C30 Project Buildup

[rmauto1]

those 19.5's really make one look cool. they did make steel 19.5's with the standard 8 lug pattern, that would fit your c-30. they came on mid 80's postal p-30 step vans. I think all those postal vans ran 8R19.5 tires. I've seen a lot of those postal step van's go on ebay for under 1,000.00. the problem with the 19.5's on my 72 is the 6.17 gear ratio that goes with the 10 lug pattern. top speed 50 mph!

[exilous]

Wow, 6.17 haha. Thats horrible.

[rmauto1]

only good thing about it is, with the 406  and the granny low, it will pull ANYTHING you can get a chain or hitch on!

[exilous]

Alright I am back...A whole lot of nothing has happened since I posted last. I'll condense a lot. the truck travelled from my shop to my parents house where i sat untouched cause my dad was off doing his thing unable to help me fabricate stuff to get my auxilliary trans in. He finally came back after I rebuilt the trans bought all sorts of parts but just needed his help doing the more technical alignments mounting and fabricating of shafts mounts and plates. He set on gettin a divorce with my mom blah blah blah me and  him had a falling out I moved my truck back to my shop thus dropping the aux trans idea cause I couldnt do all the custom bracketry and lathe work needed to be done. 6 months of no progress and it ended up back at my shop the same as when it left.

On a better note not to dote on the past but moving forward in the last 2 days since the truck has been there I got everything in order cleaned up my shop and tried to remember where everythign went. I remembered how to get the cab on so that went on and just finishing up all the loose ends and cleaning up the engine compartment figuring out where the wires go this that and the other thing. I've got it going in the right direction so far. Lot of things I forgot or missplaced since i took it apart over a year ago. Only have a handful of wires left to figure out where they go in the engine compartment then the wheel wells fenders and hood can go on. As for in the cab gotta get the domelight in and wired headliner installed put the dash back together a few small things here and there and then thats all done. doors can go on and thats it. Then I gotta do the whole back half of the truck. Alright its picture time.

[exilous]

Pics didnt work the first time




Just a small amount of parts that need to be reinstalled...that nut and bolt pile doubled in size today...I just threw buckets of bolts on it from the 4 trucks I dismantled I hope I have everything I need. HAHAH

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Alright, it's been quite some time since I have posted up here again and I have gotten a lot accomplished since the last set of photos.as of today I finished puttin all the sheet metal back onto the cab. doors fenders, wheel wells, and the hood 90% of the engine wiring is finished. Basically it's all small things that need to be done, cab-side forward for me to be complete now. I started a new job that is very demanding taking me away from the project 6 days a week leaving me only sunday mornings to work on it now. So progress henceforth will come to a near halt as I finish the cab and everything else. I did all the bodywork before as I took the panels off but now that I reinstalled them all, there is a lot more body work that I have to do to them. Which sucks cause I thought I was done with it. And the new doors I salvaged off of one of the blazers turns out they are both bent. Somewhat heavily above the triangle window. The hood I thought was good also salvaged from one of the blazers, is bent as well the center of the hood right at the front dips down more then the edges so it doesnt latch properly. The A/C pump doesnt line up very well with the other pulleys so I need to figure something out there. It seems to be aimed a bit crooked...but before I hooked up the power steering pump it was lined up fine. I tried to get the power steering lined up and that wouldnt line up originally. So I took everything off started from scratch and I was able to get the power steering pump to lineup but now the A/C doesn't line up. So I must be doing something wrong... I will figure it out eventually. Uhm as for everything else it's just tidbits here and there that need to be done bunch of small stuff here and there then I can take the dump bed off and work on the back half of the truck. Still deciding whether or not I want to keep the steel bed, go with an aluminum bed, OR a real curve ball go with the utility bed with the dump body inside between the tool boxes. I like that idea very much cause then I can carry lots of my tools around and not worry about when I dump they will get scattered all over the place in my boxes. So we shall see how things work out. Until then here are some pics and I will work on getting some vids up on youtube so you guys can hear how it sounds...well it has no exhaust besides the manifolds but it's still really cool.

[exilous]

I believe these are the links to the videos I just uploaded onto youtube so check them out let me know what you all think.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NlPRQKu0d-A
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXSnOvXCU8E