Purple K5 resurrection "USA Built"

[azblazer]

What about the part that attaches to the B pillar...
Tryin to decide if i should keep the Chalet. It needs
a new body as mine is swiss cheese...but finding an
none molested 76-77 tub is pretty hard. Been thinkin
about buying a cherry 91 K5 with the power mirrors...
Swap 3/4 gear into said 91...chalet camper painted to match..
bumpers...and restore the camper with modern stuff.
But as usual time is my biggest enemy of working in the
oil patch. No tinker time.

 

[JK5]

What about the part that attaches to the B pillar...
Tryin to decide if i should keep the Chalet. It needs
a new body as mine is swiss cheese...but finding an
none molested 76-77 tub is pretty hard. Been thinkin
about buying a cherry 91 K5 with the power mirrors...
Swap 3/4 gear into said 91...chalet camper painted to match..
bumpers...and restore the camper with modern stuff.
But as usual time is my biggest enemy of working in the
oil patch. No tinker time.

That 91' will have more power, better gas milage...
I'm using a 90' K5 drivetrain for mine.

I'll round up some pics..

 

[supersize75k5]

Nice man!


Back when I first came around here your k5 was a dominant figure on here.

Nice to see it reborn



-shawn

 

[6.2Blazer]

What about the part that attaches to the B pillar...

Rear quarter has about a 1/2" lip that wraps around the edge of the B pillar and is spot welded. Just grind down the spot welds and a little cutting where it meets the top and peel it off. I spent quite a bit of time a couple winters ago replacing the rear quarters on my Blazer, but that also included doing the dovetail, fixing a severely mutilated B-pillar around the door striker, and custom fitting the new quarters to the raised rockers.

 

[JK5]

Nice man!


Back when I first came around here your k5 was a dominant figure on here.

Nice to see it reborn



-shawn

Thanx man!

I'm hoping to start blasting next week..

 

[JK5]

Rear quarter has about a 1/2" lip that wraps around the edge of the B pillar and is spot welded. Just grind down the spot welds and a little cutting where it meets the top and peel it off. I spent quite a bit of time a couple winters ago replacing the rear quarters on my Blazer, but that also included doing the dovetail, fixing a severely mutilated B-pillar around the door striker, and custom fitting the new quarters to the raised rockers.

I drill out the 3 spot welds that attach the roof/quarter, make cuts every 4 inches, then bend the sheet over towards the front of the cab with channel locks, now hammer until the welds start to break, once the welds start to break create a type of sea-saw action by hammering in the other direction, the welds break, the sheet metal just falls off. Grind a little...
I used my air chisle to clean some welds also..

The B pillar is thicker than the quarter..the welds usually break easy.

 

[6.2Blazer]

I drill out the 3 spot welds that attach the roof/quarter, make cuts every 4 inches, then bend the sheet over towards the front of the cab with channel locks, now hammer until the welds start to break, once the welds start to break create a type of sea-saw action by hammering in the other direction, the welds break, the sheet metal just falls off. Grind a little...
I used my air chisle to clean some welds also..

The B pillar is thicker than the quarter..the welds usually break easy.

The welds on mine were about half broke away from the B-pillar so I lucked out, and I'm sure that was because the quarters and been hammered on the trail for several years.

 

[JK5]

The welds on mine were about half broke away from the B-pillar so I lucked out, and I'm sure that was because the quarters and been hammered on the trail for several years.

Gm uses a many small spot welds on the B pillar..they break easy.

 

[JK5]

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I had to grind, DA sand then I sand blasted the top with some extra fine black beauty. Today, I'm sand blasting the underbody.

 

[4by4bygod]

Forgot I shot a video of the buggy at summit truckfest way back when.

 

[JK5]

Thanks Tom

That was from Truckfest 07'..

 

[JK5]

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In this video, the roof is primed with DP50 and I sandblasted the bottom of the pan and the firewall.

 

[JK5]

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I have to get busy loading some pics up..
this should give you guys a good laugh! Enjoy!

 

[JK5]

12 Hours hours of sand blasting has really paid off, the shell is clean.
The frame will be seperated from the shell before I blast that.

Firewall needs patchwork too.

Firewall epoxied DP 50.

Time to dust off the sheet metal.

 

[JK5]

I purchased Outer rockers from Keystone, the inner I'm building from 16 GA sheet metal.

I made reference measurements before any cutting was made.

The inner rocker's patched, I sandblasted and epoxied the floor support.

The inner rockers is roughed in...
Now we need the mount the quarter, door, install a weatherstrip before I fit the new outer rocker.

I blasted and epoxied the orginal hardware, mounted/lined-up the quarter and the door. Now it's time to do the same repairs to the driver side.

 

[JK5]

Here's the drivetrain. From Emmetology's 90' K5, 350/700r/241.
Looks like poo poo!

 

[JK5]

Prepping the block for paint.

Blasted and painted parts ready for install.

Clark Auto did the heads, $195 for a valve job.

Polishing a stock TBI intake.

 

[Chevy305]

nice progress

 

[6.2Blazer]

Lookin' good!

 

[JK5]

Right side's almost ready for welding..I like to mount and line-up every body panel before welding.

I cut the spot welds, the quarter looked "sucked-in"...