Thanks for the warm welcome(s)
I bought this truck last summer from a guy in Indiana.
A lot of the work had been already done to it several years ago (body) and it has been sitting in a barn until I talked this guy into selling it.
It has a freshly rebuilt 305 SBC punched .030 over with flat top pistons, balanced crank, gear drive timing, the camshaft is .420/.422 lift 278/288 duration with 107 lobe center, high volume oil pump, air gap intake, and eldelbrok performer carb , followed up with a Borg Warner 5 speed (T5) with a heavy duty clutch...
Nothing too serious
It has/had factory AC... everything is there except the compressor. I have a new compressor, lines, and a new accumulator. I was waiting for spring to come, to clean and purge the system before installing the new parts...
The wood bed I just replaced in the fall. Its all out of Ash taken from the same tree, off our property (after the big wind storm a couple years ago) and sawed into planks. The planks had been stored in my barn. I just ran them thru the planer and re-sawed them to fit. I ended up using several coats of shellac to seal it up and help protect it. (Luckily the old bed was mostly intact, so I used the old boards as a template for the new boards)
I'm still working on the interior...
I gutted it out and just recently finished going thru the wiring harness, heat & air, and installed another cluster with factory tach.
Everything is almost installed...
My family got me one of those new digital AM/FM stereos for Christmas, it looks like the old factory POS until you turn it on. I've been installing that, off and on, over the last couple days (its been too cold to play outside)... I just have the rear speaker wires left to run under the carpet and install a 60/40 split bench out of a '98 Silverado.
The new skins for the seats should be showing up any day now...
After all that.... I dont know? Maybe swap the T5 out for a 700R4... I'm kinda getting tired of shifting. My knees and back are bad (Disabled Vet) and even though I'm a kid at heart, I'm getting too old for this $H%T! LOL
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