If you have mechanical knowledge, a second car. Do it yourself.

I am only paying $400 for pump, filter & seafoam. Had a stubborn fuel line that has to be replaced, but its a small line.

My wife brings me to work coworker takes me to class. Time to buy me another beater. Sold my last thinking I would never need it. Due to time restraints I do not do engines or transmissions, front end. I do stuff I can get done in a day. Only reason my truck is sitting I have to wait for a check to come in to buy pump.

 

im a mechanic and i hate mechanics. from what i hear all the time is we are honest and reasonable, but sometimes i look at the bills and im just like wow, something that was like 800 i think i could do that at home in my garage in like 3 hours, but i guess your paying for the warranty and experience

i agree. i have never had to do a fuel pump on my garage floor so not sure how much of a pain in the butt it would be, sometimes at work especially on easier cars, fullsize trucks or vans especially i can have that tank down in 10 minutes on the lift. its always nice to have a extra vehicle encase you screw something up

 

I did mine in the jimmy, pulled back the carpet, did some careful measuring, cut a hole in the floor and pulled it up from there, got a hinge from the hardware store, and some aluminum strip, rivoted the strip on there to stop the "door" from going past, sealed it up with some RTV, and will never look back, now when I need to do the fuel pump again, pull the carpet, cut the RTV and its there.

 

whoa!! buy the pump and do it yourself for sure.

it will take the better part of a day if you take your time, but well worth it.

 

ive done that to a few vehicles in the past but its frowned on by alot of people. nothing wrong with a access hole especially if you have to take it out again in a few years. only thing i would never do it to is a pick up truck, especially if you use the bed alot

 

If your gas gauge is working fine, why not just buy the pump itself from Rock Auto? AC Delco and Delphi have pumps by themselves for around $60-$70. When I did mine I went with a cheap sending unit (if it goes out I can at least still drive the thing, and money was tight at the time), and got both for around $150. From start to completely finished only took me about 2 hours. The Blazer's tank seems to be one of the easier ones to do.

 

Because the 4 door 4x4 with the Vortec those won't work. You have to buy the whole module. I bought a NEW DELPHI from CarQuest for $275 about a month ago

 

I don't know what you consider Vortec, but I have a '95 four door, with the 4.3L vin W. it has a big "Vortec" on top of the engine in orange letters. It's the CPI engine. I bought the pump seperatly from the sending unit. Each was about $60. I got a Delphi pump, and I crappy sending unit. If you want the whole thing Delphi/Delco, it will cost around $250-$300 And if you got the tank down, might as well do both. But if money is a concern, it is possible to just replace the pump At least on my '95 4 four door 4.3 Vortec CPI. It's been running fine for four months now. As always, YMMV.

Perhaps the later engines were different?

 

Absolutely not. I got my fuel pump for $180 and paid a friend $120 to put it in. Don't pay that much for that ****. And a fuel filter is NOT $89.

 

probably a $9 part and a hour of labor, especially on older s10s those stupid things never come off with out peeling a line