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    Help: 85 305 Suddenly Stalling in Gear

    Ok, here's the deal: 1985 C10 with a 305. No air pump or EFE, but all other vac lines are updated and intact. Truck has run like a champ for more than a year after a light restoration (thread elsewhere). I'm having trouble suddenly and wanted any quick ideas. The story: The truck had to be...
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    USA1 Industries door panels

    Can’t say anything good about USA-1. It’s worth the $500 bucks they haven’t paid me back to see them go out of business. Just a PSA for the future. Thank you.
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    Mystery Bracket Under Dash

    Pretty sure it's for the cruise control module. It doesn't actually physically hold the pedal in place but is the electronic module mounting spot IIRC. throttle on an '84 would be held by a vacuum servo on the firewall side of the carb next to the distributor.
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    No crank no click no start 81 c2500

    One more to check: Is the ignition switch wire (the little one) on the starter loose? Good battery, no click, no fuse blown I'm checking that little wire on the starter solenoid for running loose. I had one do this to me earlier this year where it was getting intermittent when hot; and it...
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    I finally gave up.

    Cancelled Feb 26, still no refund check. Now customer service is not responding to me despite my keeping a level tone. I have to think they are ponzi'ing in a big way. Brace for impact. Or, maybe my check just got lost in the mail.
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    Valve Spring Retainers for 305

    I think dropping one of those keepers has to be one of the worst moments of terror for a backyard mechanic. It has to be close to the sound of a valve falling into a cylinder. And yes, I thought they were all the same size too.
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    I need help choosing a route for restoring my frame

    I did a frame swap on an 80 last year and cleaned up the stripped down frame. Blasted it and then coated with epoxy. I did a round of washing with metal prep and then rinsing. It’s pretty cheap and kills any rust I might have missed when blasting. On a budget, my hunch is you could wire wheel...
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    how fast is your power window?

    I expect the passenger window on my 1985 to be fully rolled up sometime around Easter.
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    I finally gave up.

    I finally canceled mine today after 13 months of waiting on a plain black dash pad while they were holding my cash. I just ran into a bad ponzi scheme-like company (in NC, coincidentally) that was supposed to supply a couple of tractor implements to me, and I have been navigating that disputed...
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    No spark

    So you have fuel and spark. If I read this correctly, you are sure that you have power to the spark when key is on (not cranking) and the engine dies when you let your foot off the gas. To get it to idle the next thing is to check whether all the vacuum ports are plugged up. A large enough...
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    84 c10 won't idle

    Did anything change with your vacuum advance? A lot of times people run big cams on manifold vacuum to get good idle. Did that get swapped to ported vac by chance? Did timing change or did you bump the disti/timing while changing plug wires? Also, just a check given it was “out of the blue,”...
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    What Classic Insurance to get?

    I just finally put a couple of vehicles on classic insurance through USAA. Hard to swallow given that the insurance restructioun is really for collectibles and not really geared toward driver-quality vehicles. But, the premiums are MUCH lower. There are lots of tradeoffs, but insuring for...
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    Rocker question

    Exactly. I replaced inner rockers and floor panels on a truck last summer. The inner rockers basically crumbled when I went to cut them out. The footwells of the floor panels could be peeled away almost everywhere but the spot welds. I see no rust in that picture. The OP has a nice problem...
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    USA1 Industries

    Congrats. I think I’m approaching 56 weeks’ wait for a black dash panel too. I ended up delayed on the truck resto, so not a big deal now, but am amazed at how poorly run this business is.
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    Rocker question

    What rust?
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