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1971 K10 Custom/10 Tons\LSX
- Thread starter HINZ28
- Start date
Moved to a house and quickest route to work is gravel so I’ve been driving this daily. Brakes went out on me the other day. Luckily I made it home. After missing the driveway haha.
Got some new parts put on.
Got some new parts put on.
Just another picture. Been daily driving this for about 3 weeks, fixing something everyday
-Lost an exhaust hanger so I decided it was time for new mufflers. Threw on some spintech 9000s. It’s loud and raspy now like an LS should be. I love it. I’ll try to upload sound clip.
- Been trying to get the idle set correctly. Sometimes it will surge or idle high. Cleaned IAC and reset the idle. It’s still funny sometimes
-Constantly fixing lights. They all work again
- New speedo cable
- changed fuel filter and pump
-burned a spark plug wire.
-Regreased all the hubs. Aligned the best I could. Packed kingpins with washers. Still has a little shimmy in front end. Low speeds it can’t deceide which way it wants to pull.
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-Lost an exhaust hanger so I decided it was time for new mufflers. Threw on some spintech 9000s. It’s loud and raspy now like an LS should be. I love it. I’ll try to upload sound clip.
- Been trying to get the idle set correctly. Sometimes it will surge or idle high. Cleaned IAC and reset the idle. It’s still funny sometimes
-Constantly fixing lights. They all work again
- New speedo cable
- changed fuel filter and pump
-burned a spark plug wire.
-Regreased all the hubs. Aligned the best I could. Packed kingpins with washers. Still has a little shimmy in front end. Low speeds it can’t deceide which way it wants to pull.
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So I had always had the plan of finding a nicer body for the blue truck. Just so happened I found a complete truck set up alsmost identically. The blue truck has found a new home and the orange one will replace it. I’ll post a link once I start another thread the the 1972 Cheyenne!!
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Geez.
That orange and white can’t be better. My buddy has one the same colours I borrowed for about a month. Very cool!
Very nice!
Miss having something to beat around in the 72 is to nice so I’m buildinh another one. Here’s the 72
https://ck5.com/forums/threads/1972-cheyenne-
20.335740/
And here’s the 74 that will be my wheelin rig
https://ck5.com/forums/threads/74’-cheyenne-c10-k30.336435/
https://ck5.com/forums/threads/1972-cheyenne-
20.335740/
And here’s the 74 that will be my wheelin rig
https://ck5.com/forums/threads/74’-cheyenne-c10-k30.336435/
Not much of an update but ol blue came home. Short lived .....sold it before I unloaded it off the trailer, actually to the guy I bought the orange and white Cheyenne super from. It’s been a big revolving door as the the guy I sold blue originally now has the orange truck 
So what do you still have?
With wider wheels.
Looks good!
Paint them white!?
Looks good!
Paint them white!?
Looks good!
Yup 16x10s and 35s. I think I like the look better than the skinny 37s. They may get painted white. I don’t think the black looks that bad on it tho.
Update of this whole deal. When I got the truck back from Illinois were it was owned for a couple years, it needed a lot. I think it was drove and not maintained very well.
First thing was the motor had a terrible lifter tick/squeal, and drove like the drivetrain had 100k more miles on it. I noticed these things but figured I’d just fix it back up. Before that could be assessed, my buddy Brian took it home. He spent the last 2 months working on it, going through everything.
-Every axle seal, and all bearings
-The bell was lose from the motor and ruined the clutch, new clutch and pilot bearing
-I gave him a junkyard 5.3 that was good, that was swapped in place of the ticking 5.3 that was in there.
-4 new calipers and pads, master cylinder
By this point I think he was just tired of working on it and offered it back to me. I didn’t hesitate and took it back home.
Last night I dropped the pan and put new gasket on to fix a oil leak, water pump was leaking. Replaced that, currently it’s not getting heat, thinking I have air trapped in the system still. Or this motor has a bad headgasket.
I plan to fully rebuild the 5.3 I had in it before and swap that back in eventually
First thing was the motor had a terrible lifter tick/squeal, and drove like the drivetrain had 100k more miles on it. I noticed these things but figured I’d just fix it back up. Before that could be assessed, my buddy Brian took it home. He spent the last 2 months working on it, going through everything.
-Every axle seal, and all bearings
-The bell was lose from the motor and ruined the clutch, new clutch and pilot bearing
-I gave him a junkyard 5.3 that was good, that was swapped in place of the ticking 5.3 that was in there.
-4 new calipers and pads, master cylinder
By this point I think he was just tired of working on it and offered it back to me. I didn’t hesitate and took it back home.
Last night I dropped the pan and put new gasket on to fix a oil leak, water pump was leaking. Replaced that, currently it’s not getting heat, thinking I have air trapped in the system still. Or this motor has a bad headgasket.
I plan to fully rebuild the 5.3 I had in it before and swap that back in eventually
