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Re: How To: Ruin a Perfectly Good K/5
Great news! Congrats on being able to keep both of your rides.
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Re: How To: Ruin a Perfectly Good K/5
Thanks everyone! It's a load off, for sure.
Picked up an internal spare tire carrier from LMC. I don't generally like ordering from them, but they had what I needed and originals are bringing $500 plus on eBay... Posted via Mobile Device
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Re: How To: Ruin a Perfectly Good K/5
Need to swap the spare wheel. Ready to be driving this one again
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Re: How To: Ruin a Perfectly Good K/5
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Re: How To: Ruin a Perfectly Good K/5
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Re: How To: Ruin a Perfectly Good K/5
Good news man! You need to prompt your folks to also add a lift, compressor, tools, welder, plasma, torchmate...
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Re: How To: Ruin a Perfectly Good K/5
Great news for you! When do you have to be over there?
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Re: How To: Ruin a Perfectly Good K/5
Darn it, i was hoping to pick that blazer up from you at a fire-sale price. lol.
Glad to get to keep her.
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Re: How To: Ruin a Perfectly Good K/5
I am glad you get to keep them both! Thats great news!
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Re: How To: Ruin a Perfectly Good K/5
Beautiful DETAILED work.
Like always.
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Re: How To: Ruin a Perfectly Good K/5
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Re: How To: Ruin a Perfectly Good K/5
Took her out today and put her to work
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Re: How To: Ruin a Perfectly Good K/5
I think I would be taking the Blazer over there.. At least you can take everyone for a ride in one trip..
Good luck over there, it will be an experience.
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great picture !
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Re: How To: Ruin a Perfectly Good K/5
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Re: How To: Ruin a Perfectly Good K/5
very cool picture!
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Re: How To: Ruin a Perfectly Good K/5
Nice pic!
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Re: How To: Ruin a Perfectly Good K/5
That's about a perfect look for a 1st gen K5. Beautiful truck.
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#244 |
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Re: How To: Ruin a Perfectly Good K/5
Thanks a lot guys! The building was supposed to have a jet flying out of that huge hole in the awning, but was cut due to budget constraints--that would have been a cool shot...
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#245 |
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Re: How To: Ruin a Perfectly Good K/5
Some detail shots as promised. Just a few random pictures from around the engine bay. It's only this clean once!
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Re: How To: Ruin a Perfectly Good K/5
A couple of the ceramic coated exhaust manifolds and the plug wire routing--what a PITA! I also coated the manifold hardware in anti-sieze, which should keep them from rusting for a while...
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#247 |
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Re: How To: Ruin a Perfectly Good K/5
...and either side of the carb and HEI...
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Re: How To: Ruin a Perfectly Good K/5
Here's the only real 'non-stock' modifications I made. All of the crap in this box was not put back on the truck. The original points distributor, coil, and transmission-controlled spark, timing-pulling, power-robbing system were removed and replaced with the HEI. Lucky for me, the Accel HEI pigtail harness that I bought used the same style brass connector as the pink power wire for the TCS, so I simply yanked all of the unneeded wires from the harness and stuck the HEI connector on the end of the wire. This gives me a factory appearing switched 12v to the distributor with a snap-in spade connector on the fusebox end and a firewall grommet. I just routed it up along the rain gutter with the rest of the wires and it looks like it belongs
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Very nice sir!
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Re: How To: Ruin a Perfectly Good K/5
veeeery clean !!!
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