Hello everyone, Well the time to part with my Blazer has come, not enough Stop signs in Illinois to keep a floor in it!! So I set out to find a rust free non-molested Blazer ZR2 to do a V8 swap on, that search didnt go so well!



Then my father calls me from Fl, his neighbor knows a guy selling a 4door 1996 Jimmy, rust free, minor front end damage from rear ending a truck with rear mounted spare tire taking out hood,grill and radiator. Not really what I wanted, its 4door and only 2wd but was soo clean and the price was right ($400) so I bought it.


My father replaced the core support,radiator and hood already from a junkyard 1996 Blazer but the grill and headlights were missing, Hood is in shop right now being painted with left over paint from when the truck was just recently painted. I seen a forum here about replacing grill/lights with 1998+ blazer ones (which look way better) but links were outdated, forum mentioned replacing the core support but didnt say why? Ive got a welder,drill and tap set! so anyone that has updated info on this it would be appreciated. Also my Jimmy is debadged so an aftermarket debadged 98+ blazer grill would be nice if anyone knows of one.


I'm also looking for Extreme style side skirts and rear bumper to match my front bumper.

 

 

 

Nice score! Looks like it'll be fun

 

Looking into installing this 98+ Blazer grill (Yes, I found the forum on this)

 

Nice looking jimmy

 

Found this on ebay.

https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?m...2F401511003177

I have similar headlights from Spyder, but they aren't smoked on the front side of the lens. Very utilitarian.
Since I had factory fog lights, I opted to tint the turn signals myself, with a smoked vinyl. Been almost 4 years and still holding up great.

 

You are going to have to put in a 98 up rad support. The way the headlights mount is entirely different. If you had a 98 to look at and did a lot of measuring, cutting, fitting and welding, I supposed it would be possible to fab your own headlight mounts, but it would take way more time and effort than simply swapping in a 98 up support. One of the old posts should have the necessary wiring diagram to convert from single to dual lights.