Got a new shifter for Twinkie should work a bit easier especially for some one to get in and move it. As well as the holy crap moments I need reverse super fast.
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Blazer's 85 Suburban "Twinkie"
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What kind is that?
Winters
Bought a Goat built mount for it should be here this week. Figured it was easier then fabbing my own, once the Plasma Table arrives that will change. But I haven't ordered one yet so its going to be awhile. 
Pulled the skid plate off. Got under with all the tools and stuff then realized I did not need to pull it to access the trans cable. But said hey I haven't looked above it in awhile so I pulled it.
No issues just a bit dirty.
No issues just a bit dirty.
How many bushes and rocks?
Not so many rocks and just dirt. Last time it was in a mud bog I cleaned above it really good so I am sure that helped.
Shifter is in.
Skid plate is on.
Love the shifter, took a bit of adjusting but it works great.
Skid plate is on.
Love the shifter, took a bit of adjusting but it works great.
Did you move all shifters to the left?
Nope everything is in the same spot except this shifter is about 5 inches back towards the seats.
So went out and started Twinkie this morning. Put the shifter in R, truck went now where. Put in D, same thing first thought, crap shift linkage came undone. Second thought t-case in neutral. 
Yup lots Holy Crap for nothing. 
Yup lots Holy Crap for nothing. 
Good anti-theft as long as you have a good parking brake.
My first Blazer, 40 years ago, I bought it for $100, with a bad transmission.
That turned out to be a tranfercase that was accidentally shifted into neutral. Previous owner couldn't figure it out. Sold it to me for a $100 bill.
I had it towed home. First thing I did was shifted the Tcase to 4 hi, and drove the thing around the block. Then back to 2hi, around the block again.
Nice score for dummy 16 year old me.
That turned out to be a tranfercase that was accidentally shifted into neutral. Previous owner couldn't figure it out. Sold it to me for a $100 bill.
I had it towed home. First thing I did was shifted the Tcase to 4 hi, and drove the thing around the block. Then back to 2hi, around the block again.
Nice score for dummy 16 year old me.
Not as good of a deal as that, but we picked up a 94 full size blazer for $1200 with a trans that wouldn't shift, one $10 speed sensor and its all good again.
I bought an '89 V15 GMC Suburban for iron price that wouldn't shift into overdrive. Kid thought the transmission was going out.
Looked it over. Someone had replaced the factory TH700R4 with a TH400.
Drove it for a few years, never could get it to shift into overdrive . . . . . .
Martin
Looked it over. Someone had replaced the factory TH700R4 with a TH400.
Drove it for a few years, never could get it to shift into overdrive . . . . . .
Martin
To add to the stories. A buddy bought an 88-91 two door 4x4 s-10 blazer for $500. It was extremely clean with a lot of new parts. The owner said the transmission was cracked and would loose fluid just as fast as you poured it in. My buddy called and had me take him over to the guys house to look at it. The guy worked in the machine shop at our local NAPA. We left his house, went to NAPA and paid him, he signed the title and then we walked up front and bought a case of transmission fluid and the transmission dipstick o-ring. Replaced the o-ring, put the dipstick back in the transmission, dumped fluid into it and my buddy drove it home. Drove it for several years and never touched the transmission again. LOL.
Guy was driving it, we assume the o-ring got old and rotted and the dipstick tube came out of the transmission. It lost its fluid and quit moving. Guy pulled the dipstick, no fluid, when he tried to add it just ran out the dipstick tube and onto the ground and he just assumed the transmission was cracked and never looked. He was pissed at himself when he found out what was wrong a few days later. We asked him about it and he said when he seen the fluid pooring out he was just done with the blazer. He had been replacing stuff and had already put a lot of money into it and just got frustrated about it and never even looked underneath it to verify why it was dumping fluid.
Guy was driving it, we assume the o-ring got old and rotted and the dipstick tube came out of the transmission. It lost its fluid and quit moving. Guy pulled the dipstick, no fluid, when he tried to add it just ran out the dipstick tube and onto the ground and he just assumed the transmission was cracked and never looked. He was pissed at himself when he found out what was wrong a few days later. We asked him about it and he said when he seen the fluid pooring out he was just done with the blazer. He had been replacing stuff and had already put a lot of money into it and just got frustrated about it and never even looked underneath it to verify why it was dumping fluid.
Ok, I'll tell mine.
I bought my first blazer just after high school and it was my first 4wd. I bought it from a friend and was having a blast driving it around the first day. That evening I went to take off from a traffic light and heard a loud bang and the truck wouldn't move. I got it off to the side of the road and used a payphone to call my friend and rip into him for selling me a "lemon". Yup, you guessed it, the transfer case just popped into neutral. He laughed at me for years over that one.
I bought my first blazer just after high school and it was my first 4wd. I bought it from a friend and was having a blast driving it around the first day. That evening I went to take off from a traffic light and heard a loud bang and the truck wouldn't move. I got it off to the side of the road and used a payphone to call my friend and rip into him for selling me a "lemon". Yup, you guessed it, the transfer case just popped into neutral. He laughed at me for years over that one.
At least you didn't sell it for pennies on the dollar.
My father was at a city auction once. There was a Chevy caprice that was the mayors car or something like that, was basically a police car without all the sirens and modifications. He saw some people messing around under the hood before the auction started. When they went to start it before the sale, it wouldn't run, just cranked over, auction house said it ran when they brought it there. Then those same people started bidding on it!
He got suspicious and took a chance and bought it, like $500 or something for a somewhat newer low mileage caprice back in the day, was the curved early 90s body style similar to the Caprice SS version. Hauled it home on a trailer and popped the hood. Someone had simply unplugged the coil connector. Plugged that back in and we drove that thing for years before he sold it still running.
