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Need to locate one, kind of hard to find anything, even harder to ship such a large part. I may end up installing the wincher bumper I had on my silver Blazer a few years ago

Just took her for the first drive today after finishing up a a couple month long restoration on my 86 M1009. Probably spent 300hrs working on it and 600hrs looking for tools lol. She's a former navy seabees truck with a dana 60/70, 700r4/np208, and banks turbo. Rust free! Here is a link to the...

This morning I slapped the wheels on, fixed the power steering reservoir, replace wiper motor, installed seats and cleaned the garage. She 95% done! Still need to: Install radio, vent window latches, acquire/install rear glass, a/c!, and crossover steering to name a few. But for now, shes ready...

For some reason the previous owner had the exhaust running out the wheel well, and then down the outside of the frame, dumping before the tire. I removed this and installed a bank's downpipe and full exhaust. Hopefully, quiet it down a little. I also painted all the wheels and stripped and...

Thats the biggest thing I miss, being about to go outside without being attacked. Luckly, I can control it on my property pretty well. This weekend I was was trying to narrow down wheel paint choices. Black, OD, Tan or other.... I think I decided on other, Its a Flat iron.

I wish! I realized my profile still says abq, I lived up there for 7 years ending back in 2011. So much beauty, great offroading, great weather ( other than the spring winds) Now in florida

Tatted her up today! I was able to find the TP-35 and seabees stencils online, but I could not locate 3" lettering that matched the original font on my m1009. It took several hours, but using measurements and pictures i took, I hand cut my own stencils and sprayed the truck. Now starts the...

May 2019 The bottom was in great shape, but still has 3 decades of grime an desert sand. I used a combination of 240 grit, 3m roloc pads, wire brushes and degreaser to clean everything really good. i also cut off all the unneeded exhaust hangers, shock mounts etc on the frame and axles. Then i...

April This week I addressed the interior. The dash pad was black, and cracked in several places. I read a couple threads where people used foam and bed liner, or re-vinyl it. I ended up sanding it with 100 grit. I then glassed the cracks and applied resin over the entire piece. I let the resin...

April Started putting the truck back together. Im very happy with the color, its has a nice sheen and isn't too green if you know what i mean. I bought all new weather stipping for the entire truck, new window channels. Probably the biggest pain was the triangle vent windows. The windshield...

After a little priming and sanding, I used Rapco GCI 34086 current issue, lusterless olive drab. On the recommendation of this forum I added PPG hardener, thinned with xylene, shot with my good hvlp gun. I think the ratio on my mixing cup was 4:2:0.5 Shockingly, most of the truck got a full 3...

April 2019 Finished all the sanding and prep work. I also trimmed the fenders for the tires. Time to build a paint booth on the cheap. I bought a 16x350' roll of overspray plastic and simply draped it over the garage door rails. I added string to to make about 12x24 room. I added some box fans...

To be honest, I'm not sure. On my last Blazer I just did a 14bff. This one looks totally different, I know I've narrowed it down to a Dana 70. But I'm not sure from what. Here are pictures of the front and rear.

January 2019 I removed all the glass, the interior and the topper. I've found the sanding with 40-100 grit works fine, but if i use 180 grit and up it almost instantly make little balls of paint and gums of the pad. Very frustrating, I guess the only option is to do the best i can, then prime it...

october 2018 The body was pretty straight minus a large dent on the drivers quarter panel. I decided it was a little beyond my level so I had the body shop pull the dent. I began some light sanding just to see what i was up against, turns out the tan comes off very easy and i found a surprise...

sept 2018 First thing was just give her a good cleaning, an inspection and start a to do list. Inside was full of sand, broken glass and empty .223 shells, but over all in good shape. The batteries were relocated inside behind the pass seat. ?? The paint looks like crap, probably someone just...

I've had 3 previous k5s, including a m1009, all sold almost a decade ago when we started a family. Ive had an itch to pick up another one so after a few months searching, I found a 1986 up northeast. It was spent nearly all its life in the california desert with the exception of the past year in...

thanks, great info. Now if i can get my glow plugs and stater working.

incredible! Thanks

ya, im looking for ones being parted out. also checking if the bleeder on my duramax is the same threads... maybe that will work