82 K-30 Crew Cab Short Bed

[72longhornTX]

So I picked up a new truck this week. I have always wanted a crew cab square body and finally found one I liked.

It is a 1982 K-30 that was converted to short bed already. Has a 454 in it, although it is a little worn out with some valve rattle.

This is a list of everything already done to it when I got it. I have a few more things to do to it before I call it good.
-37" Goodyear MTRs on Allied Racing Beadlocks. 5 of them.
-Completely rewired wtih Painless Wiring harness from headlights to tail lights.
-4 wheel 1 ton disk brakes with all brand new calipers, rotors, pads, steel braided brake lines. Hydroboost system.
-Upgraded steering shaft (no rag joint).
-Superlift 4" lift, all new shocks, dual steering stabilizer.
-Transmission is a HD 700r4 (overdrive) wired with a "Painless wiring" tranmission kit to run without the electronic controls.
-Brand new black carpet, new dash cover. old school custom seats.
-Truck is fully sound deadened with "RAAMat" sound deadener. (doors, floors, inside fenders, roof etc).
-Rear axle is a 14bolt full floater with a brand new Detroit locker in it. 4:10 gears. Superlift rock ring on the outside. (and converted to 4 wheel disc with eldorado calipers for a functioning parking brake assembly).
-Front axle is a 3/4 ton D44 that needs a ring gear installed. I have a replacement, just have not installed it. Rebuilt wheel bearings and new calipers/rotors/brake lines/shocks.
-New custom steering wheel.
-Nordskog gauges. GPS driven speedometer and all other gauges.
-Rhino lined bed, bed sides, fender liners, rockers,
-New floor pan and rocker on drivers side. All other bad rust cut out and patched. Temporarily patched "cab light" holes to keep water out.
-Frame painted with "POR 15" rust preventive paint when the cab and bed were off.
-Rebuilt steering column(no wiggle).
-Rear doors converted to power window and lock.
-New custom "micro suede" headliner.

I need to finish the power window conversion on the front doors and wire everything up. I started that today but didn't finish. Margaritas were sounded much to good at 5pm.
I have almost everything to convert to a 91 style grill. That will come at a later time.
Need to get cab lights off a newer Dodge. Probably the recon style smoked out.
Finish installing the new 4.10 gears in the front axle.
Work on the dash some. The gauge install is quite shoddy in my book so those will most likely get replaced with a redone original gauge cluster.
Need to get a new radio for it and install it better than the one that is in it.
Eventually I plan to do a diesel conversion. I would like a 5.9 cummins but the 4bt cummins has started appealing to me lately.
A few little things here and there to make it a nice truck.

Well here are what it looked like when I got it. Looks the same now. Some of y'all may have seen this truck on CK5 forums. This was a trail clean up truck build.
http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/a...1&d=1316421574
http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/a...1&d=1316421574
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http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/a...1&d=1316421574
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