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Congats, enjoy the ride.
Post up a build thread. Show us your journey.
Will do!! Thanks!
amandamitch37
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Hello my name's Amanda and I'm currently working on my first truck ever. It's a 77 Chevy k20 4 speed sitting on 37s with 6 in lift. Probably going to have many of questions for y'all.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.
welcome!
Welcome!
Let see some pics of the truck!
Welcome @amandamitch37
You have a great combo to start.
Ask a way this is a great place for 4x4 square knowledge
You have a great combo to start.
Ask a way this is a great place for 4x4 square knowledge
Hello all. Figured it was time for an intro. This is going to be pic heavy, I know that's what the people want haha. I'm newer to ck5, but have been pretty active on the gmsquarebody forums. Learned a lot and snowballed myself into a frame off restoration of my 83 K10 over the last 8ish years.
With my latest acquisition, a 1981 K5, I decided to dig into ck5 more and I've liked what I've seen so far
I've been wanting to get into wheeling and picked this up to start the journey. Not real interested in rock crawling, more trail riding and hitting up some of the offroad parks since Michigan has some good places to offroad.
Here it is as I picked it up:
It's in odd condition for Michigan. I found it on the east coast up in the thumb in a marina lot. The seller bought it from someone and it just sat. I'm not sure he ever drove it other than into the marina storage yard. Body is straight and pretty solid. Has a hole on the passenger side fender up behind the bumper and the passenger door is rotten bad at the bottom. Otherwise it's all there. Rockers are solid and so are the floors.....or so I thought. It has a horrible rattle can paint job and the humidity at the marina started eating at some of the exterior as you can see, but I think it's recoverable. And the interior is great outside of the destroyed dash pad. No rips in any of the seats! Here are some more pictures.
After getting it home and looking it over closer there were some oddities. The driver floor is crinkled a bit like the kick panel is pushed in. And the parking cable is zip tied up out of the way. The dash is the 84 and up style with the newer wiper controls. The hood and front fenders are way more crusty than the rest of it. After adding it all up and looking close at some items I think this was body swapped.
My best guess it this is sitting on the original 81 frame. And has the 81 hood, front fenders, bumpers, and passenger door. I think the donor tub and driver door came from a wrecked blazer that ever so slightly had the kick panel shoved inward. It would explain why the tub and driver door are so much less rusty than the fenders, hood and passenger door. Whoever did the swap moved the VIN plate too since it matches the 81 title I have.
As far as what I've done with it so far, not much. It didn't run when I bought it. Replaced the coil in the distributor and it started right up. Had a 1406 on it that was pretty grungy and I've since cleaned and rebuilt. Hasn't gone back on yet with the winter and all. Seller told me it needed a new gas tank so I'll tackle that once it warms up. Otherwise going to throw some tires newer than 2005 on it and start fixing things as they call for it. It shockingly had brakes when I got it running, but those probably still need gone through.
With my latest acquisition, a 1981 K5, I decided to dig into ck5 more and I've liked what I've seen so far
I've been wanting to get into wheeling and picked this up to start the journey. Not real interested in rock crawling, more trail riding and hitting up some of the offroad parks since Michigan has some good places to offroad.
Here it is as I picked it up:
It's in odd condition for Michigan. I found it on the east coast up in the thumb in a marina lot. The seller bought it from someone and it just sat. I'm not sure he ever drove it other than into the marina storage yard. Body is straight and pretty solid. Has a hole on the passenger side fender up behind the bumper and the passenger door is rotten bad at the bottom. Otherwise it's all there. Rockers are solid and so are the floors.....or so I thought. It has a horrible rattle can paint job and the humidity at the marina started eating at some of the exterior as you can see, but I think it's recoverable. And the interior is great outside of the destroyed dash pad. No rips in any of the seats! Here are some more pictures.
After getting it home and looking it over closer there were some oddities. The driver floor is crinkled a bit like the kick panel is pushed in. And the parking cable is zip tied up out of the way. The dash is the 84 and up style with the newer wiper controls. The hood and front fenders are way more crusty than the rest of it. After adding it all up and looking close at some items I think this was body swapped.
My best guess it this is sitting on the original 81 frame. And has the 81 hood, front fenders, bumpers, and passenger door. I think the donor tub and driver door came from a wrecked blazer that ever so slightly had the kick panel shoved inward. It would explain why the tub and driver door are so much less rusty than the fenders, hood and passenger door. Whoever did the swap moved the VIN plate too since it matches the 81 title I have.
As far as what I've done with it so far, not much. It didn't run when I bought it. Replaced the coil in the distributor and it started right up. Had a 1406 on it that was pretty grungy and I've since cleaned and rebuilt. Hasn't gone back on yet with the winter and all. Seller told me it needed a new gas tank so I'll tackle that once it warms up. Otherwise going to throw some tires newer than 2005 on it and start fixing things as they call for it. It shockingly had brakes when I got it running, but those probably still need gone through.
Hello there,
I don't think I stopped in here to introduce myself, jumped right into learning.
Bad form on my part.
Just bought a 1985 K5 Silverado Blazer with an upgraded engine. I'm super stoked.
I can drive like a M-fer but I'm not mechanic or fabricator.
I can do the basics & I'm willing to learn.
Please be as informative as you can tolerate, to you it's easy, for me it's new.
I've done cosmetics & suspension on my previous vehicles.
I'm looking for your .02 cents & opinions as long as they're constructive, not interested in smart ass unhelpful answers.
Thanks
I don't think I stopped in here to introduce myself, jumped right into learning.
Bad form on my part.
Just bought a 1985 K5 Silverado Blazer with an upgraded engine. I'm super stoked.
I can drive like a M-fer but I'm not mechanic or fabricator.
I can do the basics & I'm willing to learn.
Please be as informative as you can tolerate, to you it's easy, for me it's new.
I've done cosmetics & suspension on my previous vehicles.
I'm looking for your .02 cents & opinions as long as they're constructive, not interested in smart ass unhelpful answers.
Thanks
Welcome and damn nice K5 !
What are your plans for it - type of use like daily driver, trail rig for camping or will it be a project full of nonstop upgrades ?
What was done to the upgraded motor ?
What are your plans for it - type of use like daily driver, trail rig for camping or will it be a project full of nonstop upgrades ?
What was done to the upgraded motor ?
Thank you.
It's going to split time as a weekend/ outside of work driver with my Harley. Try to make it as reliable on & of road (light trails) no rock climbing shit & modern comfort as I can afford. This is no weekend show pony, I'm going to drive it as often as I can.
I like to drive..
Nice Blazer! Welcome!
Thank you.
Nice rig looks perfect for Blazer Bash in Moab in the fall.
That sounds intriguing
Indeed
