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02-22-2013, 03:29 PM
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New from Texas
Howdy - I have been using this forum for a long time as a resource and finally decided to sign up. Truck is a 72 blazer that I have had since 1995. For various reasons it was parked from 1998 until 2011. Over the last year the 327 it had when I bought it has been replaced with a 454, added rear discs, switched to a quieter posi and a more street friendly rear gear ratio, swapped the drop spindles for standard and just ordered a set of stock height rear coils that will be installed soon. Along the way a lot of other stuff that has a tendency to wear ot has been replaced/upgraded. Now I am planning to get new wheels and tires (those 80s eagle alloys are a "little" dated) and I figured this would be a good place to get some opinions/guidance since that seems to be a regular topic here.
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02-22-2013, 03:44 PM
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Re: New from Texas
welcome to the board... tons of info and good folk as well
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02-22-2013, 03:58 PM
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Re: New from Texas
Thanks
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02-22-2013, 04:06 PM
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Re: New from Texas
NICE!
Welcome to the board.
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02-22-2013, 04:41 PM
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Re: New from Texas
welcome to the site
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02-22-2013, 08:37 PM
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Re: New from Texas
Welcome from just west of you.
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02-23-2013, 08:09 PM
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Re: New from Texas
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02-24-2013, 09:38 AM
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Re: New from Texas
Are you gonna make it to GoodGuys ?
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02-24-2013, 11:31 AM
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02-24-2013, 11:19 PM
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Re: New from Texas
Thats not the half of it for me,trying to go from three speed to auto.700R4 in my 67.Lokar's machine is down and they are two weeks behind,still wating on my shifter.Phoenix transmission is doing my install.From everything i've heard these giys are top notch,we'll see.
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02-25-2013, 10:04 AM
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Re: New from Texas
I'm curious why you would go from a manual to an automatic? Mine originally had the truck 4 speed (with the granny 1st gear and no good way to get from 2nd to 3rd smoothly) which I swapped for a saginaw 4 speed. Did you have trouble with the 3 speed, or just wanted to go auto?
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02-25-2013, 10:13 PM
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Re: New from Texas
Going with a 700R4 for the overdrive.Better cruiseability(not sure if thats a word)and just don't want to shift so much in town.
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02-25-2013, 10:41 PM
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Re: New from Texas
Welcome!! Nice blazer!!
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02-26-2013, 09:56 AM
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