On Feb 5th at midnight, he calls me.
Uhhh dad, I blew the driveshaft out of the truck.
I need a tow home, can you come get me?
Greaaaaaat.
So I went to him a few miles away from the house and it was just past midnight so not much traffic at all.
He was able to coast most of the way up the off ramp to a safe place and parked.
We hooked him up with a tow strap and yanked the little dead thing home.
Once home we went back and picked up the pretzel drive shaft from the side of the highway he was on.
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It was easy and uneventful to get it home.
The engine ran fine and he had heat, steering, brakes, and lights on the way home.
The Suburban had no issue with the extra weight of the truck.
Next day the discovery was made that the output shaft of the trans now has movement in directions it is not supposed too. Last I checked they are not supposed to go side to side much at all, this one now has plenty of motion.
So the metric 200 trans is toast.
The decision was simple.
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He had already purchased this fresh rebuild 307 and turbo 400 transmission and it was just sitting waiting.
Out came the 305 and metric 200 and in went the 307 and turbo 400.
He wants to run headers on this engine and so the hunt for the correct set began.
A set of V8 swap headers for an S10 were purchased.
No dice.
The truck combo will not allow these to work as two of the pipes have to go wide for steering shaft clearance.
Turns out, those work with the stock angle of the S10, not the stock angle of the 3100.
On the 3100 the column comes out higher than the relationship of the stock S10, so no dice.
Simple small block headers don't work as the S10 frame is pretty dang tight and the suspension gets in the way.
We have several examples of those to test and none of them work on the driver side.
The closest ones that might work are the set I have for our Suburban.
With some cutting, heating, bending and welding on the front tube they should work.
But I don't want to give them up.
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So we will keep an eye out when we go to the PIR Swap meet in a couple weeks.
I will also be looking for cheap headers so we can chop them apart to make what we need if the first plan does not work.