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Re: What did you do to your Blazer/Jimmy today?
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Re: What did you do to your Blazer/Jimmy today?
I put the seat belts in, seats and console. Still need to install the shifter boot, door weather strips, door sills and the radio speaker.
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Re: What did you do to your Blazer/Jimmy today?
Really really sweet!
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Re: What did you do to your Blazer/Jimmy today?
Asolde, nice work! That looks like something you would climb into at the dealership......
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Re: What did you do to your Blazer/Jimmy today?
Nice work! Any tips for trimming holes in the carpet? I've always just hacked away as meticulously as possible but there must be a better technique. I recently had to re-glue (3M weatherstrip adhesive) a portion of a door weatherstrip and used several large metal paper clip/clamps to hold the glued section in place - worked well.
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Re: What did you do to your Blazer/Jimmy today?
When I did my carpet in the suburban, I used an old soldering iron. I sharpened the point a little, got it up to temp and poked it up through the floor where I could and down from the top for the remainder. It melted or I say 'cauterized' the holes for a nice, sealed edge. Very permanent, so make sure the carpet is in the right spot.
I have done a few this way and it works pretty well. Just don't lay a hot soldering iron on your new carpet.
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Re: What did you do to your Blazer/Jimmy today?
Working to get my body jig completed
Main rails frame assembly actually setting up on edge This will lay down flat and attach to the cross members on the body mount holes Cross members...one at the front floor, one in the middle, and one at the rear all are adjustable with all thread and nuts One of the main uprights nearly finished.....got to drill some holes up the side of the vertical tube for adjusting up and down. Here's the rough design...doesn't show the cross members but they will weld to the main frame rails on some standoffs to allow me to 1. keep the body straight and square 2. turn it upside down for easier access to work on the underside. |
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Re: What did you do to your Blazer/Jimmy today?
Would like to see more pics of the jig in use once complete
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I did my door weatherstrips today. I lifted the roof off enough to get at the top of the seals. It was rock solid no rust clean along the windshield frame. I cleaned everything up and installed my seals.When I was pulling the roof off the two front LT/RT hold down bolts broke off. I could not get them to easy out so I stepped drill the bolts out and ran a tap back though the nut plates. I put the roof back on and finished off the seals. I did not like the way the drip deflectors fit so I put the stock ones back on until I get it fiqured out. I got a few more things to do on the interior like the rear pnls, shifter boot, radio speaker.
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Re: What did you do to your Blazer/Jimmy today?
I made some light switch/wiper knobs out of a hunk of scrap aluminum:
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Re: What did you do to your Blazer/Jimmy today?
Got my Parkerized parts back today - here are some representative shots: hood hinge, pitman arm, 72 hooks, underside of a door striker plate, upper hood latch. The bolts are the unique 12-pointers used to attach the hood latch at the rad support. They come coated with a fine layer of gun oil.
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Those are so nice, I wish I had thought to do that when I had mine apart. Looks like a durable, no nonsense finish.
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Re: What did you do to your Blazer/Jimmy today?
Looks great. Who does that in Alb.?
Colors available?
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Re: What did you do to your Blazer/Jimmy today?
http://www.kaehr.com/
They have a minimum order ($100) that does a lot of parts. Colors aren't an option per se - there's zinc or manganese that impart either a really dark gray or black. Ask the folks at Kehr. More on Parkerizing here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkerizing The local shop here in MT did a really good job.
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Re: What did you do to your Blazer/Jimmy today?
Ripped out the front axle of my '69 getting closer to converting it to 2wd form
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Man '67steven those knobs are bad a$$!
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Re: What did you do to your Blazer/Jimmy today?
Well it runs and stops now !
Time to get rid of the gas can......tonights project. Yuck !!!!!
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Re: What did you do to your Blazer/Jimmy today?
Well, I didn't really "Do" anything today, except pick these up from my local upholstery shop.
He did a great job with the Utility Buckets, and the rear seat. He also upholstered the armrests for the rear seat and filled in the ashtray locations. I just need to paint the rear seat arms, and the metal seat backs for the front seats, clean up and paint the seat tracks...then bolt them in (after I get done fixing my rusty floor, LOL)...It will be nice to finally have seats, since I bought this truck with no seats in it! ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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Awesome!
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Re: What did you do to your Blazer/Jimmy today?
Seats look great!
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