Teck's '86 K5 Build -5.3 LS/4L65E swap

[max 02]

In short !!!!

Keep it up dude your blazer is TITS!!!

 

[Teck]

Thanks everybody.
Some days I just have to slowed down think about what or how I'm do some of this, because i'm trying not to cut any corners sense I want it to be drivable so bad I can almost taste it.
Just have along list of small things to get done so it I can get it fired up.
Hopefully it won't be much long.

 

[ashman]

Thanks, but y'all make me feel like I've gone to far over the edge with this build.

not at all. sure, I never thought about making mine so clean I could eat off of it, or do surgery in the engine bay, but thats just me.

beautiful work as always man.

 

[76zimmer]

Just be sure to drive it Teck, I know a sh!tload of people that have classic cars that just sit...people ask me why I drive my Vette....I just give em a look, like really...why not, its funnernhell.

 

[Teck]

Just be sure to drive it Teck, I know a sh!tload of people that have classic cars that just sit...people ask me why I drive my Vette....I just give em a look, like really...why not, its funnernhell.

Look what this site has caused me to do.

It all just started out as just a clean rebuild and now this is what I'm ending up with.

That is why I'm building it, to drive it not to just have it sit.

Everybody that sees it kids me that about taking out in the mud when it is done.

 

[Teck]

Got the steering filled with fluid and blead this evening. Now for the brakes. I hate bleeding brakes.

 

[y5mgisi]

Dont we all...

 

[texas4x4rebel]

Look what this site has caused me to do.

It all just started out as just a clean rebuild and now this is what I'm ending up with.

That is why I'm building it, to drive it not to just have it sit.

Everybody that sees it kids me that about taking out in the mud when it is done.

Mud thats funny you take hunks of junk like mine out in the mud!

 

[Teck]

Mud thats funny you take hunks of junk like mine out in the mud!

Its past its days in the mud!
I tell them I will buy another one for that when I'm done with this one.

 

[Teck]

Not a good evening work on the Blazer. Tried to finish the brakes tonight, had a couple of the lines that leak, got them all tight and thought I had it all good. Then about 30 minutes later I look and the new master cylinder, that I painted, was leaking at the seal to the reservoir

So I almost lost it. What a F'n mess

Took it back to O'reilly's and got a new one. Will try again after this one is painted.

I did get the rear bumper back on along with the filler piece and receiver hitch that were powdercoated.

 

[y5mgisi]

Stupid brake fluid... didnt i read something a long time ago that dot 5 brake fluid does not eat paint?

 

[Teck]

Not sure of that.
I used dot 4 I think, well the 2 quarts I got tonight are.

 

[Teck]

New master cylinder.
Painted and drying.

 

[btnj47]

just a thought, Not sure if you do or not but do you bench bleed the master first before you install it and bleed the brakes ?

Like everyone else has said your truck and attention to detail are by far one of the best I have seen.

 

[Teck]

Yes I did on the first one.
And I will beach bleed this one too.
Not sure why it started leaking about 3 hours after I put fluid in. Just glad I was still at the shop to see it. Not find it a day or two later.

 

[Teck]

Working on bolts today.
Before I cleaned some.

After I cleaned them.

 

[ashman]

those cleaned up nice! solvent and brush, or something else?

 

[Teck]

Wire wheel on the grinder

 

[Fatrat]

this is the best build up i have seen. Great job...again. that engine looks sweeeet.

 

[jyreene]

Teck you sure give me the drive to want to rebuild mine right. I just have to wait a few years to save up and come back from an overseas tour that won't let me bring it with me.