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Project Resurrection: The s10 truggy.

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Stomis

Stomis

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Project Resurrection: The s10 truggy.

Im like a damn clown juggling projects here. So tonight I brought home an s10. I couldnt pass it up. The guy did full rockers and cab corners with pictures to prove he did it the right way. Plus a fresh door, fresh front clip, new core support, and a clean bed to donate to my buddy for his s10 street rod. It came home for $600 with 335k on the clock and a 4.3 motor I refuse to believe has that many miles on it.

This all started with this today.



Then I went and bought this for $600.




So Im not doing anything too extravagant here. Between the street rod, work truck, and house Im digging myself into a little bit of a financial hole. This should be a good outlet to fill some of my time doing the fab without too much financial investment.

The plan is to put the s10 cab on the tube frame. Throw the big sun roof from the 442 in it before I junk that. Its looking like the truck is going to be 4.3 TBI, fullsize NV3500 or maybe a nv4500 and dual toyota tcases. Tube truggy bed and an exocage down the road. I want to run my 12,000lb milemarker up front and probably an 8000lb HF in the back as an o **** winch.

Obviously the first thing to tackle will be getting the cab on the frame.

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Whats the reasons for ditching the other body? Just imo it looks way cooler than the s10 body.
 
Deuling said:
Whats the reasons for ditching the other body? Just imo it looks way cooler than the s10 body.
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I have this odd problem where I lose interested in things w/o a bowtie on them. Plus the body was turning into a nightmare to get sunk down on the frame properly and the engine compartment was turning into a pain in the ass to package something simple to work on. Not to mention the idle time had me backpeddling on wanting to do this truck again. Ive wanted to build an ext cab gen 1 s10 since seeing Redder (from pirate) and his woods rig he had years ago.
 
If you work on this like you did the work truck it should be up and running in no time.

You guys should watch Craigslist here in Yuma next time you need a new project, no rust but the plastic may be brittle.
 
D Rat said:
You guys should watch Craigslist here in Yuma next time you need a new project, no rust but the plastic may be brittle.
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Just a tangent, sorry Vinnie, but some dude on FB randomly added me to a yuma for sale page on fb, and they have some great stuff for sale all the time. I just never knew where the heck it was :haha:
 
Deuling said:
Just a tangent, sorry Vinnie, but some dude on FB randomly added me to a yuma for sale page on fb, and they have some great stuff for sale all the time. I just never knew where the heck it was :haha:
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You wouldn't like it, nothing but sand dunes, oh ya it was 76 degrees here today.

Ps. Work truck looks good with the new tires.
 
I'm glad to see the frame from the trooper project coming back to life. Looking forward to seeing it turned into something that can move under its own power someday. :P
 
Deuling said:
Lol, me and not liking sand dunes do not belong in the same sentence ever :haha:




Ok sorry Vinnie, back to the build :whistle:
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Its alright. Ill send you a PM when I have a gap of updates and we'll come bull**** about something else in here lol.

ashman said:
I'm glad to see the frame from the trooper project coming back to life. Looking forward to seeing it turned into something that can move under its own power someday. :P
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Shhh dont jinx it lol.











Snapped some daylight pics. Heres the 255s against a stock 2wd s10 lol.




Underhood.




Because I used the Black 8 holes wheels unexpectedly on the work truck I had the 255s put on the Gmt400 slotted steelies. They are the right width for the narrower tires whereas the black wheels were 16x8 and would have stretched the tire open and lost some height. There was two problems with these wheels on a straight axle truck. First being the hub bore in the center is super small and wont fit over a lockout. This was an easy fix. Paul knocked them open with the plasma for me in a matter of half an hour. Thanks again btw.



Thats how we got the olympic rings lol.



I was happy to see my box of goodies from Roark Supply arrived just before I left the house today. On top of the cutoff wheels, flapper disc, fiber paper, and sanding belt I ordered I also finally picked up a couple carbide cutting bits. So I knocked off the slag with the angle grinder and stone and smoothed the cuts out with a carbide bit. Btw have no qualms about buying carbide bits from them, they work awesome.



Second issue I knew I was going to have from trying this before with the troopers stocker IFS wheels was I was going to hit the knuckle where the tierod hooks up. Which I did. I knew I was going to need spacers in the back from the start. So even if I bought new wheels with the right backspacing Id still need spacers in the back. So I just ordered the correct stagger on two pairs to get the track width the same. 1.5" for the front and 2.5" for the back. I ordered trail gear spacers but summit stocks them now so Ill get them probably tuesday.

It sucks I cant bolt the wheels on because now Im stuck with the body on the frame. I might have a big ornamental job coming in at work so the street truck might get the hood put on and wind up outside.

:sign19:

At least I could sneak the frame in there for some work though. I want to get the door panels off and the entire cab sprayed so its done. And yes its getting shot flat khaki tan and black just like the old 87 flatbed was with the black hood and roof and all.
 
Pulled the HUGE sunroof out of the 442 today and sized it up on the s10. Might as well be a convertible lol.

After a little bit of researching last night Ive basically came up with my motor game plan. Ill be sticking with the 4.3 TBI and basically doing vortec heads, small cam, and intake on it. Should be about 230-250hp and 280-300ftlbs of torque.
 
Why put that money into the 4.3? For the cost of the heads, intake, cam, and all related parts to make it fresh, you could have a junkyard 5.3L with about 300ish hp. :deal:
 
Well its really not that much money. $200 for heads, about $300 to do the bottom end, $200 for the intake, and $250ish for a cam. So for $1000 Ill have a totally fresh motor making the correct amount of power for the drivetrain. Plus no investment in wiring harnesses since its a TBI truck. It cost me $1000 just to do the bottom end in my 5.3. I decided against a v8 because I want packaging easy to work on just in case of breakdowns, I dont want to have to worry about nuking toyota transfer cases, and I dont want to invest money in wiring harnesses.

Yes I'll be around the power level of a stock 4.8 but the packaging will be much simpler and parts are even cheaper and more abundant. (Lol is that possible?)
 
Well this is off to a great start... Check the tracking on my wheel spacers and it says they're delivered. Go outside no box, look around no box. Call fedex to confirm the tracking is correct and file a lost package claim. In 20 years no one has ever stolen a box off my front porch so I really doubt its that; although Fedex was more than happy to insinuate thats what they felt.

I have had tracking say something was here and then it not show up until the next day. I think drivers do it on purpose to meet quota and try to slip one by the customers. I even told the lost package department that but they kept insisting maybe one of my neighbors has it. Im gonna wait until monday and if it doesnt show up I'll call summit and have them ship another set and they can deal with fedex...

And to think I got all excited I could go get the frame rolling...
 
Explain to me how a fedex ground package shows up at 11:45 on a sunday....


Me thinks the driver panicked and dropped it off when LP contacted him about a missing package he marked as delivered that he didnt...
 
So first thing this morning I hooked up the trailer that me and the wife put the 442 on on saturday. Hauled it off to the boneyard. I salvaged the gigantic pop up sunroof and electric cooling fan from the 442 and pulled the rad out to scrap separate. Really didnt bother me much to see it go. Just kind of sucked to scrap a true blue real 442 but apparently no one found it to be worth saving and Im not really that sentimental about hanging onto stuff for the "sake of saving its rarity".

Then I came back to the yard and got the spacers and wheels all bolted up on the frame, guess this will be the last post I reference it as a "trooper frame" lol.



Looks good sitting on 255s with the shallow steelies. The track widths now match front and rear with the spacers staggered. 66" front and rear with obviously very tucked in wheels. Its 1.5" spacers up front and 2.5" spacers out back. Just for reference the 1.5" spacers are the absolute minimum one would need to bolt an IFS 7in wide steelie on a straight axle. I think an 8 lug setup would clear with no spacer due to the hubs being wider by the same amount as the spacers IIRC. So I guess in the future if I ever wind up 8 lug I'll have the same track width. But I really dont foresee that happening.

Heres the tierod arm clearance. About 3/8ths



This pinion angle is good right?



:haha:


Death to the trooper body.



I told the guy at the yard "Its just the body. Please dont mess up my tube frame lol". Theyre all circle track guys at the junkyard there so Im sure he understood lol.


Back home with a clean slate, sorta :dunno:




So Im still w/o work. Kinda just waiting for stuff to happen on that front which means money is tight. Ive gotta pony up for a set of body mounts and that should keep me plenty busy for a week or two. If I can manage to get the body on outside I'll have boat loads to keep me busy build engine mounts, swapping in pedals for a stick, painting the cab, installing the sunroof. Its going to suck spending the money on a nv4500, nv4500 to toyota adapter, and a toyota tcase doubler but eh gotta be done.
 
O and for reference the tires on this thing are 72in outside to outside and fender to fender on the s10 is 66". Shes gonna be a narrow, low, woods squeezing crawlin beotch.
 
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