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Smokey The Crew Cab---- 90 V3500 6.5 Banks equipped(Cummins Swap in progress)
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nice finds...
It's still mine , it's just going out to his place for awhile . I ended up putting a regular bed back on. When some of my other projects get sorted out I will bring her home and start messing with it again. But for now it's the easy homestead life , hauling firewood ,some gravel, and pushing snow a few times a winter.
Well it's making room to combine these two
Smokey is getting some love before headed north to the cabin . New hood , fenders , and lower valance
Went up to the cabin and did a little more work , front clip is installed and shimmed . Also replaced both motor mounts and the leaky fuel pump.
Next up will be a rattlecan paint job , and plow mount and swap the buckets for a bench and maybe even carpet!
Next up will be a rattlecan paint job , and plow mount and swap the buckets for a bench and maybe even carpet!
Fender looks like it lined up pretty good.
I swapped all the body mounts to energy suspension urethane bushings and also did a 1" ORD body lift when I first built the truck they seem to be holding up very well.
I did have to loosen the core support bolts though and realign it all those years of rough roads and twisty wheeling had knocked it out of wack
So Smokey is back in operation . I ditched the stock lift pump and installed a FASS fuel system on it . Best mod done to date , it primes so fast now and honestly I think it's running better then ever before. I will definelty be doing this mod on my blue burb soon .
Cleaning and prepping the yard and shop for winter projects , getting the projects staged so I can access them once the snow comes .
Next Weekend I will start the build on the 79 crewcab , 383 , 3" duals , 6" lift and Hummer 37" to start out
Cleaning and prepping the yard and shop for winter projects , getting the projects staged so I can access them once the snow comes .
Next Weekend I will start the build on the 79 crewcab , 383 , 3" duals , 6" lift and Hummer 37" to start out
Long read here , bear with me.
So it's just your basic 383 , forged rotating assembly 6" H-beam rods , splayed main billet caps . 10-1 compression , AFR 195 angle plug heads . Hydraulic Roller Cam with Rev Kit, 1.6 rockers with support girdle , port matched performer RPM intake , Jet Stage 2 Q-jet , MSD Billet distributor , block was decked an aligned bored , then I ground all the casting flash and , installed threaded plugs for the oil galleys , high volume pump , windage tray , and that's about it .
Not sure what it makes Power wise , I built it years ago for a friends 69 C10 , the first build include a solid roller cam a 750 Holley on top of a victor Jr and it screamed . After about 3 yrs of beating on it He over reved it and bent 3 push rods and brought the truck back to me . I pulled the oil filter and cut it open and found a bunch of aluminum and freaked out . I told him we should pull the the engine and check everything out . Well turns out the aluminum was from the the cam button seizing up and rubbing on the timing cover . Luckily the cam didn't walk forward enough to do any damage .
Then my buddy decided that he wanted to convert the C10 to a 4x4 so he wanted to de tune the engine a bit so I freshened it up with new bearings and took the zero gap rings out and replaced them with conventional style good rings and and ran a hone through it . Then I put in the Hydraulic Roller , Performer RPM , and the q- jet .
I finished the frame swap for him and was getting ready to drop the engine in the truck when he went through a divorce , she ended up with the truck of spite .
So , the engine sat here in my shop for like three years , he bought an 89 GMT400 1-ton single cab SRW from me with no motor and decided he wanted that engine in there, so I swapped it in and got it running for him and he actually got to drive for about a week before he got t- boned , totaling the truck . So I pulled the motor and scrapped the truck and it's been sitting on a stand for the last 3 years .
The other day , when he came back to drop off the suburban after borrowing it for over a year he gave me the engine to say thanks .
Sell that cursed thing. Jeez.
Pretty sure it's just my buddy's bad luck lol , the cam button thing really irked me though I'm pretty serious about the engines I build . I tripple double check my parts and all machine work . And I try to use quality parts every step of the way.
Zim , this motor would be pretty sweet in a vette . Eventually this motor will come back out and go in something more worthy then a crew cab 1-ton .
Zim , this motor would be pretty sweet in a vette . Eventually this motor will come back out and go in something more worthy then a crew cab 1-ton .
Played around with the 79 today ,
