Man, that's some nasty rust for you not to be near salty water.
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Black Betty - Formerly Blaze the Monster Machine
- Thread starter centexk5
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1984 K5 Project for Dad and kids
Previous owner used this truck as a mud truck down in Houston. Nothing but gumbo clay. Stuff is terrible.
Have you used the winch recently? I'd be surprised if it worked with those leads.
I spooled it out and ran it back in about 8mo ago and it worked. But as for an actual load, no I didn’t.
Started replacing battery cables. So far got the cable from battery to frame and battery to starter replaced. Also got an 0ga quick disconnect for the winch.
Did some fender trimming today. Going to be driving it an hour away and crawling and hopefully driving home tomorrow. Last trip before new gears and lockers.
Cracked fuel pump caused by broken motor mounts and the passenger header got some love from the front driveshaft. We had a good time.
Ordered diy4x comp motor mounts and energy suspension transmission mounts because I looked at those and those are blown also. I gotta quit this rock crawling stuff. It’s expensive haha.
New fuel pump is on and running.
Did some testing before I get my new gears and got a best of 14.5sec 0-60.
Did some testing before I get my new gears and got a best of 14.5sec 0-60.
Oh man, those things are loud. 
Really? I can’t hear it at all unless I get on the ground next to it.
I had 2 different Holley blue pumps on my old truck and they were brutally loud. You could somewhat here it over open headers. Maybe the red pumps are different.
I’ve used the blacks and reds and haven’t had any issues with the noise.
My holly blue was loud when I had my 383. It will be nice to see some gears and lockers in that thing.
When it's 34* and you gotta drive half an hour with no doors or top. Got a few looks. But truck is dropped off for gears and lockers.
Shop just called. Apparently I can’t count and I had a 3 pin carrier instead of a 4 pin so we gotta order a new carrier. Surprisingly it was actually a limited slip although it’s never worked. Tech said the clutches crumbled when he split it apart. Also need new inner axle seals on the front axle which I’m not surprised and one of the front calipers is grinding on a rotor so they are getting a new bracket to fix that. Always freaking something.
IMO the front inner axle seals should always be replaced whenever the carrier comes out. It's a cheap and easy thing to replace while it's apart.
This ^^ is a good rule to live by, too much effort to remove the carrier to not replace those seals.
I agree. I thought it was included in the master rebuild kit.
Is that 34 counting wind chill lol
