Well slow progress lately
I pulled the cab and bed off (for the millionth time) except this time, I put it It in the yard, where 20" of snow dumped around it. The thinking is to keep the body OFF the chassis till I get the entire chassis operational! I seem to put the cab and bed on cause I like looking at it, but then I gotta take it off to mount this or that, then this and that get put off cause the cab is in the way.
I have a lot of thigs to finish up before the body goes back on.
I got a crossmember motor mount In place, so now the engine has a perminate home, I need a trans adapter so I can finalize the mount for the transmission. Then gotta correct the angle of the rear end before making a drive shaft.
Picked up some front calipers at the junk yard today (for $14/pair!!!) and a tilt steering column out of a 93 blazer (for $20) which has the turn signal lever, ignition switch with key, horn button, and wiper lever.
I probably won't use the ignition switch since I was going to use about 11 regular switches that you would have to put In The right position for the truck to turn on, (1-0-0-0-1-1-1-0-1-0-1) then just a momentary switch for the starter. This should keep me from not being able to drive it without having the keys in my pocket [cl
Finally, I'll need to plumb the new brake lines and hard air bag lines......CRAP, that reminds me, I still need to buy front bags and mount them to the a arms too.
Then I can put the body on and setup the shift linkage for the floor shifter, place the fuel tank and air tanks.
It's getting there. So far I'm up to $2491.92 for ALL the parts for the truck
I won't make the $3000 club, but it'll still be cheap!!
Good news is, with the steering column, I've closed the gap for having parts from each decade since the 50's[cl
1950 international cab and bed
1960's Camaro 350
1968 GMC C15 chassis
1979 Chevy C10 front disk brakes
1989 Chevy s10 steering column
1990's BMW 325i seats
2007 Dodge ram 20" wheels (steel)
Now I think I need to broaden the decades by filling in parts from the 40's, 30's and 20's