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Good buy or pass?

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77crewcab

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I have a chance to pick up a 79 K-5 for $600. It has a locked up 350TBI, 400 trans and unknown transfercase. Unknown gears front and rear. 31x10.50 old tires. The interior is almost stripped bare, just two ragged front seats. The body looks to be in good shape other than a couple small dents in the rear and one behind the front passenger wheel. No rust to be found. Now on the flip side I have good interior parts to go in it, a good 350 TBI engine that can go in. So what say you oh grand masters? Good buy or not.
 
BUY BUY BUY

but i have more than i need anyway; so i may not be the best advice giver :D
 
sounds pretty crappy to me for that price. I'd definitely expect sub 500, like 3-400 given that condition. Guys on here pick up running driving trucks for that price
 
I don't really have a problem with the price, I have seen some in the same condition go for about 2-3K around here. Just not sure if I really need another project to work on right now. I have always wanted a Blazer though. Right now I am just waiting for the seller to call me back.
 
Buy it. If you have what it needs, it will be the cheapest way to go wheeling. I wish I had started like that.
 
So if I wanted to take the 350/700/241 combo out of my burb and put it in the blazer, what would I be looking at as far as the drive lines currently in the blazer? Would they bolt up to the 241?
 
No rust , buy it . If you were close I'd give ya a bill for the locked up motor for the block and heads .

I have a 350 tbi motor I got cheap , guy thought locked up , and upon removal ( after buying a crate ) his starter had broken and the flexplate wouldn't turn . Its now going to be in my Blazer this summer .
 
Well I finally heard back from the guy and it turns out that it is just a carbed engine. But it is a 4 bolt main 350. I am going to take a closer look tomorrow. I am really considering buying it and using my 4WD burb for parts to get the Blazer running well, maybe save some gas with the lower weight of the Blazer. Then use the 400 and transfer case in the burb with a 383 or 454 for a better tow rig. Honestly I think the biggest obstacle would be the driveshaft when swapping everything into the Blazer. I don't have a front shaft for the burb (wasn't included when I bought it and have just never gotten one) plus I would need one for the rear, unless the drive shafts currently in the Blazer would work with the 241tc.
 
TTT for the morning crowd. Anyone know about the driveshafts, will they work or would I need to find some new ones?
 
77crewcab said:
TTT for the morning crowd. Anyone know about the driveshafts, will they work or would I need to find some new ones?
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Well, considering that a TH400 never came in a Blazer from the factory (save the M1009 CUCV's), the drivetrain has been swapped in, so god only knows what's in there now, what pieces it's missing, etc. Only way you're gonna find out is to tear into it.

-- A
 
Hmm... Okay, well I am going over to look at it today and will take LOTS of pics so maybe ya'll can tell me what it actually has in it. I really think I am going to get it even if it means having to buy some new(used) driveshafts to work with the 700/241 in the Blazer.
 
Okay I just got back from looking at it. The guy selling it obviously doesn't know what he has. It is a 350 trans and appears to be a 203 tc and manual locking hubs on the front axle. It is a plain white wrapper, Custome Deluxe version, rubber floor mat manual windows and locks. It has no headliner or rear interior panels. It does have a/c, factory in dash tach, and s a trailering special. I took a look at the oil pan and you can see dents in the bottom where parts tried to escape. I told him I would take it. Other than a big dent in the fender behind the front pass. wheel well it is pretty strait, nothing other than some surface rust in the door sill area.

So here is the plan:
Parts from 4x4 burb:
front captains chairs
center console
front headliner
89 overhead console
89 sunvisors
power doors

Also 350/700/241 from the 86 burb. And once I find out what gears are in the Blazer I'll decide if I should also swap the axles from the burb.

I'll probably look at doing bedliner on the floor possibly with carpet over it.
 
Well I feel stupid, I just realized that the TC in the Burb is a 208, not a 241 as I had thought. So where do I stand on swapping a 700/208 in place of a 350/203? will the 203 driveshafts work?
 
77crewcab said:
http://s157.photobucket.com/albums/t71/63moredoor/79 K-5/

Heres the pics I took. Can someone please tell me what the bracket above and below the tail lights are? I get that the driver side wast probably for a spare tire holder, but why are they on the pass. side too? Anyway nice and clean, no rust Texas truck. I can't wait to get her home next week.
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There were a few tire/gas can carriers that hooked on both sides, usually as a fold-out affair (i.e. meeting in the middle.) These are, IMHO, preferable to the single-sided style inasmuch as they're triangulated better and less likely to tear the sheetmetal up.

I'd pop one of the tail-lights out and stick your hand up there, see if there's just a washer/nut on the inside, or (MUCH preferable) there's a bracket inside. The good ones, you see, have a bent piece of steel both inside and out, to sandwich the sheetmetal ... MUCH less wear-n-tear, ya see.

I know a 700 is longer than a 350, but I *don't* know if a 208 is correspondingly shorter than a 203. 'Sides, as long as the yokes are in good condition, having the driveshafts retubed to make them shorter/longer is relatively cheap.

...oil pan and you can see dents in the bottom where parts tried to escape...
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That is funny right there, classic. Even the non-mechanical would get it:

What's wrong with the motor?

Well, parts tried to escape from it... :haha:

-- A
 
I think you got a good buy. I wish my 79 was that clean. Interior or no interior. I would have bought it.

Bruiser
 
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