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    Cleaning rust/scale out of radiator, OUT of truck...?

    The what now? I was actually thinking about this last night too, as the aluminum radiator that I pulled out of the K5 also has some rust in it, as the PO of the K5 also apparently preferred straight tap water to a antifreeze mix, and I know I definitely don't want to dump hydrochloric down...
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    Time for this beast to get a CB Radio LOL

    Wow...there's actually worthwhile traffic from truckers on CB? Only things I've heard in the past decade are strings the filthiest insults you've ever heard, 5 minute long beeps, and some of the worst interference from "peaked and tuned" radios that just have the limiters clipped out and gains...
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    Engine break in run - rotating engine and filling carb bowls?

    I've got half a dozen SBC/BBC HEIs sitting on the shelf now, with an Accel unit already gutted and the gear turned down on the lathe for just this occasion :P That distributor came on the SBC when I bought the K5, and I wouldn't normally touch Accel stuff with a 10 foot pole these days (I...
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    Cleaning rust/scale out of radiator, OUT of truck...?

    It was foaming _immediately_, as I was pouring it in. I dropped a gallon of water in first, then started pouring the Zep in. I didn't even get a quart of Zep in before I had foam pouring out of the fill hole. I started the pump at that point trying to get it to mix up hoping it would pull the...
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    Looking to get a winch

    I often see people mentioning the receiver hitch mounted winches and how great of a concept it is, and yet, in 30 some years of playing with 4x4s, I've yet to hear of a single person that _actually_ runs a receiver mounted winch saying that they LIKE the winch set up that way. I tried it once...
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    New guy in Phoenix...

    Thanks for the welcomes! I kinda forgot about the pictures, I'll get them...eventually. I have legitimate ADHD (doctor diagnosed, and prescribed happy pills :p), so it's really easy for me to forget things for weeks at a time, or my favorite - daily remembering of important things like making...
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    Engine break in run - rotating engine and filling carb bowls?

    I'm a day or two away from finally getting to fire my new 489 for the first time....and while this is far from my first engine build, this IS my first "performance" build on a old school carb'ed V8 (been working on small 4 cylinder EFI stuff for most of my life). So I understand the core...
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    Cleaning rust/scale out of radiator, OUT of truck...?

    So I said the heck with it, and did the flush before reading more replies here (I live in the sticks, with my only internet access on my cell phone, and less than stellar cell phone signal). Used a gallon of Zep CLR dumped in the radiator, filled the rest of the way with tap water, and used...
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    Cleaning rust/scale out of radiator, OUT of truck...?

    I was actually thinking about this some more during some down time at work....I know somewhere in the garage I have one of the Horror Fright's 12V utility water pump that's a poor knockoff of a Shur-Flo RV water pump, with garden hose connectors on it, that I scavenged out of a camper I rebuilt...
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    Cleaning rust/scale out of radiator, OUT of truck...?

    Tried that a few years ago for the '59, lol... they all said the same thing - "yeah...we don't do that any more...cheaper just to put a new one in" sure...just where do I find a NEW radiator for a '59 International medium duty truck that isn't a hacked in half plastic job from some other random...
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    Cleaning rust/scale out of radiator, OUT of truck...?

    Been searching for this one for a while, both here and on Google, without much luck. All the hits I was coming up with was something like "my radiator is full of crusty mud...how do I clean it?? I DON'T want to pull the radiator out!!!", and I'm the opposite - I don't want to put the radiator...
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    Fixing PO's wiring hacks while swapping to BBC...

    For the time being, I just put the oil pressure switch in the port above the distributor, and ran that carb solenoid wire to one side of the switch. Other side of the switch I ran a new wire to the positive side of the choke heater, and then bundled & stufffed the factory oil pressure switch...
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    New guy in Phoenix...

    Picked up a '86 K5 this past summer with the usual PO cutting/hacking nightmares, and a plan to eventually do a BBC swap in it. Thankfully, the body is fairly clean, but the wiring was an absolute nightmare, along with the ever present hack the crap out of the bezel and dash to half-butt fit in...
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    Fixing PO's wiring hacks while swapping to BBC...

    Gauges in the truck now, and being a Silverado model, I would assume always was a gauge truck? EDIT: Wait...so that solenoid would have had a two blade connector on it? The wire I pulled was by itself, and it appeared, at least from the wiring diagram that I was looking at, that the solenoid...
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    Fixing PO's wiring hacks while swapping to BBC...

    As I'm new here, and no one else presumably knows me, I'll just preface this with - I am VERY familiar with electricity, and low voltage DC, in general. I work on security systems and radio systems for a utility company for a living. I'm just 100% how a few things are wired/operated in these...
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