72 Blazer build

[lks dcvn]

Nice work! Let me know how that American Autowire kit works out. Which one did you get?

[Slippy]

Originally Posted by lks dcvn

Nice work! Let me know how that American Autowire kit works out. Which one did you get?

I got the Classic Update Kit, same one I used when I did my Jimmy. Its a pretty sweet kit, includes,ignition switch,dimmer switch and coverts it to the small plastic fuses instead of the glass ones. I bought it through Matts Classic Bowties which is a vendor here. It has pretty much everything you could need. Doesn't come with the heater wiring which I find annoying but whatever I guess.

Still waiting on my gauges from Matt, I ordered the RTX series from Dakota Digital. Probably the part that I'm the most excited to see. Check them out on their website. super slick..

[lks dcvn]

I have the same wiring kit planned for my 72 blazer build. Odd about the heater wiring though. On my Blazer - I'm doing a heater/defrost only kit since A/C on Blazers is almost useless from those who have installed it and I shaved the firewall.

I am also looking forward to using the RTX gauges. When my project started - I was excited for the VHX gauges - glad I waited. By the time I need the gauges again - they may have something newer on the market...

[Slippy]

Hey Guys, sorry I haven’t updated in a while, Reassembly has been going pretty decent and I’ve been poking away at it.
Doors are on and completely assembled now, the felts drove me crazy as the holes in the doors were in a different spot than what was on the felts strips. Ended up having to carefully make new holes.
I finallly received my new gauges from Dakota Digital, they are the RTX series and I have never seen cooler gauges in my life, so glad I went with them, I will have to get a pic tomorrow and get it posted, all I had on my phone was a video.
All dash wiring as well as rear taillight wiring is complete now and the American auto wire harness worked as expected.
My dad and I have been working on recovering the seats and are slowly getting them done also.
My windshield luck has been pretty crappy, we ended up cracking the first windshield during installation when we were roping it in, a metal pick has no business near the edge of a windshield..haha.
The second windshield we installed without any drama but once it was installed we could see a manufacturing defect in the glass causing distortion when you looked through it, so it came out again also and am still waiting on the third one.
Also received my new SPID from Jeff at Outintheshop.com, looks incredible.

[Slippy]

Couple pics of the RTX gauges, these are totally customizable and easy to install. Can change backlight colours and functions through app on my phone over Bluetooth. I got the interface so that all of the data is transferred through the obd2 port straight from the computer. Couldn’t be happier.

[lks dcvn]

Nice progress. I really like those gauges.

[Slippy]

Things are staring to come together nicely, adjusting panels for hours on end can drive you crazy but hopefully worth it in the end,

I received a bunch of parts from LMC and the inner and outer grille were both damaged, I was very happy with how they handled it, no questions asked and they had new ones on the way, they don’t even want the old ones back.

I had started the engine numerous times and everything seemed to be good, but after going for a little drive around my yard it was apparent that I had some transmission issues,it is a 6l80 computer controlled trans and it was stuck in limp mode and wouldn’t shift or do anything, after reading different forums for about 10 hours I realized I had wiring issues, after changing some wires around and adding a relay for the trans controller I think it’s working now.

I have to say if it wasn’t for forums such as this one I don’t think a lot of these builds would be possible, seems like every problem someone else has encountered before and had a solution.

I wouldn’t have been smart enough to figure out the trans issue on my own for sure. Haha