84 K-5

[countryboy075]

This is the K-5 Jen and I picked up this weekend. It has a GM crate 350 HO, TH400, NP208, DANA 44 front and 14 bolt on the rear. The motor and tranny are newer less than 25K on them the body is in great shape and the interior is not bad for it's age. We are really happy with it. I need to put an output seal on the tranny and a input seal on the t-case one of them is leaking but for what we paid for it we love it. We wanted out Tahoe back but that was not going to happen so we have this now. Going to try and get my bumper off the big truck and a few other little things done to it this weekend. Will have to put tires on it before winter but I have a little time on that.

[poorboy1]

i like it. your right those tires will not make you happy this winter. i have the same ones on the ford right now and they dont like wet roads. they are ok when they are new for a couple hundred miles then for some reason get slick on the wet stuff.

[possumpieces]

LOOKS NICE. I LIKE IT

[blk01ram]

Looks like it's in really good shape.

[WILLYNILLY]

very nice lookin rig now it just needs some 44s on it! LOL

[countryboy075]

I got the bumper from the black truck on the K-5, it looks really good, I like it alot. As soon as I can get a hairline crack in the tranny housing fixed I can start driving it, if I can't fix it I might have to find a blown Th400 and swap the guts from this one into a diffrent housing.

[The Black Jeep]

Bumper looks good

[countryboy075]

I bought a blown TH400 for $25 and was going to put the guts from mine into it. I got it all torn down and cleaned up then I found the cracked and spun rear bearing journal. So I pulled the tranny out Friday morning and got it up the the tranny place in town. They are going to swap the guts into a good case and I don't have to try and put it back together right without any tech manuals. Also with the tranny out I am going to reseal the tcase up so I don't have any more leaks from that. I hope to get the tranny back middle of the week and be able to start driving it this weekend.

[countryboy075]

After trying to drive the blazer with 4 tires that were not balanced the wife had me go and get new wheels and tires. I am a lucky man. I got Allied 16x10 wheels and 315/75R16 Hanook Dynapro MT's. That way i can use 2 of the old wheels and tires as spares and it still has nice road mannors. it also pulls the boat better.

[poorboy1]

Those look good on there.

[backwardboggers]

Nice looking rig.

[Brennerbadboy]

looks purdy

[96zjlarado]

it makes me miss my blazer. does the brake controller work? never did ask you after i wired it up.

[countryboy075]

Jul 25, 2009 0:53:16 GMT -5 96zjlarado said:

it makes me miss my blazer. does the brake controller work? never did ask you after i wired it up.

Yeah after I figured out the socket on the fuse box was bad.

[countryboy075]

So November and December were rough for the Blazer. I had to pull the tranny back out and put a new one in because the bell housing cracked about 3/4 of the way around. That one was my fault. After I got that fixed and started driving it again the engine started to knock at about 1800 RPM or so. I pulled the oil pan and found I had 2 pistons that had broken skirts. As best as I can tell the large pieces plugged up the oil pick up and starved the engine of oil. I took the engine to the machine shop thinking I just had a couple bad rod and they found the 3 non end mains were spun really bad. Since I still had the 383 short block in the garage I took that to the shop and had the bottom end freshened up, a new RV cam installed, and the heads and intake from the 350 cleaned up and put on top. I got it back Christmas eve and had it in and running a couple days before the new year. I took it over to PSI and put it on the Dyno and did 4 easy pulls, 3500 RPM to ensure the mixture was good and she put down 200 HP and 250 FT/Lbs of torque at the wheels. Does not sound like a ton for what it is, but with the 35's and not going to high on the RPM's I am happy as hell with the numbers. It has 600 miles on it and as soon as I get to 1500 miles it is going back on the dyno for a full tune and see what kind of numbers I can get out of it.