Hello fellow members of the board! Just a short introduction about me My name is Mike, I am 20 years old. I live in the great white north known as canada and I absolutely love Chev and GM Vehicles.

Onto the question: I just recently bought what I'm assuming is a 1986 Chev Silverado on an impulse buy without really looking closely at the truck (just does it start? yea ok let me hear it, does it drive? yea ok let me drive it around the block, you want $xxxx yea ok here) and I drove off with it,. Now by my guess I did quite well on the purchase for the price but I'm lead to believe I may not have purchased what the guy said it was, The Silverado logos on the side appear to have been moved in an attempt to cover the dealer sticker where the vehicle came from, and the engine is missing the original valve covers to properly determine the size of the engine and what make. I need as much info on the 1986 Chev Silverado/C-10 2WD pickup as you can supply me with to help me rest at ease a bit. I have pictures hosted of the engine and exterior+interior on on my website seen here (http://members.shaw.ca/D22_2001/truck) in a attempt to help me determine some details on this vehicle. If you need more pictures of the engine I will do my best (camera is crappy)

Thank You For Your Time Guys/Girls of the Chevy Forums.

-Mike


P.S - this vehicle is going to be a restoration project for me, as the wheel wells and corners of the cab are rusted and the front windshield leaks into my glove box. so bare with the rust and pictures of the broken visors and such :D

first off the emblums on the fender are in the right spot. the ones on the rear fender are not stock. the valve covers wont tell you the size of the engine stock or other wise. you would likly have to look at the door sticker or the vin for the engine size. if you could get some pics of the front grill andheadlights that would help in telling you a bit more about the truck. from the trim around the cab i would say it was a silverado.

ok, the sticker on the door is gone, and a quick search on the vin says :
Year/Make/Model: 1986 CHEVROLET C10
Body Style: PICKUP
Engine Type: 5.0L V8 4BBL OHV
but I don't trust the guy I bought it off anymore, couple people I know said that he's quite crooked(may not have the original engine in it but it does still have a 4barrel carb on it.) I will get some more pictures of the front grill and headlights sometime tommorow afternoon as its dark now.

Thank You Very Much Nomad76lj

-Mike

if your going to restore the truck are you going to restore it to stock? if so i can tell you that as long as the parts come off a chevy or gmc truck from 77 till 87 the body with the exseption of a few minor things are the same for those ten years may go a bit farther back but til 87 for sure and the blazers and subs dint change frm that stile till 91 so it should be easy to fing good parts without buying new stuff. if you need more help with it just let me know. i have had mine for 12 years now so i think iv probly delt with most of the problems your likly to run into while restoring yours or just trying to keep it on the road. hope i can be of help to you.

Well alright, thank you very much Nomad76lj, I was not able to get pictures yesterday due to rain, but as soon as I am done my classes today I will get some pictures up, I'm not too sure about the whole (stock or not) because I'm still unsure of all the options available to me, I'd love to restore the body and interior stock for sure though (aside from a cd player and behind the seat speakers) but the engine and the rest of the components I am still unsure. anyways got about 10minutes left here, so roughly an hour from now I should have the other pictures up and linked in my next post.


Thanks

-Mike

well i can help you on the stock body and interior. just about eaverything on the truck you can still but for it <fenders doors...> same for the interior. as for the motor you can do just about anything your mind or budget will let you. for the body you can do some neat tricks to make it look a bit dif. from other ppls without spending alot of money like puting doors from a 90 blazer on it they look the same but you can get rid of the little wing windows witch im sure are rotted. ill be able to tell more when i look at the pics. till then lol

ok, got some pics of the front grill and with the headlights on. more pics (http://members.shaw.ca/D22_2001/truckfront) if need be i can get more pics before dark. closer up, but my camera is unforgivable.

-Mike

from those pics it looks like they put a grill from an 87 in it becuse it hase the single big headlights for a 86 but the lights in the grill souldnt be there becuse they go in the grill when you have the 4 headlight setup like my truck has. 2 for low beam and 2 for high but that stuff is easy to change if you want to go with the 86 front or 87 or even if you wanted to put the front end in from a blazer. its just a mater of changing the wiring and a few small bits. just depends on your taste i guess. if you need more help with anything just post back.

Thanks alot for the offer of help Nomad76lj, currently replacing the starter as the one that the truck came with is totally destroyed (crapped out last night when I tried to start the truck), checked the ring-gear and its still perfect, drained the oil pan and only found minute amounts of metal shavings (minute as in regular wear and tear) the rear-end and tranny are what is bothering me because I found out from someone that knows the seller of the truck that he bagged it very hard and did alot of braketorques so I quite possibly could be looking at a set of new brakes, tranny and a rear-end(whats throwing me off the most is the rear-end bell-housing cover, its chrome. so that he quite possibly could have screwed around back there.)

I'm actually on a very very low income budget due to schooling, still making the payments I owe my brother on the truck (since I couldn't afford the upfront cold cash price :D) but if all goes well over the summer I should have a good paying job to sink money into the truck, if not then It will be around late august early october before I will have money to spend on it. The doors from a 90 Blazer, do they have the same bodylines as my current doors? because I love the current bodylines and would like to keep those the same, also on another matter to do with my truck. I recently got my buick out of storage 1979 LeSabre Limited and I was thinking about putting that motor in the truck for a little more getup and go, will the motor and tranny mounts match though?(if it does fit would it be worth the work to switch?) because if not I'm probably just going to get the timing chain that the buick needs and put it up for sale.
And Thanks Once again for all the help.

-Mike

sounds like a fun job i hate doing starters there heavy and you have to do all the work lying on your back till your arms feal like there going to fall off!! i wouldent worry to muck about the rearend or tranny. if your worryed about the tranny the first thing to do is cheack the fluid. if its a bright pink then your good if it smells burnt <and youll know> then i would change the tranny fluid and filter. for the rear end i wouldent worry about it to much. they are fairly tough. the doors will line up the same as the truck looks now the only diff. would be that it would be one piece glass insted of the vent windows. #3 i would leave the buick motor in the car and do the chain sell it and put the money to better things. it might work ok but for the time and money that you would spend you could do better things to the truck. hope this helps. keep me posted.

Got the starter in her this morning [8D] skipped classes to do it, was nice and dry this afternoon so I was able to take it for a rip, and boy what a rip that was!:D lookin forward to a summer job that will allow me to get some of the body work done and get the engine bored out. Need to find some valve cover gaskets temporarily though, the guy I bought it off put chrome valve covers on and didn't have proper gaskets so he just used some household silicon [:'(] leaks oil right ontop of the brand new starter Bleck!, also got an exhaust job to do too, didn't notice the huge leak on the passenger-side right by the wheel-well.
I'll keep ya all posted.

Until Further Notice
-Mike