thats a cool truck, ive always wanted an old rig with a service body on it.
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71 C20 gets a 5.3
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1970worthog
1/2 ton status
Were you at the rancho pnp today?
Thought i saw your dd
Thought i saw your dd
Yes sir, you can't miss a 1/2 off weekend... Even when you don't really need anything. It was a cluster**** out there today
TheBeast_88K5
Banned
I'm bored.... So.... 
1970worthog
1/2 ton status
That is BAD ASS!
Yea i was out there getting a 14bolt for my dads 70
Yea i was out there getting a 14bolt for my dads 70
You're a bad influence Mike. It might go down a bit at some point but not that much.
Dan you should have hit me up, I would have helped you pull that heavy sob.
Just dropped the 5.3 in, pretty stoked its coming along nicely
Dan you should have hit me up, I would have helped you pull that heavy sob.
Just dropped the 5.3 in, pretty stoked its coming along nicely
TheBeast_88K5
Banned
I know,... I just love Photoshop.... 
Motor is bolted down and the nv4500 is hanging off the back. With a little tweaking a spectra cold air intake for a 2003 silverado bolted up to where the passenger battery tray used to be. One bolt hole even lined up. Chopped up the Dbw and the stock pedal to make one working pedal. It takes a lot to chop up new parts hoping it will work.
I think I am missing something here? Don't think it's important though...
I think I am missing something here? Don't think it's important though...
Started reworking the harness based on lt1swap.com's technique. I can see why people pay someone else to do this part
TheBeast_88K5
Banned
Harnesses are the Devil... 
454Sub
5/8 ton status
The secret to harnesses is first strip them of all that nasty tape and looming, put them in a 5 gallon bucket, preferably in your kitchen and or living room with your satellite tv and swirl them around in Dawn dish soap for awhile until clean. Then you must install the harness in your dishwasher with detergent and complete a wash and rinse cycle. You now have a brand new oil free harness ready to be sat on the living room carpet infront of earlier mentioned telly and pick it apart piece by piece until you have a fresh harness. Now, if your like me and color blind partially, you must complete this step with a wife, companion, or in my case a soon to be wife and my 2 children. Mission accomplished. And now I have a ready to install 1991 TBI 4L80 harness stripped of all its useless smog nonsense and EGR nonsense and extra stuff wired in for fans and I dont even remember, and Im just waiting on doing it in the next 20 years.
Haha that's awesome. I just sat on the hot garage floor with a dirty nasty harness and cussed at it for a couple hours. It's all stripped down and taped back up just need to put some loom on it. It's not actually that bad once you get into it.
454Sub
5/8 ton status
Well, when she first walked in toting my minions of destruction (an 8yr old girl and 5yr old boy, which are not her's btw) the first words out of her mouth was "Drunk again?!?!?!"
They really arnt that bad once the oil and nastiness is off of them, and you can see colors and stuff. I broke mine completely down, pulled fusebox apart and cleaned/diaelectric greased it, pulled apart every connector for all the sensors and cut and resoldered them. And moved and reloomed it in a way it was cleaner and looked nicer. Now I can visualize it installed and looking great, I just dont know if I want to use it now that I did it. I already did this to my original harness in the truck now, and even though I have the 4L80E and all the parts, I would rather get my doubler finished and my Dana 60 started and then its an avalanche of might as well and hell yea and I get confused and wake up in the driveway with no shirt on and its just all bad.
They really arnt that bad once the oil and nastiness is off of them, and you can see colors and stuff. I broke mine completely down, pulled fusebox apart and cleaned/diaelectric greased it, pulled apart every connector for all the sensors and cut and resoldered them. And moved and reloomed it in a way it was cleaner and looked nicer. Now I can visualize it installed and looking great, I just dont know if I want to use it now that I did it. I already did this to my original harness in the truck now, and even though I have the 4L80E and all the parts, I would rather get my doubler finished and my Dana 60 started and then its an avalanche of might as well and hell yea and I get confused and wake up in the driveway with no shirt on and its just all bad.
This^^^^^
Still plugging away at it but nothing really picture worthy. Wiring harness is cleaned up and 75% in. Fuel pump relay is wired in and the fuel lines are run just waiting on a back ordered sending unit to modify. Put some simple vdo gauges in the the stock bezel but still need a tach and speedo. New ignition switch is in and the ghetto push button for the starter is out. Transmission is off the stack of 2x4's and is sitting on the stock crossmember with a new poly bushing. The transmission sits really damn close to the body with the worn out body mounts and the low automatic tunnel so I think I will put some poly body mounts on there eventually. Hopefully thats enough clearance if not i will get out the bfh. Need to finish it up and get it driving so I can sell my dd and not be broke...
Still plugging away at it, fuel pump is hooked up to the stock sending unit and in the tank. Just waiting on some fittings to finish the fuel lines.
Steam line hooked up with an old fitting I had for my original tbi setup in the k5
Saw another truck with a utility bed last weekend... Might have to find some hub caps
Steam line hooked up with an old fitting I had for my original tbi setup in the k5
Saw another truck with a utility bed last weekend... Might have to find some hub caps
Might????
Martin
Martin
Yeah they will come eventually, just need it running/driving first. They are in junkyards everywhere around here
Drilled and tapped for an oil pressure sending unit on the stock oil cooler port. It was 75% drilled already but I tapped it so that means I can say built not bought right? Definitely fabrication as well as awesome tech. I was foiled by a metric Alan wrench plug for my water temp sender. Tomorrows payday so the next summit order will go in ad hopefully I will have parts for the weekend.
TheBeast_88K5
Banned
We are giving Summit so much $$$...
