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Re: 70 Blazer Frame Off
Ok, basically buttoned up save for torquing upper ball joints and sleeve insert. Gotta get an insert tool (not one of the parts box stores in town had one yesterday)...and I am within a gnat's a$$ of getting the outer snap ring on the axle on the driver's side. The passenger's side was a struggle, but the driver's side is tougher. I don't know if it's just the new seals or the dust shield, but the axle end play just seems to have evaporated. When I tore it down it didn't have inner spindle seals on either side, and was missing an outer axle shaft thrust washer and associated seal on one side (can't remember which, may have been this one).
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I'll also get your guys opinion on the spindle nuts. I've seen so many different attitudes toward how to torque them in...anywhere from 50-75 ft lbs to set the preload on the bearing, 1/4 back then re-torque, all while spinning the hub. Then the outer nut to anywhere from 90-200 ft lbs.
When I initially torqued the inner nut, the hub got super tight at 50 and was pretty much locked down after that. I backed it off a 1/4 turn and then basically torqued it by feel based on the force required to rotate the hub. Then hammered down on the outer nut...am I goofing up? I think I did the pre-load at 50, then 1/4 back and then torqued it to 35-40 lbs..I can't remember for sure, though. For the outer nut, I want to say I torqued it somewhere between maybe 75-90.. Definitely, no more than that.
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That makes sense to me. I was having a little bit of trouble resolving the manual, experienced posts and my actual experience. Hopefully neither of us will throw a wheel at 55mph.
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Great job either way and good luck on resale. Hate to see anyone sell their awesome trucks. Hopefully a good new project pops up for you. Or just a good truck in good shape you can drive and enjoy.
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Thanks Guys...I'm not going anywhere, I've enjoyed this part of it too much. And there'll be another project sooner or later. That definitely was too much fun. I really appreciate all your kind words and comments...you guys are the best.
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I looked at that K5!! Didn't realize you were searching or would have been more than happy to assist. Glad it found a good new home. Excellent work and good luck. Pete
Edit: Just curious, was shipping a real hassle?
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Thanks...There could have been no one better to counsel me on it...It was a bad time of year to be shipping it from Montana (late October). I ended up using a local Kalispell shipper. It had to sit in the yard for a good bit of time, so it took a while to get here...but all in all the shipper was great. And they were honest and upfront. The driver even went out of his way to deliver it to Athens so I didn't have to meet him in Atlanta...which was no small courtesy.
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Looking bad!
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Very nice truck.
You are making great progress.
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Outer rockers on. Seats and console mocked in.
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That looks great! I gotta do the same to mine. Although complete floors.
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The Blazer bolt thread is very useful. Helped make finding these visor bolts a little easier.
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great start
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Thanks.
I had a mild heart attack yesterday. We put the the old door glass and regulators in along with most of the weather stripping to check the fit before the body comes off in a few days. The drivers side window gap was a joke before we started tearing into it...but as you all know this thing had been beat up, twisted and wrung out. The problem was that after all the metal work and fit improvement it was only marginally better yesterday...which is to say it was still pretty horrible. Sorry no pics, but I was too sick to take a picture, because neither of us could see where the adjustment was going to come from. Everything else fit pretty well. Top to side, top to tailgate, top to windshield...and all panel gaps What's worse is that I had a single NOS top to glass seal for the drivers side that I hadn't opened so we tried it in place of the repro and I put a small tear in it at the door when I closed it. I could have thrown up.... ...but after a restless nights sleep, a little bit of time on the board and re-visiting it today, fortunes have changed. I think I've got a couple of things going on, including an asymmetry in my top, since it fits better on the passenger's side and structures are measurably different on that side. Really the simplest and most obvious thing was to remove and reposition the weatherstip mounting track...It didn't make it perfect, but there's enough there that with some other tweaking it might not be relegated to dry clean only. |
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Heck of a start to a really cool project, hopping onboard for the ride.
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You are not missing something. You are actually lucky the WS fit up that good to begin with.
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Looks perfectly safe to me! Actually for 1970 that was probably considered overkill.
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Started coming apart again. Body scheduled to come off tomorrow and frame work to begin.
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