PORTnPOLISH83
Registered Member
Hello everyone, thisnis.y first real post on this forum but I've been lurking here a while. I was raised die hard Chevy so I've browsed through some.of the good info on here before.
Anyways,
I'm one of those guys that lives off of buying "crap" from other people and driving the wheels off it. My last Toyota beater gave up on me and the hard to find parts forced me to scrap yard it. 400 bucks and it toted me around a year and hauled about 5 cords of wood this summer. Since the Toyota was gone my initial action is to cruise craigslist and see if I can find any deals on square bodies. Low and behold I found a decent looking 83 k5 for 800 bones! After some wheeling and dealing I ended up getting it for 600 and all I had to do was out a fuel pump on.
A night in the garage and the fuel pump.was on and I got.to hear her roar for the first time and she wasn't a bad runner. After driving it a week I found more and more wrong. Most stuff wasn't anything for me to worry about because I'm a very competent mechanic and fabricator. But today after solving many of the small issues and evaluating my game plan for the Kore serious issues like rotted floors and stuff I decided to fix the non working license plate light.....and boy that turned into a mess. After following the wires and discovering what looks like 3 different rewire jobs and the current one being very hot and melty and burnt I reliazed they had hacked the wiring over and over to the point in was frustrated trying.to.make sense of the excess of wires and the ignorance of the work.
So now I'm kicking my self thinking the carburetor wasy biggest issue (hack job vucuum lines). But I know in the end how good of vehicles they are and they are worth the time.
Highlight of my finds
(Entire rear lighting system was being powered by 1 unfused 18 gauge wire)
(They burnt one set of wiring I found up doing the same thing as mentioned above)
(All the vacumm lines were cut and blocked, all vacuum systems were being ran off multiples Ts being ran by one single port.
Also the carburetor secondaries are not functioning.
Anyways,
I'm one of those guys that lives off of buying "crap" from other people and driving the wheels off it. My last Toyota beater gave up on me and the hard to find parts forced me to scrap yard it. 400 bucks and it toted me around a year and hauled about 5 cords of wood this summer. Since the Toyota was gone my initial action is to cruise craigslist and see if I can find any deals on square bodies. Low and behold I found a decent looking 83 k5 for 800 bones! After some wheeling and dealing I ended up getting it for 600 and all I had to do was out a fuel pump on.
A night in the garage and the fuel pump.was on and I got.to hear her roar for the first time and she wasn't a bad runner. After driving it a week I found more and more wrong. Most stuff wasn't anything for me to worry about because I'm a very competent mechanic and fabricator. But today after solving many of the small issues and evaluating my game plan for the Kore serious issues like rotted floors and stuff I decided to fix the non working license plate light.....and boy that turned into a mess. After following the wires and discovering what looks like 3 different rewire jobs and the current one being very hot and melty and burnt I reliazed they had hacked the wiring over and over to the point in was frustrated trying.to.make sense of the excess of wires and the ignorance of the work.
So now I'm kicking my self thinking the carburetor wasy biggest issue (hack job vucuum lines). But I know in the end how good of vehicles they are and they are worth the time.
Highlight of my finds
(Entire rear lighting system was being powered by 1 unfused 18 gauge wire)
(They burnt one set of wiring I found up doing the same thing as mentioned above)
(All the vacumm lines were cut and blocked, all vacuum systems were being ran off multiples Ts being ran by one single port.
Also the carburetor secondaries are not functioning.
