68 C50 Looongbed pickup build

[Softpatch]

Originally Posted by flashed

I dont know how I missed this build but Im in to see more .

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I'm with this guy
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holly smoke there some good stuff in her....
Thanks for posting ...Sp
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http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/s...=504416&page=2
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http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/s...d.php?t=704713
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http://www.stemco.com/f/qbin/STEMCO_Kaiser_2013.pdf
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[rkn463]

Originally Posted by Softpatch

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I'm with this guy
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holly smoke there some good stuff in her....
Thanks for posting ...Sp
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http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/s...=504416&page=2
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http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/s...d.php?t=704713
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http://www.stemco.com/f/qbin/STEMCO_Kaiser_2013.pdf
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Softpatch, I'm really glad to know that you are looking in on my build. I've followed your 59 Viking revival, that is an awesome truck and you are doing a great job of bringing it back to life! Sometimes I regret not keeping the 68 drivetrain stock, but the 89 was just a dream to drive by comparison. I hope to have some more to post next week.

-Richard

[rkn463]

Hi folks, been a while since I updated. Weekend of July 9th we had family in for the weekend, I got to meet my little 3 year old great niece and great nephew (twins). They were really cool kids and we all had a great time. That did not leave me much time for the project but I did manage to finish cleaning up the intake and valve covers and paint them. Unfortunately my phone deleted all 122 pictures in the "camera" folder along with 5 other folders. I won't go in to how mad I am at Samsung right now but to say the least this was the last straw and I'll never own another one of their unreliable products.

This weekend started early with a bit more recreational mowing but this time I brought out the big guns. You can get a lot of mowing done when you cut a 15 foot wide swath!

Now for a couple more random pictures, somewhat out of order. This weekend was about getting the motor cleaned up and painted along with getting the repainted non-smog motor intake and valve covers installed. Part of that involved stripping the front accessories off of the engine but I needed to do something about the master cylinder first. I had left it connected and just used baling wire to hold it to a piece of box tubing that I had wired down to the engine brackets. I had to come up with something different so I started looking around and found a couple of holes in the frame that I could bolt to, so I drilled a piece of box tubing that I mounted to the frame and the master to that. Now it is up and out of the way. You can kind of see how it was before and a pretty good after shot.

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Next it was time to remove the distributor so that I could get the intake off. I marked and removed all of the wires then I marked the back of the distributor and the motor so that I would have a reference to put the timing back where it started. Then I removed the cap and rotated the motor until the rotor cap was pointing straight to the front. I removed the clamp and pulled the distributor out and put a mark on the distributor housing showing how far it rotated when pulling it so that I would be able to stab it back into the exact same orientation.

I wanted to tape over a couple of openings before I blew it off with the air hose and couldn't find my tape. I got to looking around and found that at some point it fell, landed on top of the exhaust pipe and balanced there, what are the odds? I wish I had just won the lotto instead!
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Moving along with the tear down (actually it was probably about now that I mounted the brake cylinder).

I finished stripping everything off the top of the motor: carb, EGR, hoses, etc.. Then I stripped the accessories off the front of the motor (after taking a reference photo).

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Then off with the intake, I was really pleased with how clean the motor is inside. The truck had belonged to a family business and they obviously took great care of it! Once the intake was off I put paper towels in the lifter gallery and stuffed some down the intake ports and went to scraping. Once the gasket surfaces were clean I wiped them down with brake cleaner, sucked the paper towels out of the heads with the shop vac and vacuumed out all of the intake ports. After that I taped over the ports to keep them clean then I tapped out all of the intake bolt holes, some of the bolts came out hard and were rusty, others just plain grungy.

Next I pulled the valve covers, once again, SUPER clean in there! A bit more cleaning around the head to cover mating surface. Finally I carefully removed the paper towels from the lifter gallery and vacuumed out the minor amount of crap that had made it into the gallery.

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Finally it was time to reassemble, valve covers back on, dropped the intake on with some help; that thing is heavy! I cleaned a crap load of bolts, and put it all back together. I don't agree with the torque sequence but it was in the FSM so I followed it, we'll see if I end up with problems. Finally several coats of paint over the newly cleaned bolts and hold downs and then stabbed the distributor back in. Check out the before and after

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