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    Little tips and tricks

    Here’s another power window trick, I just remembered that works for a lot of different vehicles and saves a lot of misery. 1: make marks on the old motor and regulator that indicate relative position to one another, after removing them from the door shell while they are still bolted together...
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    Correct speedometer driven gear tooth count?

    My '85 C10 with a Th350C, and 3:08 rear end decided to chew up the driven gear on the tail shaft housing (The one that slips into the "bullet"). What would cause this to happen, and what is the correct tooth count driven gear to replace it with? Thanks.
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    Show your daily driver

    Good luck on your search for a 2 door Yukon/Tahoe. Clean ones that are bargain priced are only getting scarcer these days.
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    1989 Chevy K1500

    I noticed the small hinges when I looked at my friends ‘95 WT with its driver door hanging on for dear life. From what I’ve seen, the hinges seem a little undersized for square body doors too, although the sag doesn’t seem nearly as bad as a lot of GMT400s I’ve seen. Not beefing up the hinges...
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    Show your daily driver

    A lot of guys will tell me I’m crazy for going out of my to buy long beds, but the real kind of crazy is fighting ratchet straps and playing cargo Tetris in a short bed when the same cargo could be hauled by simply loading the bed and shutting the tailgate on a long bed. With that said, there’s...
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    Show your daily driver

    My current 2004 Silverado 2500HD 4x4 6.0/4L80e With it being a crew cab with an 8 foot bed, I rarely run out of room to put things when I am moving a bunch of stuff at once. I saved it from becoming an older gentleman’s “beater truck” since he thought being 20 years old somehow makes it...
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    90s sun visors in my 77

    There’s a lot of GMT400 and GMT800 bits that work surprisingly well in squares with some modification. The rear seat of a crew cab GMT800 or the front seat of an early GMT400 make for nice front seats in a square. I’m honestly pretty comfy in the OE style bench seat though, even if it lacks a...
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    1989 Chevy K1500

    A GMT400 with doors that are not about to fall off of it or don’t require insane force to close is getting rare in my neck of the woods. Most people don’t bother fixing them and shrug it off part of the experience of having an old truck. Kudos to you for going the extra mile and restoring some...
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    1989 Chevy K1500

    You are making good progress on this one. I too would've totally taken my chances with that particular truck if the price was right. Early GMT400s are a neat in the sense that they still have old school stuff like small block V8s, Saginaw columns and other legacy GM bits and pieces but it is all...
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    Gauge cluster

    Beware of junkyard takeout guages. Remember, most are nearly as old as yours are, if not older. Like Rick F said, it’s generally less hassle to change individual gauges than an entire cluster, especially when considering the large amount of variation between wiring, printed circuit boards and...
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    SWAPPING 84 c10 body onto 84 k10 FRAME

    This is excellent info. Would you mind if I include this post in the parts interchange thread?
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    Need mechanic for ‘74 c10

    Welcome to the forum. I know it can be daunting and time consuming to tackle jobs, but a square (especially an early one like a '74) is quite forgiving to work on for a beginner and does not require a large variety of expensive tools. a basic socket set, box wrench set, screw driver set...
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    SWAPPING 84 c10 body onto 84 k10 FRAME

    73-80 trucks have removable/swappable transmission humps, 81+ squares do not. If you resort to cutting and welding to change humps, measure carefully and try to get as close to factory height as possible. If you do this wrong, the factory carpet will never fit right again. If the donor vehicle...
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    Definitive interchangeable parts thread 73-87(91) (non-drivetrain)

    You’re right, I brain farted that post and confused trucks. I’ll go back and edit, thanks for the catch.
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    Definitive interchangeable parts thread 73-87(91) (non-drivetrain)

    Quick note about about DoD contract built CUCVs: The M1008 pickup is essentially just an ‘84 K30 Custom Deluxe with a 24 volt NATO spec electrical system. The M1009 Blazer is base model ‘84 K5 Blazer. It also has a 24 volt electrical system. The CUCV contract lasted several years; though...
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