Good Times
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From: Columbus, OH
Good Times
I would like to extend a big ipso-facto thank you to everyone who posts and responds to this forum. I recently bought and old 92 s1 blazer for 700 bucks, and am in the process of a "boneyard rebuild" on it.
This is my first Chevy truck, but I have always driven gm cars. My new Blazer came equipped with many of the little problems that are found here in the forums and are being fixed one by one with your help and some parts liberated from the local JY.
The biggest challenge that I have faced so far, was a low temp reading on my gauge. I see that this has been discussed thoroughly here and without this forum I may not have survived it. I learned a long time ago, that if you ignore your temp gauge, then you have made a mistake.
Turns out that the gauge in the cluster was bad or was the wrong one. I liberated one from a 92 s10 and hooked it directly to the sensor on the block, and it worked fine. After pulling the gauge cluster, i found that the temp gauge in the truck had all kinds of electronics mounted on it and the one from the JY did not. I put in the working gauge and all is well. It looks like someone may have replaced the gauge cluster in this truck, maybe from a slightly different year with a defferent temp gauge setup?
BTW I verified or replaced virtually every part in my cooling system leading up to this.
Thanks again. I look forward to participating in this forum.
CmAn
This is my first Chevy truck, but I have always driven gm cars. My new Blazer came equipped with many of the little problems that are found here in the forums and are being fixed one by one with your help and some parts liberated from the local JY.
The biggest challenge that I have faced so far, was a low temp reading on my gauge. I see that this has been discussed thoroughly here and without this forum I may not have survived it. I learned a long time ago, that if you ignore your temp gauge, then you have made a mistake.
Turns out that the gauge in the cluster was bad or was the wrong one. I liberated one from a 92 s10 and hooked it directly to the sensor on the block, and it worked fine. After pulling the gauge cluster, i found that the temp gauge in the truck had all kinds of electronics mounted on it and the one from the JY did not. I put in the working gauge and all is well. It looks like someone may have replaced the gauge cluster in this truck, maybe from a slightly different year with a defferent temp gauge setup?
BTW I verified or replaced virtually every part in my cooling system leading up to this.
Thanks again. I look forward to participating in this forum.
CmAn
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Joined: Jan 2009
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Welcome! that is how they got me too. The first taste is free, everything else costs you 
google one broken thing on your truck, haunt the forum as a guest for a bit, then pretty soon you sign up and spend your whole day staring at the soft grey/white glow of the forum...
Could do worse things with your time though
google one broken thing on your truck, haunt the forum as a guest for a bit, then pretty soon you sign up and spend your whole day staring at the soft grey/white glow of the forum...
Could do worse things with your time though
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