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Re: RE: Hoping to aquire an M1008 Unless you're talking about specific vehicles the pickups are no worse than the Blazers in the rusting department. Just check the vehicles over well for rust and if you can't find any structural you should be good.

Yes it should. $100 would be a good price at any rate. However you'll need new U-bolts so those are scrap if they've been torqued down already. Tell them as much and offer $80. :wink:

RE: Re: M1009 Key same as M1031? Good advice there. When I got mine I could barely get the d-side lock to open and the passenger side not at all. After getting it home I shot some graphite in each lock and they're both smooth as butter to this day.

Look like standard GM 2000+ aluminum 16x7's.

I got my Wellman 070's through ebay. The guy who sells them there also has a website. "IndUSA" I think is his screen name. Mine had eight Wellman 070's in it from the military and after they all died none were swollen.

Has someone modified the truck previously? The M1028's got standard GM K30 packs of the era so they should be 56" long too.

Re: RE: converting m1009 to 12V I'll bite, what's white alice? Sounds like you didn't use the gear reduction starter from the 6.5L's.

Welcome to owning a 20+ year old vehicle. If it isn't bad and/or worn out there's probably an upgraded replacement part for something else that was deemed a hazard a decade ago.

You need one standard U-bolt for the rear of a 1984 Chevrolet K5 Blazer and four U-bolts (with washers and nuts) for the same truck's rear axle. Any good NAPA or other parts store should have this stuff in stock. If your brake lines are old and rotted then this might be a good time to get new...

tRUSTyK5 (did he get a new screen name kenny?) and colby have both done swaps in the last few years. I know at least one other guy has partially documented it.

Well, he's in the southwest. Unless his truck came from the rust belt I bet you'd be surprised how stuff comes right apart. Mine's just out of the salt belt and stuff comes apart SOOO much easier than newer vehicles I've had that spent their entire lives in the salt belt. Air tools would make...

Air filters and oil filters should be the same. Fuel filter I'm not sure. I got one from NAPA that is exactly the same but I asked for a '84 K30. Official difference was the intake manifold and the emissions stuff the C-code engines had. We're starting off with a little over 10% more power...

Yep. However like I mentioned before the M1009's differ from the K5's in that the K5's never got the J-code engine or the TH400.

Oh yeah, since the engine is a J-code (non-emissions) and the civilian K5's got C-code (emissions) 6.2L's and no half ton got TH400 transmissions the engine and transfer case are more along the lines of a '83-84 K20 or K30 pickup.

The 6.2L was in the K5 from 1983 to the end of the K5 in 1991. Large general parts that never changed are pretty much anything 73-91. Body wise these are 81-91. Grille and headlights are 83-84 single headlights. Most of the electrical, drivetrain, and powertrain components are typical of a...

You can do it yourself with hand tools on one of these. Purchase depends on what options you want to do. Stock steering or crossover. Rear springs, rear shackle flip, rear block, block and add a leaves, etc etc. How many new bushings you need, steering box brace(s), brake lines or...

Tuff Country is regarded as the highest quality over on www.ColoradoK5.com . Soft and flexy without sagging quick, decent price, complete, and lots of distributors.

Probably just a shortbed someone decied to "CUCVize".

I don't drive this in the winter so it sits in the garage warm and safe from the road salt. Would a 4" Tuff Country HD lift be sweet and make it flex better? Sure. Would it sit in the snow all winter? Yep.

You'll hate me even more when you find out I paid $60 for them at a swap meet. However they have some Northern Michigan winter corrosion issues with the clearcoat and surface. If they had been pristine I'd have been running them already. Now it's just money and time... Yep, those are Outlaw...