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A little help

Gorillajeep

Gorillajeep

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Ok here is what I have. I have a 74 K5 taht a tree fell on. I am trying to do the work myself but not getting very far. Here is what I am looking at.
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Here is how far I have gotten.
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Ignor the flames, the neighbors and I got a little tipsy.
Anyway, this is just going to be a wheeler, so no need for it to be prefect. I do however need it straight enough to get a soft top back on. I have heard that I should remove the bed sides? How hard is that? Is it allot of trouble? I know if I can get them off, I can get to the inner wall and outer sides pretty easy then. The question is will I just make a mess out of the whole thing by cutting it up? I have been deating it with a 3lbs. sledge to get where I am at now. Makes lots of little dents. I used a floor jack to get the bed rails back up to where they are. They are no where near straight. The whole body is looking bent in the bed floor. I ma looking for opnions? Thanks in advance.
James
 
Not yet. My puppy did me a favor and chewed through my torch lines!:mad: That was going to be my next step. I just wanted to see if I did have to take the bed sdies off what kind of can of worns I was opening.

Thanks for eh complement! I picked it up for almost nothing! ;)
 
Gorillajeep said:
Ok here is what I have. I have a 74 K5 taht a tree fell on. I am trying to do the work myself but not getting very far. Here is what I am looking at.
P1000694800x600.jpg

P1000698800x600.jpg

P1000699800x600.jpg

Here is how far I have gotten.
passside800x600.jpg

flames800x600.jpg

Ignor the flames, the neighbors and I got a little tipsy.
Anyway, this is just going to be a wheeler, so no need for it to be prefect. I do however need it straight enough to get a soft top back on. I have heard that I should remove the bed sides? How hard is that? Is it allot of trouble? I know if I can get them off, I can get to the inner wall and outer sides pretty easy then. The question is will I just make a mess out of the whole thing by cutting it up? I have been deating it with a 3lbs. sledge to get where I am at now. Makes lots of little dents. I used a floor jack to get the bed rails back up to where they are. They are no where near straight. The whole body is looking bent in the bed floor. I ma looking for opnions? Thanks in advance.
James
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taking the bedsides off would be the easiest to fix this, there are bolts on the bottom but spot welds hold it on the front and rear, drill them out and you can take it off.
 
I paid 2K for the whole deal. But I got two soft tops and an almost new interior! So, if you say 400 a piece for the soft tops, I got it for like 1200. I was planning on having the interior profesionally done on my '75. The lowest estamate I for on that was 1200.00 loacally. That was to have all new stuff inside. Anyway the interior in this truck is really nice the guy had it redone before th tree fell on it. So, I am going to pull of interior out of it and toss it into the 75. So if you take that into account, I got it for almost nothing. At least atht is the logic I told my wife! lol:haha:
 
Did you put a pickup truck tailgate on your Blazer? I see the Blazer tailgate in the other pictures but I swear in this pic it looks like a pickup tailgate...

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Yes I did put a pickup tail gate on it! Fine you happy! lol
The rear window got smashed out when the tree fell on it. At the time it had the hard top on it, rear window was rolled up. This is going to be a wheeler. I have heard that the weight differance was huge I did not know it was that huge! I can pick up the turck tail gate with one hand! The k-5 gate forget about it! I do not ever plan on putting a hard top back on it. So I figures run the truck gate! It bolted right in and works out great. I got it for free.. . . the tail gate that is. It was even rusted about the same and was the same color. . . lol
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To answer your question it was super easy! On a scale of one to ten, ten being hardest. It was about a 2. The hardest part was the lift assess springs on the K-5 tail gate. They where broken on my tail gate though to not really an issue for me. All you have ot do is find a doner puckup. Take the tail gate and all the accociated hardware. The bolt holes and everything on the K-5 rear are exactally the same! Simply unbolt the K-5 gate, (unhook wires ir nesscarry) take off K-5 accocated hardware. Bolt on Truck hardware on and slip the new tail gate on. Your done that Super simple! If need be I can get some pictures.
 
ive been thinking about doing this for mine also, getting rid of the blazer tailgate. ill never run the hard top again, and i dont have the glass for rear tailgate either. i think i might be able to get a couple bucks from mine, because the crank and assembly still works and its not rusted out.
 
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