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Congrats! Looks great! I'm glad you found a replacement!

Sorry for your lose.... I'm glad that he was ready to go though, that is always a sweet thing to hear. I'll be praying for your family!

Wheel Swap.... Picked up these awesome wheels at the NSRA... Street rod Nationals Plus... for the cheap! This moves the Camaro closer to the direction my dad wants to go with it, so it's a definate win! :D A before and After pic

New Cluster! I redid the cluster on the truck as I was prepping it for a photoshoot.... I also tossed up a pic from the shoot that came out amazing...

looking good :D Patch work is always fun stuff[P

Fans on with a little help Well... Rat Matt dropped by on his journey across the US and the his world trip. He hopped over and went straight to work geting the fans wooked up on the 50 Chevy... now named 'Bella'.... and also worked out the brake light issues.... He will be moving onto his...

I prefer the cherry picker method.... i've done two body swaps that way and removed soem truck cabs...

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A simple 'L' shaped channel should take care of that, they offer a 190 degree swing... I don't think it is spring controlled though.... I'm not sure what the max range on the current bracket I have is though.....

any updates?

Thanks guys.... So My fabricated Aluminum radiator shroud finally showed up after months of finding one at the right price.... all I lack is a 14" fan... and then it's off to driving the 50 more working out the kinks.... or putting the body together... :cool:

Thanks guys! I had some more photos I snagged before the Blazer went back home I forgot to upload... so here you go

Pics of the hinges... sorry for the delay, I remembered just as I was about to call it a night and ran outside.... Sorry for all teh clutter I'm in the middle of rebuilding the gauge cluster in the truck.... the spring has a srew that runs through it, which adjusts how far the lid opens and...

So Long.... I did some under coating and misc paint underneath in the area that needed is, but that's about it for underneath. Also mounted the compass and the center comsole. The tune-up of the engine, plugs, wires, vacuum leaks, timing, carb adjustment, etc... had this K-5 purring like a...

Clean-up Aisle 4... Well.. Bay 2 is more like it! Next on the list was cleaning up all teh wires tha hangeth all over... As well as re routing some just not good practices in an engine bay... Now under the hood matches all the other beautiful work that was done.

More Surprises After getting the vacuum leak resolved and the choke set back to the original position.... The K-5 seemed to be much happier.... I discovered teh carb had been adjusted to compensate for the vacuum leak, so it was dumping in the fuel :eek:... further investigation spotted a...

Good point! :D .... On a 22 miles drive it went through 5/8 of a tank of fuel which I thought was excessive.... I don't remmeber off the top of my head what the tank size was on those guys...

Now to the work side of things... All righty.... 1st thing was to track down all the vaccum leaks and reconfigure the vacuum hoses to the correct location... 2nd clean up the engine bay wiring and under dash... 3rd noticed the smell of old fuel so out with the gas and in with 100% and no...

More Photos Here are some more photos of the Blazer....

Hey Everyone! 3 Wheels & a Block brings you another project... A 1970 K-5 Blazer.... Picked this jewel up from the owner a week ago and here was the diagnosis: - Engine dies going down hill, stalls out at stop signs... - Enging runs rich and idles too high - Poor MPG about 4 MPG - Engine bay...