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1974 K5 Blazer partial resto (pic heavy)

BIGRED74K20

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After 5 months of trying to track down a 73-75 Blazer, I finally found one outside of Sacramento up in the hill that was pretty much unmolested with very minimal rust. After a 24 hour road trip with my wife on February 14th :grin: we finally brought it back up to Oregon.

During the hunt, I bought a 86 K30 to swap in the Th400/205, D60/14bolt and the tires/wheels into the Blazer. The wife wanted nothing to do with the manual trans in the Blazer :burnout:

I pretty much worked on this thing every free minute that I had so I could complete it in time for the summer months up here in the NW. After about 4 months I finally got her running in June this year and man what a blast this thing has been. Only complaint I have is that I don't live in Arizona where I can drive this thing year round...

Here are a bunch of pictures throughout the process of redoing most of everything.

Thanks for looking.



































 
Seats came out great! What sort of structure holds the foam in the middle? I thought there were wires or strings woven in some kind of grid across the seat pan and backrest areas? :dunno:

-G
 
Greg72 said:
Seats came out great! What sort of structure holds the foam in the middle? I thought there were wires or strings woven in some kind of grid across the seat pan and backrest areas? :dunno:

-G
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On the back side of the seat there is sewn in loops along the vertical seams. You run some steel wire through the loops ( I used some .120 SS Tig wire) As you lay the seat covers over the foam, you start connecting the hooks to the rod in the seat cover and pull it through the foam to latch onto another piece of steel rod on the back side of the foam. (Probably one of these toughest things I encountered working on. Another set of hands would of made this much easier)

If you look at this picture you will see the 2 vertical wires and if you look closely you will see the hooks attached to it.

 
max 02 said:
That turned out nice! :waytogo:

There will be guys on here "me" that will be kind of sad that you scrapped that crew cab...but I can see how it was totally a worthwhile sacrifice!
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I was originally going to just scrap the thing but I ended up selling it to someone because I didn't end up using the big block.
 
Since work has slowed down a bit I have finally been able to devote some time to the Blaze. The tie rod ends were starting to take a dump so I ordered up the matching driver side high steer arm from Sky manufacturing and the tubing/ends from Ballistic Fab (:poo: Don't do business with them) I also made a mount that attached to the spring plate so the steering stabilizer can be mounted to the tie rod.







 
Any chance you'd wanna get rid of the original jack crank rods on that passenger fender?
 
I don't need the jack itself, I just need the stuff that goes with it that is hanging on the fender...including the holders. and some photos of exactly how that is mounted...I could use the photos even you you don't want to deal the iron and rod
 
Chief Brody said:
I don't need the jack itself, I just need the stuff that goes with it that is hanging on the fender...including the holders. and some photos of exactly how that is mounted...I could use the photos even you you don't want to deal the iron and rod
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Even though I won't be using these, I'm going to hold onto the ones that came with this Blazer. I just picked up another 74 Blazer last week, Ill check and see if that one still has that setup in there.
 
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