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MountaineerTom Senior Enthusiast

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He came down this weekend to bring us a little Chihuahua puppy that we got from a lady back home, so we did a few little mods on his blazer.

 

Some were done a couple weeks ago when I was home on leave, and some toiday.

 

Auto Ventshade VentVisors and Bugflector II bughield, APC Clear corner lights.

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GM-Trucks.com decal  :thumbs: , Gov't Mule "Got Mule?" decal, GTS Taillight Blackouts, took off the tailgate emblems, and Mudflaps.

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And later tonight, a 4X4 decal.

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He got a Polished Billet Aluminum Bowtie for the grill that is on backorder, so it will go on later.

 

He got to looking at the "blazer" emblems on the side trim and noticed that one had a silver bowtie, and the other had a gold one, so he's got some silver ones on order from the dealer so they will match the billet one for the grille.  :)

 

Looking good Billy.  :thumbs:  :D

 

After we cleaned them both up.

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General Lee 01 Senior Enthusiast

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Man Tom, you even had to put on his decals for him? Geez, how lazy can one guy get? :D

 

But don't worry Elwood, you're not as bad as Jon (chevy4x4trucks) is with Joe (firecadet). :):thumbs:

MountaineerTom Senior Enthusiast

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LOL, no.  Actually he did the decals last week sometime, by himself. :)

 

We did the stuff together, I was just going down a list of "stuff" that we/he has done in the last few weeks.  :D

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But don't worry Elwood, you're not as bad as Jon (chevy4x4trucks) is with Joe (firecadet). :D:)

Hey, the guy plans this "truck meet" at his house for a saturday, and I get down there and it ends up just being me and him and I had to help him put on his diff cover, that I ordered, paid for (and yet to get paid back for  :plainsmile: ) and... well, that's about it.  

 

 

Looks good Elwood, those decals look sweet on there.

SilveradoWV Senior Enthusiast

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He got a Polished Billet Aluminum Bowtie for the grill that is on backorder, so it will go on later.

I am an admin on s10planet.com's forum (because I had a ZR2 blazer) and we also have a store! A buddy of mine ordered a billit bowtie and it took us forever to get it to him! Our supplier didnt have any so we started checking other places and no one had any, all were on back order!! I could not believe how hard that item was to get, hopefully someone is all stocked up now, if not you will probably be waitin a while!

MountaineerTom Senior Enthusiast

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I think it was Truckperformance.com that he got it from.  If not, then it was Stylinconcepts.com.  Whichever one it was, was the same place he ordered the taillight covers for, and they told him they were on backorder and the estimated arrival date would be the 30th of July.  He got them one day last week.  :D  :)

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It was TruckPerformance.com.  I'm hoping they do like they did with the covers and I get it soon, but I won't hold my breath.  Thanks for the warning.

 

As for the decals, I put the window ones on last week.  But I did get Tom to put the 4X4 ones on, because he says he's so good at putting on stickers, and I know that I always get at least one air bubble somwhere and have to redo one.  I figured if he did it and messed it up I could just blame him and let him buy me new ones.   :D

 

Seriously though, he has done ALOT of work on my Blazer in the past month and it has really helped me alot.  I'll put my new side emblems on this week when they come in and then all that will be left for a while will be the billet aluminum bowtie.

 

Until Christmas when I get my Lift Kit.  :)  :thumbs:   Then Tom gets to help me some more.

MountaineerTom Senior Enthusiast

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Until Christmas when I get my Lift Kit.  :thumbs:  :thumbs:   Then Tom gets to help me some more.

:D  :)

 

We forgot to mention that we also changed the plugs, wires, distributor cap and rotor, fuel filter, fixed those outside window mouldings that kept popping loose, and touching up some scratches/chips, and changed the brake pads all the way around.

 

Was there anything else?

 

Oh yeah, the fan belt.

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