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'78 K10 Build

Added by 78SWB
Create date Feb 2, 2012

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I plan on doing a fair amount of work to this thing so I decided to post up a build thread. It may not happen very quickly, but it will happen.

Here is a pic of when I went down to KC, MO and picked up my 1978 Chevrolet SWB K10.

It is equipped with a SM465 4 speed, part time 4wd t-case 205, Factory G80 locking diff with 3:40 ratio gears, and manual locking hubs. It has an old 350ci with some kind of crappy headers, Flowmaster mufflers, and an Edelbrock intake. It also came with a Giant stack of service records, some dating back to '90.

Here are some pics of the ol' pos when I got it home.

It had these 32x11.5 15 BFG's with some UGLY wheels when I got it.

Picked up these factory rally wheels with all center caps and beauty rings real cheap.

Look at that flexin'! :haha:

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