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Re: What did you do to your Blazer/Jimmy today?
Installed a refurbished OEM am/fm truck radio, freshened up the AC ducts, and swapped the repro dash pad for a really nice OEM example. It took most of the weekend and taught me I need bifocals!
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Re: What did you do to your Blazer/Jimmy today?
Looks great! Gotta come see it in person.
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Re: What did you do to your Blazer/Jimmy today?
Thanks! Please do. I believe there's a parts swap here soon (but I have to work!).
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Re: What did you do to your Blazer/Jimmy today?
Did some trouble shooting on the engine and found out the intake was leaking all the way around so I pulled that all apart cleaned it and ready to reinstall. Trouble shot my transfer case leak sure enough I have to drop it out and reseal the adapter. Put some new trim molding on my right rear body panel. Thats enough for me this weekend. Alex
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Re: What did you do to your Blazer/Jimmy today?
Pulled my gauge cluster and replaced the light switch, that fixed my dash light dimmer and my courtesy lights. Also fixed my tach, the needle would bind up at 1800 rpm, the needle sits on a spring all I had to do was slighty pull it out which now allows the needle to fully rotate. Also ran the wiring for the door pins that control the courtesy lights, now need to make a jumper to wire them in. Attempted to install my new passenger side inside fender after I had painted it, but decided to wait until I have some help so I don't fubar the paint.
Time for a nap!
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Re: What did you do to your Blazer/Jimmy today?
Assembled my new grille with billet inserts....while watching hockey on my couch.
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Re: What did you do to your Blazer/Jimmy today?
Did a light refurbish on a used tach cluster I picked up last year. Finally installed it, but the temp gauge pegged to the top when I got the power on. Any ideas on that one? Off course the battery was too dead to fire it up, so still not sure if the tach even works. Throw the battery on the charger and try again tomorrow.
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Re: What did you do to your Blazer/Jimmy today?
Wish I could help - having a real struggle right now with my fuel gauge which is off by 1/4 turn or so clockwise. I need to swap in the original cluster which was working well. Lights look good - I upgraded to brighter ones in my tach cluster, #168 IIRC
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Bummer. Thought I had seen a thread somewhere on the Temp gauge. Will have to see if I can find it. I had a mixture of 168's and 194's in the three clusters I had in pieces. Wasn't sure which were the brighter ones, I mostly just wanted them to work. I think most were the 194's.
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Re: What did you do to your Blazer/Jimmy today?
I sprayed brake cleaner around the intake while the engine is running and listen for rpm increase. Heater cores are a PITA I am sure you have study up on that one. I haven't had to trouble shoot a fuel guage yet.
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Re: What did you do to your Blazer/Jimmy today?
Repairs/Upgrades on the Dana44. New Yukon 4340 axles and ujoints, ball joints, hub bearings, seals, new Warn locking hubs, rotors, brake calipers. Degreasing 42 years of caked-on grease sludge, and bead-blasting everything took me more time than anything else...
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Re: What did you do to your Blazer/Jimmy today?
Polished the bumper with a little never dull. Tried to polish some of the aluminum with little success.
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Re: What did you do to your Blazer/Jimmy today?
Powdercoated the charge pipe to match the rest of the stuff.
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Re: What did you do to your Blazer/Jimmy today?
Put my intake back with some new gaskets and it is running pretty good now, just got to dial it in a little. Set everything up to specification 8 degrees BTDC and 30 degrees dwell 650 rpm at idle.
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Re: What did you do to your Blazer/Jimmy today?
Finally was able to get this out of hibernation and begin the list of this year's projects..........
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Re: What did you do to your Blazer/Jimmy today?
Added Craigslist special tires/rims
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Re: What did you do to your Blazer/Jimmy today?
Swaped my cluster for a new bezel, replaced the oil pressure guage (good fix) to no pressure at all. Replaced my dash pad and discovered I need all new ac hose's, another controler, and I gotta do a heater core.
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Re: What did you do to your Blazer/Jimmy today?
I'm under the dash doing nearly the same. If you have any tips for digging out the heater core let me know. I'm still working through an issue with my fuel gauge and then on to the heater core. I got a made in Mexico bronze/brass core from Rockauto as I couldn't locate a new US example - will add some remaining tower clamps and a new heater control valve at the same time.
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Re: What did you do to your Blazer/Jimmy today?
Great idea thanks. My heater doesn't blow hot air - must be something a miss in the duct work. The heater valve does shunt hot coolant to the core. Need to trouble shoot that after my cluster issue is resolved.
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Re: What did you do to your Blazer/Jimmy today?
Did my heater core today, 6 hour job. Were the stock heater cores made by Harrison just wondering?
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Re: What did you do to your Blazer/Jimmy today?
Sounds painful - I may do that over Memorial Day weekend. I believe Harrison did make the stock cores. How did your replacement core fit?
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Re: What did you do to your Blazer/Jimmy today?
The replacement core fit fine (Ready-Aire, Vista-Pro). I believe it is the same one you got from Rock Auto.
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Re: What did you do to your Blazer/Jimmy today?
Replaced the tach/clock cluster with a tach/vac cluster all OEM gauges rebuilt by member Livrat. My rebuilt tilt painted dark saddle arrives Tuesday...
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