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Needed Parts & Ideas

Front Seats – I have located and purchased a set of 76 Blazer high back seats.  They will need to be recovered, but they are complete with all necessary mounting brackets.

L/R Outer Rocker

L/R Inner Rocker

L/R front body mount channel

L/R door – With the purchase of a 1990 Suburban, I will be using the front doors from it, cutting them down to work with the convertible top.

Bed floor section (to close up the hole someone cut in the back) – Part of the bed floor from the 1990 Suburban donor truck will be used to repair the floor in the K5.  Converting the rear seat from a bolt in rigid seat to the flip forward seat found in the later K5′s.  The access panel for the fuel pump & sending unit will be retained, but recessed to provide a completely flush floor.

Radio (newer cd/mp3 deck preferably) – Initially, the entire dash (with stereo, hvac, etc) from the ’90 Suburban will be swapped into the K5.

Wiring – I will be attempting to graft the ’90 electrical system in with the original wiring for the head/tail lights on the ’74.

Transmission – I will either be attempting to locate an TH700R4 from a 4wd truck or buying a conversion tail shaft to allow the TH700R4 to mount to a TH350 NP203 transfer case adapter & input shaft.  The transmission in the ’90 Suburban donor truck was recently replaced.  Given that it is a 2wd transmission, my choices are to convert it & keep it in the K5 or leave it alone to use in my Chevelle; finding another transmission for the K5.  Decisions, decisions…

Transfer Case – My initial thoughts were to attempt to find an NP241 transfer case to install, but given the somewhat rare passenger side drop NP241 and the fact that I just picked up two NP205 transfer cases and have a spare NP203, the outlook for a triple sticked NP203/NP205 doubler is very good!

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