VIKING_MECHANIC
GMT 400 obsessed Swede.
Of all of my trucks, there is one that I hardly ever work on, my 91 S10. I feel bad for leaving this tuck alone while all the other ones get all the attention. After all, this truck is what I learned to drive in as well as it was the first truck where I started to develop my mechanical skills, so it's pretty sentimental to me.
My oldest brother gave this to me when I was 17 and over the last 10+ plus years, I've really only driven it a few times. My brother got it from the boss he worked for, but of course the guy had lost the title so he used it as a farm truck.
After a few years, I was able to get the title so I was able to start driving it, but not for long. After a few minuets of driving, the engine would start to run very erratic and really wanted to die. When I was in high school, my shop teacher help me replace the timing chain as he thought it may have jumped a tooth. Over a few weeks, we replaced it and it seemed like it helped, but it still ran like s h ! t.
Eventually my uncle helped me diagnose it a bit more and he believed a massive amount of oil was being dumped into the combustion chamber, whether it was piston rings or badly warn valve seals, we were unsure.
Flash forward about 2 years and I had moved out on my own and had some money set aside to get the engine rebuilt since I didn't really know the condition of it. To save some $$, me and my uncle pulled the engine out so I could take it to the machine shop. About 4 months later, I get it back and we put it back into the truck.
At this point, the truck sat for the next several years at my uncles as I couldn't really drive down there every other weekend( a 2 hour drive). Luckly my uncle is pretty kool and didn't mind it just sitting.
A few years later, me and my oldest brother load it onto my uncles trailer and bring it home.
My oldest brother gave this to me when I was 17 and over the last 10+ plus years, I've really only driven it a few times. My brother got it from the boss he worked for, but of course the guy had lost the title so he used it as a farm truck.
After a few years, I was able to get the title so I was able to start driving it, but not for long. After a few minuets of driving, the engine would start to run very erratic and really wanted to die. When I was in high school, my shop teacher help me replace the timing chain as he thought it may have jumped a tooth. Over a few weeks, we replaced it and it seemed like it helped, but it still ran like s h ! t.
Eventually my uncle helped me diagnose it a bit more and he believed a massive amount of oil was being dumped into the combustion chamber, whether it was piston rings or badly warn valve seals, we were unsure.
Flash forward about 2 years and I had moved out on my own and had some money set aside to get the engine rebuilt since I didn't really know the condition of it. To save some $$, me and my uncle pulled the engine out so I could take it to the machine shop. About 4 months later, I get it back and we put it back into the truck.
At this point, the truck sat for the next several years at my uncles as I couldn't really drive down there every other weekend( a 2 hour drive). Luckly my uncle is pretty kool and didn't mind it just sitting.
A few years later, me and my oldest brother load it onto my uncles trailer and bring it home.
