new from washington state 70 blazer

[woodymm3]

got some new things done today with my blazer.... basically removed all of the front clip exept for the radiator support and replaced with actuall 1970 peices got some fenders from a buddy over in port orchard wa. and he let me work on it at his garage and helped me get it back together. worked out pretty well since he is changing his 70 truck into a 68 and i am turning my 68 blazer back into a 70 ....... didnt know how many peices were diff between the two years. either way i got the fenders on the grill on and the new latch for the hood changed out. got a whitish left fender and a black and silver right one and a green hood. cant get much uglier but soon i will be getting more done to it... found my problem with my wiring. when i got everythign apart found a bunch of wires were melted through. seems the po is a pos.... and forgot to fix it before selling..... oh well looks like a complete rewire is in the making...... sorry bout no pics the wife is going to the rascal flats concert tonight and i let her take the camera so i will have more up pretty soon so you can see how ugly my green monster is....... well my multi colored monster now....

[woodymm3]

as promised here are some pics of the new front clip and some of the rust as well. some in the doors and some in the rockers














and here is what it looked like before







thanks for the patience hopefully these pics work

[Burt4x4]

I like that much better
Keep up the good work
Burt

[jfortner]

I finally have it installed and am very happy with the Summit wiring harness I ordered. It has 18 circuits so I had extra for add ons and lots of expansion capability. I was worried about wire lenght and only the right rear tail lamp wires were to short. All the rest worked out great. It made for an easy install and I used a number of the extra circuits for different uses.

http://store.summitracing.com/partde...5&autoview=sku

I would recommend it for a replacment but it will take some serious time to install. Since mind has many extra options and I went with waterproof connectors for all connections there was definatly extra time involved but I would plan for a long weekend.



John

[red71cheyenne]

Oh ya, that looks much better! Maybe when I'm home in May I can stop by and look at it in person. I live right over by the Fairgrounds.

[FRENCHBLUE72]

welcome to the board from southern oregon.

[woodymm3]

so got the other two fenders painted same as the hood the other day.... and i just bought a wire harness from saint wire.... is a kwik wire 14 heavy duty.... hopefully will do what i need. was only 219.00 and should have everything i need. i will let you guys know what i think when i get done wireing... i will also put some pics up of the painted front fenders soon. seems i may have a transmission problem that decided to show itself about 3 weeks after i bought it... so looks like i will be getting someone to rebuild my th350 as well.... may take a bit to save up for that since my ol lady got canned last week.... anyways that is where i am and will post pics soon.....

[woodymm3]

here is the pics i promised

reason i got the wire kit




here are some of the fenders painted.... nothing like krylon for paint huh... yeah i know its crap but i know nothing about painting and i plan on doing a real paint job once i get everything working the way it is supposed to and i get all the rust out of it. till then krylon will work for me.

[woodymm3]

here are a couple pics of the things that are wrong that i have to fix.... thought you guys may like some more pics... i been slacking on putting em up sorry


dented rear fender


rust in bed around wheel wells


here is something i found when i had the fenders off.... was invisible cause of the dirt but a little soap and water and look what i found.... dont know what it means maybe someone else will help me out

[woodymm3]

so i havent been on here in a while... i guess this is my official return... over the last year i have been doing a frame swap because my frame was bent and had already been welded back together from the looks of it.

i ended up picking up a nother blazer body and frame for 400 bucks which had a few goodie extra parts so i jumped on it... well a year later and i got it back together... enough to put on a trailer and tow back to my house anyways...

here are some pictures of the donor i picked up got some good cut doors and a set of utility bucket seats with it... he wouldnt part with the grill though. but the tranny and tcase were newly rebuild so still not a bad deal

[woodymm3]

here are some in progress of the frame swap

[woodymm3]

hooked a winch up to the top of the shop to give us some added muscle since there were only two of us

[woodymm3]

hooked a winch up to the top of the shop to give us some added muscle since there were only two of us

found some sweet seats on cl and decided to go with them got both seats brackets and some black seatbelts for 100 bucks

there is a picture of the donors pretty new tranny

sorry these are all over the place.. just trying to catch up.

[Yukon Jack]

Welcome back!

[red71cheyenne]

Is that dash out of a early 60's? Looks cool in there!

[woodymm3]

haha nah that is the interior of my buddys 1970 chevy van... i accidentally put it in there... it is a cool dash though huh?