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marie5885 said:
Hi everyone! My name is Marie and I'm from rural Northern California. I'm new to the site and just started the build on my rock crawler that's a little bit '75 Jimmy, a little bit '81 Blazer, and a little bit of custom work. Looking for tips, tricks, and inspiration. This site is awesome! My rig is far from being complete and I'm spending money right and left buying parts, but I'm having fun hunting down what I need!
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Hi Marie
I am not too far from you in Lincoln, if you need help or looking for stock parts, I might be able to help.
And welcome to the club
 
CK5 said:
Welcome to CK5, stop in and say hello, this is a great place to make your first post and tell us a little about yourself/truck. :D
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Hello CKers. This is my first C or K. I just bought a 1981 K30 with a flat bed. I got the utility bed with it too. I needed a way to tow my skid steer now and then without spending 80k. This has opened up a ton of work I couldn't get to before. Bonus that this has an 8' snow plow. It will make a nice backup for the skid steer. I'm loving the simple repairs without a computer and the cheap parts. It is hilarious how far the engine is from the side of the vehicle. I'm used to our around town car and a cougar and a mustang I used to have. It is nice to have this forum for all of the questions I suddenly have. I'm in the mountains of southern CA.
Dumb question, is there a source besides Amazon and Ebay for something like a new bench seat or bench seat rebuild?
Thank you much.
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captainwoody said:
Hello CKers. This is my first C or K. I just bought a 1981 K30 with a flat bed. I got the utility bed with it too. I needed a way to tow my skid steer now and then without spending 80k. This has opened up a ton of work I couldn't get to before. Bonus that this has an 8' snow plow. It will make a nice backup for the skid steer. I'm loving the simple repairs without a computer and the cheap parts. It is hilarious how far the engine is from the side of the vehicle. I'm used to our around town car and a cougar and a mustang I used to have. It is nice to have this forum for all of the questions I suddenly have. I'm in the mountains of southern CA.
Dumb question, is there a source besides Amazon and Ebay for something like a new bench seat or bench seat rebuild?
Thank you much.
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Try LMC truck and USA 1 industries
for those seat parts.
Welcome aboard!!
 
Hello everyone. My name is Adrian. I learned how to drive on a 1968 C10 when I was 11-12 on the farm we had and fell in love with GM. Back in May I bought a 1985 GMC Jimmy. It's a running project and am slowly and steadily updating and replacing parts on it. I'm up in WA state.
 
Hey @captainwoody welcome, Idylwild is nice place wife and visited a few years ago. We were camping at Lake Hemet, with the Manx Club, might remember seeing a bunch of fiberglass dune buggies, was September after that horrible fire that came way to close.

There are a lot of good parts sources. For interior parts like, seat covers, upholstery, carpet check Rockauto. If rouckauto doesn't have there is https://www.stockinteriors.com/?msclkid=87f0168257b71bcd14f475b344e995e2. lots of others to many to list for generic in the welcome thread. when ya need something post up in the garage and will point ya the right direction.
 
Hi all, I am cyrwu. I am 21 y/o, active duty navy, and picked up this 1982 K5 blazer while on transfer leave back home in Texas. Currently stationed in Virginia.

I bought the thing for $600 and knew absolutely nothing about it. I finally got around to checking the serial number on the engine to determine that it's got a 350 in it, since the previous owner had no idea. As well as an Edelbrock carburetor and intake manifold, but I haven't looked any further than that. The exhaust is cut off right under the driver and passenger seats, so it sounds (not so) great! I've got it running and idling now (sort of), and found out that it has a blown head gasket. It also doesn't go into any forward gears, and doesn't move when put into reverse (it at least goes into reverse, forward gears do absolutely nothing).

I have no idea what my long term plans are for it, but for now I'm looking at at-least an engine rebuild. If anyone has got any tips / tricks or ideas for me I am all ears!

I emphasize though that I am a complete newbie. I have experience with cars, I built my little 2.0T Genesis Coupe for funsies, but trucks (especially carbureted engines), are a whole new ballpark for me. I am excited to see where this truck ends up!

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cyrwu said:
Hi all, I am cyrwu. I am 21 y/o, active duty navy, and picked up this 1982 K5 blazer while on transfer leave back home in Texas. Currently stationed in Virginia.

I bought the thing for $600 and knew absolutely nothing about it. I finally got around to checking the serial number on the engine to determine that it's got a 350 in it, since the previous owner had no idea. As well as an Edelbrock carburetor and intake manifold, but I haven't looked any further than that. The exhaust is cut off right under the driver and passenger seats, so it sounds (not so) great! I've got it running and idling now (sort of), and found out that it has a blown head gasket. It also doesn't go into any forward gears, and doesn't move when put into reverse (it at least goes into reverse, forward gears do absolutely nothing).

I have no idea what my long term plans are for it, but for now I'm looking at at-least an engine rebuild. If anyone has got any tips / tricks or ideas for me I am all ears!

I emphasize though that I am a complete newbie. I have experience with cars, I built my little 2.0T Genesis Coupe for funsies, but trucks (especially carbureted engines), are a whole new ballpark for me. I am excited to see where this truck ends up!

OEJQxgR.jpg
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cyrwu said:
Hi all, I am cyrwu. I am 21 y/o, active duty navy, and picked up this 1982 K5 blazer while on transfer leave back home in Texas. Currently stationed in Virginia.

I bought the thing for $600 and knew absolutely nothing about it. I finally got around to checking the serial number on the engine to determine that it's got a 350 in it, since the previous owner had no idea. As well as an Edelbrock carburetor and intake manifold, but I haven't looked any further than that. The exhaust is cut off right under the driver and passenger seats, so it sounds (not so) great! I've got it running and idling now (sort of), and found out that it has a blown head gasket. It also doesn't go into any forward gears, and doesn't move when put into reverse (it at least goes into reverse, forward gears do absolutely nothing).

I have no idea what my long term plans are for it, but for now I'm looking at at-least an engine rebuild. If anyone has got any tips / tricks or ideas for me I am all ears!

I emphasize though that I am a complete newbie. I have experience with cars, I built my little 2.0T Genesis Coupe for funsies, but trucks (especially carbureted engines), are a whole new ballpark for me. I am excited to see where this truck ends up!

OEJQxgR.jpg
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Welcome , you going to need a transmission for sure
 
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