Stout 85K5

[tarussell]

And how close are you to full filling that build @tarussell

Ha,ha - ole John’s been wearing me out to do the whole thread build but I still got a lot of truck parts to get right first.

Also, I’ve got more machine work to be done since I’ve changed out to a 197 tooth flywheel - one day I gotta stop making upgrades and just finish it…

Right now I am looking for another cab since I am not blessed with the skill set for that type of work - all my tools turn nuts and bolts but none are dolly’s and flat hammers for mak’n sheet metal act right.

 

[Capt Ron]

As far as the armrest goes, have you tried putting it about 1/2 up, push in hard with your palm where is swivels and turn clockwise ds and ccw pass side?
Might have to be bolted down, gotta push kinda hard if I remember correctly.

 

[sweetk30]

I bet good ol alen @mountainexplorer has a few 292 motors up in his small collection

 

[nvrenuf]

...one day I gotta stop making upgrades and just finish it…

Be very careful, this is a rabbit hole I have yet to be able to climb out of.

 

[tarussell]

I bet good ol alen @mountainexplorer has a few 292 motors up in his small collection

Good to hear that there are other 292 hoarders - I collected seven of them in the late 90’s so I’d have something to pick from once I got around to building mine.
They are certainly gett’n harder to locate - especially the mid-seventies on up with more modern brackets and accessories.

 

[tarussell]

Be very careful, this is a rabbit hole I have yet to be able to climb out of.

You are part of my upgrade problems!

 

[Larry]

As far as the armrest goes, have you tried putting it about 1/2 up, push in hard with your palm where is swivels and turn clockwise ds and ccw pass side?
Might have to be bolted down, gotta push kinda hard if I remember correctly.

I tried a few of the special handshakes with no luck. I didn’t see a clip or anything like many other buckets have to release the arm rests. I found the brand name of them….. they are Kustom Fit seats by Hi-Tech Seating Products out of Cerritos, CA. They look pretty heavy duty and well built. The build date is 2012 so they’re pretty new.

 

[cheavyk10]

I found those seats on Marketplace a few years ago when a couple dikes bought an International Forestry Service fire crew truck like the one below at a GSA action and planned to turn it into a vanlife rig and tour the cuntry

This is probably a typo at the end of the sentence but the context had me dying....
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Anyway... Super clean build been enjoying it!!

 

[fourwheelerjeff]

This is probably a typo at the end of the sentence but the context had me dying....
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Anyway... Super clean build been enjoying it!!

I think it was spelled that way on purpose. he said a couple of wire cutting pliers had bought it.

 

[Larry]

My spell chekr knows me well enough not to bother correcting some of the socially incorrect things I often say. Rob knows that all too well. We have some hilarious texts some times

 

[Wes Harden]

I tried a few of the special handshakes with no luck. I didn’t see a clip or anything like many other buckets have to release the arm rests. I found the brand name of them….. they are Kustom Fit seats by Hi-Tech Seating Products out of Cerritos, CA. They look pretty heavy duty and well built. The build date is 2012 so they’re pretty new.

Doesn't surprise me the seats are well made. The guberment does like to spend our $$$, probably spent 1k ea on those seats

 

[imiceman44]

Man that’s a great idea !

Someone on here should build a square with a TBI 292 with a high-lift more torque mak’n roller cam and higher compression pistons and dressed out with all the brackets , pulleys and components for P/S and A/C axial compressor and a modified HEI dist. set up - that would be really cool and a lot of work finding all the parts - but I’d be willing to bet that even a die hard big block fan would do it and that it would be worth it!

BTW, very nice build !

I knew it was you when he mentioned another member here doing this.
I want to say you mentioned something somewhere about it that I read recently

 

[imiceman44]

As far as the armrest goes, have you tried putting it about 1/2 up, push in hard with your palm where is swivels and turn clockwise ds and ccw pass side?
Might have to be bolted down, gotta push kinda hard if I remember correctly.

Sounds about right.
I had a van with arm rests I finally figured out how to take off

 

[ZooMad75]

My spell chekr knows me well enough not to bother correcting some of the socially incorrect things I often say. Rob knows that all too well. We have some hilarious texts some times

Yes our text conversations are not for the faint of heart. Even some of our buddies on our group chat can't quite hang with the level of smart-assed profanity we use as "language".

 

[sweetk30]

You guys do know about www.12bolt.com for 6cyl stuff ?

 

[tarussell]

You guys do know about www.12bolt.com for 6cyl stuff ?

Tom’s a pretty good ole guy - I think that I have funded one of his projects with my last two purchases from him.
These oddball in-line parts ain’t cheap!

 

[Larry]

It’s not much, but if you try to spend at least an hour a day on a project progress is being made even if it’s as simple as sand blasting door hinges one day, painting them the next and assembling and installing them on the 3rd. All of the little BS needs to be done sooner or later. I still need to go shopping at my favorite retail establishment for a driver’s upper door hinge. Not sure if I lost it to toss it because the spring was broken. I seem to remember the door driver’s door hinge from the donor C20 was trashed.

 

[Chevy305]

I use the same philosophy. it's like an hour a day keeps the Dr away.

 

[mrk5]

We all must think alike, I do the same as well.

 

[Larry]

Very small wins for the K5 this week but it’s still progress.........

First, the clutch got juice and bled. This one was definitely one of the more difficult ones I’ve bled alone as I’m using a early 90’s bell with the passengers side slave cylinder so the hose is 5 feet long! (Earl’s PN 64191960ERL hose, 592054ERL fitting for the master cylinder and LS641001ERL for the slave). When I couldn’t get juice down to the slave I just decided to leave the bleeder cracked open at the slave over night to hopefully get some drips by morning. Hell no! The entire reservoir spilled out of the floor sometime overnight! Even with juice now though the line it took some finagling between a power bleeder and manual bleeding to finally get the air out. In the end, it worked out fine but boy, is that pedal stiff! That doesn’t make sense as the clutch is the typical Centerforce that I use in everything, the master is the same but this is the first time I’ve ever used this particular early 90’s GMT400 slave in anything. My dad owned a few of those trucks back in the day with this particular slave cylinder and I don’t remember the pedals being this stiff on those trucks. On the other hand, I love these Tilton reservoirs as they hold a lot of juice whereas the small original reservoir for the 85+ squares are too small. My K10 still has a tiny original reservoir and you can feel the fluid getting warm on the trail after about an hour of being in an out of the clutch a thousand times. I need to upgrade that one someday....I should have done it when the fender was off a couple years ago to fix Desert Trip trail rash.

Then it sprouted a new Remy starter as well as a two-piece speedo cable. I needed up using a two-piece speedo cable from an old 70’s Buick/Cadillac/Oldsmobile big body car in order to route the cable the way I wanted it to go for clearance of JB Custom Fab triple stick shifter cables

Nothing will get done next week. I have to hit the road to sunny (and floody) SoCal