California girl

[Mdjunior]

The brake, I do wish I didn’t worry about making as wide as I did. Most things I’ve bent have been no more than 24” wide. The wheels, I’ve never really looked that close at them. I’ll probably to the 20” custom rally wheels.

 

[Mdjunior]

Working on redoing the strikes in the jambs now. The blazers use too small of a cage nut. I’m using one off of a truck .

 

[centexk5]

Wtf Milwaukee tool is that?

 

[Mdjunior]

M12 cut off tool. Pretty awesome too. Blade will reverse too

 

[centexk5]

Thanks for helping me spend money.

 

[Mdjunior]

Hadn’t made much progress till this past weekend. Got the body off the frame and on the rotisserie. Been wire wheeling the bottom and debating on sand blasting or keep wire wheeling. That sand just gets everywhere. I feel there are some tight areas where it would probably be pretty nice.

 

[Mdjunior]

Ok, I’ve been slack working on the blazer. I’m back at it slowly. 73 didn’t have a factory roll bar. So I’ve made up mounts and welded them up under the bed. I’ve blasted the bottom, mostly, till my compressor gave up. So I’m waiting on a new one.

 

[Mdjunior]

Went to truck Carlisle over the weekend and picked up a few things. i feel like I stole these headlight bezels. I was looking for just an old 73-74 grille for some wall art. Guy had one I was looking at and offered the bezels and the grill for $75. Brought them home cleaned them up. They’re better than any I’ve seen on the east coast for sure. Everything here is pitted up pretty bad. Still got a little more work to do on them

 

[Mdjunior]

Back in August I finally caught up with a guy who had a Jimmy that he bought new in 74. The top had been removed in late 70’s never to be reinstalled. Garage kept since then. The rest of jimmy was chopped up in saved in 82. So I picked up a ton of stuff for my blazer. Had to basically clean his garage out to get to it.

 

[Mdjunior]

Also finally finished blasting the bottom, firewall and dash. Just epoxy primed it tonight

 

[Mdjunior]

So I’ve had about a year and a half hiatus on working on the Blazer. Needed more room to work on it and everything else. Been adding on to my shop.

 

[Mdjunior]

 

[Mdjunior]

Installed the 12# lift after most of you swayed me that direction. Moved the Blazer to its new home

 

[Mdjunior]

So now I’m working on the frame. Welded up a crack behind the steering box. Pre installed my ORD steering box brace, started cleaning up where someone had welding on a hitch to the frame.

 

[Mdjunior]

 

[Mdjunior]

Sandblasting the frame is next up

 

[Wes Harden]

Gotta ask, no termites in MD ?

If I had lumber on the ground termites would be in heaven here
Killer shop, and I wish I had gone bigger than 9k# on my lift. Gotta squeeze by on mine.

 

[Mdjunior]

Gotta ask, no termites in MD ?

If I had lumber on the ground termites would be in heaven here
Killer shop, and I wish I had gone bigger than 9k# on my lift. Gotta squeeze by on mine.

Yes we’ve got termites. I got it treated. Plus they come back every year.