1965 c10 budget build

[TrailerTrash]

coming along nicely man keep it up

[kristianbolster]

today i also got the truck up on jack stands so we can finish welding the from bag mounts and the rear bag mounts and various other things. i also got the metal i am boxing the frame in the rear with all trimmed up and ready for final welding.

[kristianbolster]

my dad wanted to put his C10 on the side of the house so i pulled mine out and i was able to see a lot better on how its looking on the ground

[kristianbolster]

Good stuff, I love seeing fab work, especially on C10's.

Keep it coming!

thanks man, although i can't really take any credit for the fab work i just measure and cut everything and my dad welds it. i am useless with a welder

Looks Awesome man, ill be tagging along for this one i love the truck, I've always wanted a c10 but down here is AUS they are so rare and expensive so ill just watch your build haha

they are super sweet. i assumed they were expensive because i saw this pro surfer from australia that had one and instead of getting one in AUS he shipped it back home

[fulltiltkustoms]

Looks Awesome man, ill be tagging along for this one i love the truck, I've always wanted a c10 but down here is AUS they are so rare and expensive so ill just watch your build haha

[I_Haz.:R32]

Good stuff, I love seeing fab work, especially on C10's.

Keep it coming!

[kristianbolster]

i have some more trimming to do but I'm not doing it until i get it tacked up

[kristianbolster]

I've haven't been able to do a ton on my truck because I've been working with my dad on one of his c10's and various other random crap that needs to be done.

but i did start on boxing the frame where the bag mounts are going to end up.

[kristianbolster]

and this morning i line up the bed a little better and took pictures in the light:

[kristianbolster]

i threw the bed on last night because i didn't have the pieces i needed to fabricate the bagged mounts so i had nothing else to do. i just threw it on and it is clearly not lined up but its nice to get a taste of what its going to look like. gives me some motivation.

[kristianbolster]

Worked on it a little more today but now I am at a trampoline park supposed to be watching my niece and nephew. I will update for with photos when I'm in front of a computer

Also I figured out how I am going to mount my bags in the rear. I have the over axle kit but it doesn't allow the amount of lift I want so I am mounting the far forward on the arm and it should look super clean
All the air ride should be in and working this week

[kristianbolster]

i got the 3" drop blocks on

[kristianbolster]

[kristianbolster]

so heres some updates:
i got the car sitting on the ground and started finding some stuff that i can modify to get the elevation little closer to the pavement;
-the rear crossmember is touching the ground so i can cut that and get little lower
-the trailing arm was hitting the frame so i cut a little notch for that to drop about an inch lower
- in the front the exhaust down pipe is about to touch the ground and definitely will when i put the drop spindles on but i don't think i am going to rework the exhaust so guess I'm dealing with that. if i do modify that it will go down another 1.5" before the front crossmember touches the ground

[kristianbolster]

well, that was silly. Why would you do that?


JK man, that sucks, hope it heals quick so you can get back to working on this badass c10

Ha yeah I had my gloves off for like 10 minutes and this happened. I'm all good now.

Have been doing a lot to it. Will update it with photos tonight