Doing a tune up & installing an A/C bypass pulley.
Currently I'm stuck on how to get to the #3 plug though. Came to search the forum for a solution.

 

The right combo of extensions and swivels (u-joints) will get you in there. I had to just lightly rest the u-joint in the plug socket - if I inserted it all the way until the ball locked, I couldn't turn it.

When that engine was in the '00 Jimmy, I found the OEM factory plug on #3, while the rest had been changed. Had almost a 3/16" gap! So worn there wasn't much left of it. Guess the techs didn't have a good week that week, & decided to skip it, lol.

Yikes ... if you're from Dallas, I'd be fixing that A/C rather than installing a bypass, IMO!

 

Jack up the L/F, remove wheel and go through the wheel well. You can slide the protective sleeve on the steering wheel shaft out of the way. There is a flat spot on the steering shaft joint. Turn the steering wheel to align the flat spot with the spark plug. Socket on a long extension should go right in...

BTW, Is that an old VW hood on your garage wall?

 

Yes, it's a VW hood with a painting on it. It has a flatscreen on a custom mount that I cut & welded to fit behind the hood. I've got some old Nintendo game systems running into it & wifi so the kids can watch cartoons while I tinker out there. Normally this is my man cave space & I also use it as my business office on nice days.
I'm into old VW's. I have a dune buggy that belonged to my grandpa that I'm restoring & a yellow '72 standard beetle that I am putting a motor together for it in the garage too.
Here's an older pic of the hood. I wanted the hood on the wall, but also didn't want to waste the space underneath it. Eventually on the other side of the garage, I'll have a VW Thing hood that piviots downward & will serve as a diner like table for folks to put their drinks or snacks on to watch the game, etc. Then it folds up out of the way when not in use.

 

Thanks. I was going to unbolt the steering shaft & move it out of the way. This sounds like a much quicker option. I found the idea about unbolting it on another thread & didn't know there was a flat spot in the shaft.

Yeah, I definitely have to fix it right before it gets hot. The compressor if fine, the clutch pulley is bad. It has been squealing for about a year. I bought a new clutch for it but there is no way to get the nut off of the old one. It's not a hex nut. It's some sort of proprietary single groove nut on the shaft that requires a special tool to pull it. No one has a socket for it around here. I thought about buying a tri-groove socket & trying to mod it to fit But no one carries those either. I would have to order it & then wait for it to get here. Need the truck before then, so I took the clutch back got a refund & bought the bypass, If I can't find a shop or the right tool then I will have to buy a new compressor altogether. In the short term, $40 is a lot cheaper than $200 & I won't be worried that the bearing is going to lock up on me & leave me stranded on the road with my kids.

 

Very cool! My first cars were VWs. I had '62, '63 and '65 bugs and a '69 bus. Drove the bus coast-to-coast and did a few repairs while on the road. Fun times, and cars then were much simpler...

 

Really can`t see anything on your blazer..The lights have it all blinded out.Is it pewter?I have a pewter blazer

 

Each year blazer has a different steering shaft.I had to unloosen the steering shaft to get to my #3 plug.My shaft didn`t have a flat spot, it was completely round.

 

4hi does not work, so it got driven to work in 4lo, That was a slow ride to work.

At least everyone else was going slow because we had just got 12" of snow and had 1-3 foot drifts.
I am ready for this POS to get sent to the yard.. soon.. sooooon

 

Like mine, Rich? That curse of mine belongs out back.

On the #3 plug - I never changed one by removing the shaft. I always weaseled my way around it using u-joints (swivels, or whatever you want to call it) and extensions.