A 98 S-10 named Sue

[roademon]

Wow that's really good Marcus.

[wildman ss]

wooh page 2

and i like your dedication to keeping everything nice and wire loomed

[98lowerednewproje]

Thanks.

[98lowerednewproje]

WOOHOO, hopefully I wont have to buy tires again for 6 years. Michelin Defenders 90k mi, 215/60/R16s.

Now for my PP balljoints and idler arm to get here (tomorrow according to the tracking info) and I can install my zq8 drop next week.

[90blueS10]

About time

[98lowerednewproje]

I actually have pics this time!! And no they aren't just of tires. They do kinda suck since I didn't remember to take them til almost dark. My friend let me stay in the shop by myself as late as I wanted yesterday so I was there til almost 8.

I found a HF HVLP gun I had bought when I was still in high school, and bought a gallon of flat black Rust Stop, thanks Brent that stuff sticks like crazy, and decided to paint the parts that I was gonna have off while rebuilding the front end and pulling a leaf in the rear.

Rear frame minus suspension:


Front frame minus suspension:


Blocks painted:


Some of the rear hardware:




Setback plates:


One of the lowers before I finished cleaning it:


After paint:


Sry that ^^ one isnt the best cause the flash kicked on.

Proforged parts got a coat so that way they matched:



I think the front end will be good for years now.

The frame will be done either this summer or next. I have other projects that I have half the parts for so will probably do those before I start on the frame.

[90blueS10]

Looks bueno.

[wildman ss]

is that the flat or the satin black?
looking good, now get it back together and on the ground

[90blueS10]

x2!

[roademon]

Holy progress! looks good Marcus!!

[98lowerednewproje]

Flat, my local Ace doesn't have satin.

Yes, its back together, no I don't have any more pics yet. I didn't roll it out of the shop til about 10 PM, and since for some dumb reason I couldn't find the switch for the overhead lights in my friend's shop, my brother and I worked by flashlight for 2-3 hours.

Its sitting really high in front though. Guess I will get it aligned, and see how much it settles. From there I may just buy some shorter blocks to bring the back up. Just have to measure and see where I am at tomorrow. I am 100% sure the springs weren't just stock springs because the diameter of the rod is smaller, and even though the two sets of coils were the same height, the set of "ZQ8" coils I bought had more coils.

Tires are getting mounted and getting an alignment in the morning.

[90blueS10]

Hello o o o o o o o o. Anybody here ere ere ere ere?

[BlazerZR5]

I like it! where in Alabama did you get the truck?

[wildman ss]

where is the low and swaybars?

[98lowerednewproje]

The low is gone. I put the leaf back in the rear and the front springs apparently didn't do anything. So I didn't take a pic.

The sway, I will get a pic of when I get the rear sway on. Its just a sway, didn't figure it was picture worthy.

Blazer- The truck is from AR, I moved to Dothan, AL for about three years for work and then moved back to AR to finish my degree.


The truck is on hold for a couple of weeks cause I got keys to a new place today and started moving as soon as I left from signing the lease. Using my lowered truck as the main way of moving large furniture, so to those nay sayers (DAD!!!!) out there, yes, a lowered truck is still functional!

[98lowerednewproje]

Ok, so I have pics!



Guess what this is for?!

Sean, your guess is N/A since you have been getting grilled with questions.






Here is this:

[90blueS10]

Herpes?

[98lowerednewproje]

Not unless your mom gave them to me......

By the way my phone is no more if you have tried texting me.

[98lowerednewproje]

Not unless your mom gave them to me......

By the way my phone is no more if you have tried texting me.

[roademon]

This looks to be interesting. What is it!?

[98lowerednewproje]

Working on making a relay/fuse box. That way I can have the relays for my headlight wiring upgrade and camaro efan and a couple of extras,all in one place and protected. Sean will probably delete me off his fb if I ask one more question lol.

[roademon]

Cool!

[98lowerednewproje]

Well boys and girl, I have an update....

Bought an electric fan assembly out of a 2000 Camaro back when Pick-n-Pull had their half price sale, on Memorial day, and am just now getting around to installing it.

Here what I accomplished between vehicles at the shop...............

Clutch fan and radiator out, good friggin riddance:





Here is the fan on top of the radiator:


Don't have a picture but the fan is held by four tabs/hooks on the Camaro and had to cut those off. Sanded it all down with the dremel. I have to say it looks almost factory.

Had to trim a little here so it would sit flush:


Some here:


Here is the only place that it is really obvious that I sanded the tabs off:


Here is the fan sitting on the radiator, fitting all nice and stuff, except for the bottom....


I am going to leave the bottom like that and just add a filler plate to the front cause it will take alot of strength that I can't add back if I cut it off. I just had to add a little extra notch to clear the frame rail on the driver side and it sits good and flat.
See below to see how much hangs down below the radiator:


And no the fans aren't crooked, thats how the lip at the top lets them sit, the shroud isn't a rectangle, its close but not really.

This the board/box that I am building to hold the relays for the fans and to move my headlight relays to:
Back:


And for some reason, I can't get the pic of the front to size properly.

This way I wont have 50 accessory wires hanging off of the fuse box and battery. Gonna just put it in the cab under the back of the passenger seat and run a 2GA wire to it. This way the current and future wiring mods all go to one central clean location.

And I will send an imaginary 100 bucks to the person who can figure out where I hid this when I am done(no not there you twisted perv....).....

[98lowerednewproje]

So, second day in a row, I have an update.....

Attached the fans to the shroud:




There is a flat lip at the top of the fan shroud that is resting on the top of the radiator so the zip attachments just hold the fan to the radiator so they should hold good.



Stock upper fan shroud:


First trimming:


Decided the long legs sticking down weren't doing anything so I cut them off:


Then I decided to create a cover for the bottom part of the fan shroud, that way it wouldn't pull alot of air around the bottom of the radiator. Ended up buying a piece of black rubber baseboard trim. It was 2 bucks, and easy to cut with a razor and matches the other rubber flaps on the front of the core support:


Before:


After:



Here is the radiator and fans on the truck:




Then, after I had bought a piece of pipe, had it drilled and tapped for the temp switch, welded a nut on it so that way I could ground it all properly, and cut the upper hose and put it all together:


I found this:


So, I went and got a new upper and lower radiator hoses and am just gonna put the switch right there by the thermostat.

Now, to wire it all up during the day today.........

[roademon]

Nice tidy job!

[98lowerednewproje]

Thanks.

[90blueS10]

Cougar.

[98lowerednewproje]

Well, this isnt a update that started out good, but I think some good things will come from it.

I moved to a little ways out of town over the summer, and its that time of the year, so on my way to work two weeks ago, I hit a deer. Didn't damage enough to make it worth filing an insurance claim, since I have a $500 deductible. Really only pissed me off cause in six years I hadn't ever wrecked the truck.

"The Carnage"














I got on CL and started looking for people parting out S-series' and right away I found a woman with a pewter blazer that had a perfect hood and fender. So the new hood is actually in better shape than to old one was, Upgrade #1, and I only had to pay $100 for them all together. Then I found a guy parting out a 2000 S-10 body, and grabbed a perfect core support with an a/c condenser that was perfect, and it had a power steering fluid cooler on it, my truck originally doesn't, so Upgrade #2. Got a perfect grille, not a single clip broken, and a set of perfect turns, not the fog/turn assemblies like my truck originally had, but they will fill the holes in the grille til I find some fog/turn assemblies. Got a blower motor as well, the original one in my truck had taken a crap over the summer. The great thing is I only paid $100 for the all those parts together.

$200 dollars, and a weekends worth of work and it will be back to almost normal.

I started on the tear down yesterday and worked on it some today.



^^Makes changing the blower motor really easy, huh?

[90blueS10]

Sweet!

[Stewzer55]

Hmm, I thought PS coolers were standard, My 2.2 has one.

[98lowerednewproje]

I have often wondered if it had something to do with being a manual. The truck the core support came off of was a manual and your 2.2 is a manual is it not?

Or it could be that GM just knew that the extreme HP that 2.2 puts out would make everyone turn them into racing vehicles, and they wanted to help with cavitation of the fluid.

Dont know what that last pic came out so huge.......

[deathphoenix99]

You mean that tubing cooler, I don't think it changes much, but if you want it, go right ahead.

[98lowerednewproje]

Yeah, I didn't figure it did much, or that power steering fluid really gets that hot, but its there and won't take much to hook it up. Don't rain on my parade, I am going to consider it an "upgrade". ;P

[Sonomanclature]

I wish my power steering had a long ass tube to make it easier to add fluid.

[98lowerednewproje]

Finally have it to where I can drive it. I have to chase down a couple of issues, like all four of my headlights being on, all the time, even though I haven't done the quad beam mod.

Here is a sort of in progress pic:



New fender, it and the hood are off a blazer, so the marks on the wheel arch are from the stupid trim the blazer had.



This pic shows the only little dimple in the hood. If you look at the old one, it had a huge goose egg in it.



Front shot, and yeah someone did a really really bad job with a spray can. I don't think they sanded it and it looks like it was shot in a really thick layer. It wasn't so red before I went and washed it with the pressure rinse at the car wash



Please excuse the coat hanger sticking out of the grille, that's to pop the hood, until I can get my nice pull cable switched over.

I need to do some final tweaking of the fender to get the gap with the hood perfect and other things like that.

Since I have to paint the grille one way or another, I have decided to two tone it. Paint all the red/black area the same black as the bottom of the truck, and the chrome center bar and headlight trim will be painted pewter, with a black bowtie. Since I have to buy the black for the grille, I am going to go ahead and get the black added to the wheel arch of the new fender.

[98lowerednewproje]

So, I guess I will update again.

Fixed the headlight issue, it was a bad ground connection in my upgraded wiring. I then chased down a problem with my fuel pump, it was the ground as well.

Got my grille painted:



I had planned on painting it with normal paint when I add the black to the fender, but as I was sanding the grille down, I found various cracks and defects that made it not worth worrying about.


I also realized I haven't put up a full shot of it since getting the new tires, it really closed up the wheel gap.

[90blueS10]

I love the color combo of your truck. Is that your jimmy in the background?

[98lowerednewproje]

Yes, its the POS. If it wasn't for the color combo, it would just be another pewter S-10.

I have a basic design for some radiator and efan brackets, just have to find some blocks of rubber to cut into isolators.

[Gimp]

That's a Damn good looking two tone man

[90blueS10]

Needs more low

[98lowerednewproje]

Lol, yes it does. Coming soon, as it and two or three other things are going to be done, when school lets out.

[98lowerednewproje]

Well, with the nice weather, and the fact that its warming up, I needed to put a different temperature switch on my electric fans. The Camaro one I bought is a 220on/210off. I don't want to run the motor that hot. I went and got a probe style switch because I want the fans to shut off when enough air is moving, and so I mounted it on the shroud next to the lower radiator hose.

Temp switch:


Instead of mounting the probe to the radiator, I mounted it and the adjustment controller to the fan shroud. This way I don't have to worry about kinking or stretching the tubing for the probe, just unplug the two wires and take the screws out and the whole comes out in one piece. I mounted everything to the shroud with jack nuts, some thing that I haven't really used before, but they do the same job as rivnuts/nutserts but are easier to install.

Jack nut front:



Jack nut rear:



Temperature probe:



Adjustment controller: Mounted it on the lower part of the shroud that sticks down past the radiator.




I had ziptied my fans to my radiator, with hayden fan zipties, and wanted a way to make them easier to remove, because cutting zipties every time I have to work on it won't be fun. I decided to make some brackets and, as usual, I started with an overly complicated design and worked my way down to a much simpler design.

First three designs:





And here is the final design, with them painted already:





Mounted during mock up but not painted:







I made them out of sheetmetal because I don't have a welder, and I was just bending them in a crappy 3 inch vise with some angle iron and a regular hammer. I am pretty happy with them, especially since I haven't really ever fabricated anything before, just bolted stuff on. The hook slips onto the lip on the underside of the upper part of the radiator, and then the top comes back to the shrouds factory bolt holes. The little bolt is to hold the two layers tight. You have to take the little bolt out to put them on and take them off, otherwise the hook won't bend or move enough.

The modified stock upper shroud still fits, but doesn't really do anything but cover up the ugly gap. Here are the final pictures:

Can't see my brackets or anything for the top:





The holes on the shroud had to be opened up more, but that was because its a core support from a manual truck, where the shroud mounts differently.

Like I said, the shroud doesn't do anything anymore, and so its raised up a little from the bracket running under it:



Here is the passenger side, showing where the bracket and shroud get bolted together:




I am going to just bend up a single bracket to put in the middle of the bottom, to just hold the fan shroud against the radiator, but that will be later this week.

[colbye32]

Have you tried that yet?

I don't see how it's going to work if its not stuck in the radiator.

[98lowerednewproje]

Its not supposed to be stuck in it anyway. Its supposed to just be ziptied to the radiator with one of the fan zipties, its not even supposed to be right against it. The shroud barely has enough room between it and the back of the radiator to allow the probe to be there, so its as close if not closer to the radiator than what the instructions said to do with it. I haven't fine tuned the adjustment, need to reset my thermostat, its a fail-safe, before I can do that properly.