81 K5.. AKA Fingleress's POV.... Transmission IS in!

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Well here's the Chronicles of my POV build.

Its an 1981 K5 Blazer, 305/TH350/NP208

Transmission is having issues so one of the first thing I will be doing is Swapping in a Monster Trasnmission. Its ordered Just Waiting for it.

 

[Big Ray]

Is that as clean as it looks?

 

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Overhead Console

Well Transmission is on Order..... So while im waiting. Im Working on building an Overhead console to Hold a Few Switches and my Fire Siren Controller.


Working on the Layout and Connecting The Wood to the Metal Frame.

Layout done and Most of it In Waiting on a few Switches.

Wiring it all up next:

 

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Panel is in::

Well Didnt get a good Picture of the Wiring Ill See what I can do about that Later.. Heres a few pictures of it mounted in the Truck.

Close Up:

 

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A Few Rust Spots along the Fenders and Rockers But those are all getting trimmed any way.

Hopefully Next Weekends project While im waiting for my Transmission to be done!!!

 

[colbystephens]

I dig your overhead console! Cool idea.

 

[Deuling]

Sweet

 

[K85 Octane]

nice console and nice blue!

 

[jake 03]

That's a good looking blazer,I'm looking forward to how it turns out

 

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Updates!!!

Well a few helped me Identify these.....

Well I Finally Got them to the Shop..

Heres the start of the tear down process...

14b Wheels and Tires off and Stuffed in the corner the D44 will get gone through First

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Tires and wheels Off the D44

And Shoved Next to the Work bench... Ill be rebuilding it First

Suckers were FRACKIN HEAVY.... Trying to man handle those around by myself Sucked.

Couple Pictures of my Humble Little Shop:

Not Bad has a 16' door. And i Have enough room on the sides to open the doors when its pulled in and Move around it.

 

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How much Lift?

Any Idea how much lift these Springs might Be. I cant find any real markings on them besides which side they are for.

Heres one of the Fronts Looks Like Eye to eye is Roughly 51 - 52

The Pack Itself from the Side:

 

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Rear Springs

This is one of the Rears Looks like 3" Blocks and 56" Eye to Eye

And this is the only marking other than the ones that tells you which side!

 

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Trans Mission is here!!!

And Last Update for Today!!!!

Monster Transmission Showed up Today!!! Hopefully I can get that swapped on Sunday!

Oh and this little Box Also..... LOKAR Floor mount Shifter...

 

[Deuling]

Mmmm boxes

 

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Few more Things Today.

Well had some down Time so I decided to Finally Finsih mounting my Fire Siren Today. At first I was going to mount it down between the 2 front frame rails.. Decided against that because I dont know how it would work with the A-Bomb Ill be picking up from Kert in the Near Future!



Taped off ready to throw some paint behind there while I had the Grille Apart.



Painted and Ready



Siren Mounted.

 

[bsgreen]

looks good so far.

 

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Transmission.....

Well I started working on putting the new Transmission in last night. Got the old one Dropped and found a few issues. the Detent/ Kickdown cable is shot, will be tuesday before Napa can get me one. And the Front output and Rear output seals on the Transfer case we shot.

Heres a few pictures!

Nice Hole in the Floor all the Way to the Ground.

New Trans and the Transfer case cleaned and bolted up:

Then onto Tonight: Got the seals on the Transfer case swapped out, And the New Transmission stabbed..... 1 issue tonight. The Bolts going from the Flywheel to the Torque converter are Standard thread, my old bolts are metric.... So Need to order new bolts on monday.

Filled up the hole: working on the Floor mount Shifter:

 

[colbystephens]

I'm curious to know more about the floor mount shifter.

 

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Ill take Step by step of the Floor Shifter. Quality looks good, and the Instructions are easy to follow so far.

I couldn't really stop to take pictures of the Tranny going in with the wife's camera and Hans covered in grease.