Search results

  1. S

    LED exterior light conversion! not going well :(

    They work great, have them in the cab top lights of my 1 ton flatbed dually, as well as the front corner lights (gmt400 K3500). I also run led tails (full panel), bed markers and headlight inserts on that same truck. Tails and bed markers are from “Hazard Fraught”, work perfectly.
  2. S

    Quadrajet Mystery and questions

    Same carb I have been fighting with… 1985 with the electric thing. Except mine is so worn out that it “sweats” gas…
  3. S

    Reverse light options

    If you already cut the floor, I’d swap to a 4spd and call it a day…
  4. S

    Newer Model Bed

    There have been a few on Memphis area FB marketplace the past couple months. Was looking at a complete but not running 82 standard cab C30 dually that needed some body work. Beds kept popping up. Decided that my 4wd 1t dually was sufficient.
  5. S

    3 minute battery life…?

    Positive cable end was cold, negative cable end was sizzling hot.
  6. S

    3 minute battery life…?

    Yes, turns freely with the plugs out. Can lay under it and turn it via the crankshaft pulley. Air pump belt is removed.
  7. S

    3 minute battery life…?

    Stock heater core, aluminum/plastic radiator. Just like the one that popped an end tank seam. 2017ish radiator hoses, heater hoses might be originals.
  8. S

    Best tires

    Not sure, I have to dig a bit deeper. You “can” order tires from a shop in Juarez, have them shipped here, but it puts them in Coker price range, plus import duties.
  9. S

    3 minute battery life…?

    Will load it into the crusher and push the button myself before it gets any kind of fuel injected engine…
  10. S

    3 minute battery life…?

    The battery ends of both cables are clean, shiny, and bare. I usually run a Group 78, and use charging lugs as the battery cable bolts. Much easier to clup an in bed sprayer pump to than normal side terminal bolts. Now, tbh, I cannot remember when I last changed out the negative cable, the one...
  11. S

    3 minute battery life…?

    Has been “off” since my father in law had the coolant changed in 2013. No heat, radiator popped an end tank seam, waterpump siezed. Got the radiator and waterpump swapped, I did the radiator, farm co-op the waterpump. And he then filled it, again, with Dexcool… Truck takes green coolant. No...
  12. S

    3 minute battery life…?

    Started fine in 2023. Ran fine, just way down on power and leaking like the Exxon Valdez. Tune up was last month. Today was the first time I tried starting it in about 4 months. Been working on the chassis.
  13. S

    3 minute battery life…?

    Battery is always charged for my trailer winch. All of my spare Group 78s are cores.
  14. S

    3 minute battery life…?

    And zero welding done to the truck, with or without battery.
  15. S

    3 minute battery life…?

    Battery out that whole time. And plastic on the driver side door because the window is stuck down.
  16. S

    3 minute battery life…?

    Cables are correct.
  17. S

    3 minute battery life…?

    Tried to crank my truck today. 625a marine battery, fully charged. Truck will turn over, very slowly. Cable end at the battery was branding iron hot… Truck has sat up for a year. Oil is at the right level. ATF may have leaked out. New distributor and eelated including sparkplugs. Tilt column...
  18. S

    Transmission identification help?

    F’n possums…
  19. S

    Transmission identification help?

    1987 C60 with a governed 2bbl Zenith equipped 350. 4spd manual with pto and tailshaft parking drum. Cab is junk, would like to repurpose the engine/transmission in a different truck. Already going to swap the Custom Deluxe manual door guts/panels onto my 85 C10, tired of pw/pl failures...
  20. S

    Good rear gears

    My 85 C10 swb shipped with P205/75r15s, on 15x6 van rally wheels. Factory Quadrajet equipped 4.3L V6, Th400, and 2.73 open rear gears. Only deviation is I ran it on P235/75r15 ATs. Around town, while it would not win any stoplight drags, it held its own just fine. Fuel economy of 12-14mpg. On...
  21. S

    Whip antenna for CB on a Suburban

    Once you get your equipment installed, tune to Channel 9 and just listen. I live a bit northeast of Memphis TN, cheap Walmart Cobra radio, cheap “braided stainless” coax cable, cheap firestick clone with a cracked cover, so I covered it in heat shrink tubing. Brush up on your Tex Mex Spanish...
  22. S

    Whip antenna for CB on a Suburban

    SWB doesn’t have enough of them… ;) The “grandpa cap” is going back on the truck, so will be facing the same mounting issues. Going to be bumper mounted, and use (horror of horrors) a gutter clip. We had a 64 F250 in college. Twin 4’ Firesticks, over built 35w radio (illegal) and over 700w worth...
  23. S

    Whip antenna for CB on a Suburban

    10’ stainless whip on a spring mount, attached to a stake pocket. Stuff the end in a different stakepocket when not needed. Radio bracket is mounted to the ashtray face. Radio (vintage Japanese made) came out of a late 60s or early 70s motor coach. Whip was originally on top of a 40’ base...
  24. S

    8 lug slots...?

    The Hallibrand knock offs? Nice wheels, would not mind a set if they make a dually version.
  25. S

    Best tires

    Yes. Most people now won’t use them on a street driven truck. My grandfathers were in agriculture, maternal was a farmer, paternal a cattleman. Father in law was a cattleman. Childhood neighbor was a cattleman, horse logger and former muleskinner. If Power King 9.00-16LT was still available in...

Latest posts

Forum statistics

Threads
45,533
Posts
985,667
Members
38,614
Latest member
tball67
Top