1965 c10 budget build

[kristianbolster]

heres a little sneak peak of my wheels. they are not my first choice but my dad had them for one of his projects and they are brand new so i traded my AC Schnitzers for these and a rebuilt 700R4

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heres a stock image of what they look like

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[kristianbolster]

i have slowed down a ton on working on my truck lately. but i have a little update.
i went to auto zone. pretty much for the cars first drive to go get a bunch of maintenance type stuff so it doesn't catch fire. And while i was there my little brother walked in because he was doing an oil change and tranny flush on his suburban and when i walked out he was parked like this:

[kristianbolster]

and so i waited for a while for him to come out so i could get in my truck. and when i got home i changed the spark plug wires, coil, and cleaned up the wiring little bit. it was ran kinda stupid and was messy so i zip tied it together. I also put the grill back on the truck. of course i have no photos of this but i will get some tomorrow.
here is a picture before i started working on it:

[kristianbolster]

i went over to my dads to make some spacers for my rear shock mounts and i haven't used his welder since i kinda figured out how to weld (still a long ways to go) so i tested it out on some spare pieces of metal i had laying around

[kristianbolster]

i rusted on some rusty metal at it still came out pretty good. the miller is way better than the piece of crap harbor freight flux core welder that i have. i just welded the weld in the center the others are from my brother messing around with it before. and this picture was taken after i took a wire brush to it and knocked a lot of the rust off:

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and after i got the hang of it i started building the spacer. and it came out some amazing that i put these emojis on it to add to how good it looks

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and i am totally joking they actually came out crap because it occurred to me after i made them to spin them while welding them instead of try to move my had around them while welding. so needless to say i will be remaking these but they will work for now

[kristianbolster]

and for my 100th post on this thread here are some pictures of the wheels that i put on tonight:











and i drove it down to the gas station for the first time in who knows how long and on a side not its super nice having a car that i don't have to worry about putting in nice gas!

[ABE24]

looks nice, even if those wheels wouldn't be my first choice

[kristianbolster]

before working on my truck today i brought it to get lunch so i took a picture

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i didn't take any pictures while doing but i installed the bar that runs across my notch which if i remember correctly is the last piece of frame support i need to do. because i put the bar where it is i can now have no cross supports from the notch all the way to the end cap on the frame so now you will be able to see the watts link very well. the bar also is used to mount the brake line that runs to the axel. i just have it zip tied for now but i have some nice black hose clamps that I'm going to use i just couldn't find them.

[kristianbolster]

while i was in there i started getting kinda crazy with the wire wheel and started going at the million year old grease on the diff and made a big mess. don't worry i cleaned it up before my dad got home

[kristianbolster]

heres some videos i took today after getting the bar in: