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BarryB · 11-13-2012, 05:09 PM

Awesome buy! Reminds me of a 87 S10 I bought.2.8 v6 5spd. I was looking for something to my 350 in. Saw in local trade paper. s10 blown motor. Perfect. Went to look at it. body good shape, didn't care about the motor. owner said he had a mechanic look at it, said timing had jumped. so on and so forth. paid him 350 he was asking. towed it home and parked it until I could do my motor swap.
Well one night my DD broke on me, needing something fast. I decided to see about fixing the s10's motor. got started it ,sounded terrible, missing, popping. Got to looking further. #1 sparkplug had blew out of the head. put it back in, started it back up. ran smooth, drove it to work next day. gave it a tune-up the next day and drove it until I was offered a price I couldn't refuse.

11-13-2012, 05:09 PM	#14
BarryB Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Blountville, Tn. Posts: 3,904	Re: 85 GMC S15 Sierra, New to me!! Awesome buy! Reminds me of a 87 S10 I bought.2.8 v6 5spd. I was looking for something to my 350 in. Saw in local trade paper. s10 blown motor. Perfect. Went to look at it. body good shape, didn't care about the motor. owner said he had a mechanic look at it, said timing had jumped. so on and so forth. paid him 350 he was asking. towed it home and parked it until I could do my motor swap. Well one night my DD broke on me, needing something fast. I decided to see about fixing the s10's motor. got started it ,sounded terrible, missing, popping. Got to looking further. #1 sparkplug had blew out of the head. put it back in, started it back up. ran smooth, drove it to work next day. gave it a tune-up the next day and drove it until I was offered a price I couldn't refuse. __________________ We could learn a lot from crayons... Some are sharp; some are pretty;and some are dull. Some have weird names; and all are different colours;but they all have to live in the same box. You may be only one person in the world, But you may also be the world to one person. * Some mistakes are too much fun to only make once. Two rules in life. 1. Never sweat the small stuff! 2. Everything is small stuff!