It was a friends at work. Seening I have time I will bore you with the story
1st time it wouldn't start was at his house, would rotate but no run.
I went to help him with it (you know me) got under it and tested the run wire for the fuel pump and had 12volts. Pump wouldn't turn on. Dropped the tank, had it sitting on ground, connector long enough to plug in, all fuel lines disconnected. I had him turn the key, and it started pumping. Put it back in and it ran. I told him either A fuel filter is clogged or B something is blocking the rail and the pump is on its way out.
Then about 2months later it died while driving it. My boss went to go get him gas. They put in about 7gals with still no fireing of the engine. Then had it towed to the shop we work at.
He purchased another truck. And offered the blazer to me for $400.00. Didn't take me long to think about that one. After 3 more days figured I better get this thing off the road. House 2 blocks away. If I could just maybe get it to run just long enough I pondered.
Rounded up some people, we pushed it into the shop finally. Disconnect line from filter and turned key, gas just dripped out. In the back drivers side wheel well, there is a rubber flap, pulled it down and felt the rubber lines. They were soft and had flat spots. The line was so flat it was pinching off the flow. Now he did always talk about preformence issues and we tuned it up with no much help to that issue. All this time it was pumping hard threw those lines, killing the pump and robbing the engine of fuel. The person who owned it before replaced the pump.
I dropped the tank, did the same thing, fuel pumped again with it on the ground and no line connected. The fuel lines are molded like a high presure power steering line. The rubber hose is part of the metal tubeing and also has the screw on fittings to the sender on the ends of the rubber hose.
So I cut the hose, put in 1/2inch tubing and clamped it with small pipe clamps. Blew the line out with it disconnected from the filter with air, then put it all back together. Turned the key and gas came flying out the line to the filter. Reconnected the line and started up.
Took it around the block felt good. Parked it out front and packed up. Then went to start it and again not getting fuel... My other friend was there helping me and got back out of his car and asked whats wrong.. I told him that yes the lines were bad, but now the pump is toast from trying to force fuel down the lines. Had him crank it while I hit the tank again, and with every blow it would try to run. We would only crank it for 10secs with 20 seconds pauses. After 3 tries it fired, I jumped in, went threw the 2 stops signes pulled into driveway and it died. Cranked it over 2 more times with out hitting it and got it into yard. Now it sits waiting for the fuel pump that sits next to me.
about 100bucks.
Other problems is no 4x4, it is electronic so maybe that is the issue, have to check it out. And the heater core. Which is good old dash pull. I have done that on a 97 jetta, and a 75 T-bird. Fun jobs
Needs passenger mirror, and maybe something with drives front suspension. I check blue book and find it hard to believe it is worth almost 2k. We will see what happens, I'm not sure about keeping it. Green striped 4 banga contour treats me good because... well I treat her good. Might be doing a rear main seal on the old girl.
