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76 K5 Build; More Parts....Trucks

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Rear dics's are on. Calipers bled and test drive done. Pedal feels better. Can't really judge how well the are working with all the snow on the ground, they do lock up though. They will also stall the truck when in any gear on jackstands...even with some throttle. Pics tomarrow when it's light out.
 
Shot of the drivers side rear caliper. Used rotors w/new calipers and slightly used pads. Will need some drive time to fully bed in. I installed my brackets so that the calipers point forward. This means that the calipers are switched side to side. No real reason for doing it this way, I just prefer the look of them (front and back) pointed toward center of the truck.




Pass side.




I had to use two short studs. Only had 715 of the dually ones and one was bent. Good comparison between the two. The short ones would/will work (I ran them on my last blazer with rear disc's), just the threads don't make it all the way through the nut. Can also see the rotor, hasn't quite finished scraping the rust off.





Also got the front axle in my cousins truck today. Everything but the brakes are bled on it. Still need to weld the shock mounts on the rear axle (one was ripped off and I cut the other off), find a new u-joint for the rear driveshaft and install the rest of the studs in the rear hubs, put the front diff cover on and fill with gear oil.

What a DRW axle looks like in there. He'll be able to drive/move it around until he finds some SRW hubs or has these machined. Or I talk him into some H1's.




How far the tires are apart. Stock width WMS DRW axle in the rear with stock 16.5" rims. Once he gets the front straightened out it will look/be acceptable. He should also probably find a raised steering arm or dropped pitman arm.

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Rear looking forward.




Side shot. When I had the truck I installed the 64's in the back with a homemade shackle flip. Put the K5 tank in as well. I can't remember the exact reason why the wheels aren't centered in the wells. I think it was something to do with the rear of the frame. IIRC I put the shackle flip brackets as far back as I could and let the fronts/wheels land wherever.

 
andyblack said:
It's coming together. That's a nice blue color too.
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The guy I bought it from painted it Ford blue with tractor paint from Tractor Supply. The hood is faded a little bit from sitting out in the sun, but the rest is holding up decent.
 
Weather is starting to warm up and it's time to start getting the truck ready for bogging season.

Truck is currently sitting on some wood blocks in a giant mud puddle. Let a friend borrow my roller tires so he could get his truck into his garage. Picked up a set of stock wheels with bald 35's for cheap. Sent those with another friend to work to break them down so I can mount up the free 37's I found.

Still on the hunt for a t-case for my NV4500. Need to find something quick because the motor in the truck is coming out soon. Would like to swap the trans when I put the new one in.

As for what's going in....came across a 454 for a decent price. Has 19,xxx on a rebuild. All stock except for the carb. Paid $600 for the motor with all the accessories/brackets, guy even delivered it. Pulled a valve cover off and it was super clean on the inside. Plan is to stick in a cam, intake and maybe a set of heads if I can stir up something good. Along with a set of headers when I drop it in. When the pan is off I'll pull a couple bearings just to check the wear. Seller seemed like a stand up guy, and from the dealings I had with him...I have no reason to doubt him when he said it was fresh.


As delivered. Bonus shot of the 3500/241 for my other build in the background.



Power steering pump, alternator, water pump, fuel pump, motor mount.
 
Finally got around to mounting the 37's I picked up a few months back. I lent my roller tires to a friend so he could get his truck in the garage. Spent about an hour in the mud getting the wheels/tires on the truck. I park the Blazer under a tree....which stays dry, but everywhere around it is still soaked and sloppy. Used the Blazer to pull out the posts that weren't rotten off yet.

I'm having a shop built out in the backyard, and needed to take down an old fence. It didn't really need to come down, but it had been there for 30+ years and was falling apart. Removing it gives a couple more feet on the drive to the back before the yard opens up...figure the concrete trucks will enjoy the extra room. Eventually (soon) I'll get a gravel drive put in, probably get a load of gravel/sand brought in to firm up the squishy area while construction is happening then work on the drive as funds allow. For the most part, this is the worst area in the yard. It's the lowest point and always a mess this time of year. It's probably a 30x30 spot, once you're past that it's not so bad.


Free 37's on stock wheels. Not the greatest tread on them but I'm not going to complain for having zero out of pocket cost in them. Two have about 1/4" left. The other two around 3/16".
















Blazer had no problems moving around in it, even with all four tires gummed up. I suppose having both front and rear diff welded helped with that.
 
jekquistk5 said:
New shop :) Specs on new shop!
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It's going to be 30x36x14. With two 10x10 doors. I wanted the high walls so I could fit a lift in there. Just got a call from the builder, he was filling out the permit. Just waiting to hear approval from the city. I still need to move/take down a shed where the shop is going too.
 
toomany said:
It's going to be 30x36x14. With two 10x10 doors. I wanted the high walls so I could fit a lift in there. Just got a call from the builder, he was filling out the permit. Just waiting to hear approval from the city. I still need to move/take down a shed where the shop is going too.
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Sounds great, wish I would have gone bigger in my shop. Even with me building it, it was quite expensive.
 
jekquistk5 said:
Sounds great, wish I would have gone bigger in my shop. Even with me building it, it was quite expensive.
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I feel like I should go bigger, but anything more will overshadow the neighbors houses/yards. The 30' depth should give me enough room to pull something in, shut the door and still be able to move around it. The two doors will be offset to the end of the 36' wall. The far one on the end will have the lift. Plan to have some kind of loft/mezzanine on the end without the overhead door.

Went back and forth between building it myself and hiring it out. Decided to hire it out mainly because I'm also doing windows and siding on the house this summer too. Thought that might have beem a bit much to take on at once. Plus it'll be nice for a change to just have a big project like this done without me having to do a single thing. Usually I do all of my own work....auto, house, etc...

The builder I chose, I've know for the last 15 years. I do all the maintnace/repair on his vehicles/equipment and ocasinaly pick up other work from him. He's giving me a great price and I don't feel bad at all about paying him to do it.
 
Nice I went 24x32x12. Should have gone another 8 foot. I have a 12x10 roll up door. Should have gone 16. Once on vehicle is in it is tight getting the others. I can't complain to much as I have 1350 sq feet of garage space. Park the duramax in the house garage and projects and yard equipment in the barn. The company car can stay outside.
 
Getting ready to do some work on the K5 here soon.

Mostly finished with the work on the house (windows, siding, insulation). My pole barn is slowly coming along. When I say slowly...I mean it. I seriously thought they'd be done by now. But we've had a few set backs. first the ground was too wet for the bobcat to work in, kept getting his stuck. Had to call in a guy with one that had tracks. Then when they drilled the holes...they hit water. About 10" in the bottom of each 6' hole, at least they didn't have to haul water to mix the concrete. Once they finally got the walls up, it was discovered that I didn't get all my material delivered. Missing some trusses and sheathing for the roof. That stuff came in Saturday so all the parts are here now. But we've been getting a decent amount of rain the last 3 days so the ground might have to dry out so they can get a bucket truck or skytrack back there to set the trusses.

As to what's going on with the K5, motor swapping again. The 350 I have in there will be coming out and fresher one with be going in it's place. I'm going to wait to put the 454/4500/208 (I did finally find a t-case for the 4500) in until I have the time to do it at my pace. Don't want to be rushed to get it in there. The 350 going in is out of a 94 full size Blazer. Fresh rebuilt 4bolt main motor. I put the cam/heads from the blown up 400 on it, so it should run decent. I'm mainly doing this so I can make a few local bogs and maybe the dune party this year. The current 350 runs ok, but is tired and doesn't like turning the big tires. I will probably borrow a set of 35's to put me in a lower class for the bogs, may even run them at the dunes too as sand really sucks your power down.


Mostly some pictures of the barn progress.

Site where it will be. North East corner of my lot. Approx 250' from my garage. The neighbor and I will be replacing that wire fence sometime this summer so I dropped all the trees the were growing through it. Probably need to get a dozer or backhoe in there to get the stumps out.






Progress at the end of their first real full day of work. That pine tree will most likely come down when I do a driveway back there.






Progress at the end of day two. Headers are on and overhead doors are framed in. Really get an idea of how tall it will be with the 14' walls here. Can see it from two block over.



Rest of my material being dropped off.






Got around to picking up the truck I bought for the 5.3. When I get around to pulling parts I'll get a few pics of how bad the rust is. Might steal the disc brakes from the rear axle and use them on the SF14 for the brown truck/3link build.

 
They made some more progress today. Got the trusses set and some of the sheathing on. Should have the roof done tomorrow and maybe some metal on the sides. Some good did come from having the wrong trusses delivered. The ones that I originally got were designed/engineered for 8' OC, builder spec'd 2' OC and that's what I'm getting but with the heavier truss. And....talking with the builder earlier tonight, he's moving to a new house and has a bridge crane in his pole barn at the one he will be selling. Said I can have it for scrap price, which isn't much right now $79/ton. So for $100 I should be able to get a decent setup out of it.

Not that I care, but the Skytrak really did a number on my yard. I'm sure it will get worse before it gets better.



 
Barn is coming along nicely. I can see the tracks in the picture. Since you had good grass, the tracks will probably fade away by the end of the summer for the most part. Also your lot looks pretty level at that spot, so you don't have to worry about rainwater washing the soil away that was disturbed by the tracks. I had some guys bring a bucket truck into a back yard to cut down some dead trees and they tore the ground up bad. Since it was on a pretty good slope, the rain cut little ditches in the dirt their tires had dug up and now it looks like a little ravine back there. I'm not going to fix it though until I do like you and build a little shop or garage. Then I'll cut me some terraces so maybe it won't happen again. Heck I may even pave the driveway going back there too.
 
I'm sure when the cement truck makes it's way back there it will rut up the ground pretty good. It really isn't a concern though. I tear it up myself all the time, a 6k clutch dump in 4wd takes out a good bit of ground. In the spring time the ground get real soft and it always seems to lelvel back out. And no matter how hard I try, the grass always grows back.
 
They got the roof done today. Just need the rest of the facia on. Should have some metal up on the walls tomorrow.




Moved the Blazer closer to the house so I could work on my steering box leak. Parked next to the barn to get a better idea of size.




The pitman arm was leaking where it comes out of the box. Took me longer to remove/replace the box than it did to fix the seals.

 
Whoa the shop is going to be a lot bigger than it looked in the previous pics. If I built something like that, I would have to put an alarm on it or something so my wife couldn't fill it up with a bunch of her stuff. :haha:
 
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