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Thanks and hello to NC! Gorgeous country out there [thumbzup] I am subscribed to DGS Auction Listings in California, and I peruse them frequently. More important for me is to watch grant listings for the state agencies, typically if you see a grant or budget item to refresh hardware, older...

As several of us have said, it's a good looking truck. To me personally, I don't worry that it could be a clone of a consumer model (that would be rather hypocritical of me), one way or another it will have taken a good deal of work to keep or restore that truck to the current condition! There...

Learn and know your FS-595C color codes... 3 Color Woodland: Green 383 = 34094 Brown 383 = 30051 Black = 37030 If you later decide to do desert single color: Tan 686A = 33446 Home Depot (Behr) and Lowes (Valspar) can mix paint to FS-595 codes, you have to get a paint tech who knows how to...

Do you have the VIN? We can tell if it's a D10 or a K5 Blazer... Based on the extra badges that are on the truck that shouldn't be there, and the trippy non-factory bumper on the rear, this looks like a clone build someone did - also missing the second battery tray on the passenger fender...

Note there is a difference with "cross over steering" and "high steer". High steer sends the cross-over bar over the top of the passenger leaf to the top of the wheel spindle, simple cross-over goes to the factory tie rod point on the passenger side. The trouble comes with not doing cross over...

For a large truck, with a truck drivetrain, you're going to get low MPG. Look at it this way though: the 1980's Chevy Crew Cab I bought that has a stock 454, got 7.25MPG empty (okay it had a flatbed carrying the original bed, but that bed was empty too :) ). My 40' Transit bus gets 8MPG...

It doesn't hurt, the open C-channel at the forward hoop has that indentation for the steering box still even on the 3/4 and 1-ton trucks, and that's a weak spot. With any kind of lift, bigger than stock tires, and a lack of cross-over steering (meaning the steering box is pushing on the...

The newer voc hap free stuff that's coming out now is safer than the stuff they used to spray these with. Yes, use a jump suit, use a full face resarator, use gloves and a vacuum attachment when removing the old CARC, a lot of that older stuff (and some of the older typse of the new stuff) has...

Two bonuses from your decision, less likelihood for leaking (and thus electrocution), and less likelihood for the jacket of the extension cord eventually getting cut on the inner/outer skin of the shelter and causing a fire in the insulation foam... Awesome work sir [thumbzup]

Either the sarcasm was missed or it wasn't - hard to tell here... :whistle:

Should be able to get $4K for it, looks like it's in pretty good shape - if it wasn't so far away I'd give you that much...

I'm not aware of one, the most common system you will see for that kind of freeze protection is a fuel filter with a heater in it. This keeps the fuel from gelling in the filter or the downstream IP. Short of putting a heat trace wire on the fuel lines, a heating pad on the tank, and the...

IP = injection pump (it should be installed already if your truck runs :beer: ) The little in-line electric pump is a common part found at basically any parts store or other retail establishments that deal with machinery... It basically has check valves inside, so when your engine's lift pump...

If you can do a quilt (moving blanket, surplus wool blanket, or similar) with a silver or mylar tarp over the hood and base of the windshield, you will be able to keep whatever heat is in the engine and engine compartment there, and insulate the hood from the heat wicking effect of a snow-load...

Are you going to have 120V power anywhere near where you plan to use the truck?

You will find when you get there, your truck is not what he would consider "old", that is relative to the oldest car he has there (which is pre-1930's...).

Full disclosure, they haven't done anything on my XM1027 build, that's been all me - but they have kept my Toyota pickup running until >450K miles, several of my friend's and family's cars and trucks running. They do everything from old cars to late model vehicles - OEM maintenance, to full...

I live in California. Car theft capital of the country. If you're in an area that doesn't have LoJack coverage (there are places around the US that don't), you can take an Android burner phone, and hide it somewhere in the truck, giving it a car adapter to charge. Go to Google and search...

Some kind of lock for the hood too - keeps them from popping the hood and doing coat hanger security bypasses, if your IP is disabled.

Tell Ken or Chris that Tim from Niles sent you. They are good people [thumbzup]