After a 3 hour drive down to Dad's yesterday afternoon, I was greeted with a nice large puddle of antifreeze under the Blazer this morning... After fighting a leaking water pump less than a month ago, I walked out of Advance Auto $70 poorer today, I replaced BOTH heater hoses and the bypass hose and got rid of all the stupid spring clamps and installed screw clamps in their place today... getting tired of putting $20 jugs of Dex Cool in this damn thing... Hopefully I have all the leaks taken care of. I can't think of anything else that could be leaking at this point... If it's the lower intake gaskets (that I replaced about 3 years ago) I'm going to loose my $#!@...

I hate opening up the cooling system, it's always a messy job... But always fun to get a chance to work in anything with pops


Happy Father's Day to all the fathers out there!

 

Brought back memories... Dad was still around when I did my intake manifold gaskets. He came down in his little Tacoma pickup, hung out all day, and held the light while I worked. Afterward, we went for a drive to test it out, then grabbed some dinner and a beer. Fun times...

Happy Father's Day!

 

Hi Blazen

Now would be a Great time to do my Spare Tire Relocation Mod before you Install on your Truck, you are gonna miss the "View" out the Back !

https://blazerforum.com/forum/paint-...ion-mod-93805/

Timmy

 

Installing the tire carrier today. Inside the house right now cooling down (it's freeking HOT out here in Florida today... and humid...), about to make a hardware store run for nuts, bolts, washers, and flat stock for reinforcement.







Dad always told me to play it safe and wrap it up









Using the standard ratchet-strap alignment technique





Got holes drilled in the quarter... Past the point of no return!







Mocking up the brackets, checking my hole spacing





Decided on a new whole drill area that I haven't seen done yet. Took a hole saw to the bottom of the tail light opening, gives GREAT access to the lower two bolts.






On the home stretch, should be done soon!

 

She's on there! What a job though... More than I though it would be going into it. But I'm happy with it. Will look awesome when my new matching wheel shows up this week

 

Hey Blazen

Looks Great !!!
Fantastic job getting it Right !

Timmy

 

Kept hearing something roll around every time I opened the drop gate. Opened it up to inspect and found a screwdriver. Good thing I'm not a surgeon. 😳

 

New matching wheel I ordered showed up yesterday so I got it mounted up today. Her rear looks much better now Now if only the tire matched :P

 

Can't tell when they're rolling. Looks good.

 

Currently contemplating on whether or not I should change the speakers in the front doors now or wait. I guess now, and then on the hunt for a new factory HU. Then I'm gonna through some sea foam in the tank and probably get some for the crankcase.