Busy week at the shop, but I did go tinker with the parts truck. Got the core support out of it and tied the hoses together and the transmission lines together, did not want to make it undriveable.
Started work on the replacement hood, from the 'burban. Got the thing sanded topside pretty well, had tons of rock chips. I thought at first I had a perfect hood, but upon sanding I did find 2 areas that will need some light mud work. I did go ahead and flip it over and cleaned/scuffed/paint the bottom.
On a side note, yesterday I had an old painter buddy of mine stop by my shop since he seen the doors open. We talked for a spell, then he went to leave and his blazer would not start. I went out and looked at it, his column was so loose I can not believe he was driving it. I just knew something had failed inside the column due to the issue. We pushed it inside my building and waited until this morning to tinker with it. He and a friend of his pulled the column apart and fixed the 'wiggle' issue, and found what they thought was the problem with the ignition. Got it built back up and turned the key.... nothing. I crawled under it, tested the fuseable link (was good) and then whacked the starter with a hammer. It started. I crawled out from under it and told him to get ready to replace the starter, hehe.
A little about the blazer, my dad bought it new in 1988, drove it a year and bought a new 1989 excab 4x4. He sold the blazer to a guy soon after. He drove the truck for about 4 months, and hated it, hated everything about it. He went and found the guy who bought the blazer and swapped him, hehe. He then drove the blazer for a few years and bought a new suburban, our painter at the time bought the blazer and has owned it ever since.