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  1. Old77

    Old77’s Oldest Kid’s 1992 S10 Blazer thread

    Picked up this tool and ordered some of the umbrella style valve seals this week. Hoping to do this job with my son this winter. Need to pick up a service manual for the blazer so that I know all the torque specs and whatnots
  2. Old77

    Old77's 1989 S10 tinkering project

    All that makes perfect sense! :waytogo: There's so much info out there it's kind of overwhelming LOL Sure would be a lot easier if someone who wants a project would just come buy this thing. :rolleyes:
  3. Old77

    Old77's 1989 S10 tinkering project

    Thanks for the education, Andy :) I plan on just running carb on whatever I find. I should just need to run wires for ignition, right, to make it run? I’m not planning on running any kind of computers or anything, but am I missing anything as I think this through? Of course, this will also...
  4. Old77

    Old77's 1989 S10 tinkering project

    That’s good to know! When you say “too much power” what is your estimate of “too much”? I’m not planning on doing anything other than keeping these engines stock at this point so probably 250 hp or well below. Would that be within its limits, you think?
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    Old77's 1989 S10 tinkering project

    Will also be researching if any of these solutions will bolt up to my existing 5 speed trans or if I need track something else down.
  6. Old77

    Old77's 1989 S10 tinkering project

    So, no real bites yet. I’ll let it run for another 7-10 days and go from there. QUESTION, thinking this might lead into a motor swap project, potentially, and there are a few vortec 350s on the market and have even stumbled upon a vortec 4.3 or 2, as well. If I ran these off a carb I wouldn’t...
  7. Old77

    Old77's 1989 S10 tinkering project

    Well, said buddy backed out on buying it so I’ve thrown it up on the place of markets for now. If it doesn’t sell for what I want in 2 weeks I’m either going to part it out or start looking at motor swap options. There are a couple engines of the LS flavor for sale locally at ok prices or may...
  8. Old77

    Old77's 1989 S10 tinkering project

    Another quandry I'm having is a buddy of mine has been asking me for a while to sell the truck to him. Part of my brain wants to start tearing into it and get the thing torn down but then the lazy part of my brain wants it to leave the driveway LOL He's got plans for it (if I sold it to him) and...
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    Old77's 1989 S10 tinkering project

    LOL We will discuss for sure. She did suggest pulling the S10 into the garage (giving up her garage space) while I tear into it. That's a big deal for her so gotta give her props and supporting the efforts as well as she can. I'm going to get it moved into the garage today. We'll see what happens.
  10. Old77

    Old77's 1989 S10 tinkering project

    Eventually I do have plans to V8 swap (possibly LS/possibly not) but was not planning on that this early since its main purpose is still to be my kids first rig while they save for their own vehicle. If I throw a V8 of any kind in this thing that is no longer going to be a thing lol
  11. Old77

    Old77's 1989 S10 tinkering project

    Agreed. I’m going to start taking it apart before assuming anything. If it’s a cracked block there’s some big boy decisions to be made then
  12. Old77

    Old77's 1989 S10 tinkering project

    I’ve got coolant coming out of the exhaust. Looks like head gasket failure
  13. Old77

    Old77's 1989 S10 tinkering project

    Well, just hopped in it. Hasn't ran since this morning so it's cold and she's definitely down a cylinder. You can hear it and it's lacking power. So I'm having it towed from work to my house and I'll start poking at it and decide what to do from there. Not sure if it's a lifter or valve or what...
  14. Old77

    Old77's 1989 S10 tinkering project

    :shrug: today it definitely read hot but no coolant overflowed and nothing burst or anything. Definitely wasn't happy. I'm going to go out and check on it again here in a bit.
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    Old77's 1989 S10 tinkering project

    Per the gauge, it's always ran WAY cooler than I'd expect before today. I'm not sure if it is possible to get the running temps up to factory LOL apparently they're really cool or hotter than 90's Shania Twain LOL
  16. Old77

    Old77's 1989 S10 tinkering project

    Not a bad idea. I hadn't thought about taking the rad out also clean it externally. I was thinking the coolant flush internally. Thanks for the idea!
  17. Old77

    Old77's 1989 S10 tinkering project

    That's my thought and hopes, too. Fingers crossed.
  18. Old77

    Old77's 1989 S10 tinkering project

    So....S10 barely got me to work this morning and by the time she got here she was low on power. Temp gauge was high but she has all her coolant and nothing overflowing or bubbling. There was some smoke coming from the cap on the valve cover so I know the oil was hot but I would expect that to be...
  19. Old77

    Rear 4-link opinions needed

    Thanks, as always, on the feedback. That’s good stuff! I’ll certainly keep all that in mind as I collect parts :waytogo:
  20. Old77

    Rear 4-link opinions needed

    Makes perfect sense. I consider my skills in the area "decent" but I've got a cousin local to me that I trust and he's done a 4 link on his bagged F-100. So I'm probably going to hit him up to do this in his driveway.
  21. Old77

    Rear 4-link opinions needed

    Thanks for the insight. I knew you'd at least been around the products in your line of work and stuff so that's why I tagged you in specifically and I tagged @bluex because of both personal experience and owning a his business for a while and working with different vendor's products during that...
  22. Old77

    1989 Chevy K1500

    Nice purchase, Andy :)
  23. Old77

    Rear 4-link opinions needed

    ....maybe :lol:
  24. Old77

    Rear 4-link opinions needed

    Hey all! I'm needing opinions on rear 4 link set ups and what people recommend. I'm seeing prices all over the place and wonder what preferences are based on experience. For context, this is for my 91 R3500 dually. For years I've known about the Ridetech kit. Looks like a super nice kit but it...
  25. Old77

    Just curious.

    @Laqota and @Ricko1966 , get a room and hump each other's leg over there. In the meantime, stop muddying up threads with you sexual tension. I'm locking this thread as it seems to have been covered already and no need to add to it further.

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