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    Red Oxide Primer

    Denis71, Thank you for the photos, your squarebody looks great. The reason I wanted to shy away from red is because here in Canada, especially in the town where I live, the RCMP love any excuse to hammer down on hotrods and I think red just makes my heat score of a truck even more of a heat...
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    Red Oxide Primer

    Fat 454, thank you for the insight it has been very helpful. I think I am overthinking it and I will just go with a darker tremclad top coat, thin it with mineral spirits like I did the primer, and give it a few coats and call it a day. To the others that replied, does applying a hardener just...
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    Red Oxide Primer

    Grit Dog, That’s a fair point and thanks for the input. I didn’t rattle can it though, I used an LVLP sprayer and reduced the primer 4:1 with mineral spirits but I understand it’s basically the same thing. I did tons of rust repair (cab corners, rockers, hood, fender, driver side door) but it...
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    Red Oxide Primer

    Thank you for the replies. For more context - before I primered it I sanded the whole truck and finished with 220 and then 320 by hand. There’s two coats of tremclad red oxide on it now, I would like to give it 2 coats of grey primer like I mentioned before. Perhaps my best bet is to just buy...
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    Red Oxide Primer

    Hello Everyone, I’m in the final stages of the bodywork/paint for my truck. I’ve painted the whole front clip/cab/box in the Tremclad red oxide rust primer. It came out great! However, I’ve decided to go with a different (lighter) topcoat colour and so I’d like to give it a prime coat in grey...
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    Converting Diesel Wiring to Gas

    Thank you both...it seems that the previous owner had already removed a fair amount of the diesel wiring and I've spent the last week pulling the rest out. Wow...I can't believe how much cleaner it is under the dash with all that extra copper pulled out. I'll probably put what I pulled out up...
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    Converting Diesel Wiring to Gas

    Hello Everyone, The cab on my truck is from an 83’ diesel that was originally ordered for the Canadian Army. The cab now sits on a lowered shortbox chassis with a 383 and a super t-10. The original wiring harness has a few extra runs of wiring that I do not recognize which I believe are to...
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    Custom Tail Lights or Not

    Thanks everyone for the suggestions. I’m leaning towards going with the stock lights then, I’ve done fiberglass before, it’s not terribly hard but it’s nothing to enjoy. I have to finish painting the doors anyways so I have some time to think about it. I am excited to get this thing on the road...
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    Custom Tail Lights or Not

    Hello Everyone, I’m painting my truck in stages. I’ve got the cab and front clip in primer, I’d like to move onto the box and rear fenders but before I do so I need to figure out what to do with the holes in my fenders. I bought these fiberglass stepside fenders off a kid as they are in great...
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    Backing Plates

    Thank you Squaredeal, from the pics I think the backing plates are very similar across the years. Though the pic of the 91’ is a 3500 I think it says that parking cables were routed in a similar fashion regardless of size or rear end.
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    Backing Plates

    this is the backing plate with the old style cables that came with it, I’m hoping that the parking brake kit for the 84’-87’ squarebody is a bolt on deal.
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    Backing Plates

    Hello Everyone, I am ordering a parking brake kit from LMC truck for my 86’ shortbox frame, for 84’-87’ chevy ran the parking brake cables along the driver side frame rail rather than up both sides like in 73’-83’ I have a 12 bolt rear end with the heavy duty 2 3/4 shoes…I think the rear end...
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    Bad balance? Or improper flywheel?

    Hello All, In my quest to build this project truck of mine I’ve swapped out my th350 for a super t10 and so I changed out the 168 tooth flexplate for a 168 tooth flywheel. My motor is a 383 stroker with a long-rod externally balanced kit from eagle speciality products. The flywheel I got is...
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    Master Cylinder Pushrod Help

    Hello All, I am bolting up a brake booster and master cylinder from a 1977 C10 onto my 1983 C10. I noticed that the hole on the end of the brake booster pushrod is a bit smaller than the stud it attaches to on the brake pedal arm. Does anybody know what size I have to drill the hole out to...
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    Help with cab corner fitment

    Thank you for the speedy reply, I think you might have just solved this dilemma for me. How did the pie-cut method turn out for you?
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