Recent content by wildphil

What part of the country do you live in?

I used to have a spare set of controls that included that part. I think that I sold it though. I will look and make sure. But pretty sure it is gone, Edit: Ebay has an add for the whole control. It is a little pricy...

You should be able to use one of those hand vacuum pumps from harbor freight at the actuator to test the operation of the blend doors through the actuator. But every time I had issues with the blend doors on a first gen s10 it was a vacuum leak. I would look into that first.

One thing to check is the vacuum hose the goes from the inside of the vehicle through the firewall into the engine compartment. I can not remember where it connects for the vacuum source, hopefully someone will chime in with that info. Making sure it is still connected and that the hose does not...

It is looking good.

Looks like that would work.

I just used heater hose that was not molded and had no issues. The one that I replaced was not defective. But being as old as it was I swapped it out. I probably still have the original.

It very well could be different on 2WD and 4WD trucks Dave. The only S10 type trucks that I ever worked on were 4WD/AWD, so I didn't know about the 2WD shroud. As good as your memory is, I would bet money they are different.

Here is a link to LMC truck. On the page in the link it shows shrouds. https://www.lmctruck.com/1982-05-chevy-gmc/cooling-system/cst-1982-94-radiator-components

I didn't know the lower shroud was different on the 2WD vs 4WD.

Will you only settle on an OEM fan shroud? If not reproduction shrouds can be purchased. I have used them and they are pretty good.

Dave, Camshaft design is something that I know almost nothing about. By looking at the cam card it does look like it would be zero overlap. It was designed by a person I talked to at Comp Cams. I don't know what that is worth. The truck seemed to run well when it was not under boost. Starting...

Most of the concepts look ugly in my opinion.

I have had trucks and done all of those mods. The sway bar you will never know any difference. Same with the steering shaft. I would only change it if the original was warn. The quick steering is kinda nice. But none are worth what the price you will lose in the drop in value in your truck for...

This is a pretty cool truck. https://www.msn.com/en-us/autos/autos-trucks/the-toyota-tacoma-x-runner-could-lead-the-street-truck-race/ar-AA1jyYpM?rc=1&ocid=winp1taskbar&cvid=8f566f4136464d88a2fa3c9dc47e4b22&ei=23