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It has some flaws, but definitely nice driver.
A huge pile of receipts came with it.
A breakdown of what has been done already.
It was sold10/07 to a dealer/car lot, then 11/07 sold to another dealer/car lot.
They had it for a while and looks like they rebuilt the motor.
They sold it 08/19 to another dealer/ lot.
08/21 they sold it to the guy that just sold it to my buddy.
He couldn't get it to run right, and only drove it around the block once.
I'm starting with fresh plugs and fresh oil.
Bob could barely keep it running to back it in the garage and it was burning our eyes it was so rich.
He was on the 2nd carb and tried adj. the valves then decided to sell it.
Pic of a plug I pulled.
Why do I see a pcv valve on that list? Probably some other questionables , but that stood out as I quickly scanned. Seems like a pre emissions vehicle wouldn't have need of a pcv valve, even if you put in an efi system.
That list was compiled by the previous owner, and he has some things listed twice.
The PCV valves on the early small blocks are under and behind the distributor in the block.
I'll get a pic of the location later today.
Made a revised video after I washed it.
It was friggen filthy in the 1st video.
@ the 12 second mark you can see the PCV hose coming out from under the air cleaner and routing behind the distributor.
And @ the 1 min. mark you can see the PCV valve under the distributor.
Off topic, I know but does it look to anyone else like the alignment shop installed the sway bar on my S10 upside down? It would just be another of the many screwups I found after they thrashed my coilovers...
For background, I replaced everything in the front suspension but the sway bars in September. Alignment shop had my truck over a month putting me off constantly about it.
Mechanic said he had to flip the center link, then afterward was asking if it had been in a crash (it hadn't). When his supervisor and I looked at the truck, we found that he had installed the center link backwards when it had been right the first time, and so they took another week to get it fixed and aligned with no explanation as to why. I had paid them to align it and bring it to factory ride height(they're adjustable with spanners). They did so, and when I got it back, it had dropped back to lowered overnight and the abs light came on with no explanation (at first) Gave it back to them to fix, they didn't fix anything and told me that they weren't adjustable for ride height (complete bs) and the abs light was still on.
So it took me about ten minutes to figure out that the control arm had shifted, breaking the abs sensor wire plug on the driver's side. I know this because their shim was right next to the broken plug, and the shock was sitting at a weird angle. See this pic:
Yes, it was strange that it was shifted over, and all of the bushings on that side were blown(shock sway bar and tie rod dust boot)but because the top was spinning freely, I assumed that it was because it had broken the shock body below. QA1 sent me a stud kit for it (ended up being for the wrong model). I had been focused on my f150 trying to beat the cold with painting and , because I needed to calm down, I put the S10 on the back burner. It still drove, still got around, but it wasn't fixed, so I just dealt with it until I could find time to settle in and fix the damage.
The shop was giving me nothing but static and I was losing my temper. Friend who was a lawyer said there was pretty much nothing that could be done, and so I shelved the S10 until I could, again, calm down.
Anyway, inspection is now due on the S10 and I'm interested in cleaning it up for sale since I really don't need two trucks.
Pulled out the stud kit and went to go look at what could be done. Needless to say, it was all I could do to keep from going ballistic when I pulled the shock off and found this:
I've pieced together that when the idiot swapped the center link around and couldn't get it aligned, he must have drilled and slotted the hole that the strut top stud went through, as if he could adjust camber and caster like a civic or something... Then, when he realized his mistake, he must've tried to hide it by reinstalling everything over the slotted hole and just hoped that it wouldn't wander, which, of course, it immediately did, destroying half my suspension with it.
So, now I'm stuck fixing it. Went ahead and welded in the slot and have ground it down:
Put everything together, as you saw in the previous post, and didn't realize that the swaybars had been so tight when I took them off because half the bushings were blown.
Naturally, I'm forking p'od...this just plain sucks. It's cold as ba.lls out and I'm putting this pig back together and I run into c.rap like this .. gotta have it done by morning so I can get the inspection, so that I can take the f150 off the road to pull off the header and weld it up nice (want to do brake lines and booster as well, so I really just want a few weeks of downtime for the f150 for finishing up.
Really not in the mood to mess with sway bar mounts on top of everything else, but that's life right?
Yeah, just got confirmation that it is upside down...I think I just stumbled upon the root source of crack in the greater Richmond area, because that mechanic had to have been smoking a whole helluva lot of it...he messed with just about everything in the suspension.
