Became a member of the '73-'78 club, 4x4 club, & 1ton club all in the same day!

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Originally Posted by 78 Chevyrado

That black paint looks nice. I wanna tow something with that truck

I love black paint on motors these days (Hides all the dirt, when they do get dirty) I want to tow, dump and plow somethings with it!

Originally Posted by spudz

I like it....

Thanks! me to.

Originally Posted by manimal

COOL! I see you went back to stock manifolds...good IDEA!
-Lance

Ah yes - I hate headers on anything but a HotRod. They leak, rot, rust. Good old manifolds work just fine. I even scored this set on the parts '83 K20 and they have the bridges to keep them from "shrinking" & they had new studs in them already!

Originally Posted by bigtruck81

did you end up sticking to the Meyer plow?

Well the truck had a Cobbled together Fisher Frame & Plow with Fisher Controls. The pump wasn't Fisher, not really sure what it was. Someone modified the Lower plow frame for an 8' plow for another truck (Ford or Dodge) and stuck it on.

I bought a '83 Chevy K20 with a Complete Fisher 8' setup. So everything will match now (including the pump). The only thing that I need is the correct pump bracket for the motor, as the '83 had some homemade thing (It was originally a diesel truck converted to gas, so they must have made a new pump bracket and scrapped the old one.

I'll get some pictures once I get the plow all on & working. Right now I'm building a Hyd. Tank for the Dump unit. The PO used a gallon jug and epoxied a fitting to it for the tank I'm building it because I couldn't find one skinny enough to fit behind the seat.