Long bed to blazer conversion

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A Blazer essentially is a hacked pickup. The pickup suspension and the blazer suspension are the same, it's just a half ton truck suspension. Of coarse just like in the pickups, 2WD and 4WD suspensions are different. As far as converting a pickup into a Blazer (err actually if your doner is a GMC don't you mean Jimmy?) There is a lot of structure under a Blazer/Jimmy to compensate for the lack of roof structure and the fact that the cab and bed do not move independently from one another. It's a lot of fabrication to make it work, though I'd say you could probably improve on how GM did it. The Blazers and Jimmys were rushed to market and try to use as few unique parts as possible. That said pretty much everything behind the doors and the first 6 inches of the bed is unique. There is also rocker boxes to strengthen the body in the absence of doors, making the Blazer/Jimmy more like a unibody dropped onto a frame.