Current project: Rewire the blazer. There is a little bit of history in this truck. My parents worked hard when I was growing up, they didn't have a whole lot and when they did make purchases it had to be something that they thought about long and hard. My dad always wanted a 4 wheel drive and he bought this 1980 chevrolet blazer in 1985. When I was 10 I learned how to drive while deer hunting in this truck and in my grandpa's green 1974 pickup. He loved this truck and sold it to my uncle Brad when he bought his black 1990 suburban. Uncle Brad parked the Blazer in front of his house from 1992 until 2006 when he got engaged and the future wife said to get rid of it. Brad really loves his wife and I really loved the old blazer so I tried my mom's patience and my dad and I moved the truck into my parents garage where it sat while my Dad and I worked on it during our lunch brakes for a long time. We took the 427(big motor) out of my grandpa's truck, bought some heavy duty axles off of KSL.com classified for $300, replaced the floorboards, and put on some $400 military hummer tires that I bought off of Ebay. Finally after a long cold winter and making my mom scrape her windows (thanks mom) we finished the project in 9 months. On Sunday during Memorial day in 2008, against her better judgement, I talked my smart wife into going on a drive in the foothills with our three little girls. Long story short the truck caught fire when electricity and broken fuel line met. Since then I have been nervous about fires with the old wiring that had been rigged and re-rigged many times. Last summer I bought a new "EZ wiring harness" off of Ebay for $150 and have been in the process of removing all of the old wires, removing the interior, and rewiring for the last 6 months. In all I have probably worked on the truck for less than 30 hours but haven't done it consistantly. My wife is getting a little impatient with having to scrape windows on the Suburban (my work truck and the minivan get 2 of the 3 spots in the garage) and would love for me to move the blazer back outside where it belongs. Hopefully the weather will warm up and I can finish putting the insides back inside the truck.
Thursday, February 3, 2011
Current project: Rewire the blazer. There is a little bit of history in this truck. My parents worked hard when I was growing up, they didn't have a whole lot and when they did make purchases it had to be something that they thought about long and hard. My dad always wanted a 4 wheel drive and he bought this 1980 chevrolet blazer in 1985. When I was 10 I learned how to drive while deer hunting in this truck and in my grandpa's green 1974 pickup. He loved this truck and sold it to my uncle Brad when he bought his black 1990 suburban. Uncle Brad parked the Blazer in front of his house from 1992 until 2006 when he got engaged and the future wife said to get rid of it. Brad really loves his wife and I really loved the old blazer so I tried my mom's patience and my dad and I moved the truck into my parents garage where it sat while my Dad and I worked on it during our lunch brakes for a long time. We took the 427(big motor) out of my grandpa's truck, bought some heavy duty axles off of KSL.com classified for $300, replaced the floorboards, and put on some $400 military hummer tires that I bought off of Ebay. Finally after a long cold winter and making my mom scrape her windows (thanks mom) we finished the project in 9 months. On Sunday during Memorial day in 2008, against her better judgement, I talked my smart wife into going on a drive in the foothills with our three little girls. Long story short the truck caught fire when electricity and broken fuel line met. Since then I have been nervous about fires with the old wiring that had been rigged and re-rigged many times. Last summer I bought a new "EZ wiring harness" off of Ebay for $150 and have been in the process of removing all of the old wires, removing the interior, and rewiring for the last 6 months. In all I have probably worked on the truck for less than 30 hours but haven't done it consistantly. My wife is getting a little impatient with having to scrape windows on the Suburban (my work truck and the minivan get 2 of the 3 spots in the garage) and would love for me to move the blazer back outside where it belongs. Hopefully the weather will warm up and I can finish putting the insides back inside the truck.
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there are many great memories in that truck. I am glad you wrote about it. It is fun read about it.
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