Does anyone 4wheel a s10 or s 15 truck or blazer. I am working on one now. 4.3 with mild cam,bored 60 over. 670 tbi, and spacer airraid cold air intake, headers and full exhaust, casper throtle enhancer, 2 in. bod lift. I want to but suspension lift and lockers. any info on your truck and how it performes would be great.  

I wheeled a bone stock '85 S-10 Blazer for a year, it also pulled commuter duty during that time.  It was a $150 rust bomber, with the factory optioned 4.11 gearing.  She ruled offroad, but on the highway, passengers would cringe when it jumped into passing gear at 75mph, just waiting for the little 2.8L mill come apart.  It never did, and was running great when I quit driving it and traded it off to a friend, when it only had one working brake left.

The harshest place I took it was the Silver Lake sand dunes.  It really suffered for lacking power on the big dunes, but the IFS made the high speed running smoothe than my normal live axle 4x4's.

I also have a friend who wheels a 4.3L Blazer, I think it is a late '80s.  It's only upgrade is the 31" mud tires.  He cranked up the tortion bars to get the lift needed in the front, and spaced the rear axle.  The only thing I've noticed is they suffer in ground clearance, and ya gotta lift them a lot just to meet other 4x4's like the Cherokees.

'87 s-15 jimmy 2.8L/700R4, was rolled over train tracks by a drunk driver, roof was flat to dash and top of seats, but it ran like a top. $300.

Sawzalled the old roof off, made one of square tubing, plexiglass windsheild, skid plated the whole bottom, chopped the fenders a little, crammed some 31x9.50 muds under it, and hung an old 12,000lb winch off the front.

It's been in its current form for 7 years, wheeled over 30,000km on logging roads, gets left outside untarped in the winter, isnt driven for months at a time, has been flat towed for about 30,000km, and it wont die! The only problem I have now is that the steering column is toast from drivng too fast on wash board roads, and using the wheel as a handle to climb in and out.

This is one tuff little truck, it has survived 20mph (in the air) vs. 2ft diameter poplar tree, been swiiming with the hood under water (more than once), stood on its nose in the same ravine twice (duh), and abanadoned stuck in more than one mud hole.

All in all, there is about $900 in this lil rig, and it doesnt owe me a day more!

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