Overbuilding - Looking for advice on how not to

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BUILD THREAD STARTS POST # 12

This is a great site and a big help for me with detail information and how to's for various projects on these 67-72 trucks.

I've acquired a '68 C10 SWB stepside with the 250 3spd setup. The truck has been sitting in the original owners sons garage for years and I finally was able to get my hands on it.

The trucks currently runs and drives but still needs alot of work to have it reliable enough to drive to town with no worries.

In the past few months I've:
- Replace the fuel system (new tank, lines, fuel pump, carb)
- Replaced the Radiator
- New Valve cover gasket/breather/pcv

Future plans:
1) HEI (read numerous times best upgrade you can do for these motors)
2) Power steering and front end rebuild (loose manual steering as is)
3) Power Brakes
4) ECE 4/6 drop with 6 lug disk

Goal: get this truck mechanically solid and reliable without getting into the overbuilding nightmare that keeps projects in the garage for years. Right now my plan is to follow the 1-4 sequence as above unless others have suggestions that doing certain upgrades together at once is best or any other upgrades are key.