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Old 02-20-2015, 11:34 PM   #1
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Re: 70 Blazer Frame Off

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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Old 02-21-2015, 12:24 AM   #2
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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
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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Old 02-24-2015, 11:14 AM   #3
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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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Old 02-24-2015, 12:10 PM   #4
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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

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Old 02-24-2015, 12:59 PM   #5
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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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Old 02-24-2015, 01:20 PM   #6
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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?
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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Old 02-24-2015, 08:08 PM   #7
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A little base in the jams and on the inside of the doors.
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Old 02-26-2015, 11:22 PM   #8
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man that is shaping up just fine!
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Old 02-26-2015, 11:43 PM   #9
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Old 02-27-2015, 10:55 AM   #10
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Just in time for Spring! Where was the chrome work done?
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Just in time for Spring! Where was the chrome work done?
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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Old 02-27-2015, 05:48 PM   #12
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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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Old 02-27-2015, 09:35 PM   #13
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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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Old 02-27-2015, 10:30 PM   #14
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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?
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.

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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.
Thanks...I can't wait either.
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Old 02-27-2015, 10:42 PM   #15
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Two things went on today with little more than a clean up that are 45 years old. Fan shroud and glove box latch...and they looked pretty darn good. Amazing so much effort goes into rehabilitating, restoring, refinishing or replacing...and they're like, "just let me keep doing what I've been doing for half a century."

...unfortunately the shroud will come back off (like everything, one step forward, two steps back). It seems when they re-cored the radiator, they made it a 1/4" wider. My return rate on parts seems way too high...and it is muy agravante.
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Old 02-28-2015, 09:24 AM   #16
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great job!
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Old 02-28-2015, 09:51 AM   #17
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Old 02-28-2015, 12:13 PM   #18
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That truck is looking great, will be one of the best on the forum.
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That truck is looking great, will be one of the best on the forum.
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Old 03-03-2015, 08:59 PM   #20
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Eric decided to go all Bill Nye today and clean up the under dash assemblies (parking brake, pedal mount) with science. They came out awesome.
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Gentler on the skin than muriatic acid and a similarly good result!
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Old 03-08-2015, 04:41 PM   #22
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Looking great!

I did the sequence on the ball joints/ knuckles you sent to me and it did the trick..It's unbelievable how some things work.
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Old 03-08-2015, 05:57 PM   #23
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That is going to be a beautiful truck when it’s finished. Keep the pictures coming.
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Old 03-08-2015, 08:59 PM   #24
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Looking great!

I did the sequence on the ball joints/ knuckles you sent to me and it did the trick..It's unbelievable how some things work.
I'm glad it worked. Credit definitely goes to the board...I just copied it from another thread. That was a remarkably difficult and aggravating step.

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Thanks, I hope so...and I will.
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Old 03-10-2015, 10:21 PM   #25
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Well...this isn't going to work. I already had mixed emotions about not putting together a stock a/c set up. I definitely am not digging the "dealer-installed" compressor position.
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