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Homemade Half Cabs

Drey

Drey

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Whose done it? My rear window quit working and when I tore into it I found all of this. I knew it was bad but over the winter it has deteriored much worse. Might be time to throw a truck gate on it and call it a day. Poor old K5 might meet an earlier death then I previously thought :doah:

Hopefully a buddy still has the spare window I gave him for his burb a few years ago when I parted out the 87 Blazer I had for about 6 months.
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The back end it SHOT
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Ive got a spare top I kept from that other K5. Thinking about cutting it and trying to fiberglass it back together to make a half cab. Wont use my top all summer pretty soon, but would be nice to have the half cab at least in the winter.
 
Pickup conversion kit. Im kinda missing a beater truck after selling my old C10 and a super shortbox K5 would fit the bill nicely.
 
Yeah I've spent some time a while back searching and searching for real legitimate info, or a build of any kind and came up with nothing. I've seen a cab conversion kit once on CL, and it was priced so high. I've only even seen a handful of pics of the kit, shame no one makes them anymore.

*ahem* Kert *hint*

Probably be a pain unless you have a 70s K5 with the full cargo bed. I had a few plans on chopping a spare topper, and building the cab rear wall out of a K5 tailgate, so I could have a power rear window :D This was a few Blazers ago. I'm sure it could be done.

I think the easiest way are two options.

1)Find the pics online of the cab conversions, fab your own. Maybe find a parts truck, or just the cab, cut out the rear wall and fab it to bolt into the rear where the topper goes. Basically a big solid bolt in back half of the cab.
2)Buy a parts pickup, put the cab on, chop the bed, put that on.
 
I still have my glassed together top Drey.

Have to fab a rear wall since mine is still in the cab but not to big of a stretch.
 
cybrfire said:
I still have my glassed together top Drey.

Have to fab a rear wall since mine is still in the cab but not to big of a stretch.
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Yeah, yours was the one I saw with the altered topper. I remember going through that when I was interested in doing mine. Was a long time ago I looked at yours, forgot about it.

Man, if I could only remember half the stuff I've ever read here, I'd be a friggin genius :D
 
cybrfire said:
I still have my glassed together top Drey.

Have to fab a rear wall since mine is still in the cab but not to big of a stretch.
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If your willing to part with it, I would gladly remove it from your possesion :thumb:.

Hopefully when all this spring planting chaos cools down I can get the thing we talked about previously hauled up to you.
 
First thing I tried on mine was a Canvas cover(I intended on having a clear piece put in the middle but never did)

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Than cut down the blazer top and glassed it back together with a piece of plexi for a back window:

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No complaints from either set up, I ran them both in -30 deg cels. weather and found em fairly warm.
 
I could fab all that for ya Drey.

I have no need for my half topper.
 
Appreciate that Kert but Ive got some sticks of inch by inch I need to use up anyway...been far to long since Ive played with my welder anyhow. Need to do some floor patching as well. Ive got a halfassed idea for storage behind the seats under the window for hunting gear and guns as well.

Im thinking making a lower wall I can take in and out, and then pull your glassed top off in the summer. Probably need to get a closer look at yours before I start drawing anything out on paper.


I should be able to remember yours better, I remember being twisted around in a roll cage trying to bolt it in at one point.
 
Drey said:
Appreciate that Kert but Ive got some sticks of inch by inch I need to use up anyway...been far to long since Ive played with my welder anyhow. Need to do some floor patching as well. Ive got a halfassed idea for storage behind the seats under the window for hunting gear and guns as well.

Im thinking making a lower wall I can take in and out, and then pull your glassed top off in the summer. Probably need to get a closer look at yours before I start drawing anything out on paper.


I should be able to remember yours better, I remember being twisted around in a roll cage trying to bolt it in at one point.
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I remember that now that you mention it.:thumb:
 
Once again Metro comes along with an answer Clicky :waytogo: OK heavy beat me to it..
Converting the M1009 Blazer To Cab and Cargo Box Style
 
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