No major advancements on the C10, just small odds & ends. Have had a slight cold engine valve tap from the Morel roller lifters. After reading all I could on line ,the best & most easily tried solution I found was to change from the 15/40 diesel (high zinc) oil to the thinner 10/30 oil that was spec'ed for this engine originally. Plus the RV this engine came out of had large oil cooler mounted. It called for 8 qts of oil. I guessed that I cut that back to 7 qts by not installing an oil cooler, but have now cut that back to 6 qts. One cam supplier who seems to be a high volume distributor for Morel says that the oil orifices in Morels are small & have trouble flowing the thicker oil when cold. Makes sense to me, plus it was easy to test.
Also found a leak in my header pipes that I had brazed up when I first got the engine running. Removed that pipe , re-brazed & re-installed, installed side exit tail pipes along with tail pipe hangers . Exhaust is nice & quiet yet still sounds throaty (If that makes any sense LOL) It all just clamped together for now. We'll see how it does once the truck is on the road.
Picked up a matching set of 15 X 6 wheels & tires off a mid '80's K10 & installed as-is (for now) just to see how truck sets with matching tires & wheels. Had to shim R front corner of bed to level it up.
Did a few other small things, installed rubber door bumpers, rear view mirror, new dome light, new tail lights, etc.
Sorry, not too many photos.
Last edited by RLB; 02/26/202410:09 AM. Reason: typo
1966 C-10 Short Stepside HiPo Step-by-step ~ and on-going resto build in the Project Journals
