My daily beater at work is a 2000 S10 Blazer 4x4 and I need the 4x4. Kentucky's ground is powder when it's dry and slick as snot greasy mud when it's wet. There isn't much of a transition either.
The problem is being a government vehicle the powers that be have decided they aren't going to put any more money into it and the front axle actuator is dead. This leaves me with a crappy 2wd truck on street tires sliding around in ruts, on hills, and wet grass. Thing doesn't even have the Gov-Bomb in the rear.
Is there a cheap/easy/free way to lock the front axle in? The transfer case works fine, just nothing ever happens up front when you put it in 4x4. The gov vehicle mechanics said they diagnosed it as the actuator when it first went out, just have never been allowed to fix it.
I don't drive it all that far or fast, just around the facility and a few surface streets going to other parts of it. Thing gets like 10mpg because it never warms up, having the front diff always spinning isn't going to make it any worse or last any longer.
The problem is being a government vehicle the powers that be have decided they aren't going to put any more money into it and the front axle actuator is dead. This leaves me with a crappy 2wd truck on street tires sliding around in ruts, on hills, and wet grass. Thing doesn't even have the Gov-Bomb in the rear.
Is there a cheap/easy/free way to lock the front axle in? The transfer case works fine, just nothing ever happens up front when you put it in 4x4. The gov vehicle mechanics said they diagnosed it as the actuator when it first went out, just have never been allowed to fix it.
I don't drive it all that far or fast, just around the facility and a few surface streets going to other parts of it. Thing gets like 10mpg because it never warms up, having the front diff always spinning isn't going to make it any worse or last any longer.
