Schelly’s Shop

Schelly’s Shop A passion for finding and resurrecting classic Chevys from the grave. We find them in barns, fields

Red wedge earned its keep this week, picked up a sweet auction score. A 1981 GMC K30 crew cab 1ton 4x4 dump box with a D...
07/12/2026

Red wedge earned its keep this week, picked up a sweet auction score. A 1981 GMC K30 crew cab 1ton 4x4 dump box with a Dana 60 king pin front end. Was a factory big block truck but is currently sporting a small black. It was fairly complete seems only to be missing steering column, brake/clutch pedal assembly, front driveshaft and alternator.

We also pulled a really good shape truck box trailer out of a field near my in laws. It was loaded with the zoom boom

The red wedge tows straight as I could hope for. A Dana 60 4x4 crew cab is as big as a truck you would want to load onto it I’d say. I suspect I could load two 2wd crews on it but that might be pushing it’s length limit

Have a good Sunday evening everyone cheers

Delivered the 67 Chevy K10 panel down south and while I was down there we picked up a few early 2wd squares. The oran...
05/02/2026

Delivered the 67 Chevy K10 panel down south and while I was down there we picked up a few early 2wd squares. The orange one is a 75 been sitting 30 years engine spins freely but with a battery wasn’t getting power. The silver one is a 79. It fired right up and drove onto trailer, it has been sitting 15 years but the body is pretty toasted

But more importantly the red wedge has officially hauled two full-size vehicles 😎
Still figuring out the rigging and how best to do this and that with it but it was a great success

04/21/2026

454 BBC in a 1977 shortbox 4x4

Well this was supposed to be updated #3 but update #2 disappeared. Project “SnowBall” as I like to call it has gotten ...
04/21/2026

Well this was supposed to be updated #3 but update #2 disappeared.
Project “SnowBall” as I like to call it has gotten a bit off the rails. BUT Schell’s Shop will wrangler back in just wait.
She was missing a few key parts.
Harmonic balancer
Starter
Torque converter
Flex plat
Fuel pump.

I feel it needs to be said that this was a factory SBC that was BBC swapped, it looks to be ran with the BBC in it:

Ok here it is as quick as can be:
We pulled the engine just a hair ahead and slipped the flex plat into place and installed the oil pump, we slapped a high flow Melings oil pump and intermittent oil pump shaft in, lifted the engine and put the oil pan on. We hocked up my personal Chevelles new starter and then cranked it over. Things are looking good.
At this point we stuffed the headers back in, slapped on a cab, stuffed in a distributor and harmonic balancer. Hooked up a home made ignition system. Using jumper cables and toggle switches, Dumped some fuel down the ok choke hole and fired it up(video is added in a separate post)

Ran good no bad noises for two cab bowls worth of runtime.
Sadly it is being pulled out of the garage as my smoking hot beautiful wife’s suv is in dire need of a new cam and lifters.

Till next time Cheers

Well a few weeks ago I posted an update on the 77 shortbox.. but I just noticed that the post is no where to be found. I...
04/21/2026

Well a few weeks ago I posted an update on the 77 shortbox.. but I just noticed that the post is no where to be found. I don’t understand what happened. Ok to summarize what it was about we looked over the 77 shorty and found outboard no torque converter and missing oil pump. But did turn over easy with a bar that’s pretty much the key notes

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