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1st Post 71 Blazer Project

looking good. Keep it up!
That is turning out nice. Great detail work
Thanks Guys. Not at lot going on right now, busy with pool season and wrecking the Toyota(work truck) didn't help. I've have a couple hours in the morning before work to work on little things. Going back thru the motor ensuring everything is clean. Verified the cam timing was correct.
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Looks like a lot going on to me...I’m in the busy time of the year so my 69 is sitting with hopefully I’ll get going again in September
 
What a beautiful job you have done!
I forgot about this one. Nice to see it coming together! :waytogo:
 
Looks like a lot going on to me...I’m in the busy time of the year so my 69 is sitting with hopefully I’ll get going again in September
I've had a couple of hours free in the morning before we start our route and that's when the garage is cooler. Once September gets here I'll be able to make more progress as well/
great work on the frame id like to do that at some point myself.
Thanks! Very pleased with how it turned out. I would suggest using the professional gun if your spraying Raptor. https://www.raptorcoatings.com/us/e...ies/professional-application-gun#.XwHN2m5FzXJ
What a beautiful job you have done!
I forgot about this one. Nice to see it coming together! :waytogo:
Thanks! It was a big milestone hearing the motor run!
 
Nice work sir!!!
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Nice set up. Looking forward to watching more!
Good job on the video. I enjoyed it a lot.
Thanks guys! I was hoping it wasn't too boring. It's pretty basic information(stuff we learned in High School Auto Shop Class). One thing I forgot to mention was the power steering pump and gear box
were filled and bled. I used a 3/8 allen socket on a cordless drill to spin the pump and cycle the steering box to remove all the air.
 
Finished rebuilding the transmission this week. All new steels, frictions, bushings, thrust washers, and seals. Special thanks to Greg Ducato and crew for refreshing my old Neil Chance torque converter(I guess it was pretty grungy inside), replacing the stator bushings, and advising me on the correct clearances for the clutch packs and input shaft end play. Very Professional Service!
When I rebuilt the steering column, I removed the three on the tree guts, so now the neutral safety switch and back-up light switch on the shifter and gear selector shaft.
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09/11/2020 Update Front Wheel drive
So over the last month, we installed the transmission and transfer case, and rebuilt the front drive shaft. The stock rear drive shaft is to short due to the lift. I'm going to wait until we're close to actual
ride height before ordering a new rear shaft. After we ran the motor with transmission in low and transfer case in 4 high(see video), we pulled the body back off, hopefully for the last time to clean up
the underside and spray with black Raptor liner. There wasn't enough time back in April to finish the underside since our business season was in full bloom. At the start of the video when Dede hits the
starter, you can actually see the battery cables jump when the current flows thru them.
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Starting to clean up the underside. It was already cleaned with Dustless Blasting, just needs a little cleanup and blending.
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Here is the video we recorded on Sunday. I have to credit to my good friend Michael for editing our videos.
 
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