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73-87 Chevy _ GMC Trucks => Members Rides => Topic started by: Swims350 on February 26, 2008, 07:44:43 pm
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Here's some pitures of dad's 84 C-10, he traded his 86 K10 for this one for better ride, better gas mileage and ease of getting in and out of. Figured I'd throw up some pics of her. It's stock 205 ho I guess, since we found out the transmission was changed to a th350 and it's been repainted twice, once in bc/cc same color I think, then the bed and passenger side painted by us after body work to fix dents. Other then that it's original 2.73 locking diff. and blue interior.
So far we bought some 15x8 wheels and 255/60 15's on them, a dash cover, cd player, amp, subs, and 4x6's and 6x9's all behind the seat. We added a sunvisor on the cab, ram air scoops and tube grille also.
The quadrajet gave us nothing but trouble so I rebuilt an edelbrock for it and done away with alot of emissions stuff. We'd like to maybe rebuild the 305, add a cam with some lope to it, like a comp 268 or the one I seen in the jegs, a crane 274h I think it said, add headers and duals. Right now it has single 3 inch with a flow 40 into dual 2.5 outs, and no cat.
So here's pics....
(http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i209/alwaysbroke53/Img_1226.jpg)
(http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i209/alwaysbroke53/Img_1238.jpg)
(http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i209/alwaysbroke53/Img_1225.jpg)
(http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i209/alwaysbroke53/Img_1224.jpg)
(http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i209/alwaysbroke53/Img_1221.jpg)
(http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i209/alwaysbroke53/Img_1212.jpg)
(http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i209/alwaysbroke53/Img_1208.jpg)
(http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i209/alwaysbroke53/Img_1209.jpg)
The floors were pretty much perfect on this thing too...
(http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i209/alwaysbroke53/truckfloor.jpg)
Here's underhood before...
(http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i209/alwaysbroke53/truckmotor1.jpg)
(http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i209/alwaysbroke53/truckmotor.jpg)
After carb rebuild...
(http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i209/alwaysbroke53/IMG_1276.jpg)
(http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i209/alwaysbroke53/dadstruckinterior.jpg)
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Nice ride.
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thanks
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Ya no thats not a bad spot for a cb radio....i might do that and mount it flush....Good looking truck!
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Very clean and sporty truck you got there! I plan on getting a SWB eventually for gas mileage.
But yeah man that thing is noice 8)
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Looks nice - would make a GREAT start for an awsome project!!
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Nice truck!
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Nice lookin truck, like the shade of blue :)
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Thanks guys, we had the cb there in our 86 k10 that had ac and put it right back there in this one but had to cut a hole for it.
I wished I could use it for a project, but dad won't let me do much to it. So one of these days I'm gonna buy me a short bed, or trade him something for this one.
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Nice looking truck ya'll got. I used to have a stereo eq mounted in the same spot it worked out great. Now I'am putting a new dash with billit trim and won't be cutting that.
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Sharp looking truck, shame its only a 2 headlight model though. I like the visor, I've been wondering about how one would look on a stock height 2wd shortbed..I'm definitely going to have to get one when funds are available. Where ya gonna mount the CB antenna? I'm going to be putting a wilson 5000 permenent roof mount on mine..
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Sharp looking truck, shame its only a 2 headlight model though. I like the visor, I've been wondering about how one would look on a stock height 2wd shortbed..I'm definitely going to have to get one when funds are available. Where ya gonna mount the CB antenna? I'm going to be putting a wilson 5000 permenent roof mount on mine..
werewolfx13 is right swich to duals put a 85-87 clip on it
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Very nice and clean truck you have there.
I wouldn't change much of anything at all on it.
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I aint a big fan of dual headlights, if I had my pic I'd switch over to a 73-79 front end on it probably a 79-80 with round headlights.
I had a universal cb antenna on the roof but now I got a midland glass mount one on the back window.
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you go man 73-79 is it i have a 78 and i would not ever change it
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Yea I'm dying for another 73-80 truck, I had a 76 with the 79 trim around the headlights, and loved it, truck was too far gone though, rusted out terrible everywhere.
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Those glass mount antennas can and will kill your radio eventually, stick a SWR meter on it and you'll see 3.5:1+ SWR, and anything over 2.0:1 is harmful.
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Yea you have to adjust them. You either lengthen them or shorten them. In most cases its shorten, you just take and cut them down about 1/4 inch or less at a time. Mine went from 3.5 to like 1 now or less I forget, been awhile since I put it in there.
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Shortening or lengthening doesn't matter on a glass mount, its the mount itself that is flawed. The 11 meter CB band NEEDS a direct connection from the coax to the antenna to work, and the glass prevents that. Through the glass starts working well around 500-600 mhz and gets better up til about 2.4 ghz, the CB band is 26.965-27.405 mhz. Stick a Bird meter or an MFJ analyzer on that glass mount and your reflect will be ~70% minimum, and you'll probably also see an impedence mismatch. If you're happy with it or don't use it much, by all means keep it..but you won't be heard more than 3-5 miles away at best, and eventually you'll smoke the final in the radio with regular use..I'd go with a wilson 5000 on the roof, a 102" whip w/ a 6" potbelly spring or a 6" shaft on a bumper mount or bedrail mount, or a predator 10k 27" shaft on a toolbox mount, or on the front panel of the bed if I wanted to be heard. A 12" shaft predator 10k on the roof would be great, but you have to be careful not to smack the coil on somthing solid..I don't like having to be that careful.
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sweet truck...are those floormats on the metal floor...thats what I have. looks like a little rust on the kick panel, thats the only flaw i see besides the residue from the molding.
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we got the factory vinly mat in there and then the rubber mats on each side, but yea she's got some surface on one of the kickpanels and a hole on top of the driver's rocker inside the cab and bad scale there too, but we got a slip on rocker skin for it.
Also had some rust holes in the bed, and cab corneres everything else is or was perfect.
Had big dent in the pass. fender, door and bedside from a fence post, so all that molding is gone, and the driver's got removed. It didn't come off too good and when the painted it they left it on so there's a line there, we decided to leave it alone until we repaint the whole truck.
Dad wants to just change fender, door and bedsides, then do a different hood, cowl or what not then repaint along with the cab corners and rocker skin.
Reason on the door and fender is the fender got bent bad and isn't exactly perfect as far as the right contours down low, and the door got hit on the body line and isn't perfect either.