Father / Son project K10

Hello all. My son and I have started building his dream truck “Cheyenne”. He graduated this year with a mechanical engineering degree and has moved back into the empty nest. I guess he couldn’t stand his salary burning a hole in his pocket or that my shop was clean and had space, so he bought a 75 c10 Cheyenne. I know the truck and the guy he bought it from ( I’m law enforcement and he was a coworker from another agency). Long and short last year he got a good deal on a fairly straight body 2wd. The PO had a reman 350 bored 30 over with an Edlebrock (ewww) carb and intake. It has Dart iron horse 165 heads with stock exhaust manifolds. All held together with more rtv than bolts. Typical stamped chrome valve covers with long shaft thandle valve cover bolts stuck to the block with three or four gaskets and five tubes of permatex gray rtv. But hey at least he thought enough of spraying low temp Krylon on everything inside and out on the block. But hey the th350 has around 500 miles on the rebuild. After talking it over and hear his plans he wanted to custom lift it. I finnally got it through his head of how bad an idea lifting a 2wd square body 6 inches was and he found a 78 K10 donner for a 4wd frame swap conversion. It shows it is a Scottsdale camper special stepside. No motor but full drive line and axels (14 bolt rear 10 bolt front). I’m not sure what trans case it has but it too was a 350/350 turbo as best as I can tell.
My adhd kicked in overdrive and we got to going on the build. First we completely stripped the 75 and took body/ cab off. Now the pieces are on carts and laying on my shop with the frame outside. Most everything is in good shape but there is a few panels that need to be pulled or cut and patched - you know the typical square body places.
I’ll stop here and break down what we found in another post to help document the build. The boy might have gotten the egghead degree but he knows nothing beats a redneck engineer with no money.

Awesome, take and post lots of pic's

Welcome and cool project!

One piece of advice, as I am coming to the end of a 3 year restoration (also a father son project) is do not throw anything away until you are 100% certain you are long past reassembly of that portion of the truck. Even if you bought replacements, upgrades, or aren’t planning on using it.

My exact thoughts right there. Notice the shelving unit on the left. I made him buy totes to put everything in. My motive is either he or I are going to get our hands on another sb eventually. Also my dad was a sb fan and that’s where I learned my stuff from. But being young and dumb when he passed I sold everything sb related but the tools. He had several sets of double humps for small and big blocks. And god o Lu knows how many 4 bolt blocks he had also sb and bb. He used to hit the junk yards and snatch them out of old bread trucks. He even had several th400 ……. All gone now.

Welcome from Austria. Nice project.

My piece of advice is keep everything forever. I sold or traded everything, including a set of bed sides and a perfectly straight tailgate. Then my truck was wrecked and now I need to source those parts all over again…

Welcome from Missouri.

Welcome from the Texas Panhandle.