i bout my 88 blazer for a winter truck and to use off road i got it home knowing it was rusty and need some stuff but i pulled out all the carpet and found that the whole floor is pretty much trash. the truck runs great and the frame is not rotted. im just trying to figure if its worth trying to save the body or build a trazer or look for another truck. i have had two broncos before and love them this is my first blazer. what do you all think i should do? the tale pan is so gone i try to open the rear door and it takes the floor with it.
CK5
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new here with a rotted out blazer
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Get some pics up I guess.
I'm thinking if you bought it for winter, do whatever you need to to make it survive one more winter...even if you have to weld the tailgate shut and duct tape over holes to keep fumes out. Then go truck cab (trazer) in the spring
Rene
I'm thinking if you bought it for winter, do whatever you need to to make it survive one more winter...even if you have to weld the tailgate shut and duct tape over holes to keep fumes out. Then go truck cab (trazer) in the spring
Rene
i have to do a couple more post to get pics up but. right now i lost my license till February so i got time. the front floors were patched but not good. its not a dd i got a Mazda for that i just didn't want to drive the new car in the winter but im not going to be able to anyways. i was thinking of building a bed cage and cutting out the rust and laying sheet metal down and having the tailgate like bolted to the cage and i wanted to put small low back seats in the back were the old bench seat was. any one ever build a bed cage but not having it go up were the top is? i have a roll cage in the truck as it is.
Jessie James
1/2 ton status
You can buy replacement sheet metal from a variety of places. LMCtruck.com is the only one I know off hand, but others can post the names of more.
Pics would be helpful though, to gauge the amount of work needed.
Pics would be helpful though, to gauge the amount of work needed.
Jessie James
1/2 ton status
ill try to get some pics tomorrow or Friday. its bad, the whole floor is mostly trash. i like the blazer body better than a trazer but if the body is to gone to fix im not goin to do another blazer body so it would have to be a trazer build. any one want to buy a blazer that need alot of work? lol
1BEATK5
1/2 ton status
magik235
Still Alive
Compared to mine yours looks good. Here is my build thread http://www.wi4x4.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=3275
simple... pull rad cap and replace the rest, reinstall rad cap...
sorry, couldn't resist..
if your capable, it's doable... i would imagine there's not alot of rustfree anything in Mass.... 
sorry, couldn't resist..
if your capable, it's doable... i would imagine there's not alot of rustfree anything in Mass.... lol your lucky you got your tail gate down mine will move about a 1/4 the way down that that's just the floor giving way the hinges are trash also lol ill try to get pics soon, heading to ct today for turkey day.... happy thanksgiving everyone. the black mazda in the pics is my dd but in not driving anything till i get my license back, all i see is more time to build stuff.
where in Mass are you? I moved to CO about a year ago from there.
average..
what do the bottom of the B-pillars look like on the inside? where the seatbelts bolt to...
what do the bottom of the B-pillars look like on the inside? where the seatbelts bolt to...
I'm right in Carver.
What you have is not the end of the world but, what you see is only the beginning. You can patch in some replacement panels and fix one area at a time, eventually replacing most of the floor, and prob all of the body mounts, along with fixing the body mount holes in the frame. Not bad cause you can do it piece by piece. Or you can body swap it with another K5 body or just a p/u cab.
My K5 came up here from TX, still solid right now. We'll see how it is after the winter...
What you have is not the end of the world but, what you see is only the beginning. You can patch in some replacement panels and fix one area at a time, eventually replacing most of the floor, and prob all of the body mounts, along with fixing the body mount holes in the frame. Not bad cause you can do it piece by piece. Or you can body swap it with another K5 body or just a p/u cab.
My K5 came up here from TX, still solid right now. We'll see how it is after the winter...
The drivers side b pillar is gone, passenger side is not much better but a little more there. The floors are some what replace but not great.. I picked up some steel plates and some L brackets to bolt the tail gate shut. I like the blazer body to much to let it go to the scrap yard. im going to spray line the floors and silicon some of he smaller holes. Looking to fit some 38s or 37s under it. do you guys for around here know of any good wheeling spots. i only know of a couple around middleboro but they arn't really to good.
