Hey y'all. So it's been almost 6 years since I lost my 95 Jimmy. So haven't been so active around here. Been back in a few times to check stuff for my son's truck but this week just picked up a beauty of a 2000 Blazer for the wife. Gawd does it feel weird bein back in that familiar setting. so looks like I'ma gonna be lurking around again. and maybe chime in a few times. New truck is great but dealing with the good old worn out hinge pin in the driver door. so see y'all around the forums.

so yeah, my son came home last year with a 2001 blazer. nice white beauty. Engine ran great. Problem is the tranny was toast. He thought it might be a solenoid but I drove it to get inspected and got to the end of the street and when I went to take off from the stop is just sat there and the engine revved. Took about 5 revs to get it to go into gear and it stayed in 1st all the way back to the house. this was after he had driven it home with brakes so bad the left rear had worn metal on metal so far that the rotor had separated from the drum (he deserved a Gibbs slap for that one) we ended up junking it. but not after pulling all the new brakes we put on, along with the entire upper intake, the entire a/c, radiator and computer (wanted the block but just couldn't get to that 1 annoying bolt on the tranny at about 11 oclock, town was buggin us to get the "junk" vehicle out of the yard)

I inherited my GMC sierra from my dad. (Big Blue) He ordered it from the factory with the 5 speed. But to the end wasn't very good at keeping it maintained right. Took a while to get the biggest issues fixed. Swapped out the tranny with a 2001 NV3500. And he had done a bad dex-cool to green conversion and clogged the tranny 2/3 the way up. so I had to replace that and a lot of the front suspension was worn (idler arm, pitman arm, right inner and outer tie rods, driver ball joint) and the steering box seal gave out a month after I got it home (I put a new one in) she's doing good now.

But felt bad about loosing Little Easy (my red GMC jimmy in my albums) Bought her in 2008 wrecked. pieced her back together. Even drove to NY from Tx that year. Never let me down. But in 2013 a bad ice storm the doors got frozen and my wife ended up busting the striker off. Kept slammin it and tore the metal. I jerry rigged it and intended to get it welded in the spring but a month later the engine finally seized on me. I was in dallas at the time and wasn't up to having it towed 90 miles home. So she got scrapped right there in the parking lot. but hey she made it to 300K. I'll put pics of Big Blue and our to-be-named new blazer soon

 

Welcome Back!

 

Welcome back. Can't wait to see the photos.

 

So here they are. Her Saphire on the left and Big Blue on the right

 

So now on Saphire I've replaced Both upper ball joints, the idler arm, power steering line, taken out the oil cooler lines (which had previously been disconnected) and took the crap tiny tires off and replaced with regular 235-75's. I mean really. WHY put tiny car tires on a blazer???? I mean that's as useless as these guys that I see take a Dually longbed and lower it. I mean...WHY???? Oh yeah and new radio. and the typical driver door hinge pins. All I need are those control arm bushings and new mirrors and it's great. Whoever had it before us abused her BAD! Big Blue is just old, but still growlin. But I DO need a new windshield. Got 4 roadstars just this year. And it has had two big creaping cracks for a couple years. But now even the seal is leaking. Hopefully by November. Ah, and Big Blue just got a replacement NV3500 tranny. My dad had a habit of starting in Second gear. wore out that syncronizer, and 5th gear sync wore out this year. It's in the back yard. Might rebuild it as a spare. Those things are a bugger to find.