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    Odd cable/control going to foot feed.

    It’s a retired utility company lineman’s truck. Set parking brake. Set line lock. Put in neutral, engage pto, operate the bucket lift boom. It applies the front brakes as well as the parking brakes.
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    Odd cable/control going to foot feed.

    Fluid line, electric over hydraulic control. Truck has hydroboost, not air brakes.
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    Odd cable/control going to foot feed.

    Do I need to check my C60 parts roach? 85 with Custom Deluxe badging powerline truck. Even has a brake line lock and dual battery control parts still. SM465 with passenger side pto, 350 with a governed Zenith 2bbl. Truck is junk, was going to swap the engine/transmission into a late 40s 1/2t.
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    90 Suburban TH400 Trans Cooling Line Replacement

    Have a set of braided stainless AN lines to go in our 85 C10. As soon as the 4.3 gets 350 swapped, and the single row aluminum with plastic end tanks crossflow radiator gets 4 row copper/brass swapped. Going to swap oil cooler and power steering cooler lines to braided stainless AN type as well...
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    Turbo 350 to overdrive

    Have a reliable shop go through your core, or build it at home. The local shadetree guy -WILL screw it up. Take your time, follow Nick’s build guide/instructions, and DO NOT use a “universal” TV cable. My now parts roach (frame rot) 1992 K1500 has a tbi 350 and 700r4. Marine intake, so a stock...
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    Reverse rotation water pump

    Can verify, as our 85’s “new” engine is a 1979 date coded 350 crate engine, with 1992 350 waterpump and serpentine system. Ran it for a decade in a beater Z71 that now has a rusted through frame…
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    A Technical Comedy [Only After the Fact]

    I was hatched in ‘72… :)
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    A Technical Comedy [Only After the Fact]

    Used to love that place back in the late 70s and early 80s. We’d cross Chinook to go pick cherries or buy peaches for home canning. When our Scout troop would do PCT Chinook to White weekend “ruck marches”, would always stop at either Whistlin’ Jack or Moore’s in Ashford. We’d run Skate Creek...
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    Swapping my 4.3 v6 for a 350 v8

    Prepping an 85 for the same swap. Factory 4.3 getting replaced with a 1979 date coded 350 and factory 1992 serpentine belt system. Have the complete 92 K1500 to pull frame mounts and engine mounts from. Also going to swap the current plastic tanked aluminum SB radiator for the copper/brass SB...
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    1987 V10 with 1974 engine- need TBI Help

    Have a tbi 350 that is getting carb swapped. 1979 block/heads, 1992 exhaust manifolds, redrilled intake, 1992 factory tbi unit, 1992 computer/wiring/fpr/fuel pump. It never ran right on modern gas, ran great on ethanol free 90 octane. Fuel economy however was always horrendous, as was seat of...
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    Looking for bench seat options with a foldable back / armrest

    I’m seriously eyeballing the bench out of my 92 K1500 ecsb as a transplant. Along with the 350 to replace a blown up 4.3 in the 85 C10 swb. The gmt400 benches are just more comfotable than SB benches, not willing to drop $2-3k on a seat no matter how nice they are…
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    Building my HS dream ride 87 Chevy Silverado

    Now that’s a goal. Graduated in 1991, so we all had Squares, dentside F100s or aircooled VWs. Building a lowrider 85 C10 swb and a Cal Look flat windshield Super Beetle currently. Welcome from the sw corner (swampy end) of TN.
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    SBC Build Questions

    BBC still has a rear mount distributor, so on my lifted ton truck? Probably end up with an 8.1, big Buick, B/RB Mopar, big Caddy, whatever I can readily adapt to an NV4500… The dually couldn’t light ‘em up on oiled glass… Doesn’t even need 4wd on ice 95% of the time… 8400# curb weight and...
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    Kind of a strange cooling system issue

    Our 85 never gets warm. Thermostat works, heater core is not full of Dexcool “mud” anymore (father in law used orange coolant once instead of green). New water pump and radiator hoses, new radiator, full system flush times 3 to get rid of afore mentioned Dexcool mud… No heat. No defrost. Fan...
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    Howdy from WA

    Nice rig. WA born/raised, TN now. Welcome aboard. Wenatchee area? Used to haul heavy refrigerated apple export loads out of there… Rock Island still open, kinda miss it.
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    SBC Build Questions

    My 99 1t 4wd has a mutant 350. Flat tappet cam/lifter set, stock tbi “flat top” pistons, Vortec heads/2pc intake/mpfi converted. On paper a 9.4:1 compression ratio. I’m prepping it for an Air Gap intake, AVS2 4bbl (think my wife ordered a 750cfm), 1.6 roller rockers, standard coil in cap hei...
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    255 vs 285 metric 33” tires on factory wheel

    If you can stomach doing business with Walmart… Goodyear Wrangler Authority in LT265/75r16E. Run them at 50psi for a full contact patch. 3 peak rated M55 style tread, wear like iron, grip like chains. I use them on both 1/2t srw and 1t drw trucks. Have 7 years on the current set, blew out an...
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    New wheels and tire question

    Just be ready to fall in love with them… Once you get used to alloys and LT235/85r16 or LT265/75r16… I run alloy fronts/outers, steel inners, 235/85 steers, 265/75 drives on a gmt400 dually. I’m switching it to all steels, 12 ply 7.50-16LT bias ply mudders all around. My Eagle Alloy bullet...
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    1977 K20 regular cab1

    My factory window motors lasted from 1985-2017 (passenger), 1985-2023 (driver). The switches on the other hand? 1985-2012, 2012-2014, 2014-2014, 2014-2018, 2018-2022, all driver side, passenger side is factory original. I’d prefer crank windows, owner (wife) wants it to stay power...
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    Vent Window rubber replacement or replace?

    As a temporary patch, it works okay and buys time until you can do it the right way. I will send Ralph’s vent windows out to be rebuilt. Freely admit that I’d end up putting my fist through the windshield if I tried to overhaul them. Bodywork, paint, full custom interior? No problem. Wiring...
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    What I started with, the 85

    Color matching battery tray?!? Why was Lisa looking over my shoulder just now? Already received the brand new shiny black replacement for the rotted in half original… What’s that? Dark purple candy, fresh acid buster mat and all stainless hardware??? Yazzum…
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    Vent Window rubber replacement or replace?

    Gasket goop for the seal cracks, model brush and tractor enamel for the frames. It’s a truck…
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    USA1 Dash Pad Troubles

    I need to find 1 spring clip for my dash project. Swear I’m going to tack weld them in place… Flux core wire does nothing perfectly, but sticking crappy tin to crappy tin? Clean it, zap it, paint it, send it…
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    Bench seat with floor shifter..to console or not..

    Had the bench seat console for years. And a transmission hump tray, cupholders in both. Now have the cupholders that replace the ashtray. In dash old school ignition switch, Ford starter relay on the inner fender. Following the instructions from a circa 2010 EZ-wiring installation booklet. Plan...
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    Carpet

    Leaning that way towards Lisa’s lowrider. Gravel driveway, live on a hobby farm, sw TN weather is strange. Can be in the 70s during the day, snowing at night from November to March… Currently doing sound/heat barriers in the cab.

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