Well Im at it again..............

[bigbadchev72]

I have been slacking with taking pictures and starting a build thread. So better late than never I guess.



This all started off with me fixing my leaky transfercase, Which by the way is still leaking. I got the transfercase all sealed back up and while it was sitting in the garage I noticed a spot of oil under the bellhousing, So what better time to re-gasket/clean up the motor while I got the rollers on it and its in the garage!



I got the motor out, all cleaned up and painted, and new gaskets. Re-installed the motor and found out my cheap chrome valve covers were leaking. After being pissed off that all this work was done and it was still leaking, my poor wife walked out to see how it was going. I told her i was about ready to burn the thing to the ground, She said to buy some new valve covers . I picked up some polished fabricated aluminum ones for it, Got them installed and a small stream of oil started from the back corner. Well a quick trip to the parts store and $30 later I had the best set of re-usable gaskets they had, problem solved.



At this point it was in the garage for about a month with my schedule of getting around to work on it when I could. It was heading into fall, And i realized after finishing up my 67' I was gonna need a winter project.



So what better time to cut out all of the rot in the floorboards, and to finally fix the bedsides. I wanted to ditch all the factory CST trim and make it a little cleaner to look at.



When I first bought the Blazer the previous owner had done numerous "upgrades" that I was not fond of. He had cut out the factory rocker boxes in favor of some hickey saddle tanks and cut some fuel doors in the bedside for them. I welded in some patches and threw some filler over it, That had started to crack after I started to wheel it. He also cut a hole under the tailgate band in the VRO area, I never messed with it because I was going for a quick and dirty paint job to get the thing on the road.



I ended up grafting a new VRO into the tailgate, I still had the bedsides from my 67' and replaced a large portion of each bedside, new floorpans, kick panels, and rockers.



At this point I Picked up a 2006 cummins megacab. Now that i have a tow rig I can get a little more into wheeling with the Blazer now that I can tow it there and bring it home broke without worrying how Im gonna drive it home. I ordered up some PRP suspension seats and am going to do a full family cage for it. I ended up giving my hardtop away and ordered a softtopper for it as well. I got a 14bolt ff that I am getting the 4.56s and Detroit installed into and picked up a DIY disc kit for it as well.



I ended up settling on painting it a medium charcoal metallic paint and Picked up some ALs liner and tinted it body color as well. I just pulled it out of the garage and hopefully I will be taking it over to a buddys house so we can start on the cage.



I am wanting a rig that can do a little of everything. I am not a cut it till it clears kind of guy, I am going to have one of my buddys that has been doing bodywork for close to 20 years come by and help me open up the wheel wells, So I can drop it down. It was always a daily driver before so the height never bothered me. As soon as I find me a dana60 that isnt made of gold, I am wanting to do a 52" spring in the front and some longer ones in the rear. Then do crossover and maybe hydro assist. We dont have a whole lot of rocks nearby, but as soon as I get it dialed in, our group is willing to travel.

Heres when I picked it up







After I finished it the first time







And now.

























Here is the inspiration