what happend to the awesome beast blazer use to be?....
i'm 40+ yrs old and boy o boy i tell you whatblazers was awesome,you could do any thing to them or do nothing and it'd still get the job done...now i'm going through my mid life thing and i wanted another blazer...woo hoo dream come true,one feel right in my lap,i was so happy,gonna lifter her body by 3 throw some 31s on her ,steps ,gril n brush guard,just a few things to funner up you know,i'ma kicker billy and i like to play....thus my disapointment,the blazer i got looks great,plane but almost flawless woo hoo right? wrong wrong wrong,can only get a two in body lift (not enough),they just dont make the nice extras for us,not like back in my bad to the bone blazen days,why why why,i did get a hold of a chevy guy and a person can do a lot lot lot of moving cuting and remounting stuff to make it work but after all that he said it still wont be any thing bad to the bone,just a perdy blazer i'm sad now ,i want my old mud dawg ,you kids can have these perdy look a likes mlol, i want my big bad blazers back,he exsplanded that times have changed, 4x4 isnt only for mud'n ,fun'n and haul'n,regular folk what a neat lil 4x4 also and blazers are awesome to look at,i love driving mine it rock,just not the tuff blazer i was razed with,she is a great cruser on the high way in town,...
love my 2000 4x4x4d white black,it just want ever be the beast i wanted her to be.,i think i will sell her and find an old 79 k-5 blazer

 

Nice rant.
a. It never was that you thought it was
b. Good idea and good luck
c. A K is always a better choice for what you visualize. Although S series make cuter mini-monster trucks.

First Blazer I ever rode in was a guy I used to work with bought new. He had all kindsa plans for what he was gonna do with it including getting a snow blade. One day it snowed like hell while at work and I asked him to drop me off at my inlaws. It was about 6 inches of snow. The driveway was one side of a hill, the lower edge had about an eight inch drop off. Well, when his front wheel slid off that edge I thought he was gonna crap his pants. He whined about it for five minutes and actually made a plan on how to back off.

I grew up on a farm with tractors and trucks. And I got my fill of Offroading then. Never saw the reason to have those farm vehicles in the suburbs.

 

If you do the 2" body lift, and look at the new 2.5" suspension lift kit that's out there, then go with 31's i think you'll be where you want. The body lift does give you a whole lot more room for exhaust mods and just working underneath the truck in general. Every truck has it's weak points, the blazer's being all the cramming done by the engineers to keep ride height low, leading to the IFS system, remote oil lines, all the extra work it took for that front axle to be there.

If you're ambitious a solid axle swap would do a lot for the truck. The 4.3/700r4 combo works very well, and the S-trucks have decent frames. A solid front axle would make it a very well rounded blazer

 

Well take a look at what I did after seeing the stock four wheel drive bull****!!!

 

I just checked yours out and you need to put together a build thread! lol

The blazer can be definitely made pretty off road worthy, but if its the true rugged TRUCK that you want then go with a K5. And turning a s-series into a real play toy can get real expensive real quick.

 

Not entirely sure what's going on here as I stopped reading the OP after 2 lines. (punctuation man, use it!)

However, the S series trucks are very cool stock, and pretty capable. With my first gen S15 Jimmy, I was doing stuff my buddy in his Jeep Wrangler couldn't do. Sure they have weak spots, but every single vehicle ever made has them as well, just in different spots.

 

i'm not hating on my baby blazer,just saying "wow how much has changed" i love the ride she has,great sold lil 4x4,i am not going to do any thing to try to beef her up,she was made to be a cruser and she is a good one the way she is so keep her that way