New Heavy Chevy!

Love that truck! I have always liked older Chevy trucks. Remember the show “The fall guy.” Lol anyway I looked for a clean square body in the past but came up with the 69 C10 and was hooked. Hence bought that and enjoyed it ever since.... congrats!

Grit dog wrote:

ford truck guy wrote:
Thats 1 awesome looking Chebby. ! ! Love it..They just don't make that like that anymore . .


I had an "80" step side... almost identical colors..

Only issue I ever had was the selinoide that switched the gauge from passenger tank to drivers tank kept failing..... caused me to run dry once or twice


Good Luck and Happy tinkering

I missed a silver 76 K10 stepside I woulda bought a couple weeks ago. Beautiful trucks.

Yea they are... I can still picture mine... big roll bar in the back.... big KC Highlights mounted up top.. loved that truck.......

Wow, what a great find! Keep your gas card handy, buddy! :B

MetalGator wrote:
Now that's a good looking truck!

A bit dated though

Grit dog wrote:

FishOnOne wrote:
Yep.... that’s when Chevy designed good looking trucks. I had a 87 with a tbi 350.

Missed a 1/2 ton 87 TBI a couple weeks ago. Same condition with a really bad black paint job. TBI and OD would have been nice as our boys daily driver.
Oh well this truck is meaner!

LOL... And it has the exact same steering wheel as my '92 Chevy truck.

I had a K-30 SRW 4X4 with a 6.2L. Mine had that lighter blue on the top and dark blue at the bottom. I loved the truck. I put 225K on it, should have never sold it. They didnt make them any better Dana 60 up front, 14 bolt in the rear, 205 gear drive transfer case, TH400 auto tranny. I had dreams of finding another and putting a Dmax and a Allision in it. Hard to find a SRW K-30 in those years.

Know this before you dig in, so you'll know what to look for

Tank switch is a single pole, double throw

When the switch relay coil is NOT energized, the valve has one tank line opened to the carb.

When the switch relay coil is energized, the valve switches to the other tank

Electrical gremlins had my dash fuse blow often...after...buddy who owns a speed shop build a custom 350 (Edelbrock Performer dual plane intake, Performer 4 barrel {should have kept the quad, liked it better}, 280 cam, 3 angle grind SS valves, ported/polished/CC matched/flowed heads, shotpeened anything ferris, forged rods, TRW pistons and a few other things forgot) and had his wife's cousin (who couldn'd get a job anywhere else put it in...he shorted and blew the fusable link...so every so often the dash fuse would blow

First time...took a while to find the right fuse...there after, knew...but it would blow the spare quickly

Since the un-energized tank was empty, no fuel

Learned to use the energized tank, run it dry...then switch to the un-energized tank and drive home with no dash lights

I had to once replace the tank valve on my Bronco. I used a Pollack valve which both switches the fuel as well as the sending unit. Something like this although I think I bought it straight from Pollack at the time. Link

If the valve ever fails I'll buy another as it has worked for many years for me.

Edit, I just noticed that the valve I linked is listed as 3 port, but there are two ports for returning fuel to the tanks. So the picture is of an efi switching valve but the description is for a carbureted valve which would not have a return line. Just saying be sure to get the correct part if you replace.

Nice truck. Better get some new gas credit cards.
When you start pulling, all of that lift and big tires can cause some problems.

ford truck guy wrote:
I can still picture mine... big roll bar in the back.... big KC Highlights mounted up top.. loved that truck.......

Going to have a hard time not putting a chrome roll bar in it with a couple daylighters on top!