1986 K10 shorty revival

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UPS man dropped off a couple goodies....LH fleet side gas filler pocket was the last one in the country so I got lucky on these! Main filler hoses are gone tho so I still to find those....may have to order repros....

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Going with a stealth electric fan install, I opted to use a spade bit to put a 1" hole in the side of the shroud for the grommet protecting the fan lead wires....I'm using an RF24 Motorcraft T-Bird fan mounted inside the stock SB fan shroud.

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Here is my resistor board mounted on the air inlet scoop. The coils need air movement to keep cool-this will provide me with 3 or 4 fan speeds from the RF24 fan instead of just the two....when used with (2) temp switches-I'm opted to use a BMW dual temp switch (180/195).

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I've decided to go with this relay bracket (GM piece) and will be using Hella relays for the fan control as well as my headlight triggers....

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Had a little time this afternoon for some work on the project truck after several months of no action lol. A lot of people wanted to know how I mount my door harness sections so I'm posting some pics....here's a few before shots:

[gmachinz]

Pics of the relay bank mount, both solid state modules for auto down/up and an overhaul layout of the door harness mostly installed-if it seems like a lot of wires it is-I've added power mirrors to the truck as well.

[Greenlee]

Nice work! I always enjoy seeing your wiring projects. I still have some window harnesses from you that I need to install in my truck one of these days.

It’s a bummer about Photobucket messing up your pictures on the first few pages. I had a build thread that is completely ruined because of this.

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Holy crap-well its been awhile since I’ve touched my project but I figured Id add an update-I’ve gathered a lot of parts for it lately and this latest piece is a tach cluster housing from LMC. Yeah I know typically I dont order a lot of stuff from them but since I could not find a good used oem housing I figured this was worth trying for $60. They come molded in light green so of course first order of business was to spray the entire inside high gloss white-this will make the bulbs super bright which is a good thing on these old clusters. Why use stock gauges you ask? Well imo the aftermarket stuff will always look “dated” 5-10 years down the road and I dont want that-classic stock analog gauges are fine with me. Btw, the cluster I’m restoring is an 80/81 which I purchased from a member quite awhile ago but it arrived nearly completely destroyed-seems there wasnt any thought given to proper packaging-just put it loose in a bigger box and it’ll be fine right?

Anyway, this is my weeks project that I hope to find time to finish quick.

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Had a little time to basically start laying out my new replacement parts from LMC to restore my 80/81 tach cluster. I had a member sell me a cluster with ZERO packing concerns so it arrived destroyed-here is my progress so far on it...

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Nothing too major here...I am just about finished restoring this factory 1980/81 tach cluster. Resto tip: for extra brightness from the dash bulbs, thoroughly clean then just clearcoat the backside of the gauge blackout cover! The more reflective the lighting the better the vision overall.

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Got my templates for various year RPO sheets finished-here’s my custom one for the Shorty so far:

[Greenlee]

Looking good.