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Ok...it took a while, but grille #3 made the cut. It took a lot of patience and bandaids but it's on. It still needs just a little tweaking and the vertical stripes painted on the inner grille...but she's on there.

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One of the toughest things to accept, is that they all seem to come from the manufacturer with tiny scratches around the mounting tabs. I don't know if it's part of their process or what, but I don't want to see anything but shine when I pop the hood.

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I got the "rivet nuts" from a local Tri-Five vendor here in Athens. They were way too proud of them ($$$). I didn't notice them at any of the vendors that sell the grilles...seems like they'd be part of the package.

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The reproduction bedsides don't come with the nutserts installed for the rear top bracket. I got our local Fastenal to order these for me. We did a test run to make sure we could get it to crimp correctly. Of course the B and C pillar will be repainted anyway since they are exposed, so this guy will get covered then.

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Doors off and getting final prep.

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Of course I have a day job....I have to pay Eric for making that grille fit...and for the associated blood transfusion.

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Is there a nut that goes on the back side of these or did you have to drive (squeeze) the rivets?

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Yes, there are nuts on back side.

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In spite of the weather, Eric got some base and a couple of coats of clear on the exposed interior bits, ash tray and glove box door. The upper dash looks so good, almost hate to paint it black.

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Nice!!

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Thanks!

That's what she said.

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Looks great! I envy your progress.

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Thanks!

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Several nice redone K5's will be on the road this summer!

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Not positive, but were nt all the tops of the dashes a light tan color? I think you are headed towards a 100 point correct truck, right....
Build looks great

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Depends on the interior color. My truck was originally a red interior, so the upper dash was flat(dull) red. I guess for the most part it matched the dash pad...saddle would be tan, black for black and so on. They were a flat finish to reduce glare(assuming again). The upper vents were color keyed as well.

...and thanks, but it won't be a 100 point correct truck, (there are plenty of things that are acknowledged incorrect by year and factory standards) but at least we'll give it 100% effort. ;)

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Your Blazer is coming along very nicely. The color looks great. If you Blazer and Jimmy guys keep building such cool rides, I'll have to build one of those dang things too. LOL

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Thanks. Yours too of course. Deluxe bronze/white + saddle may be my favorite color combo right now. You're rockin it, even if you aren't going back with the pizza cutters. ;)

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Your Blazer is looking so good!! I bet you can't wait for that beauty to be done.

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Thanks. Hopefully by the end of next week I'll have all my chrome back and my seat covers will be in the mail. The receipt of both will be great milestones. I love that your little girl named your truck Girdy...hilarious. My little girl (3 y/o) would rib me every time she walked by the Blazer in the garage before it went in the shop..."Daddy, please move this STINKY OLD TRUCK!"...still trying to convince her that it won't be stinky when it comes home.

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great attention to detail,and TOTAL reincarnation of your "stinky old truck"!!!:lol:
how did you go about removing the body from the frame,cherry picker in the rear,attached to???

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Thanks...definitely hope it smells better. The body off was literally a one-man job. Eric did it completely by himself using floor jacks, cherry picker, blocking, and a patient methodical approach. Pretty impressive actually. I had to dig deep to find this pic with the lift points on the rear.

....gotta say, I'm a little nervous about hitting page #13.

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You do watcha gotta do. I've donr that same method before when changing springs or bushings.

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Only page 8 for me, so you should be good for a while

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Yeah...but for the moment we're page 13 and 13K views...got to get through this quick...I'll try to post more pics tonight and maybe we can blow through asap ;)

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No, I mean I have my post count per page set higher, so your thread is only on page 8 for me, so you have 5 more pages to go before you get there. Just change your count and then you'll be all good lol

I am set for 40 posts per page

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BRILLIANT! Life Hack. I feel better already...this build has only taken me 8 pages, it felt fast ;)

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awesome thanks! ill have to put my gbodies in the corner and hopefully tackle this to my 86 this spring.did you use truck bedsides,and did you make the lower inner rocker piece,or cut it off the new inner structure on the new sides?

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Not a hundred percent on exactly what you're asking, but what we did was use the new reproduction Blazer bed sides. They are complete with inner/outer/front and back structure. I got mine from South Kentucky Classics...but I know GMCPaul and others have them. Inner/outer rocker, floor board, lower A-pillar, etc are all reproduction pieces that most everyone has and require grafting in. The only straight up fab stuff were little patches or connecting pieces.

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A little base in the jams and on the inside of the doors.

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Interior chrome got here today. I got lucky on the shipment because the packaging wasn't nearly as stout as I'd like to have seen...those guys don't seem to recognize how hard those pieces can be to come by. Also the end of one of the rear trim strips was bad...they didn't blink about fixing it when I called back. Hopefully it won't be another 10 weeks.

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All the interior bits that need to be cleared are cleared. Doors hung...hopefully to never come off again. Tape and plastic had been on for a while...time for a change.

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After looking at plastic for so long, I'd forgotten how much I missed this jewel.

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man that is shaping up just fine!

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Thanks.

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Just in time for Spring! Where was the chrome work done?

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Hopefully...I had it done at a chrome shop in Atlanta. I was going to send it to Tennessee...but that was gonna take a year and a half and be the most expensive part of the truck. The guys I used took a "reasonable" amount of time and were easy to deal with. Though I was disappointed to receive a blemished piece, they were gung-ho to get it back and fixed asap.

Unfortunately, I sent it all out about a week before I fell into your bumper threads. If I had it to do again, I would have definitely sent it all there.

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wow.....looking great ...I need to stop by and see it.....

do you use a shop called like Chrome Brothers in Atl?

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Wow that is looking great. better than new. Should last at least another 40 years +. You are taking so much more time than the factory to get it perfect. Can't wait to see paint and all put back together.

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You should totally come by...just give me a heads up and we'll give it the once over. Chrome It was the name, the web address it ChromeAtlanta.com. Mack is the guy's name. Fairly easy to deal with.

Thanks...I can't wait either.