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Hello,
I am 1.5 days into my trip home from picking up my new 1988 Chevrolet K5 Blazer in Holland, MI. Or is it a K30 Blazer? She has a dana 60 front axle filled with all the stuff that you want. ARB, 35 chromoly axles, new timken bearings, 4.10 gear ratio and so on. The rear Corporate 14 has a Limited slip (soon to be an ARB) and disc brakes. The u joints are all 1410 units. Custom made drive shafts with CVs also with 1410 u joints. She has a cabosh of various lift components. Most are ORD which is the good stuff. The rest not very well thought out. She rides like a bucking mule on rough highways. I will take care of that shortly. I plan on running a full ORD lift system with there custom leafs. More on that later. the Tcase is a Rebuilt NP205 mated to ORDs Magnum box. 3 sticks in the cab control the rate of motion. Low Low is 5.33:1. Those buets are mated to a purpose built 4L80E transmission. The transmission is mated to a Chevrolet LS LQ9 6.0 V8. She has plenty of power and after 1,200 miles or close there to I can say she hasn't skipped a beat. I'm so far averaging between 14 and 15 mpg. Thats what my Tacoma gets on the highway! The engine conversion looks professionally done. It was very well thought out and executed. In fact it looks just about factory. To that was added a Vintage air unit. That is now blowing hot unfortunately as it was a hot one today. I need to get that looked into tomorrow while I am in Denver. The after market bumpers are OK. Not what I would have picked out. The Blazer it self is one of the best ones I have seen in person. There are a few dings and nicks here and there but she is 30 years old. The interior is in excellent shape. Everything seems to work. In fact I have seen just plain stock Blazers in near this close condition go for more than what I paid for her. Not cheap but half what it would have cost me to build what I just bought. I will post some pics I pirated from the Company I bought her from........
I am 1.5 days into my trip home from picking up my new 1988 Chevrolet K5 Blazer in Holland, MI. Or is it a K30 Blazer? She has a dana 60 front axle filled with all the stuff that you want. ARB, 35 chromoly axles, new timken bearings, 4.10 gear ratio and so on. The rear Corporate 14 has a Limited slip (soon to be an ARB) and disc brakes. The u joints are all 1410 units. Custom made drive shafts with CVs also with 1410 u joints. She has a cabosh of various lift components. Most are ORD which is the good stuff. The rest not very well thought out. She rides like a bucking mule on rough highways. I will take care of that shortly. I plan on running a full ORD lift system with there custom leafs. More on that later. the Tcase is a Rebuilt NP205 mated to ORDs Magnum box. 3 sticks in the cab control the rate of motion. Low Low is 5.33:1. Those buets are mated to a purpose built 4L80E transmission. The transmission is mated to a Chevrolet LS LQ9 6.0 V8. She has plenty of power and after 1,200 miles or close there to I can say she hasn't skipped a beat. I'm so far averaging between 14 and 15 mpg. Thats what my Tacoma gets on the highway! The engine conversion looks professionally done. It was very well thought out and executed. In fact it looks just about factory. To that was added a Vintage air unit. That is now blowing hot unfortunately as it was a hot one today. I need to get that looked into tomorrow while I am in Denver. The after market bumpers are OK. Not what I would have picked out. The Blazer it self is one of the best ones I have seen in person. There are a few dings and nicks here and there but she is 30 years old. The interior is in excellent shape. Everything seems to work. In fact I have seen just plain stock Blazers in near this close condition go for more than what I paid for her. Not cheap but half what it would have cost me to build what I just bought. I will post some pics I pirated from the Company I bought her from........
Should be wrapped up here soon. I also ditched the polished fairlead for this Black unit. I will give the polished one to my brother who drives a Bronco. I'm pretty sure he was adopted.