My newly acquired truck! =]

[Kiko]

Quote: Originally Posted by s10blaazzaa

lookin good man. ever figure out how to get those springs back in?

Nope. It's only off on the driverside door. It still works fine though. I have to slam the door still but at least it closes all the way unlike before where i slammed it and it STILL would have a gap and rattle when i hit bumps. I'll get it fully fixed soon. I'm just happy it at least closes fully.

[Megaglow_Z]

Hey man,of you need a clip,pm me your addy and ill send you a few.
Im an autoglass tech....we have a bin FULL of those things.

[Koltin_C]

nice. gl

[Kiko]

Bad news. I was coming home from the pet store on the way to meet my girlfriend and my clutch went out on me. I was lucky and was right by a church so i coasted it into the parking spot (Even parked nicely,lol) and shut it off. I had it towed back home and it's sitting in my yard right now. It will run around $600 to have the flywheel re-grooved or re-surface (I forgot what it was going to have done) and if needed he'll put a new flywheel on it. He's also going to be putting me in a brand new clutch that's better than the one it had. I should have it fixed real soon. Just got to do my income tax and work as much as i can and i will have the money. It sucks because i had just filled up my gas tank like 2-3 hours earlier.

[Dvst8r]

burn. i wanna know what kinda clutch is gonna be put in.

[Kiko]

Nothing that would make someone say "Oh my god!" but it will be a nice dependable clutch. I found one that i'm going to discuss with the mechanic and i might have him use it. It's the cheapest one advance sells BUT it has a limited lifetime replacement where the more expensive only have a limited 1 year warranty.

[Dvst8r]

hard at work on 2 projects at the same time?

[Kiko]

Quote: Originally Posted by wizzlenator502

hard at work on 2 projects at the same time?

Yup
Or at least trying to be.

[ricky96]

i wanna see it done
my friend had a first gen with a 4in cowl and a body kit that he was trying to sell for a while but he bent the frame real bad so he sold it for 200

[Kiko]

It won't be long and i'll have the bed replaced and a rollpan. I've just got to get my new clutch put in before i start fixing it up. My friends dad might be doing a new paintjob on it for cheap once i get all the body parts on. It will be the same color but instead of grey/black/grey it will be grey top and then the rest will be black. I'll also be getting rid of those little red stripes that seperate the colors.

[Kiko]

Strange turn of events. I got in to crank the truck to charge the battery and stuff and when i pressed the clutch to start it i felt some play still but i felt resistance in the pedal so i tried shifting and for no reason it all of a sudden works now. It shifts through every gear including neutral and reverse like it used to with no problem. I never did actually take it to the shop because i didn't have all of the money yet but the mechanic thought the clutch was gone when he towed it but i called him today and he said it might just be the master cylinder trying to go out. It drove in reverse for me in my yard but i didn't dare take it out of the yard and drive around for fear of breaking down again. Should be up and running real soon and my leftover income tax money will be buying me new body parts.

[Kiko]

Thankfully everyone was mistaken. It turns out that my slave cylinder or master cylinder is acting up. I put in more fluid,pumped the clutch,and now it's working fine. It drives in reverse and forward and idles in gear. I'm going to check with a mechanic tommorow to see what they think but i'm pretty sure i'll be replacing the slave cylinder tommorow and getting some minor goodies for it with the leftover money.

[Dvst8r]

sounds good

[Kiko]

Quote: Originally Posted by wizzlenator502

sounds good

Yep. I love only having to buy a $47 part instead of a $170+ part.
Now i just have to figure out how to replace the slave cylinder. From what i've read and been told it's not very difficult to do.

[Svtzx555]

Quote: Originally Posted by Kiko

It turns out that my slave cylinder or master cylinder is acting up

Isn't that the first thing I told you?! Get a slave cylinder and lets replace it so we can get that rusty piece of shit bed off.

[Kiko]

Quote: Originally Posted by Svtzx555

Isn't that the first thing I told you?! Get a slave cylinder and lets replace it so we can get that rusty piece of shit bed off.

Well yeah...but...ummm,i didn't listen?
I'm going to pick one up today. You think you could come by say....tommorow and help me replace it? I might could do it but i don't want to try and then get stuck halfway and not know what to do.

[Bagged1984S10]

Want to buy an abused Haro Zippo lol? I am to fat to ride it anymore. Not a bad truck for the money. Don't pay attention to the rust bucket comments, some people just see things differently.

[S10Speed001]

Quote: Originally Posted by Kiko

Yep. I love only having to buy a $47 part instead of a $170+ part.
Now i just have to figure out how to replace the slave cylinder. From what i've read and been told it's not very difficult to do.

not sure about S-10's, but i replaced it on my 240sx, and it took all of 5 minutes..

[S10hombre]

Kepp up the good work. You shoulda seen my beater when I started out.

[Kiko]

Quote: Originally Posted by S10Speed001

not sure about S-10's, but i replaced it on my 240sx, and it took all of 5 minutes..

Cool. I read that the hard part was the bleeding process. But i bought the slave cylinder today and i'm picking up a shock on warranty for my right/front and putting it on tommorow. The truck died on me in my neighborhood before making it to the highway and it wanted to die while in gear. I had filled up without putting in sea foam and before then it worked fine so i put in 16 ounces of sea foam and it runs fine in my yard. No bogging down on cold starts. I think it's getting some water in the gas because the previous owner cut the bed floor above the fuel pump and gas tank. Once it's running fine i'll go pick up the bed and that should fix that problem with the gas. For now i'm just going to pick up some minor goodies for it from the parts store.

[Kiko]

The slave cylinder is replaced. I didnt know but the rod had slipped and wasn't in right so the mechanic fixed that up for me then we got the clutch bled and it works now (I had to sit in and pump the pedal because he works alone)

I now know one reason my truck is runnign weak. When looking at the engine from the front of the truck,the right injector is spraying shitty. The left one sprays nice and clean but the right looks clumpy kinda like it's not spraying at the proper flow.

I'm going to probably add some more sea foam and run it idling for abotu 5 minutes then 5 more minutes while giving it gas off and on and see if that cleans it up. It ran fine before. If i didn't have local people calling about the 4.3 motor form my blazer i would just take an injector off there and put it on my truck...

It drives though but bucks a little like it's losing power. But hey,at least the clutch works now and i have a new slave cylinder on it right?

The new shock works good too. I put on brakes hard in front of my house and no more shaking and noises from the right front. Next job is to clean (Hopefuly) or put a new fuel injector on that side (Not hopefully..)

[Kiko]

Gotta love moms. I'm kinda broke at the moment and she bought me another bottle of sea foam. I put it in the tank and cranked the truck and gave it a little gas then let it idle for a couple minutes and drove it around the neighborhood twice and it's working fine now. I'll still probably replace the injectors later but they're like $160 for two re-man'd ones.

Plans are to buy the rollpan soon when i get some more money and i will most likely be using my income tax money to buy a new bed and tailgate from the u-pull it. I've already had my friend asking me when we were going to get it

[Kiko]

Ugh! It drives fine around my neighborhood for about a mile and a half but if i get on the highway and drive about 1 minute down the road to my friends neighborhood,drive though his neighborhood and circle back to the highway then come home,it starts sputtering like it's choking. It's about 2.5 miles there and back roundtrip and it only seems to do it when hot so based on the stuff i read and was told my catalytic converter is clogged.

I'm going tommorow and buying some pipe from the parts store and a couple of those exhaust clamps and removing the catalytic converter for a week or two (Two at most) until i can get the money for the new cat and the $50-$55 for the muffler shop to weld it in place.

Gotta get this thing ready quick for the drive to biloxi for scrapin the coast

[Kiko]

Tried removing the converter but about 30 seconds into cutting it ruined my only metal cutting blade for my reciprocating saw so no luck on cutting it out. I'm just going to wait until Wednesday or Thursday of this week and take it to the muffler shop and have it replaced. I also found out my gas gauge is off. It showed about 1/4 tank but my truck shut off and wouldn't start back for a few minutes then after starting it would shut off after 2-3 seconds. Turns out my truck was out of gas even though the gauge showed 1/4

I'm going to get that sorted out soon so my gas gauge reads properly aswell as fix the temperature gauge since summer is coming up and i live way down south.

[Blazin_Jason]

Don't worry, my gas gauge does the same thing. The sending unit needs to be replaced.

[Kiko]

Yeah i found out it's that or the gauge. The fuel sending unit is like $160 though so it can stay like that for a few months.

[Squeegee]

your supposed to change the oil after you run the seafoam through it not sure if you've done that, but thought it might help

[Kiko]

I ran the sea-foam through the gas tank. It doesn't say anything on the can about changing the oil? It idles fine now after i put some gas in the tank. It just ran out and i didn't realize it because the gauge was saying 1/4 and i didn't think to check the tank itself until later that night.

[unclejames1]

I have a 94' with the same engine and I had all the same problems. First it was my o2 sensor making my truck start spitting and sputtering though. so if it starts doing it again than you might want to check that too.

[Kiko]

I was told i would get a check engine light if my 02 sensor went bad? I don't get the engine light when driving. It only goes bad when hot.

[Kiko]

Success! I found 1 more metal cutting blade that i forgot i had and i got the cat cut off. I then removed the exhaust pipe and muffler since i didn't have any pipe to replace the cat with and i just drove a little over 4 miles and it did fine. I stopped by the gas station and put a couple bucks in just to get to work tommorow then i'll fill up my tank. Right now i have the headers then Y pipe. The Y pipe dumps the exhaust right under the cab so it sounds like i've got a 350 instead of a 262 when idling and when i get on the gas even the normal amount it thunders inside the cab. I don't have a video of pics but i will get some tommorow if i feel up to it. It's 3:45 and i still have to get a shower and go to sleep then be up at 7:30 and at work at 8:30 and work until like 5pm which should be fun driving a 5 speed home in harsh rush-hour traffic while being half asleep....

Just wanted to post though 'cause i'm pretty excited to have my truck driving again. It's been about a month since i have driven it i think and it feels great to be behind the wheel and shifting gears once more