Aww...I'm sure you could make BB17 if you just threw it together with some duck tape.
I could go THIS year if someone was willing to pull me all over Moab with a towstrap...
-G
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'72 K5 - Greg's @MightAsWellK5 Build
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This is the build description. I will improve this later. (GB)
I could go THIS year if someone was willing to pull me all over Moab with a towstrap...
-G
I might be able to get my junk ready in time... If so, count me in!I could go THIS year if someone was willing to pull me all over Moab with a towstrap...
-G
y5mgisi
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I'm making plans now to ensure that I will also be at BB18!
in a badass wheelchair?I could go THIS year if someone was willing to pull me all over Moab with a towstrap...
-G
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Late to the game. Glad you are on the mend.
"I believe I can Fly." Nope wrong again.
"I believe I can Fly." Nope wrong again.
y5mgisi
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How's the healing going, Greg? Been a couple weeks since the thread was bumped!
I'm in the garage today.
First time in about 6 weeks.
It's -5F outside, the heater has been running non-stop for the last 5 hours and I've moved the needle from 49F to 60F.
Despite all that it feels good to be making progress again. I had forgotten so much about working on these old Broncos....
-G
LOL
Damn head injuries...
Ramcharger*
Drugs are bad mmmmmmmmmmmkay
Hahaha I lol'd at work.
Mystery solved, I now know where our winter temps went...mid 40's here and most of our snow is gone. Crazy for us, we're usually the polar poster kids right into April.
Good to hear you're back in the shop, can't wait to see what you do to the Bronchargzer next!
Lol Broncos..
lol... do this/\/\
when I told my kid he could paint his room (in our basement) any way he wants, he had me draw around him on the floor and we spraypainted the outline there. he was like 10 at the time.... he's 20 now and its still there
makes for interesting conversations when im showing the house to new people I meet 
Glad to see you back out there.
2016.03.07 - UPDATE! - HEY! IT'S NOT A BRONCO AFTER ALL...!!!!
So... it turns out that I've been building a Chevy Blazer, and NOT a Ford Bronco all this time.
Things make a lot more sense now, and the good news is that it's not the 50th Anniversary THIS year (1966)... I've actually still got a few more years left to get this build completed in time for the Blazer 50th (1969).....Whew! That was a close one.
It's been a tough recovery. My mind wants to get a lot of work done, but my body just couldn't do what I was asking it to do. Over the past few weeks I've at least been out in the garage cleaning and organizing parts, and even that was sometimes tough since I couldn't always lift the storage bins once they were packed and organized. I took things slowly (Don't need to tell my thead subscribers that do I?) but now I'm just about able to do "real" work in the garage again....
So with the LP heater blasting away, and the new overhead bulbs lighting the way I decided to finally open up the remaining boxes that I never got around to examining when they first arrived.
The Lunati custom-grind cam was in one of the boxes:
And those Brodix boxes that seemed SO heavy with a broken arm, actually didn't seem all that bad last night when I finally cut them open:
I'll probably still check everything myself, but this tag seems to indicate that .575" lift on my cam will be just fine with the valvetrain on these heads.
Cool stuff!
I also have a complete set of 4 aluminum wheel spacers (1.25") that will be used for the steel wheels & hubcaps project... unfortunately the centerbore is just a tad too small, so I'll have to get them machined larger before they will work correctly. "Custom is custom".... I recall someone used to always say that.
That's about it for now. Not much of a story to tell yet, but everyone around here like pictures more than words anyway so I'll start with this as I continue to get my wits about me and put together my build plan for the coming weeks / months.
-G
So... it turns out that I've been building a Chevy Blazer, and NOT a Ford Bronco all this time.
Things make a lot more sense now, and the good news is that it's not the 50th Anniversary THIS year (1966)... I've actually still got a few more years left to get this build completed in time for the Blazer 50th (1969).....Whew! That was a close one.
It's been a tough recovery. My mind wants to get a lot of work done, but my body just couldn't do what I was asking it to do. Over the past few weeks I've at least been out in the garage cleaning and organizing parts, and even that was sometimes tough since I couldn't always lift the storage bins once they were packed and organized. I took things slowly (Don't need to tell my thead subscribers that do I?) but now I'm just about able to do "real" work in the garage again....
So with the LP heater blasting away, and the new overhead bulbs lighting the way I decided to finally open up the remaining boxes that I never got around to examining when they first arrived.
The Lunati custom-grind cam was in one of the boxes:
And those Brodix boxes that seemed SO heavy with a broken arm, actually didn't seem all that bad last night when I finally cut them open:
I'll probably still check everything myself, but this tag seems to indicate that .575" lift on my cam will be just fine with the valvetrain on these heads.
Cool stuff!
I also have a complete set of 4 aluminum wheel spacers (1.25") that will be used for the steel wheels & hubcaps project... unfortunately the centerbore is just a tad too small, so I'll have to get them machined larger before they will work correctly. "Custom is custom".... I recall someone used to always say that.
That's about it for now. Not much of a story to tell yet, but everyone around here like pictures more than words anyway so I'll start with this as I continue to get my wits about me and put together my build plan for the coming weeks / months.
-G
