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'91 K5 Four Wheel Camper

This is the build for my 1991 V1500 Blazer, AKA the K5.3. It started out life being sold to the U.S. Government with a 350 TBI/700r4/241 combo. 4 years with a 5.3/700r4 Combo and now moving to an 8.1L Vortec and NV4500 5-speed.
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PDF is good and a lot of times free.
I have a hard time finding what I’m looking for in the files.
I like a service manual.
 
ZooMad75 said:
That's a distant 2nd place for me. Not quite as easy to "thumb" through as the book. But if you can't find the book for sale it's the best way to go.
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I prefer the book but will use the PDF as a supplement when my 1979 manual doesn't have something covered.
 
ZooMad75 said:
I think I'm going to keep the old broken one. I know a couple of guys locally that Tig weld that might be able to fix it for a spare.
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Bummer man. If you can, run the broken housing through a parts cleaner and cook it in an oven. That will get a lot of the nasty stuff out. Gouging the crack and throwing a fair bit of carb cleaner at it will go a long way to getting a functional weld.

David
 
I like the books, but have used pdf or online for the last 12ish years.
I end up with stacks of printed 8 x11 paper. I think I'll use it the next time, then can't find or just go print it out again.
All that was at work, these days I have most manuals I need for the old stuff. The new 01 I got nothing.
 
ZooMad75 said:
Ordered some information via Amazon. Crazy they used to be known for only books.

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Hey kids this is how we did stuff before YouTube. Gasp! Books!

Old fart alert for sure, but there is just something about the tactile feel of service manuals, the smell of them is just a reminder of a different time. Printing pages from the computer isn’t the same.

I remember when I was a Chevy Technical Assistance we each had a full set of service manuals for the current model year and we had 5 previous years worth in cabinets within our group. The books were like having a key to the candy shop and I was in a very happy place.

I know to some the books are a pain in the ass to find stuff but it always came easy to me. The logic behind them clicked with my odd brain.

But I will say this for anybody that is up and coming in this hobby invest in some factory service manuals for your ride. It’s worth it. There’s a book for the model of truck like C/K, R/V, S/T and then there is the unit repair manual I just picked up. The unit repair manual covers the main components like the engine, transmission, axles, power steering, etc. Think of it this way, the service manual shows you how to remove or replace a major component, the unit repair manual shows you how to tear down and reassemble those parts off the vehicle.

Old fart tangent off. Buy a book kids!
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I jump on eBay and get a factory manual for every old vehicle I buy. Too bad the new cars are digital only.
 
82355 said:
Never been apart since it came off a driving truck.

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Martin
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Looking how that broke I’d bet it comes down how the housings get glued together with rtv. Between getting glued and the lip that goes inside the opening of the case half it’s almost impossible to release the part from the face without side loading that lipped edge.

It’s stuff like this that is seriously making me consider scrapping the 241 and start looking for a round pattern 205 and twin sticking it. Larry is been gnawing at me to do just that. But I hate giving up the gearing advantage I have without going to a magnum.

Arrgh!
 
ZooMad75 said:
Looking how that broke I’d bet it comes down how the housings get glued together with rtv. Between getting glued and the lip that goes inside the opening of the case half it’s almost impossible to release the part from the face without side loading that lipped edge.

It’s stuff like this that is seriously making me consider scrapping the 241 and start looking for a round pattern 205 and twin sticking it. Larry is been gnawing at me to do just that. But I hate giving up the gearing advantage I have without going to a magnum.

Arrgh!
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I wouldn't swap the 241 for a 205 personally unless with a doubler, which I am not sure I will.
But if you want a round 205, pm me
 
imiceman44 said:
I wouldn't swap the 241 for a 205 personally unless with a doubler, which I am not sure I will.
But if you want a round 205, pm me
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Trust me I don't want to go away from the 241. Ideally, I'd just put a magnum in with a 205 as it's only 1.6 inches longer than my 241. I know that because I looked it up at work while I was eating lunch. But I have to snap my brain into reality as needing 130:1 crawl ratio is totally not needed in this truck. Look what kind of trouble I got in with half that! This isn't a hard core crawler, even as cool as it would be to have triple t-case shifters poking up through the floor.

Besides that, I still need to buy the a/c kit for this thing. That will be used everytime I drive the truck in the summer vs using a magnum for a few steep sections up or down on the trails.

I've got a message out to a guy on FB that has the right 241 for sale. I'll see if that pans out and go from there.
 
The unit on Facebook was BS. Had a time to go look in person Saturday. Took one last look at the pics that morning and figured out it was a driver drop unit but it was sitting upside down in the pics.

He wasn’t straight with me when I first asked about it but when I sent another message directly questioning what it is he finally fessed up. Said I could still come look at it just to be sure. Nope, not worth driving across town knowing it’s the wrong one.

I’m really starting to get annoyed. I pulled a DRAC module out of a ‘91 Jimmy in the pull n pay earlier this summer that had the right unit in it. I didn’t need one then, but I don’t think I can pass them up if I see them anymore.
 
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