200.00 hunting truck beater fix up...

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this almost running,oil smoking 1985 Chevy K5 4X4 Blazer for 200.00 It was full of vacuum leaks and jimmy rigged plumbing and electrical wiring. Smoked bad with oil from PCV line blowing down outside of valevcover. Bought 4 cans of engine cleaner and went to town at night at a car wash. Then i could see what she needed. Bunch of new rubber seals and all new vacuum lines and re routing to proper locations. Reset timing, and adjusted the stock Quadrajet 4bbl. Went for two new headlights and all new bulbs for all markerlights and tailights about 10 cans of desert tan spraypaint and flat black for the bumpers and skidplates. Fixed the holes in floorboard in rear with steel sheeting and overlayed entire floor with thick mat fiberglass. No more holes.
This is the very same blazer after i fxed it that pulled my Dually out of the sand at end of my road while it was still attached to a Uhaul double axle car hauler. (I knew better, but tried to turn around at end of dead end road anyways instead of backing out.) The trailer was in the air supported by a chain off the blazer and the trailer hitch connected to the dually. This little 305 pulled it around like a ragdoll in 4 wheel low gear till it got back on hard ground out of the sugar sand.
 
lookin meaner....and running strong ;-)

lookin meaner....and running strong ;-)

Still have some more bodywrk to do and remove painting tape, but you get the idea. Now this one i can plow through pricker bushes and over small trees with and not be afraid it will scratch like my blue truck. If it gets a ding, hit it with the spraycan again. And hose out the insides when it gets muddy. No carpet or headliner in there. Just painted fiberglass floor now. http://
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Looks great now that you're done with it. To be honest I would just paint the whole truck flat black!! It would look bad-ass.!!
 
Not sure but painting the inside of the wheel (not not the wall of the wheel) may look cool. I don't have photoshop right now to see though.:(
 
That is cool Jeff. Could you please bottle up some of your energy and send it to me please. :) Now get back to work on the Mark. You only have a couple months to SSHS7. :)
 
me too

me too

maxmk8 said:
Looks great now that you're done with it. To be honest I would just paint the whole truck flat black!! It would look bad-ass.!!
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After i got done with the front bumper and rear bumper i thought the same thing too! I was going to do it in urban camo with spraypaint stencils in gray,black and light gray, but decided it wouldnt sell like that. Plus with Alabama air conditioning, black exterior would of been too much in the Florida Sun.

I know Mike, haha spend some more time on the Mark. It isnt time that is holding me up now, its extra cash for the fuel lines and rails. My house got struck by lightning this past weekend and cost me 496.00 for a new transformer,outside fan motor, and service call. (ill replace the GFCI plug in garage by myself to save loot.) Garage door opener got fried also. Door is manual now for the time being. Good news is my grass is finally growing after two bags of fertilzer and weedkiller, and i won the war with the red ants. I drove them into extinction with the help of Bayer products at Lowes. That stuff is awsome, just dont let your dog eat the grass, lol he will turn three shades of green and blue. lol
When i sell this one, ill finish up the Mark. The plumbing is only going to take me a little more time to fab up the intake side from the intercooler. Plus getting my small buisness off the ground on the side is sucking up all the extra money to get LLC and equipment and such for the dually.
I already got a guy comming this weekend that wants to see the truck for a hunter cruiser so he can keep his nice truck pretty.
 
Cool Jeff. Now you have more $ to spend on your Mark :) Now... Get back to work on your Mark! The clock is ticking... :) lol :)
 
hehe i know i know

hehe i know i know

But onto the next project, I need to get my order in on the 32K fifth wheel air ride setup for my truck. Marvin and I will split the gas and trailer them both up there on my truck in case one of us blows up one of our cars. (lol fingers crossed). If you remember last year we both had troubles with radiators. And Driller fried a cooling fan. We'll download the Marks in parking lot to make the Sonic stop like usuall.
Ok, now back into the garage with me..The supercharger is all bolted up and locktighted in place with belt on. I just need to finish mounting the intercooler among a host of other crazy things going on around here.

(tommorow right after work i'm cutting down a 150' pine tree that lit up my AC unit.) I'll take pics. (hopefully NOT for insurance reasons) "I swear officer we put the cut on the woods side not the road side "i dont know what happened"...lol :eek:

Also to order my fuel rails finally and get them here with fittings. :big-grin:
 
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