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Deuling's 1985 K5. "Restart thread on post #8415"

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AJMBLAZER said:
Ouch.

Might not make her happy.
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shady said:
my cousin pulled the turn signal pod off of my uncles celica one night with the bumper of her dads truck. he took it and built a stained wood stand, hooked up some wires n lights and made it blink. then gave it to her as a christmas present that year:haha:
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Already tossed the old one lol. the ladies husband came over with a new tail light from his work and gave it to me. Nice people luckily, he said he can get pieces to fix their jeep too cuz it was just the light bezel/grill that broke. So that was real cool. I can take the plastic bumper cover off, luckily not much actual sheet metal damage, mostly all the plastic. anybody know the safest way to try to pop it out? Maybe a little heat on the inside so it doesn't crack?? Any tips would help.
 
Looks to me like that's a pretty bad crunch. I'd personally try and just heat it a bit and whack it. However I'm wondering about the dense foam bumper end that should have been under there. It's probably fooked now.
 
AJMBLAZER said:
Looks to me like that's a pretty bad crunch. I'd personally try and just heat it a bit and whack it. However I'm wondering about the dense foam bumper end that should have been under there. It's probably fooked now.
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I'm guessing it's justblike my dads 97 and that the foam dowdy stretch out to the corners, because she hit her going pretty slow and if the foam had been there it shouldn't have pushed it in so far. I'm gonna pop the whole plastic cover off and try a heat gun or propane torch on the inside, not enough to melt it, but enough to makectge plastic a bit more malleable and give it a small wack.
 
Yeah, sounds like my plan. The foam would be a good thing to replace though.
 
Well leavin for kalamazoo. Visitin my cousin tonite and heading to daves tOmmorow to finally see the Maiden in person and chill at daves. Gonna be a good weekend I can feel it already!!
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Ok guys heres da scoop :D

Bought me a 93 grand prix the other day, now i can start saving some money to spend on the blazer which is going in the barn this weekend and im going to start teardown of the interior first.

Winter Plans


INTERIOR
- Tear out carpet
- Sand down floor
-Cut/weld floor panels as necessary
-Simple roll bar in rear so people in back arent required helmets on the dunes.
-Some type of bedliner on everything I can get to, hopefully I can use a spray setup to do so.
- Make some new rear sidewall things... The ones on there are like plywood with crappy matieral over top. I havnt decided what I want to do with them. Diamond plate would be sweet but way pricy. I could do a nice wood and stain them, or get some nicer material to cover with.
Install all my nice new carpet thats been on the floor in my room since summer.

EXTERIOR
-Get my new front axle from jessie whenever he comes up next 10 bolt d44 flat tops with crossover, 8 lug, and 4.10s. And see how badly I can mess up front end work lol.
-Find a 14 bolt, either or as long as its 8 lug or I could swap my 6 lug stuff onto the new front to match a SF 6 lug. Whichever I can find a good deal on with matching gears and not break the bank.
-Go through the axles and replace stuff as needed, my buddy can blast the housings for me at work for free, just bag off the ends and pinion so not to get shot inside or damage seals, paint a silver. Install.


I plan to get the axles and have them hopefully ready by spring so I can do the swap down at my buddys on the hoist instead of in a crappy old barn where everything else will happen. Money permitting this will all happen. I may throw the van up for sale shortly to see what I could get for it.
 
When I get home I'll post up my ideas for the rear panel stuff. I plan to use MDF board and spray it with bedliner also. Mine are going tofriday go from rear over the wheelwells and have two 6x9s in them. In the back, is where my subs will be if you're interested
 
ChevyToy04 said:
When I get home I'll post up my ideas for the rear panel stuff. I plan to use MDF board and spray it with bedliner also. Mine are going tofriday go from rear over the wheelwells and have two 6x9s in them. In the back, is where my subs will be if you're interested
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Sweet ill check ur thread when u do. I also will have to 6x9s up front and mount my subs in the rear lol. Then i can get rid of that stupid sub box that takes up my precious room.
 
I used Luan (sp?) board on mine. It's in my "I have a K5!" thread. MDF is moisture sensitive and will crumble. Luan, especially after being coated in Rhino Liner, isn't nearly as moisture sensitive and is also cheap and pretty durable. Mine turned out great.

Except for my whole "crappy measuring debacle".

Then again the old panels were so warped, crumbly, and shrunk that it was hard to measure them.

Whatever.
 
AJMBLAZER said:
I used Luan (sp?) board on mine. It's in my "I have a K5!" thread. MDF is moisture sensitive and will crumble. Luan, especially after being coated in Rhino Liner, isn't nearly as moisture sensitive and is also cheap and pretty durable. Mine turned out great.

Except for my whole "crappy measuring debacle".

Then again the old panels were so warped, crumbly, and shrunk that it was hard to measure them.

Whatever.
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Thanks aj ill check it out, never hear of luan board.
 
I'm not spelling it right.

Home Depot/Lowe's/Menards sells it in big sheets. I believe 4x8. One was enough to do both sides.

Ah, here it is:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shorea

Don't let the part about it not being durable fool you. They put it down as an underlayment below tile and at the same time...the original interior pieces in these trucks were cloth coated cardboard. These are more durable without weighing a ton more.
 
Shorea huh? Sounds like a genital disease:whistle: lol

Ill have to look into it though, thanks bud!!:thumb:
 
Reminds me of a redneck mangling Korea....or Gonorea so you could be right.

BTW When I did this I put 6.5" speakers about where the ash trays where on the factory setup. LOTS more sound now. Why they put the crappy 4x10's WAY in the back I never understood. One's even behind the spare...wtf?
 
yah thats where my 6x9s are now in the wall. All the speakers i got cuz the ones in the dash are blown blown blown lol.
 
Mine still work...you just can't hear them.
 
They're some odd size that no one makes. However you can get little sheet metal brackets that allow you to run 3.5" speakers in there. Had a set of Blaunkput 3.5" speakers in Big Ugly up there and 6.5" Kenwood's in the doors...I think...anyway, with Bass Blockers on the dash speakers they did a good job with the highs and also of not blowing themselves up.

Then again it was in a military pickup with a diesel engine and no sound deadening. I'm going for "can hear music" rather than "win a bump competition" or even that odd thing called "clarity" with my Chevy's.
 
haha. Yah i dont think ill put any money or time into my dash, its got the plastic cover overtop from lmc, but the dash underneath is EFFED:eek1:. Once I save up the $$$ for some gauges ill get the diy4y dash i think, then I can put speakers wherever I want.
 
I won't be constructing mine until I get the floor taken care of but here are the pictures I found on here that I found and liked. I searched for something like "custom wheelwell sub box" or something like that because I knew I did not want a big box sitting in the back taking up space. I don't have anything back there now so its a perfect opportunity to get creative. I will build the boxes before I spray the floor and just spray everything all at once.
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Mine won't be that tall because I plan to remove the arm rests off the rear seat and make the sub box wide enough to go to the seat and be the same height as the armrest are now. The rear section will have a divider about where that one is in that picture so that I will have correct air space for the subs. The front section is where the 6x9s will go and I'm going to put some round (5 1/4 or so?) in the bottom of the doors and do away with the dash speakers. Only drivers side plays right now and not loud enough to hear. But anyway, I figured spray those completely sealed boxes with bedliner after sealing all cracks and put them in there and if the tops off rain won't make your sub boxes just fall apart.
 
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