I get sick and tired of having to roll down my rear window every time I access my rear cargo area. Has anyone done a writeup on adding a lift glass in the rear, similar to Gen1 trucks? Then I could ditch that boat anchor rear tailgate too.
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Lift glass conversion on 73-91 K5?
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TheBeast_88K5
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Rear gate aint that heavy.
Honestly, you could easily do a drop window conversion.
and, you could make a write up...
Honestly, you could easily do a drop window conversion.
and, you could make a write up...
on the drop window, hummvee's use drop down windows on the hard doors and i never had an issue with them, BUT to do that on a blazer rear window it would have to have the lift/lock track on the exterior of the tailgate.
the blazer tailgates do weight quite a bit compared to a regular pickup tailgate. i installed a pickup tailgate on my old blazer, it was nice till it got cold. BIGTRUCK on here has a truck tailgate with a plexiglass window.
the blazer tailgates do weight quite a bit compared to a regular pickup tailgate. i installed a pickup tailgate on my old blazer, it was nice till it got cold. BIGTRUCK on here has a truck tailgate with a plexiglass window.
Do you ever take your top off? If not graft the barn doors of a suburban on there. I'll be watching this.
i actually thought about putting the barn doors on but make them into "half doors" for when the top was off.
LOL, yeah right. You want to talk about a hillbilly hatchet job? I'm hoping I can find something that doesn't require much more than drilling holes and bolting some **** together. I do still take my top off from time to time so even if I could fab 'burb doors in, I probably wouldn't do it.Do you ever take your top off? If not graft the barn doors of a suburban on there. I'll be watching this.
Buy a soft top for it and be done. Swap on a tail gate and all is good, and shoot I was hoping for pictures of you running out and hack sawing the back of a suburban off.
Rear gate aint that heavy.
Honestly, you could easily do a drop window conversion.
and, you could make a write up...
When I was still running the K5 I made a plexiglass window that I slipped into the top, and had a bottom angle that latched on the top and I used a truck tailgate under it.
Worked for me.
I don't have any pics of it, but I could draw up what I had when I feel like drawing again.
I think Grimreaper had something similar too if you can look up his setup in the main page.
TheBeast_88K5
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Dammit... I was just gonna suggest that! 
Custom plexi rear window.
Open tailgate, slide window in, add bottom peice, shut tailgate.
Done.
Custom plexi rear window.
Open tailgate, slide window in, add bottom peice, shut tailgate.
Done.
Yup pretty much.Dammit... I was just gonna suggest that!
Custom plexi rear window.
Open tailgate, slide window in, add bottom peice, shut tailgate.
Done.
Plexy was light enough to remove and put back in.
And I had my top and the plexy removed together and I stayed with the tailgate when topless.
You go heft a K5 or Burb tailgate and then a PU tailgate and say that. There's a reason why you helped Issam load that green one ... they're fricken HEAVY with all the guts.
Aifinkso what we're after is making a gen2+ Blazer work like the first-gens:
http://brochures.slosh.com/1971/blazer7.jpg
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I looked through 5 pages of threads started by Grim-Reaper and found nothing relating to the rear glass.
I did a couple of searches and came across this thread where a guy installed a truck camper rear window but it sounds like he had to do a lot of fitting to the topper and there aren't any pictures available.
http://coloradok5.com/forums/showthread.php?t=64369&highlight=lift+glass
I've seen a few old Blazers with a truck caps rear hatch window (like a Reese truck cap made of aluminum)--grafted to the fiberglass roof,that worked ok and didn't look too terrible,but they weren't done by a pro by any means...the guys just wanted a functional rear window once the rear glass in the tailgate busted or wouldn't go up or down,and they tired of trying to fix the motor,tracks,etc..most of them here rot out and the tracks have nothing to hold them in place!..so a lot of them end up using truck gates instead..with the "custom" flip up rear hatch...
