NayNay's C10

[Tremor14]

This is gonna take a long time to load. so you're better off checking out the next guy's post.

Anyways here goes.

this is a pic, pretty much how I took ownership. My dad bought this truck from his boss' dad in 1980. I was born in 82. My grandfather bought it off my dad and it stayed in Corsicana from 84ish-2008. I finally got it "back to town" but that was really alvarado, tx. not close to me at all.

pic in alvarado as delivered:


So it was a big pile of poo, my grandfather worked for the school district in the bus barn and they did a number on this thing. I kept coming up with different ideas for the truck. always wanted to keep it simple though. no need for this to be a daily, this is an heirloom.

I bought a 80 lwb c10 with a 350/350 for $700



RIP to my brindle boxer Squeak



scored a set of 22" wires.. literally paid $100 for all four. needed these because they used adapters and i would be able to have the same wheels all around with 5 lug disc up front and 6 lug drum out back.

the crossmember as delivered.



so anyways this is all 4 or 5 years ago.. hold tight and i will fast forward some.

[Tremor14]

in the mean time i decided to build up a little hipster autoxer

le e30:




I have this rack for sale if anyone is interested





so lets get back to the truck

[Cooter]

I can dig the heirloom factor :cool:

[Tremor14]

bags... if i could go back, i prolly would. lol. this is a long desolate road these air bags.



cupped the lca's







yanking the original 235/3xtree

[Tremor14]

#little_help


there we go a drop spindle installed.. im bad with pics.



flash back of the e30 as it was sold

[Tremor14]

fast forward, i had a kid, 3 or so yearhave passed and im just not getting started on this thing again, here are some update/starter pics. the goal is to drive it at least around the block this year.

new 66 cab to replace the way too gone 63 cab



had to drive to still water to find a rust free cab,




oh, sold the bronco too!

getting new exhaust on it.

[Tremor14]

[Tremor14]

onto today

got the 63 cab off.




finally got the motor on the stand



using dirty dingo engine mounts.



i'll have progress tomorrow.

[snacksnack]

Why would you not go air bag now? Its on my to do list one day to build a bagged ride and curious what your seeing as a down side.

[Tremor14]

It's just more shit to go wrong/keep up with. If I were starting over I would go with a nice coil over set up. With that said I'm not starting over.

[Dlachance]

Cool project!

[Scott Mc]

Been thinking about just doing coilovers on mine too if Ii ever get back on it.

[UserX]

These wheels look 100x better than the wires.

[Tremor14]

I guess all those pics went down? not sure how or why..

a few parts have come in, i've opened a few boxes that have been sitting around, and been messing with this thing a bit more. this is just for pics though, i'll be back after the holidays when i have something to show.

new CPP power brake booster/master assembly. I have like 3 or 4 reman'd/junkyard boosters sitting around, but i just want to do as much of it as i can, one time and one time only.


I also got the Holley 302-2 muscle car swap oil pan. There were cheaper options, but it seems that everyone i talked to had a different experience, and it came down to "you get what you pay for". this was like $370 from summit i wanted to try the f-body pan but figured by the time i sourced everything i'd peobably be in it for the same price. This is needed to clear the cross member, as that is the lowest part of the truck.


I needed the motor, because i decided to pick up a complete pull out from a 2003 suburban, complete with harness, pcm, and a few extra things. only 79k on this, vs. the 180k partially disassembled 2001 5.3 i i have on the stand.



I also took BMCSeans advice on the Bosch electric sander and have been making some progress with the cab to get it one color at least.

[ELVIS]

im trying to figure which build thread is more boring. yours or your bff alan!!

god bless.