Ye ole wood hauler passed on to truck heaven.

Yup the $1300 truck lasted us 18 months. The wife drove it home and said it had no oil pressure she didn't think to stop and shut it off... o well not bad for a $350 purchase and parts $1300 invested was a good deal.

Blown rear main and so much blowby you can see it come out the fill tube. I'd put a motor in but that's just too much time and effort for right now

We are now on the hunt for a new vehicle and so far we have been lucky and talked to a few very honest salesmen ( pretty rare in my experience) what we buy we shall see!

 

In order to get the pan off you still need to pull the engine up. Its an undertaking I wont do one again.The 4.3 might be better I cant remember but the 2.2L has the main support for the front right under the pan and it is a solid piece of frame.

Its cooked though no question dang thing sounds like a coffee grinder lol needs new valves and to be lapped out as well as I am almost positive the head gasket. The amount of oil blowing out everywhere is amazing I havnt seen one that bad in years.. Just time to go....




We did stumble on an amazing deal tonight for a southern trailblazer zero rust low miles, new tires ect... Very clean Im gonna go get it tomorrow The salesmen answered the phone right away and was willing to meet us there Pics coming.

 

My thoughts exactly.................. At least ill get new tires off it and rims for my trailer

 

I just bought ball joints, tie rods for it but didn't install them yet! Thankfully

 

I found one for $1400 in very good shape but I don't really feel like doing an engine swap. Lots going on in the pallet household these days... The new job means my wife and I drive separate to work now so it's time to retire the truck and buy the wife a much nicer ride ( that can haul firewood too)

 

Sell it most likely I was going to use it as a makeshift tractor shed roof but I really don't have room.. its also got a good plastic bed liner.

What I'm really considering is cutting the frame under the cab and making a bed trailer.

 

Dang that's a shame there PP... But you got pretty good miles out of what you got into it... Cant wait to see the new one...

 

Thanks buddy! The wife is happy with it hopefully all goes well and we buy it today. Southern no rust and low miles it better be as advertised... They put 30 pics up and the guy selling it was honest from what I can tell.
It's not a truck but it's a woodhoulee! It's not small but it isn't big! It starts with a T!!!

 

Yup she felt aweful when I said why'd you keep driving! That's as far as I went I walked off for a while I'm not mad at her and don't want to take it out on the wife it's an old truck. I could probably have fixed it but the s10 has more than paid for itself since I fixed it up and brought it back to life. We put 30,000 miles on it in 18 months I really didn't expect it to last that long. The truck was pretty beat when I dug into the engine.

 

$3750 no rust, 128,000 miles looks like new underneath it. Very very very clean totally kept up on maintenance he even let me go under it in the pit and look it over completely.... he dried it off and ao I could see it without the rain water too. 4000lb tow package

 

Except I don't know who had it how it was driven etc I want a rebuild personal experience I have pulled my share of engines and rebuilt them too.

I like the trailblazer better lol