Started cleaning off all the oil off of the engine harness. Also starting to label all the wires & remove the ones I don't need like the auto trans stuff. LT1 Swap is a great help for that. Im doing my own harness & tuning. Should save a bunch of $$ doing it myself!
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I got my crank today from Summit Racing. It's a Lunati Voodoo 4340, 4" stroke, 24 tooth. I paid $699 delivered. The cost is on the cheap side but the quality of the crank is really nice. All the radius's look well machined as well as all the bearing surfaces. Next on the list is main & rod bearings as well as pistons & rods. After that the block & rotating assembly will be off to the machinist to be balanced & machined. I'm buying parts like this because it's easier to come up with $1000 or so at a time instead of $2000! Either way I'm excited & have a long way to go.
another thing I was thinking was instead of going with the rectangle port heads & top end I might just use the 317's I have already, just send them out to AI or TSP to get worked over. If I do use them I'm hoping I can have them milled to get the compression up. I don't know, we'll see.
another thing I was thinking was instead of going with the rectangle port heads & top end I might just use the 317's I have already, just send them out to AI or TSP to get worked over. If I do use them I'm hoping I can have them milled to get the compression up. I don't know, we'll see.
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And here is the Victim....... '89 extended cab 4.3 auto! Pretty clean & straight truck exept for the cab floor. Totally shot! Rotted out, prob by salt water just sitting there soaked in the carpet & padding for years! Well anyway, I got a lot of work to fiz the floor but once I do I will be on to building the engine. Have got a bunch more engine parts, ready to go to machine shop! Here r some pics...
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its Def an ok start. I would of liked to find something with a little less cab rot but it's an '89 so not too bad! Here's some of the bad on the truck. Cab rot! And whoever put these blocks on the rear, shame on them!!! I'm picking up a '92 Sonoma later today & just swapping the cab over. Also getting rid of the hack suspension in the reAR & gonna fix the body mounts!
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I think this truck may have been under some salt water at one time. Unfortunately the PO didnt maintain or change anything. The carpet & padding was soaked & saturated! Here's some more of the bad, Co troll arms, the rods, ball joints, shot!!!
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this is how she sits now after swapping cabs. She's a '92 Sonoma now! Now Its time to fix both rocker panels, both cab corners, driver side floor pan, & driver side rear cab support. grind the while frame, por 15 it, & fix both front frame to cab mounts. Also remove & grind off all surface rust under cab & por 15 it. Lot of work but thank God I enjoy working on my truck!!! The finished product is gonna be awesome!
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Ok so here's a few updates... unfortunately nothing engine related, all body work & welding.
As of now I have replaced the 2 rear cab supprts, passenger front cab support & backing plate. I replaced the metal on both sides that run the length of the cab behind the cab supports and behind the rockers. I used all 18 guage steel. I just finished redoing the caged nuts for all the body mount supports. I re-did the mounts & cage nuts exactly like factory. I used that Rustoleum rust desolver on the nuts, & wow, that stuff works awesome! Strips the rust right off. Then I wire wheeled everything, primed them with 2 coats, then por 15 undecorated everything on the inside that wasn't close to where I had to weld. I used weld thru primer for those areas. I took off the cross support that has the 2 body mount supports & the seat & seat belt mounts on them. I think the extended cab get this support. Not sure if the reg cabs have this. Cleaned all the rust off, undercoated, new caged nuts, then welded it back up. I used all 16 guage steel to make the caged nut cages. This was all after I did both sides rockers, cab corners, & cab corner extensions! Next up is driver side floor pan, backing plate, & cab support. Then pretty much all rot & rust repair will b finished & i will be able to get back to building my lq408!
Not sure exactly how I'm gonna go about it but for the winter I might rent a spot in my bosses garage to store the truck & finish building the motor. Then after all the snow passes start dropping in the engine & trans & all that good stuff. I keep the truck outside of his shop so I def don't want this truck to see any of the winter outside of a garage! Lol!
Also can't wait to get rid of the ugly yellow paint! Almost forgot, both doors need new bottom skin, inner & outer. Not much, only 2 little rot spots. Might just buy 2 new shells instead of messing with the skins.
Ok so here's a bunch of pics. Trying to show everything & remember everything I did on the truck!...
As of now I have replaced the 2 rear cab supprts, passenger front cab support & backing plate. I replaced the metal on both sides that run the length of the cab behind the cab supports and behind the rockers. I used all 18 guage steel. I just finished redoing the caged nuts for all the body mount supports. I re-did the mounts & cage nuts exactly like factory. I used that Rustoleum rust desolver on the nuts, & wow, that stuff works awesome! Strips the rust right off. Then I wire wheeled everything, primed them with 2 coats, then por 15 undecorated everything on the inside that wasn't close to where I had to weld. I used weld thru primer for those areas. I took off the cross support that has the 2 body mount supports & the seat & seat belt mounts on them. I think the extended cab get this support. Not sure if the reg cabs have this. Cleaned all the rust off, undercoated, new caged nuts, then welded it back up. I used all 16 guage steel to make the caged nut cages. This was all after I did both sides rockers, cab corners, & cab corner extensions! Next up is driver side floor pan, backing plate, & cab support. Then pretty much all rot & rust repair will b finished & i will be able to get back to building my lq408!
Not sure exactly how I'm gonna go about it but for the winter I might rent a spot in my bosses garage to store the truck & finish building the motor. Then after all the snow passes start dropping in the engine & trans & all that good stuff. I keep the truck outside of his shop so I def don't want this truck to see any of the winter outside of a garage! Lol!
Also can't wait to get rid of the ugly yellow paint! Almost forgot, both doors need new bottom skin, inner & outer. Not much, only 2 little rot spots. Might just buy 2 new shells instead of messing with the skins.
Ok so here's a bunch of pics. Trying to show everything & remember everything I did on the truck!...
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Here's some more pics...
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