1970 K5 Project

[Slinger60]

Ok here goes another build for me. First was my 71 K10 burb not finished yet but all it needs is body work and paint everything else is done. Bought this blazer a few months back. With the plans of doing a frame off. In the mean time I bought a 1970 c/20 pickup with a sweet front clip for a swap.The front diff. needed to be replaced, as it happens I have a dana 44 front diff. off a 1977 k/10 laying around. The disk brake upgrade will be nice.And I also had a rebuilt turbo 350 in the garage. The wiring is in very bad shape splices everywhere and all kinds of micky mouse stuff going on.So I bought a new wiring harness from painless. Plan on repainting her the stock medium blue.
Also bought a new 350 4 bolt from gm to drop in it also. My plan is to finish this project in 2 months (Hopefully) So today I started tearing her apart. but before I started doing that I had to debug her. Killed 4 black widows and found a few wasp nests in the process today. Here are a few pics of her when I brought her home and a few more from today during the tear down process.

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A few more pics. And as you can see I had a little help from mans best freind.

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And a few more pics. And a couple of my friendly flying buddies home.

[VA72C10]

looking forward to the build!

[Slinger60]

Update of progress after working on it for 2 days this weekend. Stripped the interior out and pulled all the wiring too. Floor seemed pretty solid nothing real bad that jumped out.Sunday I started cutting the rockers off and found a bit of rust nothing really bad but a little worse than I thought it was gonna be. But its always wishfull thinking that there isnt gonna be any rust under rockers when theres rust holes in them to start with. Little bit of a set back on my time frame to finish this project but nothing serious. I am going to cut the floor pan to replace the floor support, not sure if thats the right way but I dont want to mess with the rocker boxes.It seems a little easier to tackle it that way to me.I took out all the body mounts so the body is ready to pull off once I finish the repairs on the floor and both a and b pillers. Also looking for a set of Black belts to replace mine and both the K/5 fender emblems and a set of outer bumper brackets too.

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It never ceases to amaze me how much dirt and rust get piled up inside the rockers. A few more pics of this weekends progress. Hope to have all cab repairs finished by next weekend.

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Ok its been 3 months since my last post. I have been working on the blazer, I have just been to lazy to update my thread. Anyways after cutting all the rust out and replace both a and b pillers and part of the cab floor that I cut to get to everything. Here some pics of how it turned out. I am by no means an expert sheet metal guy but I think it will hold up.

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It took me at least 50 or 60 hrs to cut and fit all the sheet metal in and get it all welded up. I put por15 inside the rocker boxes. And rust protected all the parts before they went in. I was honestly surprised at how long it took me to get this part of the project done. Here are some more pics.

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After all the sheet metal work was done it was time to pull the body off. It took 5 guys to lift it off the chassis and set it on some saw horses that I made.

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Next I power washed and took a putty knife to the frame to get most the the grime and grease off the frame before blasting

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I used 700 lbs. of play sand to blast the frame it was cheap enough that I didnt reclaim any of it. I started with some safety googles but quickly learned that it wasnt going to work with them. So I took my welding helmet and took the lens out and used that, way better. Darn sand hurts when it hits your face.

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Once the frame was blasted I gave her a good coat of primer the paint.Then on went my tires and rims and shocks. Then I put the fuel line back in and the brake lines. Bought the front steel brake line kit from Classic Industries to except the swap from drum to disk on the front. Had to drill new holes for the front brake lines.

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Then it was back to the body since I was waiting for a buddy of mine to rebuild my transfer case. Had lots of holes to fill. Both rear quarters had these big holes from a P.O. that had put on whip antennas. Got one of before and one after. I wasnt to good at taking a lot of pictures.I would get on a roll and forget to take any pictures untill the end of the day.

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After fixing the rear quarters and filling the trim holes on the body I had to take care of the windsheild frame. There was only one nut left on either side to hold the trim on so I had to cut out both sides and weld in new sections that I fabricated with new nuts welded on the back side.And of course I didnt take any pics of before so here are a couple after. I found one before I fixed the bad area I cropped it to fit so you can see a little bit of the area before I fixed it.

[boonedogs72]

looks real good!

[Slinger60]

Hey your from the same area. And thanks.

[JBerno]

What color Blue is that? Looking real nice

[Slinger60]

Chevy medium blue I forget the code number.
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[68 GMC step long]

That is really turning out to be a nice Blazer.

[boonedogs72]

just noticed that aswell. paint looks great

[Slinger60]

This weekends progress. Worked on the doors. Stripped em down and welded 49 holes. I think every PO put a different set of mirrors on this thing. There was a little bit of damage on the drivers door from the wing being pryed open during a break in.A few before pics.

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A few more.

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A few after I filled all the holes except for the speaker holes need to pick up some more sheet metal to fix those.

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Thanks for the compliments.

[Dale99]

Thats the same color as mine. Waiting to see what yours turns out to look like. I was thinking about repainting mine a different color.

And holy crap on all the holes in the doors