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Really liking the "alomond" color. Looks like you are making some good progress too. I'm ready to see this one back together.
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week 36 - I tried to get the body work done on the bed, but there was a lot more work there than I thought. I did get a lot done and I managed to get the bottom undercoated. I also spent a lot of time hooking up misc. stuff like the steering column, brake booster, tranny cable, throttle pedal, windshield wiper motor, cruse control and computer.
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Keep up the good work, it looks great so far.Im considering doing the same idea with my 1956 GMC and marrying it with a 2000 Silverado 2500 4x4 :canada:
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week 37 - I finally got some paint on the outside of the bed. Now I need to flip it over and complete the inside. Wow, beveling the edges where I welded the stakeside back on was a lot of work. Did not turn out perfect, but good enough for me.
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wow love it! I think I could see some red and blue pin-striping! that would be cool
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thanks. My wife thinks the almond color is boring, but she understands why I chose it. The Blazer had a tan and brown interior, so I think I will stay with those colors for the interior of this truck so that I can use the Blazer seats, visors, etc. I definitely want to pin stripe the outside, just don't know what colors yet. Red and blue sounds good. I was also considering putting my wifes business logo on the doors, which is dark purple and black, so maybe purple pinstriping. Don't have to figure that out for awhile though. :)
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more from week 37 - I spent another two days doing all of the body work on the inside of the bed and got it primered. I also cleaned the years of grime off of the inner fender wells and primed them and undercoated the undersides. I can't decide if I should paint the fender wells the almond color or repaint them black. I am kinda leaning toward the almond color.
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I hope the inside of my bed looks half that good. Nice work!
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thanks, I was just going to use bed liner in it to hide all of the defects, but I did not want that much black. It still has a lot of defects, but good enough to fool the pics :)
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week 38 - I got the bed and the inner fender wells painted. A lot of body work to do still, but it feels real good to have the two biggest parts behind me. :) I also got the radiator hoses and transmission lines hooked up to the radiator.
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msaintg, you are talented! I like the way the bed turned out.
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OK, a few more pics from week 38. I did a lot of small stuff to get the bed put on and to get the engine closer to being started up, like connecting hoses, electrical, fluids, battery, etc. I hope to be starting it up next week.... but I am a little scared. :)
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It RUNS, it RUNS!! Almost 9 months to the day since I brought it home. It fired right up, first try. I could not have asked for anything better. It has a small water leak at the thermostat where I cut and welded the inlet and an oil leak at the oil filter (I don't have the right fittings yet). I still need to clean up the huge wiring mess, but woo hoo!, it runs. :) Wow, what a HUGE releaf.
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Nice job!
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Congratulations - preparation paid off!
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Awesome work, that is really cool
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Congrats! I know that has to be a great feeling.
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thanks. there were a hundred things that could have gone wrong. I pushed it out of the garage and had my wife standing there with a garden hose, just in case. I jumped when all the lights on the dash came on and heard the fuel pump making noise. :) Now I have to decide what my next step is.... probably clean up engine compartment. mike
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nice work looking good don't know if this will help
on my truck I used the housing for the thermostat from a 93 astro van it came straight up from eng on the hoses for the oil cooler I removed the check valve in the housing and tap the holes for plugs |
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I really like the bed. Looks great!
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JED971959, thanks, I will try the Astro van inlet if I can't get my welds to stop leaking. As far as the oil line, I don't know about any check valve. Is you oil filter remote like mine?.... under the radiator. Did you plug off the lines going to the oil cooler/ radiator? Mine had 1/2" diameter hard lines going from the oil filter to the old radiator. Since my new radiator does not have these connections, I bought an external oil cooler, that I now need to splice into the lines. I ordered a 'compression fitting to barb fitting' online. So hopefully in a week or so, I will have it connected. |
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I think all blazers and jimmy's are the same
2 lines from eng 2lines to rad going to a block with filter under rad lines bolted to filter block I removed the lines to the rad in the filter block there is a check ball and spring in 1 line hole or it's under the filter that I removed and drilled the hole bigger taped the line holes to rad and plug have about 300 kms on truck and working good no leaks so far if you want I can get some pic of the filter block for you |
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I don't know why, but I thought I needed to keep the cooling. I even kept the cooling lines on the power steering. I like the oil filter up front for easy access, but I like the idea of plugging it off there. Oh well, my coupling have arrived, I will try to use the oil cooler.
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