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The way I understand it, the LQ4 and LQ9 are basically the same engine as far as the outside goes. Should be a direct swap with maybe a few parts needing to be used from the LQ4 for fitment. You will most likely need to get a tune though. You may even get by without that. One note. If you have the active fuel management on the engine that you’re putting in, I would suggest you get the kit or check out some videos on how to delete that. You may also have to do something in the tune afterwards.

@@littletincans thank you sir

@@racequad9 no problem. Hope your project goes well.

Took him a little while to find electronics that worked properly for him with the Holly instead of fuel injection. He says he needs to do a little bit of tuning still, but it seems to work well now compared to a couple of other computers that he tried.

It takes time, he will get it perfect

Love seeing what she’s doing in the videos. 😁

There are a couple of things that I noticed on mine. First, they like to have a pretty high pressure on the pump for your pressure washer. If you have one that is a 2000 psi or below it may not work as well. I keep my sand, elevated a little bit. Maybe stick it on another 5 gallon bucket and then I stick the sand into a 5 gallon bucket. Or I put my sand into a wheelbarrow in the bag and then just open the bag and put the suction tube in. The other thing I noticed is that you need to make sure that the hose that draws the sand stays above the nozzle it comes out of. What kind of sand are you using? I noticed that play sand doesn’t work very well.

I like their videos and they seem like really really nice people. I also have some vice grip garage stuff.

That’s a great question. After a little research, it would appear that you can get aftermarket rotors with a six hole pattern that will allow you to use your six hole wheels on the square body suspension. The C10 square body uses a five hole pattern. I was fortunate that both my 62 and my 66 have the eight hole pattern since they are the heavier models. My 62 has a one ton suspension in it and my 66 has a three-quarter ton. Both trucks are able to use the original style wheels if I want to use them.

Nice tip. Thank you.

@@littletincans good on you for addressing this issue. Some guy made a video using the flexible bumper repair two part product which is just wrong 🤪 I customized my '85 by shaving the door handles, mirrors, side marker lights and emblems and grafted on a fiberglass rear bumper cover so I've had my share of failures working with this material...gets expensive 🤪 it's nice to save other owners the trouble and the expense of the trial and error method

Yes. Certain panels started being produced with the SMC method clear back to what I believe is 68?. Is 73 the first year that they came all SMC? I know there were a few rough panels on my 72 indicating that they were not SMC.

For me, it was quicker to swap the front crossmember out. The advantage to the torsion bars is that I could lower the truck if I wanted without changing springs. The advantage to changing the entire crossmember assembly over for me was that I also get heavier components than the original. With switching over to power steering and disc brakes it’s easier to change the entire crossmember assembly than to do it by component.

It’s amazing what we either never knew or what we have forgotten over the years because of other designs coming around.

No problem. There are several different shapes of handle that take a wrench on them. Many times the ones that don’t, actually have a hex on the shaft of the screwdriver itself. Just below the handle.

I’ve had to do that more than once over the years….

Yeah. Obviously not all handles are like that but a lot of them have the shape that will take a wrench of some sort on it.

They are soaking as we speak. Going to let them go overnight, but it appears to be working fairly well.

@@littletincans nice, show us later

It might have originally these were not factory horns. These were a couple of O’Reilly auto parts horns one high one low. They’ll do the job. I was half tempted to put air horns in.

So sorry for the delayed response. I’m not sure about that swap. I had a 56 3100 but that was about 40 years ago so I don’t remember what the crossmember looks like. It sounds like a good idea though. If you could measure the width of the outside of your frame rails, where the crossmember is, I can measure the width of the crossmember assembly. I would imagine that you would have to drill all the holes or almost all the holes to do the swap. If your original crossmember is riveted in, I would mark where it’s at and then take the rivets out, then slide the square body front suspension up in.

Sorry for the delay. Yes. It’s about 1/4 - 3/8 inch if I remember correctly.

Hey. Just saw this. Yes. Title says 62. However I found that the frame on mine seems a bit different. I’m thinking it may be because it is a C30 rather than the C10-20

The front suspension was 62 style before I put in the 79 assembly.

Because I didn’t want to pick it up off of the ground. The whole car needs to be repainted. Not just that section. It didn’t hurt the paint on the roof.

But I could see why you would think that. And if that was the only problem area of paint I obviously would not have done that.

I would definitely research what to use on that. I believe that the two-part bonding adhesive would work sufficiently. I would want to make sure that your materials will work with both SMC and standard fiberglass.

@@littletincans Thanks, I will have to review this and contact 3M. I was not aware of the SMC material by GM. I initially reviewed it just for its adhesive quality.

I’m not sure that it would. I also have mixed views on the heat gun method for the gray/black bumpers as well. It works but I noticed light spots coming back on it already. Mostly where the car has taken some damage to the bumper. I’ll probably add an after video to the channel soon.

Hi. This adapter plate seems to come and go on Amazon. Here’s an Amazon link to the one I got. XtremeAmazing Steering Conversion Mount Bracket Kit for C10 Pickup 1000 Series Truck 1960-1966 a.co/d/cxWQMVK It is actually more like the 63-66 version than the 60-62. The 60-62 frames are a little different and there are other adapters for those years.

@@littletincans thanks for the info.