What did you do to your Blazer/Jimmy today?
 

Pickup forum has a similar thread so why not K5's?

Had 3.73's and a front posi installed in my Blazer today and upgraded to a better shade of blue hub actuator dials.

What did you do today?

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Got a spare tire carrier for my new Blazer. I cleaned it up and painted it.

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Nice!

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Pulled into the driveway after Work and wished I had more time To put into the old Girl. Tree fell on it during hurricane sandy so I need to get a new windshield and repair the top.

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Washed it!

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Started to patch the pass side floor, then will move to the kick panel , inner/outer rockers along with the front pillar and b pillar......then to the drivers side on my 70

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Two steps forward: installed an internally regulated alternator and hooked up the auxiliary battery :)

Two steps back: discovered an antifreeze leak that tells me the heater core is bad and my fancy Oldsmobile AC compressor belt shield won't fit because of the CA emissions brackets required for the compressor :( Will post this for sale, it's a cool add

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Took the top off.

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Finnished shipping and border papers for a new ride.

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Pics man!

Congrats! Where did you finally locate one? Post pics when poss.

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More pictures and details once she is home. :metal:

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I came home and found that UPS had dropped my LMC order....
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Saturday should be productive.

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Removing cancer and Welding in new metal. Lets see if I can get one side done this weekend?
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I did a tune up, changed my altenator, changed my oil. Thats my new Blazer but not my shop.

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Got 2 of 4 hand-made tail light bezels done and polished.

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I swapped the old RH rear CST panel for a repro and scrubbed the slider windows I was able to track down. Not sure I'm thrilled about the tint. Only set I've seen that's a factory tint - frames are black.

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I wash it,then I clay bar it, then I polised it.

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Then I waxed it.

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Hey deadheadnm, where did you get the repro panel in the saddle? Just what I'm looking for.

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Those came via Brothers Trucks. I've since learned that forum member Truckseats can get these also. He's provided me with two excellent sets of covers for my pickups. Send him a PM.

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Thanks. Looks like I have some covers coming from Truckseats. Might have to increase my order.
This weekend is installing my tach cluster. Pictures to come!

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What was the process of making those and what materials did you use. I like them alot, very cool idea and surprisingly innovative that looks stock :metal:

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I made patterns out of box board, took em to a shop that water jetted them from 3/16 aluminum, sand sand sand and polish. More work to the lenses to make them fit just right though. Thank you for the compliment; my Blazer is full of little things that took MAJOR time and effort that you have to point out to people if I want them to notice.

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Got the rear floor finished in the Blazer 2WD

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I pulled my broken SBC 400, to start a rebuild.

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Installed a refurbished OEM am/fm truck radio, freshened up the AC ducts, and swapped the repro dash pad for a really nice OEM example. It took most of the weekend and taught me I need bifocals! :(

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Looks great! Gotta come see it in person.

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Thanks! Please do. I believe there's a parts swap here soon (but I have to work!).

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Did some trouble shooting on the engine and found out the intake was leaking all the way around so I pulled that all apart cleaned it and ready to reinstall. Trouble shot my transfer case leak sure enough I have to drop it out and reseal the adapter. Put some new trim molding on my right rear body panel. Thats enough for me this weekend. Alex

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Pulled my gauge cluster and replaced the light switch, that fixed my dash light dimmer and my courtesy lights. Also fixed my tach, the needle would bind up at 1800 rpm, the needle sits on a spring all I had to do was slighty pull it out which now allows the needle to fully rotate. Also ran the wiring for the door pins that control the courtesy lights, now need to make a jumper to wire them in. Attempted to install my new passenger side inside fender after I had painted it, but decided to wait until I have some help so I don't fubar the paint.

Time for a nap!

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Alex how'd you trouble shoot for the leak? Nice new ride btw!! I've got a leaking heater core, my heater blows cool not hot, and my fuel gauge is inaccurate so I've got a lot more trouble shooting to.

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Assembled my new grille with billet inserts....while watching hockey on my couch. :metal:

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Did a light refurbish on a used tach cluster I picked up last year. Finally installed it, but the temp gauge pegged to the top when I got the power on. Any ideas on that one? Off course the battery was too dead to fire it up, so still not sure if the tach even works. Throw the battery on the charger and try again tomorrow.

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Wish I could help - having a real struggle right now with my fuel gauge which is off by 1/4 turn or so clockwise. I need to swap in the original cluster which was working well. Lights look good - I upgraded to brighter ones in my tach cluster, #168 IIRC

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Bummer. Thought I had seen a thread somewhere on the Temp gauge. Will have to see if I can find it. I had a mixture of 168's and 194's in the three clusters I had in pieces. Wasn't sure which were the brighter ones, I mostly just wanted them to work. I think most were the 194's.
Oh, and got my K/5 emblems back one. Only had one when I bought it. Found another on Ebay and touched them up. Much better having matching emblems.

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I sprayed brake cleaner around the intake while the engine is running and listen for rpm increase. Heater cores are a PITA I am sure you have study up on that one. I haven't had to trouble shoot a fuel guage yet.

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Repairs/Upgrades on the Dana44. New Yukon 4340 axles and ujoints, ball joints, hub bearings, seals, new Warn locking hubs, rotors, brake calipers. Degreasing 42 years of caked-on grease sludge, and bead-blasting everything took me more time than anything else...

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Polished the bumper with a little never dull. Tried to polish some of the aluminum with little success.

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Powdercoated the charge pipe to match the rest of the stuff.

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Put my intake back with some new gaskets and it is running pretty good now, just got to dial it in a little. Set everything up to specification 8 degrees BTDC and 30 degrees dwell 650 rpm at idle.