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    Do I rebuild my SBC or swap for an LS3?

    All, Not looking for help with an LS swap - that horse has been beaten to death. I'm looking for your opinions on my current situation. I use my C20 as a backup vehicle, and as a farm truck in weekly use. Its in very good original condition and not restored. I don't plan to make it a road queen...
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    OEM Style Cold Air Intake Tube

    Hey all, Happy 4th :biggun::drink_nl::party33::patriot::cheers: On this joyous day, I just finished an intake manifold swap on my SBC from the OEM cast iron to the Edelbrock 2101 in chrome. Looks great, runs better. Did a top end paint job while I was in there too. Anyhow, the new manifold...
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    Charcoal Canister Repack

    Fellas and Fellaesses, I'm about to wrap up a remanufacture of my Q-Jet (milled surfaces, pressed bronze bushings, retapped all the threads, seals, etc, etc ,etc.) and I plan on replacing all of the vacuum lines when I reinstall the carb. I was thinking yesterday - the charcoal canister needs...
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    Quadrajet Secondaries Not Opening Fully

    Good evening all, I have been tuning my Q-Jet for the last several days as I drive it to campus and such. Haven't DDed the truck in a while and am getting it used some just to keep it from sitting. I tuned the choke / high idle cam first then the mixture a few days later when the engine was...
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    Custom Door Lock Knobs

    I write this post with my hands still oily from the machine shop. My black plastic door knobs are 39 years old. One of them broke apart in my hand when I tried to unlock the door when it got down to about 20 below a few weeks ago. After a few weeks of pulling on threads to lock and unlock my...
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    Dashpad Referb - Color Selection?

    Hey, I'm going to fix all the cracks in my dashboard using the method here: http://www.gmsquarebody.com/threads/how-to-refurbish-your-dashpad.8614/ The pad was tolerable but recent cold weather put a crack straight down the middle of the passenger side and I got really fed up with it really...
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    Upgrading Your Blower Motor

    'Afternoon fellas. This morning I went through the process of upgrading the blower in my '79 C20 standard cab long bed. I's been below 0 here for two weeks now (central Indiana) and the heater in my truck struggled to keep the cabin at a passable temperature on long interstate drives to and...
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    High Hump Transmission Cover Fit Problem

    A couple of years ago I did a transmission swap on my '79 C20 from the TH400 to the SM465. I pulled the 465 out of a truck that was going to be scrapped and got everything I needed for the install into my truck. I used a plasma torch to cut the hole in the low hump of my truck for the tranny and...
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    Edelbrock intake fit?

    Friends, The day has finally come. I've heard horror stories about the Rochester quadrajet from every Chevy guy I've ever met. My truck is running rich, so I ordered the long flexible adjustment tool to lean er up. It doesn't come in till next week, but it got me thinking. I HATE all the...
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    New Custom Bench Seat!

    The original seat in my '79 square had seen its last days. It's my DD so I had to get it replaced (or replace it myself ) but I'm also a college student so I had to get it done on the cheap. Ended up finding a guy on the south side of Indy that did the whole thing for just under $400. What...
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    Remanufactured Engine ID Nightmare!

    Greetings! A friend of mine has an '84 C10 that he bought from his uncle. Long story short, his uncle swapped in a 350 in the early 2000s but doesn't have the paperwork or anything from that time. We found the block casting number and it's 3970010... which could be anything... But we did...
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    C20 Leaf Spring Problems

    So the other day I was installing dual exhausts on my '79 C20. When I was under there I noticed something... one of my leaf springs was sticking out into the back of my tire!! Okay thankfully upon further inspection it had been caught by the back of the brake drum (the non rotating part...
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    Radio operators lend me your ear!

    Greetings, Upon cleaning the truck and doing some long-needed work, I decided that the two radios sitting on my dash are both unsightly and hazardous. They're both black and sitting in the sun can't be good for them. One's a CB And one's a HAM (2m / 70cm rig for you hams out there. N9PCT -...
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    Synthetic oil after break in

    So I have a question about switching to synthetic oil. The LT1 in my truck is a crate motor that was installed in the summer of 2004. Shortly thereafter (About 4000 miles later) the truck was parked and put under a tarp in the back of a dry barn. My grandfather owned it at that point, and...
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    Cab Lights Wiring - Help!

    Hey, I'm installing cab lights on my '79 C20 and I've hit a snag. The first thing I am trying to do is run the ground and hot wires up the drivers side A-pillar, but when I get my fish tape in the top and down to the bottom I can't see where it comes out. Does it let out into the cab? Into the...
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    Reverse light switch missing... What??

    Hi all, Over the winter I did a TH400 to SM465 swap, plus lots of little tune ups and improvements. Went from 11mpg to 17.5mpg on my bi-weekly trek from Indy to Lafayette. Only problem is that when I did the swap I didn't hook up the reverse lights until now. I interrupted the wire going to the...
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    14 Bolt Differential - Lock

    Hey guys, Just finished my TH400 to SM465 conversion over the Christmas holiday and now I'm ready to get back to tinkering. Eventually I want to convert my C20 to a K20, but I don't have time for the PITA its going to be with suspension, sourcing parts, T case room, etc... So for the...
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    Wiring through firewall?

    Hey, Simple question - I want to run two CB antenna wires, a tach wire, and a wire for my air horn solenoid through the firewall and I can't find an obvious place to do it. I don't want to drill any holes. Any ideas on what the best place to run them is? PS... also any ideas on the best way...
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    Chevy 350 Q-Jet K&N Problems

    I have a carbureted 350 Q-Jet in my 79 C20 and I just got my K&N air filter for it. I ordered the one from the K&N website - the E-1450 - and I am very surprised to find that it is too short! It is the right diameter, it's just too short to contact the filter housing lid. All of the searching I...
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    C20 350 True Dual Exhaust - Glasspacks or Turbos?

    Hi all, This didn't seem to fit very well in any of the subcategories in Engines and Performance, so I hope nobody will mind if I put it here. I have a 79 C20 pickup with a new 350 and I want to replace the stock exhaust. I'm thinking true dual, cut the cat (no emissions test here), and do 3"...
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    Wanting to add a second fuel tank - help?

    Hi gurus, I have a 79 c20 and it has a 16 gallon tank. I use it to drive to college and back (about 70 miles) and this tank is just barely large enough for me to get there and back in a weekend. I want to add a second tank and make it look stock (I know dual tanks was an option...). My...
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    Ford Guy new to Chevys

    Hey GM gurus, I'm a (kind of) new owner of a 1979 Chevy C20 350. My family has been a Ford family for years, but I bought this C20 and I don't know a whole lot about it! I'm looking to get some help over the next year or so as I tweak this truck just how I like it. I put a new 4 bolt main 350...

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