So I took the longest trip yet with the K5. 120 miles round trip to Webster and back. Not a lot, I’ll give you that, but up until this trip, all I have driven it is 15 miles at a shot around town, etc. The purpose of this trip was to pickup a rust free [...]
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Oil Change… Oh boy…
Changed the oil yesterday. All went fairly well except for the oil out of the filter that had the consistency of cold maple syrup. NICE! Well… Not so much… I flushed out the crank case with some fresh oil, installed the drain plug, installed a new filter, and filled it up. Started it up and [...]
Used 4.10 Gears Arrived
I had the chance to purchase a set of used 4.10 gears off of ColoradoK5.com. $100 delivered to my door for a 45:11 Dana 44 gear set and a 41:10 14BFF gearset. Not too shabby and the gears look excellent. The wear is almost undetectable to the naked eye. So the future drivetrain will be [...]
QuadraJet Troubles Cured!!
After my earlier QuadraJet episode, I still had the hard start issue with a few more problems to boot. Seems that one of the little arms on the passenger side of the carb was mispositioned and jammed the secondaries shut. Not only that, but I was still having the hard start problem. I tried a [...]
Donor 74 Jimmy
I have located a VERY poor condition Jimmy that I am currently negotiating a price with the current owner. This truck has no title with it so it would be a parts truck only. The body is rusted quite badly, but the frame and running gear looks pretty good. 12-bolt rear and Dana-44 front. I [...]
Quadrajet Troubles
I swapped out the old points style distributor for the HEI distributor that I temporarily robbed from my Chevelle. Everything went quite smooth with the swap and it starts and runs MUCH better now. New problem from last weekend was that it would start VERY hard after it would sit for a little bit. I [...]
8-Lug Corp 10-bolt
The luck continues! Today I picked up a GM Corp 10-bolt front axle with 8-lug outers from an NP203 equipped 3/4 ton truck for $50! Everything spins over very well and it looks very good inside. Since this was originally on a full-time 4wd truck, there are no lock out hubs installed, rather a dust [...]
14FF Found!
And the 14FF is in the shop! Dad had his new backhoe home today. I shot up to the shale pit with it and snagged the axle out of the weeds. Everything looks good inside. I was able to get one drum freed up with some tender tapping with a 5lb hammer. The one that [...]
Shale Pit Fun!
I had to go down to my dad’s place today to snap some pictures of a few parts off of my donor Suburban so I figured I’d go up to his shale pit and have a little fun. Here are the pics: