You were right, I posted the videos up months later! Been busy, finally got time to get them online. And teh sneaky pic I found on the camera, but I didn't know if everyone could take your mug shot that close to the screen! ha ha
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'83 K10 SB "L1TSBFIBBC" build
- Thread starter folkenheath
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Awesome pic`s `and vid`s!
Fun to watch!
Fun to watch!
andyblack
Registered Loser
Kinda makes me want to go to the dunes. There was some dunes close to where I used to live in South GA. Seemed like someone was always getting killed or hurt real bad there so they stop letting anyone go out there.
I want to see a vid of you guys jumping a little bit. That would be awesome. That way I could watch someone else tear up their truck while mine stays in one piece.
I want to see a vid of you guys jumping a little bit. That would be awesome. That way I could watch someone else tear up their truck while mine stays in one piece.
Awesome vids, Heath.
That sure is a pretty truck that you have. I really like the colors on the rig.
That sure is a pretty truck that you have. I really like the colors on the rig.
Awesome pic`s `and vid`s!
Fun to watch!
Thanks, thats what the plan was!
There has definitely been a lot more rules there over the years, thats for sure. And I definitely won't be doing any jumping anytime soon, at least not until I get the cage done, and redo the rear suspension. Even then, it's a heavy truck to jump and I don't like to be busting expensive stuff.
Awesome vids, Heath.
That sure is a pretty truck that you have. I really like the colors on the rig.
Thanks, but the colors are the only thing I didn't do to it, those were already there, everything else, I did. I probably wouldn't of picked them, but it doesn't look bad I don't think.
Brian_D
1/2 ton status
since i was putting a stall converter in. I wanted to be able to monitor trans temp now. But i did not want to hack my dash all up to add a 7th gauge, as wasn’t really happy with a good place to put it. So after some research i determined the autometer temp gauges use the same sending units for engine and trans temps. So i decided what i would do is add a second seconding unit to the trans pan, and a spdt switch in the dash so i can flip which sending unit the gauge is reading, so my engine temp gauge can now be used to check trans temp.
Also, i haven’t been too happy with the short sweep temp gauge. Many times it will shoot way up in temp until the thermostat opens, sometimes up to 230. But the cooling fans won’t even be on yet (thermal switch in the other head at 185, and the temp gauge says the thermostat opens at 210, and i used two different thermostats, both 160 units!) i tried adding extra ground wires, and i always solder and shrink tube my connections, so it wasn’t my connections. It could be that the sending unit it is the head next to the header, but so is the thermal switch for the fans (in the other head). So i decided to upgrade that one gauge to a full sweep. Also because although all of the other short sweep gauges are pretty linear, oil pressure is in 25 psi increments(with a line halfway between each increment), volts are in 2 volt increments, fuel is in 1/4 tank increments, etc. But the water temperature ranges from 30 - 50 degree increments depending on where in the gauge you are at. The full sweep version is in 10 deg increments, with hash marks every 2 degrees, very easy to tell by a quick glance. Also, the full sweep has a built in warning light that you can program to come on at any temp you want. I like gauges and warning lights for the critical things, because you can’t always pay attention to the gauges when you are on the throttle trying to steer.
The full sweep guage does have a 2 wire sender instead of a one wire, which is better because it it's own seperate 5v circuit independent of threaded ground, but what about switching? I called autometer and it’s still just a series resistance circuit, so you only have to switch one of the wires. Just make sure you have solid connections because any added resistance will change the temp reading. I chose to switch the output wire to prevent 5 v from possibly shorting out if a wire ever got frayed.
So i tore the dash apart to make the changes after running all the new wiring outside the cab for the sending units. Now you can also see how i fabbed and wired my gauge cluster back in ‘06.
The cluster uses a metal black trim ring around all the gauges that i drilled out to fit the gauges into. These only came in older trucks, sometime they switched to plastic, i don’t know when. I bought a parts cluster for $20 at a swap meet that had a metal ring. The smaller gauges use pvc to space them out. Because the bezel needed to have more removed from it to fit the smaller gauges, they needed to be spaced out to fit right behind the bezel. Also, i riveted the metal trim panel together between the large gauges, and bent the back down toward the bulb to reflect the light toward the gear indicator. The extra wires (red and green) are plugged into the two leds in the bezel, i’ll explain shortly.
the wiring i left a little extra on each wire in for easier connections because i hate trying to disconnect/connect tight wires, tried to keep it all neat and organized but it looks kind of messy really. You can see where i soldered the wires to the factory bulb sockets for the shift indicator bulb, and the turn signal indicators. I used a newer weatherproof multiconnector for the main harness, i just cut it out of a junk harness from a newer vehicle. Then i could solder all the wires in the truck to that, and when i need to remove the cluster, i just unscrew it, unplug it, and out it comes.
in addition to the metal ring, i used a little piece of angle aluminum from the hardware store to brace the larger two gauges. Excuse the blue zip ties, came in the large zip tie bundle kit and i try to use the stupid colored ones where no one can see them.
the bezel looks near factory from the front. It has two leds, and a switch added. The green led is for the high beams, right between the tach and speedo. The red led over between the small gauges has two functions. It is the brake light indicator, and also a low oil pressure warning light, it is a switched ground, so it was easy to make it work for both. The black switch is the new switch that flips the temp gauge between reading engine and trans temp.
on the back you can see where the modifications took place. For the large gauges to fit the bezel just had to have some webbing trimmed, and the gauge cups ground thinner on the outside edges. The clear plastic also has to be cut and glued to the shift indicator opening. The wires for the leds plug into the cluster wires before the bezel is screwed into place.
the small guage cups had to have some webbing removed, as well as both trim the depth more shallow, and thin the edges so the gauges would sit against the bezel. You can also see the spdt switch for the temp gauge sending units.
and here it is all assembled. I realized when taking the pictures, the closer you get to the gauges in the dash, the more the bezel blocks the edges, you can see them better from the driver’s seat, but i still wanted some close up shots, so here you go. Sorry about the lighting issue, didn’t want to move the truck out of the sun just to take the pics.
awesome
Thank you. It was worth the time.
I had to go back and look, its odd the pictures show up in the original post(#86) but not the quote...
Ok, I got the thread pics all updated to the new host, so they should be all visible again. When I was reviewing my DVD of all the old pics trying to find them again I found a few videos from when my wife and I met Zim at bundy. This video cracks me up because when I was about to leave for the day after Zim left some kids flagged me down and were stuck in the mud and needed a pull. So I helped them out. But what's funny about the video is you have no idea what I'm about to pull out until 2/3 of the way through the 37 second video...
That was with my old 2 1/4" exhaust and the carb.
I also found some videos of Zim's Jeepster, which I posted in his thread here...
http://coloradok5.com/forums/showthread.php?p=3172315#post3172315
That was with my old 2 1/4" exhaust and the carb.
I also found some videos of Zim's Jeepster, which I posted in his thread here...
http://coloradok5.com/forums/showthread.php?p=3172315#post3172315
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I woulda rompped on it!!!
He hooked my strap up with my clevis under the vehicle buried in the mud, so i didn't exactly trust that, so I was trying to take it easy to prevent my clevice from turning into a projectile.
Definitely not what I was expecting. 
y5mgisi
1 ton status
lol that was pretty funny.
Hahaha...did they give a decent excuse for it? Cavalier I think?
Brings back memories of four girls I went to HS with deciding to drive one's 4 door 80's Cavalier down an old, unmaintained, hilly, twisting, in-the-middle-of-a-forest logging road we used to go mud bogging/wheeling on. In the "good" (drier) times of the year you could make it with decent tires and RWD but in any time wet it was 4x4, a rear traction adder, and chunky tires mandatory. Don't try it after someone went down it with big Swampers.
Yeah, they did it in the middle of spring.
I'm told the recovery effort was epic.
Brings back memories of four girls I went to HS with deciding to drive one's 4 door 80's Cavalier down an old, unmaintained, hilly, twisting, in-the-middle-of-a-forest logging road we used to go mud bogging/wheeling on. In the "good" (drier) times of the year you could make it with decent tires and RWD but in any time wet it was 4x4, a rear traction adder, and chunky tires mandatory. Don't try it after someone went down it with big Swampers.
Yeah, they did it in the middle of spring.
I'm told the recovery effort was epic.
454Sub
5/8 ton status
I had to run outside and make sure my car wasnt muddy.... Have the same exact car for work. And I have seen some people do strange things with cars... A guy we go mudding with down here has a 1980s something Lincoln Town Car with every option under the sun, complete with a 460/4speed instead of whatever it came with, and sitting on 38in boggers with no fender trimming. Its mudding, classy style. Hell the AC works, all the power windows, sunroof, and heated seats. Its even got clean paint, it actually is a super clean car inside and out, cept for the 12 or so IN lift on it......Super classy mudding
Theres a cavi at silver lake painted flat black with monster stickers, no doors and a cage with tractor tires. It honestly rips around pretty good
Yeah they said they didn't have a wheeler and wanted to have some fun so they just brought their car. The interior was pretty trashed after that fiasco, but might clean up...
The thing was they were wheeling a car with no one in the group to pull it out. I was on my way out so I pulled it out before I left, but who knows what happened after that. If they got stuck again there wasn't many wheelers left that day.
In one aspect I think it's hilarious and more power too them, but in another aspect they weren't prepared for anything. From the time they flagged me down for help on quads to the time they actually got my clevice hooked up (and then unhooked because once I pulled them out something shifted and the clevice was stuck because he hooked it to sheetmetal under the mud where he couldn't see), it was about an hour of time for something that should of taken two minutes.
It did make for an interesting time though so in the end it was all good.
The thing was they were wheeling a car with no one in the group to pull it out. I was on my way out so I pulled it out before I left, but who knows what happened after that. If they got stuck again there wasn't many wheelers left that day.
In one aspect I think it's hilarious and more power too them, but in another aspect they weren't prepared for anything. From the time they flagged me down for help on quads to the time they actually got my clevice hooked up (and then unhooked because once I pulled them out something shifted and the clevice was stuck because he hooked it to sheetmetal under the mud where he couldn't see), it was about an hour of time for something that should of taken two minutes.
It did make for an interesting time though so in the end it was all good.
andyblack
Registered Loser
I love how one of the related vids at the end was of "Young Gee Kilo Pop" Is that who was driving the car?
Is that who was driving the car?
I have no idea who Gee kilo pop is? It probably is because of the title. Because it made me think, Wha wha whaaaaaaat?
andyblack
Registered Loser
Yeah that must be the same thing that Gee Kilo Pop was saying in his video. (I was scared to click on it at work). Sorta makes you feel special now doesn't it?
