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Project Tetanus

89 K5 37s H1s 465 swap 241c sye Tub swap rust free
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So the door windows have been reaaallly slow and at the end of the summer last year they needed help up and down or they would just stop. I have new seals and lubed everything but just got progressively worse. So today I wired in some relays and ran power from the junction block on the firewall. WOW so much better! I had several 30 amp relays for an auxiliary fuse box but couldn't stand the window issues anymore. Now for the passenger side.

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Been parking it outside since it's too tall to park inside without flattening the tires. The tree sap and gunk has really been getting into all my new seals and I end up washing it several times a weekend due to bird crap, tons of pollen and sap. So not about to let all the hard work and money get wasted quicker than it should. Got a cover for it. Amazon special waterproof and sun proof. Fits pretty good.

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Not k5 stuff but will be used camping with the blazer. I like old coleman gear. Picked this up today dirt cheap. Tank holds pressure, knob works but lever is seized. Should be able to get it running. Is 200a single mantel model (if that means anything to some of you) made in 1961. This is my oldest others are 220H and 220J models from the 70s. 80s models don't seem old to me.

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That’s cool! When I was a wee tot my grandfather had a bunch of those lanterns we’d use to go out floundering at night. Good times.
 
Finally replaced the broken grill. I have ordered two that never showed up over the last couple of years. Then gave it a try again and showed up broken. Returned it and the replacement showed up broke as well. They refunded some of it and I kept it. Should have bought the higher quality one it would have been alot less head ache. Still need a new emblem though. The original broke trying to take it off. Pieced it together and painted for now.

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Man we had salt all over this past weekend in kzoo
 
Found place that can make reproduction stickers. So had them do the old style emblems that came on these racks. Was only able to find one pic on the Internet of them. The newer ones had a small metal emblem riveted on all four corners. Anyway looks like the originals as far as I remember. Haven't found anyone out here that has even heard of Con-ferr.

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Haven't done much of anything to the blazer this year. Didn't get it put away before the first big snow. Was holding out to see if we could get a tree with it for Christmas this year, but got a big snow before Thanksgiving and hasn't melted yet. So had to clear it off pull the rack and flatten the tires to put it away in that garage.

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So been a long time coming but finally ran out of excuses and started on the LS swap. Just a stock 5.3 to a sm465 4speed. Using stock 6.0 truck clutch and different throw out bearing than what is used normally with the 6.0. Did a cheaper standalone harness and had to repin a couple spots and lengthen a few things to work. Originally pinned out the stock harness but wanted to run the ECM inside and would have had to mod a ton of it and it wasn't in the best shape to begin with so bought a new swap harness instead. Notched the crossmember and used adapter plates with new stock clamshell motor mounts. Using the stock r4 AC compressor with my own mount using stock brackets and a couple fabbed ones from a 4.3 V6. Was going to use stock manifolds but the external slave cylinder is in the way. Just ordered some block hugger center dump speed engineering headers that should work. When I spoke to them they didn't have a definite solution and asked that I send them pics of what I did. Schoenfeld makes some long tube headers that work but are quite expensive so... Also ECM is on its way back from LT1swaps.com will see how that works out as well
 
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