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Here's my 88 k1500 short bed I got from my uncle. Paid $600 for it but worked for him to pay it off, so nothing out of pocket really.

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interior after some clean up...

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underhood..

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The trans. leaked and slipped, motor smoked and missed. Body was and still is solid, only 2 bad cab corners. I tore the motor down, my uncle said it was a 305, but turns out it was a 350, was going to just do a valve job but decided to rebuild not knowing the bottom ends condition/mileage.

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That's all rebuilt now and back in, thoose pics coming up a lil' later.

Some cleaned up outside shots...

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and more....

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The truck had been wrecked when my uncle had it. He put in a new grille, lights, bumper, and DS fender, paintjob turned out bad. I'm going to repaint the fender, and realign the fender, and front bumper. Also going to change hoods later.

I've done some interior work also, cd player, going to do all new 4x6's soon, got subs and an amp to go in as soon as I build my sub box. I have done a new seat cover, some black carpet, black on the door panels, going to do it all black probably spring. It was saddle/gold factory and a PO turned it red, and looked bad.

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Stilll have to get some door panel and carpet pics.

Now some engine back together pics, after rebuild.

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I had a th350 already built for another 4x4 we had, it has a shift kit and everything new in it so I ditched the 700r4 for it. I put everything new in the motor, crank was good still standard size, no turning needed. I put in new oil pump, cam, lifters, timing set, gaskets and valve job, new distributor, cap, rotor, plugs, wires, and coil. Had to do a new battery and wire to the junction block. I also done a new fuel filter at time of rebuild. I removed the smog pump and air tubes, have to put on some headers soon as well. We had that hood scoop laying around too, I threw it on for now to be different, not sure if I like it alot or just a lil bit, gonna be changed anyways.

More to come so stay tuned

 

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some interior pics, sorry for it being dirty, weathers been bad and we've worked out of the truck, hauling garbage and what not.

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FINALLY a warm day here.. worked on the truck most of the day, removed the grille, painted behind it, figured out why my headlight sucked, worked on fixing my hair lipped lookin' bumper, and so on lol. Here's pics....

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took the molding off, gonna leave it off and put some chrome stick on molding on to cover the holes.

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My headlight bucket is broke due to the wreck my uncle had, when he owned it before me, nowhere for the spring to hook, so no wonder my headlights, suck can't aim em right. Gonna switch to composites probably anyways(wife wants em)

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Some ppl had questioned the fact I had a th350 in this truck and I know because I put it in myself, there's pics of it and the spacer plate between it and the t-case.

 

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got some new pics, alot of work done recently, got both door locks fixed and working. Got my door jamb switches in and dome light working(or was until I put the screws in it, then it grounds out and blows the fuse and nothings hitting unless the top of it hits the roof, cuz the screws aint hitting wires). I got my clear parklights in and made my own spacers to make them flush, since I'm going to switch to composites later. Got my rust catchers on as well(stainless fender trim). Got the grille all riveted in and painted my bowtie as well. I cleaned the whol truck up real good outside and waxed the crhome, but it's been sitting and got dusty plus it rained yesterday.

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My bumper brackets are still crappy IMo, bumper aint straight or right looking, gonna have to buy the 2 driver's side brackets to fix it. Also gotta paint the DS fender still and replace the cab corners, gonna switch mirrors, and get a different hood scoop(ram air 2/ws6 style) mold it in and repaint the hood. Also going to paint the areas around the headlights black instead of the charcoalish color they are factory. Also gotta get door switches for the power locks, and a headlight, remove the dash and dye it black, and the top of the door panels. Also going to put the chrome stick on molding on the bumpers to cover the holes until i find chrome smoothies, or can afford new ones. Also I need bigger tires, they look way too small

 

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I copied and pasted all of it from the other site I had it on, so my bad for having dialog about it lol.

 

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WOW been awhile since I posted... I got a visor on it now, nw taillights, started polishing my wheels, and now I'm working on the cab corners and cleaning/painting the frame. I also got some headers put on it. Let me back track and try to catch this all up now.

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Those are $122 shipped, ebay shorties from tuning pros.

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valve caps match the seat cover.

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I also have my sub box built gotta get pics of it.

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The headers fit great, tight to get to the back 2 plugs on each side, had to make my own spacers for the support bars on the sides, but they fit great and work great.


quick video..

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polished my center caps...

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macthing hitch

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polished the diamond plate bed rails and stripped the tailgate cap since it was clear coated.

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New taillights, new from ebay seller buy-it-now shipped for $11 yes $11 only.

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Now for the headers after the first trip they changed colors and haven't changed since..

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vid with mufflers hooked up

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now for the newest stuff, removed the bed to fix both cab corners, weld exhaust up, tailpipes to mufflers and mufflers to lead pipes, fix a pinion seal and clean/paint the frame.

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Also finally got pics of the visor painted and on the truck.

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One lens botom half is gone, I painted them black hard to tell they are even there.

Thanks to big mack daddy for helping me with the bed and thanks to jrp12357 for a great deal on a lighted visor.

 

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I gotta weld the corner on didn't get to today kept raining off and on. Maybe tomorrow and get the other one done.

Also cut loose the bumper that was welded on and removed some unused junk from the frame.