My 84 c10 Silverado

[leafsrule16]

Here's my 84 Silverado I traded my dirtbike for. Not sure what I'm going to do with it yet ... has a fresh 350 and a turbo 350 tranny with a 3.08 open rear, came from the factory as a 305 truck but now has a 4 bolt main 350 out of a camaro with ported heads, big cam, high rise intake and an ederlbrock 650 carb along wtih flat top pistons and a few other things. Here's a few pics, more to come









... and here's my honda

[mikek20]

Thats a pretty clean truck. It looks really good, you must have traded one heck of a dirtbike for it!

[87454westernhauler]

wow! very nice truck!

[cvbear]

That looks like a nice truck.  I have an '84 C10 Silverado (mine is SWB though) and I did lot of work before it looked as nice as yours does.

[Chevy Truck Guy 86]

That is a really good truck, looks like a good trade.

[zieg85]

Very nice, welcome from NW Indiana

[leafsrule16]

Thats a pretty clean truck. It looks really good, you must have traded one heck of a dirtbike for it!

The funny thing is not as nice as you'd think. It was a 2001 Kawasaki kx125 with a 144 Eric Gorr big bore and a fw other things ... Before I traded I had just ordered custom decals and all new plastics with my name plastered all over them, I guess the new owner will have to tell everybody C. Burke is some famous racer or something. Lol.

Here's a before picture of my old dirtbike when I first got it

Here's it after


Also, here's a few pictures of the truck I took yesterday, looks better with a coat of wax on it



Here's the interior, I lifted the seat cover to show the only place where the seat was ripped. Yes, those are power locks and windows in the background

old tranny in the box

here's the cam specs, couldn't figure out how to flip the picture

[zieg85]

nice and fairly rare being a well optioned Silverado and no AC.  I really like it alot

[bake74]

     Welcome to the site.  Very nice truck, with nice options, I think you made a good trade, hopefully you were done riding your dirt bike.

[leafsrule16]

nice and fairly rare being a well optioned Silverado and no AC.  I really like it alot

Random Chev noob question but I don't think my cruise is hooked up, is it the little button on the end of your signal light shaft thing? I press it but nothing, not really sure how to work it though. Also I took the seat cover off ,seat is nice. I want to put some exhaust tips out the side and I think I'll leave it looking the way it is besides building a sound system for it.

[leafsrule16]

Here's the interior minus the seat cover


here's the back, not so much a fan of tinted tails


here's also a pic of my old grand marquis two summers ago, i'd like to buy it back

[leafsrule16]

might buy this back miss having a daily driver that's a v8


here's a pic of it with my honda (pre tint, si grille and wheels) after it was sold and paid for and while i was holding it for the guy who bought it (a friend of mine)

[bake74]

     To answer your question on the cruise control, I believe 84 still had the vacuum operated cruise, so inside the engine bay on the drivers inner fender well should be the module with I believe 4 or 5 vacuum hoses connected to it.
     I believe I saw a thread not to long ago on this subject either in the electronic section or general discussion section.

[jaredts]

I think gm got away from the cruise controller on the inner fender in the early 80's.  Your '84 cruise should work by pressing the button, as long as you turned it on first.  There should be a small switch on the turn signal stalk:  left=off, right=on, momentary all the way right=accelerate.  If you turn the switch on and then press the button and get nothing, pop the hood.  You should have a round vacuum servo about 6" diameter or so behind the carburetor with a chain or linkage attached to the throttle lever on the carb.  It should have one large diameter vacuum hose that goes into the firewall and another that goes to a vacuum splitter/one way valve.  That splitter should have one hose going to manifold vacuum and another going to a vacuum reservoir on the drivers side firewall.  Make sure all of that is there and intact.

[leafsrule16]

I think gm got away from the cruise controller on the inner fender in the early 80's.  Your '84 cruise should work by pressing the button, as long as you turned it on first.  There should be a small switch on the turn signal stalk:  left=off, right=on, momentary all the way right=accelerate.  If you turn the switch on and then press the button and get nothing, pop the hood.  You should have a round vacuum servo about 6" diameter or so behind the carburetor with a chain or linkage attached to the throttle lever on the carb.  It should have one large diameter vacuum hose that goes into the firewall and another that goes to a vacuum splitter/one way valve.  That splitter should have one hose going to manifold vacuum and another going to a vacuum reservoir on the drivers side firewall.  Make sure all of that is there and intact.

Thank you. I found out how to work it but it doesn't work. There was no hose to my carb, my buddy thinks he can rig my cruise up no problem though.