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sharkytm posted:Get better battery terminals. Those suck rear end. I hate them, and yet they're still on my C10 15 years later. I actually have the hammer-style crimper for battery cables, but while looking for supplies to build my own cables I stumbled across this guy on eBay and have been just buying premade cables from him instead. Rewired my TJ this way and will eventually do the C10 and Opel.
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nadmonk posted:I'm pretty sure that leaves my options as: Comedy option: Install electronic speedometer. Realize you have no way to drive said speedometer without a newer transmission. Install newer transmission, which can't possibly fit behind a GenI SBC. Install LS, problem solved. Realistic option: there are speedo cable gearboxes that can get you where you want to be. Eons ago when my C10 first got swapped from the three on the tree to a TH400, it had a similarly out of whack speedometer. As an extremely newly licensed driver it never occurred to me that the speedometer could be that far off so the very first drive was far slower than it actually should have been  In those ancient times where "GPS speedometer" wasn't a thing, we paid a local specialist shop to calibrate it. Today I'd order from https://speedometercablesusa.com/gear_box_adapters.html and be done.
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kastein posted:Since that's a desirable ratio I'd look at selling it and buying one that bolts in with factory installed gears in it already, the ones you want are factory available ratios right? I bet you could actually make money on that swap. The only kicker here is that coil-spring truck axles aren't super common. Not that they never existed, but there's more demand than supply in my experience. Which would help with selling the old one, but it means that the only "direct" replacements are '63 through early '70 axles. Late '70 through '72 will also bolt in but they're wider (same width as 73+ trucks). If you can find a good one to swap, by all means do, but at least in my half-hearted searching (especially since I have a leaf spring truck with no panhard bar mount on the axle housing) you aren't going to trip over a dozen of them in a junkyard like you would a leaf spring 12 bolt.
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