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Re: How To: Ruin a Perfectly Good K/5
Generally speaking, yes, pretty hard to come by. They were only available, I think on military CUCV Blazers. Lucky for me, a full set popped up for sale in the 60-66 classifieds here and lolife99 alerted me to them (thanks Keith!). The only other source I could find them wanted $200 a piece! I've seen them sell occasionally here, CList, and eBay, just gotta keep your eyes peeled and be quick on the trigger...
On that note, if you find an extra, I need one for my spare. Seriously ![]() Posted via Mobile Device
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Look forward to the pics with the new sleds. Tim Posted via Mobile Device
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Re: How To: Ruin a Perfectly Good K/5
Well, it's not entirely safe from the knife, but will be 4wd for the foreseeable future.
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Re: How To: Ruin a Perfectly Good K/5
This is what I had been planning to do before I found my blazer. I probably would have had second thoughts as well. Although, those would be just thoughts. I would pin it for sure! Good luck with the decision. Haha
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Re: How To: Ruin a Perfectly Good K/5
wow!!!! very nice find! love that color! and interior! stock looks nice.
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Me too! I agree, stock on this truck is pretty good-lookin'
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Re: How To: Ruin a Perfectly Good K/5
Been tinkering again. Had a nasty leak at the corner of the window that was fine while driving, but a river when parked. Seemed it has been that way for a while judging from the surface rust on the floorboard. Funny, the passenger side didn't leak a drop. No matter, installed the driprail deflectors with a smattering of 'right stuff' and it is 99% fixed. New weatherstripping I think would fix it entirely...
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Re: How To: Ruin a Perfectly Good K/5
Also yanked the fuel tank in an attempt to get the factory fuel gauge working properly. Turns out, I have a vintage Northwest Metal Products 37 gallon tank. NWMP is a subsidiary of Southern California RV Products, where this tank was purchased. This thing was installed in 1980 and still looks great inside! Cool to see a product that is still being made for these Blazers over 30 years later.
I stuck a new 0-90 ohm sender in from Tanks, Inc, which was in a Classic Instruments box and looked eerily similar to a VDO unit... It's an adjustable piece, so I set it up for my tank's depth and bolted 'er in. The tank got a touch-up coat of rubberized undercoating and a new fuel filter and I stuck it back in. Deleted the old fuel gauge and hooked the sender back to the fuse box. The dash gauge now works, at least, but is reading just over 1/8 tank at 42 ohms from the sender (just under half full). I need to dig in and see if I have a bad gauge. May be why the PO bypassed it in the first place...
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Re: How To: Ruin a Perfectly Good K/5
Also received some goodies via FedEx:
They will end up either painted or powdered white with stainless dog-dishes ![]()
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Thats a big tank!! Cant wait to see it with the dog dishes!!
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Re: How To: Ruin a Perfectly Good K/5
Steelies and dog dishes...gonna be sweet!
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Re: How To: Ruin a Perfectly Good K/5
Thanks, guys! Should help the look considerably
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Very nice! Posted via Mobile Device
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Re: How To: Ruin a Perfectly Good K/5
Those wheels will look great on your K/5. You can't go wrong with black or white powder coat.
I'm trying to figure out how to put the dog dish caps on my new wheels.
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Re: How To: Ruin a Perfectly Good K/5
Thanks! Can't wait to get em on
Thanks, definitely going white on these.
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Re: How To: Ruin a Perfectly Good K/5
...and more fiddling. When I picked this truck up, it started and ran fantastically, even in temperatures approaching zero. Lately, however, it has NOT been happy until warmed up, chugging, stumbling, missing and (literally) choking. After some research, I found a bad choke pull-off. Amazingly hard to find little piece. Had to special order it through NAPA--most other LAPS just looked at me funny. Even better, when asking for a choke thermostat, the guy asked me what temperature I wanted
![]() She's back starting/running well now, but loudly, as I have the muffler and tailpipe dropped to get replaced. The muffler was rotten at the joints and the tailpipe was just plain ugly, so I had the local exhaust shop bend up a replacement. Will stick it in tomorrow and hopefully get back to driving this beast ![]()
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Re: How To: Ruin a Perfectly Good K/5
More goodies, exhaust installed, and these went out for powder today:
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Re: How To: Ruin a Perfectly Good K/5
i like !!!! what tires some new era nittos or old school ?
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Re: How To: Ruin a Perfectly Good K/5
Gonna swap over the 31-10.50 BFG A/Ts that are on it, for now. I think 33-9.50s would look pretty sweet, too. Tall and skinny, like they used to do.
Did a little polishing on the caps- lots more to go before the paint detail goes on... ![]() Posted via Mobile Device
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Powder!
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Man,... that was a fast turn around on the powdercoating.
It's going to look soooooo nice!
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Looking good.
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Wheels look great!
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