82Scottsdale
1/2 ton status
Well after years of abuse and dd'ing on my 1982 chevy K10 scottsdale iv had to replace a lot of broken parts and fix a lot of things so i decided i might as well do a build thread about my big blue. Sorry for any mistakes this is my first build and posting any work iv did on the truck.
I bought it in 2006 with 32K miles and how it is in this pic for 900 bucks from a cop in my town! Iv kept my eye on this truck for about two years, i guess he didnt want to sell it to anyone but i was a good kid and his wife wanted it gone he let it go for me right before i turned 16, Its a 82 on a 76 chassis, it Came with a 6 inch superlift kit with blocks in the rear, 3 inch body lift, crate 350 motor and a semi built th350, dana 44 front, 12 bolt rear, both stuffed with 4.56 gears, and some 39 worn out/dryrotted mickey thompsons baja belted
After some hours wet sanding and buffing it, the paint turned out pretty good for its original paint
and a poser shot
That summer i mudded the crap out of it and drove it as my daily driver and ended up with a blown trans, i thought it was the pump seal because it was pissing fluid out the front seal, so i dropped the heavy ass 205, and the 350 myself at the age of 16 and replaced the seal and put it back together, but after running it for a few min it started pissing out the seal again...
Time to pull her out again.
sitting with a blown trans...
I ended up getting it rebuilt but some trans place and installed it back in with a shiftkit and drove it everywhere after that.
I was in the need for more power so I installed some vortec heads and a edelbrock intake and i also threw in a pete jackson gear drive for the lovely supercharger sound and cleaned my motor up.
While i had the motor pulled i painted my enginebay gloss black and cleaned the wires up.
I drove it around like that for about a year till the trans went out again on my way to school, it started slipping in reverse and on my way home from school it just about went out. That was around winter time and being a broke kid i didnt have money to rebuild it or a warm place to do it because IL winters sucks...Well my dad decided to get married and wanted to move around spring time and had some money saved up from my moms child support to get my truck moving and got my trans rebuilt for me by a great trans builder in our town (Sam at The Tranz Shop) This guy knows his **** and move so the th350 got all the bell and whissles..
So i installed that in spring 2008, I was pumped to have my truck to drive again.
About 2008 fall we got a big ass flood here and i decided to drive though some flooded roads and did about 35 mph a few times into it for fun and about the 5th time i hydrolocked my motor and knew it was gonna sit for awhile to gather money to build another motor cause i was a broke ass hs kid.
Well my buddy lended me some cash and i had some saved up from selling my hydrolocked shortblock with a bent rod and some heads and intake i got for free for 200 bucks. I started building another 350 and has more plans for power in this one.
I installed a comp cam extreme 4x4 cam in there, slapped my vortec heads on and ported and polished them and gasketmatched the ports, installed my old intake and holly truck advenger.
I installed that motor and got it running a week before our tripp to badlands to offroad.
Heres the motor installed
replacing a motor in a lifted truck is a pain in the ass btw haha
well i had a blast memorial weekend at badlands, my truck did amazing and i was surprized on how well it did in everything, mudd boggs, rock climbing, trails and how it made it there and back on the ****ty tires.
My buddy and i built the front bumper on his WJ before badlands also.
It got some trail damage but about ten miles leaving out campsite on the freeway my rpm's just shot out the roof. I thought i blew my trans or something so i check my gear and its in gear, i knew once we stoped and i tried to put it in park and heard the grinding and the truck still rolled, i got out and what do you know some holes in my diff cover, i pulled the rear driveshaft and drove home i front wheel drive, it got my home but i hated doing it. It made a two hour tripp last 6 hours.
pulled the cover and i had a stripped pinion gear and it was low on fluid so i guess i ran it low on fluid and overheated it.
broken wing window from backing up and a tree cought it.
Heres some pics and videos from badlands weekend
http://s23.photobucket.com/albums/b377/Paintballer1970/Badlands weekend/
The truck sitting....
The truck sat all of 09 summer and i finally got a job and saved my money and found a set of axles with 4.56 gears and detroit truetracs front and rear, dana 44 and 12 bolt, so i bought those for 675 bucks for both and got to work cleaning and painting them and installed them fall of 09.
Axle removed
Buddy of mine doing some of the Bi*** workk on my old axle removing stuff
installed pics are soon to come...
I installed the front dana 44 and the rear 12 bolt with new U bolts and nuts and redid my exhaust and installed two cherry bomb extreme single chamber mufflers and i gotta say they sound pretty nice.
I got that installed and finally was able to drive it again and had some fun on some snow banks
I bought it in 2006 with 32K miles and how it is in this pic for 900 bucks from a cop in my town! Iv kept my eye on this truck for about two years, i guess he didnt want to sell it to anyone but i was a good kid and his wife wanted it gone he let it go for me right before i turned 16, Its a 82 on a 76 chassis, it Came with a 6 inch superlift kit with blocks in the rear, 3 inch body lift, crate 350 motor and a semi built th350, dana 44 front, 12 bolt rear, both stuffed with 4.56 gears, and some 39 worn out/dryrotted mickey thompsons baja belted
After some hours wet sanding and buffing it, the paint turned out pretty good for its original paint
and a poser shot
That summer i mudded the crap out of it and drove it as my daily driver and ended up with a blown trans, i thought it was the pump seal because it was pissing fluid out the front seal, so i dropped the heavy ass 205, and the 350 myself at the age of 16 and replaced the seal and put it back together, but after running it for a few min it started pissing out the seal again...
Time to pull her out again.
sitting with a blown trans...
I ended up getting it rebuilt but some trans place and installed it back in with a shiftkit and drove it everywhere after that.
I was in the need for more power so I installed some vortec heads and a edelbrock intake and i also threw in a pete jackson gear drive for the lovely supercharger sound and cleaned my motor up.
While i had the motor pulled i painted my enginebay gloss black and cleaned the wires up.
I drove it around like that for about a year till the trans went out again on my way to school, it started slipping in reverse and on my way home from school it just about went out. That was around winter time and being a broke kid i didnt have money to rebuild it or a warm place to do it because IL winters sucks...Well my dad decided to get married and wanted to move around spring time and had some money saved up from my moms child support to get my truck moving and got my trans rebuilt for me by a great trans builder in our town (Sam at The Tranz Shop) This guy knows his **** and move so the th350 got all the bell and whissles..
So i installed that in spring 2008, I was pumped to have my truck to drive again.
About 2008 fall we got a big ass flood here and i decided to drive though some flooded roads and did about 35 mph a few times into it for fun and about the 5th time i hydrolocked my motor and knew it was gonna sit for awhile to gather money to build another motor cause i was a broke ass hs kid.
Well my buddy lended me some cash and i had some saved up from selling my hydrolocked shortblock with a bent rod and some heads and intake i got for free for 200 bucks. I started building another 350 and has more plans for power in this one.
I installed a comp cam extreme 4x4 cam in there, slapped my vortec heads on and ported and polished them and gasketmatched the ports, installed my old intake and holly truck advenger.
I installed that motor and got it running a week before our tripp to badlands to offroad.
Heres the motor installed
replacing a motor in a lifted truck is a pain in the ass btw haha
well i had a blast memorial weekend at badlands, my truck did amazing and i was surprized on how well it did in everything, mudd boggs, rock climbing, trails and how it made it there and back on the ****ty tires.
My buddy and i built the front bumper on his WJ before badlands also.
It got some trail damage but about ten miles leaving out campsite on the freeway my rpm's just shot out the roof. I thought i blew my trans or something so i check my gear and its in gear, i knew once we stoped and i tried to put it in park and heard the grinding and the truck still rolled, i got out and what do you know some holes in my diff cover, i pulled the rear driveshaft and drove home i front wheel drive, it got my home but i hated doing it. It made a two hour tripp last 6 hours.
pulled the cover and i had a stripped pinion gear and it was low on fluid so i guess i ran it low on fluid and overheated it.
broken wing window from backing up and a tree cought it.
Heres some pics and videos from badlands weekend
http://s23.photobucket.com/albums/b377/Paintballer1970/Badlands weekend/
The truck sitting....
The truck sat all of 09 summer and i finally got a job and saved my money and found a set of axles with 4.56 gears and detroit truetracs front and rear, dana 44 and 12 bolt, so i bought those for 675 bucks for both and got to work cleaning and painting them and installed them fall of 09.
Axle removed
Buddy of mine doing some of the Bi*** workk on my old axle removing stuff
installed pics are soon to come...
I installed the front dana 44 and the rear 12 bolt with new U bolts and nuts and redid my exhaust and installed two cherry bomb extreme single chamber mufflers and i gotta say they sound pretty nice.
I got that installed and finally was able to drive it again and had some fun on some snow banks
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and another trip to badlands this year on memorial weekend with a few buddies.
