Project "RESPAWN" - 1972 K5 Blazer

[Greg72]

Oh I'm over 700 already

That-a-boy!!!!

-G

 

[CK5]

Surprisingly the body in general is pretty solid, just a few of the normal spots needing attention.

 

[CK5]

Found a sweet rust free, bondo free, speaker hole free, door. Decided it would be better/cheaper to start with a cleaner door that to fix the other one. It has one push in on the inside by the window that I should be able to get out.
The 2 mirror holes on the window frame get cut out when I cut it down to a Blazer door and the 3 on the right are for my sport mirrors. So just 2 small mirror holes need to be welded in, doesn't even have any trim holes.

orange door 1

• CK5
• Mar 10, 2017

orange door 3

• CK5
• Mar 10, 2017

orange door 4

• CK5
• Mar 10, 2017

 

[CK5]

With mirror and dust removed.

orange door 2

• CK5
• Mar 10, 2017

With door panel removed.

orange door 5

• CK5
• Mar 10, 2017

 

[CK5]

I found this piece laying in the bottom of the door, what is it?

piece in bottom of orange door

• CK5
• Mar 10, 2017

 

[6872xtc]

That's the bolt plate for the mirror

 

[CK5]

Kind of what I thought but the holes didn't seem like they would line up?

 

[6872xtc]

Kind of what I thought but the holes didn't seem like they would line up?

There rear screws are angled, so that makes the difference.

 

[CK5]

How I held the door in place while I installed and removed it 17 times.

door on jacks

• CK5
• Mar 18, 2017

 

[CK5]

Got the door cut down and converted to a K5 door with all the internals moved over, installed, adjusted and cleaned up.

Before and after.

 

[ekajkrats]

Sweet! Color looks good too.

 

[82355]

The placement of those CST badges always cracks me up.

Martin

 

[CK5]

The 70's man!

 

[K85 Octane]

The 70's man!

Dunno, my '68 is a CST truck and has it in the same spot. They have script cst and some other style emblems too, all between 6 years

 

[Bent77]

Acid was still legal in 68

 

[CK5]

Passenger door rust cut out.

r fender patch

• CK5
• Mar 19, 2017

 

[CK5]

Passenger door patched.

r fender repair

• CK5
• Mar 19, 2017

 

[CK5]

Damn it! Looks like a small horizontal crease in my new door near the lower door hinge appeared, could this have happened because I didn't get the hinges aligned properly?

 

[CK5]

Damn it! Looks like a small horizontal crease in my new door near the lower door hinge appeared, could this have happened because I didn't get the hinges aligned properly?

Picture

 

[6872xtc]

That looks like a rub mark to me.
I don't know how you could mess up the hinge adjustments to make that appear in the skin of the door. I would think that you would see something on the door structure and feel something wacky in how it acts.