rWell, I've been here for awhile and have yet to post pics of our project. It is a 1991 S10 Blazer Sport 4 door 4x4. We bought it for $400 running on 2 cylinders, we actually drove it 5 miles home on 2 cylinders getting pulled over on the way.

I finally got around to figuring out why it only had compression in cylinders 3 and 5. The right valve cover had every brace bent so bad that it kept the intake valves open and the exhaust valves closed. And on cylinder no. 1 was this little beauty my wife is holding...




Anyway, new valve cover, new rocker arm and pushrod, plugs, catalytic converter, muffler and an ignition module later, it was running smooth as silk.

The trans had been rebuilt at some point, there were receipts showing that the engine had been replaced about 3000 miles ago. I put a PS pump (broken shaft), rag joint and brake pads (almost down to the metal) on it the past 2 days.

Pics!





ZERO rust Texas truck. I've only done one mod to it so far: Auto-dimming mirror with compass. This weekend, I'll be working on another mod: All windows down. With that, when I press the back two window buttons, all the windows will go down at the same time. My plans are for plenty of inside mods and basically leave the outside the way it is except maybe lifting it an inch or two and take out the dents.

 

hahaha, you were right, we do have essentially the same truck. I guess i Know who to come to with my problems now haha just kiddin'. Looks awesome! That steering wheel doesnt look safe to me for some reason....lol

 

Oh yeah, I did get your emblem. Just let me know where to send it and I'll send it out.

 

PM sent! Thanks a lot! If YOU need any help, let me know, I'll try to see what I can do. lol Otherwise very interested to see how things work out as far as your mods go. I'm looking into doing a few things to mine and not many people here have nice first gen's like us Yours looks exactly like mine under the hood.

 

SO, this weekend was spent going from this...



To this...



I know, I backdated it a little. The only ways to get a factory tach in a 1991 Blazer is to either get a digital cluster - ugly and unreliable - or a Syclone cluster - expensive and has a boost gauge - which would involve me finding a Sunbird V6 tach to put in it remove the boost gauge or a Sonoma GT cluster - rarer than the Syclone.

So the only way I could do it was to get a 1986-1988 analog cluster with a tach. However, that cluster has a cable driven speedometer. 1991s have an electric speedometer. So I modified it to accept the electric speedometer and the results came out very nicely.

 

That's cool I looked for a tach cluster here but couldn't find anything. So did you just reuse the old speedo part?

 

I like the digital dash myself.

 

ha not bad for 400 we need to compare some time i payed 400 for mine as well with almost 300 k on it lol and its also from the south (fla) and have done little mods soon as the weather breaks ill wash it up and get some pics!

 

Hey hey.. fancy meeting you here!

 

Woot Go First Gen's
I was having the same issue finding the gauge cluster
when all is said and done i think im just gona
completley remove it and get a custom one made.
Good Luck With The Project.