ok I know it's kinda dumb and all but what the heck is the difference in the v10 r10 compared to c10 and k10?
I get lost on that for sure.
Nice truck though BTW looks really solid.
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The VIN coding is all that's different. 5th digit went from K to V and C to R.
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ohhh ok and it was only in 87?
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10-4
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well i replaced my iac and my tps but it still starts with a high rpm and levels out at about 3.5 to 4k rpm. i've check to vacuum lines but can't find any that are disconnected. does anyone have a thought what it might be
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Try to start it with a sensor unpluged then move on to another sensor and do the same.
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did you unhook the battery after changing a sensor?
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i had to charge the battery so it was disconnected for awhile.but i think that i will do what alley said and disconnect one at a time to see if i can narrow it down but just not now my son is using my car and it has my tools in it :'(
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ohhh ok and it was only in 87?
1987-1991 for Crew cab, Blazer, Jimmy and Suburban.
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don't need tools to unplug sensors lol.
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yeah don't know what i was thinking u don't need tool to do that heheh. anyways i did the unplug thing and when through each one i did the iac the tps the map and i think its the ecm. each one ran the same way leveling out with a high rev i don't have a rpm unit but i would say it's holding at 3.5 to 4.5 rpm. i don't want it to run to long like that so the period that it's on is just a few secs. i put some pics with the sensors on it. thanks for the input guys.
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heres another pic of it
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i was wonder do you unplug those when the engine is running or not?
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yep you can while it's running, some of them won't let the engine start if you unplug them with it off, I know mine wouldn't start with the coolant temp switch unhooked. if it's running that much rpms what does it do when you turn it off? I'd think it'd diesel badly, like keep running only really rough like it's running backwards lol.
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i haven't tried with the engine running but the truck started with all the sensors off and then held a high rpm like it always does i don't know. as far as how it shuts down well i doesn't stutter or anything shuts off normal like.
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no vacuum leaks? how do the brakes feel if it's power brakes? If the booster is busted I'd think they'd be hard to push and maybe causing a huge vac. leak and high idle I know mine goes real high with a line pulled off. If not only thing I can think of would be the tbi, like the cable stuck or something holding it open.
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yeah i drove the truck around the block and it sounds like a wind tunnel under the hood but the brakes feel ok but i'm going to drive it again tommorrow. i did a rebuild on the tbi already. maybe i'll redo the rebuild again but i hate to spend 30 bucks again for the kit. ???
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hey guys well after rechecking all my vacuum lines and checking the break booster i figured that i did something in the rebuild of the tbi. so i took it off again and checked everything inside. when putting it back together again i noticed that the gasket wasn't sealing the tbi. i put the wrong gasket on it and it was sucking air through it like crazy. i replaced it and the rpm leveled out like it should. want to thank everyone who gave me advice in what might be wrong thanks guys.later
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I was just about to chime in and tell you there are several variations of the tbi base gasket and if you use the wrong one it makes a major vacuum leak near the IAC passage.
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yeap it was right next to it. made it sound like a wind tunnel hehe
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my truck doesn't want to start when hot both the starter and battery are new within 4 months one of those months it wasn't running. so i was wondering if anyone has tried to set up a ford like solenoid and if so is it working well for you or does it do no good to do it. thanks everyone for the input. :)
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it wasn't the solenoid that was causing the hard start. it was the fried pos wire lying on the exhaust. put on all new wires with a new alternator and it starts like a champ