Good deal. I'm sure there's probably lots of bugs to be worked out while you enjoy driving it!
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I just purchased a 72 K5 CST from my uncle that has owned it since 96. He purchased it after it had just had a frame off restoration. He drove it as a daily for a while and recently it had been parked in his shop for two years. I convinced him to let me "borrow" it to drive it around for him. A little gas in the carb and a battery and she fired right up. I had it for over a year before we agreed on a price and she is now mine! She has some rust bubbling through the paint in some areas and the interior is mostly complete. Plan on getting a tan soft top, rubber matting for interior floor and addressing little things for now. Get the rust addressed in the next year or so with new paint.
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bnow48
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I just bought an 84 Jimmy that is stock. (photo below) I has a few issues, like no gas tank, a little rust and four rotten tires on stock rims. I'm a mostly retired educator and fully retired plumber living in Huntsville, TX. I guess you would say I'm Old School, (or just old) but at 68, driving a perfectly good truck off into a mud hole seems a little nuts.Still I'm looking forward to some off roading fun and some fishing on the beach.This is the Hot Rod I never had and will take one more thing off my bucket list.. I'm looking forward to new adventures and new friends...
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Looks decent, in good mechanical condition?
bnow48
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I ordered a new gas tank and hoses and sending unit from LMT. I bought it from a friends son and it was his DD before they parked it. The 350 has about 9k miles and it has never been in the mud except on the deer lease. It all looks ok, but we will see. I'll start a build thread, the post some photos after I WASH it 
Hopefully you got all four stock wheels, so you can take off that thing on the right rear!
Martin
Martin
bnow48
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I DID! He had four of them. I said thank you no.
bnow48
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Will BFG 32"x11.50x15s fit the stock wheels and run ok without a lift?
Yes
bnow48
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OK! THANKS
They will fit the stock wheels just fine, but they may rub.
Do you have two or three front springs?
Martin
Do you have two or three front springs?
Martin
bnow48
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Martin, I'll look in the morning. I assume you are talking about the number of leaves in the spring?
bnow48
bnow48
Yep that what he meant
Two springs was standard.
Three was optional.
Martin
Three was optional.
Martin
Welcome from right down the road!
bnow48
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Glad to hear there is someone on this forum that is close. Hope to see you around. Let me know if you are over this way and we can have a cup of coffee.
Joe In Montana
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Hi from W. Montana.
I currently own a 1986 K5 with a stroker 350/383, Crane cam, Edelbrock Lo-Riser intake, Qjet, a 7 speed automatic, Posi-rear, Detroit Locker front, 3:70-something gears, snow plow front springs, no AC, 265/75x16 tires on 2003 Chevy 4WD rims, 3" step out adapters, Class 4 front and rear receivers, Warn 12K winch, 180 amp custom made-for-me alternator, all electric windows, door locks that still work, needs another paint job and door pin/hinge kit, needs reupholstery again, etc, etc.
My history, or a small part of it: retired heavy duty mechanic, transmission shop owner-operator, custom Harley bike shop owner, unlimited horsepower steam engineer, biomedical engineer for a large LA California hospital, NASA certified pressure hull welder, worked in cryogenic gasses, commercial 25KVA and residential electrical, Industrial HVAC, Melroe/Bobcat Certified Mechanic (a long story), USNavy Vietnam "Brown Water Sailor" (agent orange, etc), retired from it all in 2004.
Moved to Montana (2011) from SoCal and Snowflake, Az, wishing I'd have been here 30 years earlier. I needed to have auto smog less contaminated air for my COPD. I would be dead by now in Californa. I'll die here too in Montana but much slower because I can at least breathe now without coughing up both lungs, my spleen or my liver.
I build bass guitars as a hobby, play Blues, Rock, Jazz, and yes, even Bluegrass and C/W. I play a mean harp and decent acoustic guitar.
I wear cowboy hats and boots, a suit and tie, spin cast for trout, own a canoe, got rid of my 1/2 ownership of a Citabria a few years ago, looked (drooled rather) at buying a Mooney ---- but got over that in a hurry!
My wife and I just last evening came back from a 1-day/4 cord wood cutting and trout fishing trip. We heat only with wood and later today well eat the trout. I don't really like trout, but swmbo does, ergo: I eat them too. My K5 pulled the trailer much of the time in 4/Low, in 1st and 2nd, up and back down 10-12% grades and smud (melted snow mixed with dirt = "Smud") for 30 dirty miles, to a secondary road for 12 miles, to get to a paved highway. Great time!
So..... that's a thumbnail of me, if you've got really big thumbnails.
Oh yeah.... I'm also 70 y/o.
I currently own a 1986 K5 with a stroker 350/383, Crane cam, Edelbrock Lo-Riser intake, Qjet, a 7 speed automatic, Posi-rear, Detroit Locker front, 3:70-something gears, snow plow front springs, no AC, 265/75x16 tires on 2003 Chevy 4WD rims, 3" step out adapters, Class 4 front and rear receivers, Warn 12K winch, 180 amp custom made-for-me alternator, all electric windows, door locks that still work, needs another paint job and door pin/hinge kit, needs reupholstery again, etc, etc.
My history, or a small part of it: retired heavy duty mechanic, transmission shop owner-operator, custom Harley bike shop owner, unlimited horsepower steam engineer, biomedical engineer for a large LA California hospital, NASA certified pressure hull welder, worked in cryogenic gasses, commercial 25KVA and residential electrical, Industrial HVAC, Melroe/Bobcat Certified Mechanic (a long story), USNavy Vietnam "Brown Water Sailor" (agent orange, etc), retired from it all in 2004.
Moved to Montana (2011) from SoCal and Snowflake, Az, wishing I'd have been here 30 years earlier. I needed to have auto smog less contaminated air for my COPD. I would be dead by now in Californa. I'll die here too in Montana but much slower because I can at least breathe now without coughing up both lungs, my spleen or my liver.
I build bass guitars as a hobby, play Blues, Rock, Jazz, and yes, even Bluegrass and C/W. I play a mean harp and decent acoustic guitar.
I wear cowboy hats and boots, a suit and tie, spin cast for trout, own a canoe, got rid of my 1/2 ownership of a Citabria a few years ago, looked (drooled rather) at buying a Mooney ---- but got over that in a hurry!
My wife and I just last evening came back from a 1-day/4 cord wood cutting and trout fishing trip. We heat only with wood and later today well eat the trout. I don't really like trout, but swmbo does, ergo: I eat them too. My K5 pulled the trailer much of the time in 4/Low, in 1st and 2nd, up and back down 10-12% grades and smud (melted snow mixed with dirt = "Smud") for 30 dirty miles, to a secondary road for 12 miles, to get to a paved highway. Great time!
So..... that's a thumbnail of me, if you've got really big thumbnails.
Oh yeah.... I'm also 70 y/o.
bnow48
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Welcome from East Texas! I'm Working on my first build since 1965. (1984 Jimmy, 350, auto with cold blown' air). I'm a recovering Banjo Owner and Stand Up Bluegrass Bass Player. I'm a lot younger than you. I turned 68 in August. Do you know an easy way to get up off a creeper? ;-)
Bnow
