Truck Week EP21 - Chevy S10 4X4
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- Опубликовано: 7 фев 2024
- Did Chevy’s S10 finally push Japanese mini-pickups back into the Pacific Ocean? Sort of. Steve explores a 1985 S10 4x4 with the spiffy Tahoe appearance package and desirable short bed body style.
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Steve, please get better soon!!! I appreciate all the truck and commercial vehicle coverage.
Thanku for the showing of the nice s10.. please find some more and run the history..!
hey steve...hoping to see you back on the camera with new stuff and feeling better godspeed brother
Steve I so love watching and listening to you. We are about the age and I can relate to your perspective on vehicles.
So happy to know you’re on the mend and I’m willing to wait for you to get back to being you.
Thanks again for doing what you do.
In '88 when the 4.3 was put in these trucks it changed them for the better. '90 was the year that the 5 speed was slapped in them with the 4.3.
3/4 350 !
Yes! 5 speed with a hot 4.3!
Truck month has been informative. We all hope you are doing well Mags! 🙏
I had a 2001 S10 4x4 that I bought used in 2002. Kept it for 12 years. Other than ball joints, the driver side front hub assembly, and a patch panel on the passenger side rear cab, nothing but maintenance. Those were darn good trucks. Mr Magnante, counting the days until we see you again. Still pulling and praying for you sir ~ Chuck
4.3 have two issues that kill em. Lower intake manifold gaskets and the poppet valves gum up on the scfi assembly
Address those issues and they go forever if it doesn't rot away 😞
We had a 2000 blazer and front hubs and ball joints was the only problem just like you had. I wanted to keep it but I was convinced to trade it in on a 2011 Silverado that I only had for two years.
4X4 S10s did eat up ball joints too fast. The 4.3L was the only way to fly. 🆒
Have same rig but 4 door w. 200k mi. About to do lower arms. Been great NO rust here in Seattle area.
Hey Steve! Get well soon! Love your videos!
he is well he's right here😊
This v6 in a citation was a beast!
Proud to say in my family , we got a survivor 1992 s10 2.8 with 5 speed that still going fine for its age.
I worked with a young engineer on the east coast in the early 90s and he bought a red one, V6 loaded and then loaded it with more aftermarket gear like a winch and roll bar/lights etc. In the fall of '22 I was down east and there at the little store in his hometown was buddy and his still pristine C10. I beeped and he waved but I doubt he knew who I was because I have gone through a dozen vehicles since then. He drove away too fast for me to get him to stop. Cheers 🇨🇦
I miust have had 5 or 6 S-10's pickups, starting with the first year they came out. That 82 had a 5 speed manual that siezed up. Factory recall replaced it and I drove that truck and few others well over 250,000 miles. My last one was a 94 4x4 with the ZR2 pkg. Along with the trucks I owned 4 of the S-10 Blazers. Great vehicles especially the ones that had the 4.3L. Thanks for the memories Steve!
So glad to see that Steve is doing much better. We miss you buddy.
Truck week is the longes week of the year. 😁
60 degrees is the optimal angle for a V6, for balance. 90 degrees is the best for V8s. 90 degrees V60s are a cost cutting option because they based it on a V8 and could produce it on the same assembly line as the V8s.
Exactly what I was coming here to say. 👍
My all time favorite vehicle was my grandfathers 1991 GMC Sonoma 2wd 4.3 unbelievable truck. I miss it ( I was t boned...)
We took an 86 S10 Blazer, 2.8l 5speed to Australia for two years. Did a lot if borefield track travel and camping in the outback. Never let us down, Australians loved it
Had an 86 S10. Fun little truck. ❤
Get well soon Steve
Loved my '93 S10 4x4 4.3L extended cab. My daily driver for over a decade. Great truck.
Had an '89 extended cab, 4.3 4×4
Great little truck.
My favorite truck. I've owned at least 15 of them. Small block swapped 3 of them. So much fun. Fingers crossed I find a nice ext cab 2wd. Gotta have one for once and all.
I had a boss who collected and restored antique cars. While over the years he bought and sold a fair number of vehicles from the 20s 30s 40s & 50s, to him anything built after WWI was a modern car. He loved brass era Model Ts as well as the rarer makes from that era.
Looking forward to seeing you again soon
My first truck was ‘86 S-10 reg cab short bed 4x4 2.8l with those rims and was red. This brought back some memories.
I got a 99 4x4 S-10 4.3 with a bad head gasket as a trade in, but I didn't want a little truck. Put a low mile motor in and drove it 15 years was a great truck. I learn more from Steve than I did in school. Get better we miss you.
People love these things, including myself. I'm 44 and these were pretty popular trucks when I was young. Went to high school in '96 with a kid that stuffed a blown 383 stroker into one. Would do rolling burnouts at highway speeds, and you could hear him coming from the other side of our subdivision. I bet some idiot would still pay $8k right now, as it sits.
Glad to see you on the mend buddy. We’re still watching.
I had a 93 with a 4.3L I loved that truck back when Chevy made good trucks
I had a 1992 S-10 and had it for 10 years and the only thing I had to replace was the clutch. DAM GOOD TRUCK!!!!
We're all pulling for you Steve. Hope to see you back in the Junkyard soon
Ive had 6 s-10s. Put a 350 in one . Bought a new 87 w/2.8 .. good platform . Full frame . Run forever .
I have an 83 2wd 2.8 V6 S10 that I'm the second owner bought in the 90s w/44k miles . Longbed w/ power steering, brakes, & cold a/c . Original engine replaced at 22k miles by PO due to crank failure common to 2.8s . The truck still looks nearly new and has 164k miles . With the second engine. It's been a wonderful truck ! Gold / Tan w/ shell steel wheels & rubber mat ! Hope you're getting well !
Another day, another repeat, but another day closer to seeing you in the junkyard again. Sometimes my posts don't stick, so I gave this one a complete rundown when it was posted the first time.
That one is worth restoring! Hope your return is ASAP Steve.
I am 44, my first truck was a 96 s-10 5 speed rear wheel drive
With the 4 banger.👍
We enjoy our old S10. Fun trucks.
I bought a brand new 1993 S-10 Tahoe, 2 wheel drive, standard cab, 2 door, short bed, bench seat, 2.8L V6, 5 speed transmission. I still have it. It has been through many iterations. It now has a 383ci V8 and 4 speed. It was a drag racer for a while, but I developed some medical issues and had to give up drag racing (after 40+ years) so I tore it down and rebuilt it as a street drivable hot rod. Hard to believe it's been over 3 decades since I bought it. 1993 was the last year for the square body S-10. I was never a fan of the second generation S-10. Get well soon Steve.
Were you diagnosed with a lead foot and sh*t for brains? lol , no insults, I just had a joke😅
I had a Black 86 with the 2.8 4x4 in the early 90's. Drove it from Camp Lejeune to central Mass many times. It was a good little truck. This video brings back some great memories, Thanks Steve. Glad to see you back on your feet doing what you love to do!
Great little rig.
I had a 4.3 4wd 4 door S10 Blazer. Was awesome!
My dad had an 88 GMC S15, 4x4, 2.8, auto, almost identical to this one but black on black. We put my 86 TPI from my Z28 in it. It was pretty fun to drive. Hate that we sold it. Keep up the great work Steve!!
The truck videos are great Steve, get well soon.
My first vehicle was a 1987 S-10. 4x4. Reg cab short bed with those wheels. 2.8L 5speed manual. I bought it in 2008 and fixed it up by the time I got my license. Loved it. Rusted really bad. Flintstone special. Bed crushed into a V and hit the rear axle with a load of wood...
Mine too !! Same truck.
Man I always thought those were some great looking cool looking little trucksters! They sold like hot cakes! Sad seeing that beauty dilapidated in the junkyard. Great video even if is a rerun! Hopefully your health is improving Steve!🙏
Steve, I hope you are doing better, look forward to seeing you again ,doing the JYC ! Barrett Jackson, was not the same without you! Get well soon!
I had an 85, blue, 4wd, auto, standard cab with a 6’ bed and the 2.5. Had the same truck as a 4x2 with the manual.
Every day when another of your videos post I pray it really is new and you are all healed. Get well soon !
Happy you are recovering, been through all your videos over the last few months!
My dad had an 85 s10 2wd with a manual and a 2.5 L. It was black and had an orange stripe package on the sides. Loved this vid
i'm not a truck guy but always appreciated these things when they were current. and this one is well outfitted! those 2.8s were gutless junk imo.
a friend had a 4 wheel drive model with 2.8.with good narrow winter tires on all 4 wheels.it was fantastic in the snow.the lack of torque was a huge asset in deep snow
I got a 89 with the V6 and auto 4x4 extra cab. It cost 200 but had a blown head gasket. I fixed the head, milled and valve job, and ran it for about 5 years. I finally had a problem getting the Hawaii safety check and sold it for 400 to a coffee farmer friend in Kona. It ran another 10 years on the farm until the tranny gave out.
This is the only channel I immediately like every video! Thank you for sharing the great knowledge. Praying for you!
Get well Soon Steve !!!
I bought a new s10 in 1994 great little truck wish I still had it 😊😊😊
The 4.3 v6 has the same bore and stroke of the 350 v8. Thanks, Steve.
I remember when these trucks were everywhere. Now it's kinda shocking to see one driving around. Especially here in the rust belt of the Ohio River Valley
Quantum leap from the Luv.
Working the algorithm Steve 👍
I love my 89 4.3 auto 4x4. Good little trucks!
Had an 89 4x4 and it was a little beast. Had to rebuild the 4.3 not to long after I bought the truck, nothing major wrong with it just had tons of miles on it. Lot of my friends used to make fun of my little truck until it pulled their full sized rigs out of the mud
My grandad's all original 1982 GMC S15 is sitting out in the barn waiting on the day that I can afford to getting it running again.
My S10 Blazer now qualifies for an antique vehicle plate.
Outstanding and informative as always. Get well soon.
A co worker has shoe-horned a olds 455 into his 98 S10. Thing is a beast.
Thank you Steve for giving us suck cool content
I had a 91 s-10 4x4 extended cab tahoe with the 4.3 and 700r4. it was two tone red and silver. in 4 low it would crawl up anything
good to see you back
I always put mine in neutral before going into 4×4....'91 s10 Blazer..that thing would go anywhere, anytime...
Steve if You want one, that’s The One to Get.
Don’t Go Cheap on it and do it Right, probably for a Little More Than the Cost New.
More Importantly, Get Well and Thanks for All the Videos
Steve! Hurry up and get better! I know you are thinking the same, probably going crazy being indoors
Get well Steve! Miss ya !
I had a 1992 S10. Two tone maroon and granite (dark silver). It was great.
Get well soon Steve professor I'm waiting
Thanks Steve.❤
Best body style and wheels for the S10s
the pickup and the Blazer.
Hey Steve I hope you get better soon and get back to enjoying that V8 swapped S10! I just put a small block 305 ( 5 liter mercruser) in my 83 S10 regular cab short bed after bringing it back to life after sitting buried in a pole barn for 27 years with a dead Isuzu 1.9 in it.... I've put almost 15k miles on it even though it has the ill fated turbo hydramatic 200 metric 3 speed in it with a shift kit.... Handles full throttle romps from the 230 HP engine just fine! Hope to see ya back on your feet and giving us all more great information soon!
I had a rusty 85 4spd with the Iron Duke. That truck was awesome, took so much abuse.
These were fantastic! Along with the Ford Ranger, the S10 were inexpensive vehicles that could really be optioned out unlike the Datsuns or Toyotas. They were great affordable rides with great utility.
I lived a couple miles from where these were built. 100s of my friends and fam had their hands on that very truck. Dayton Ohio .
It's now the home of Fuyao Glass. So sad. So many jobs lost when Truck and Bus shutdown. And for every job at the factory there were 8 more in the community that also went away. Dayton is a shell of itself. Used to be the #2 or 3 place in the nation for industry and machining. I was a machinist. There were 400 machine shops in Dayton in the 80s \ 90s.
Edit according to industryweek:
But the loss of major corporations only tells part of the story. In the 1980s Dayton had more than 600 machine shops, but by the 1990s the number had fallen 50%.
I miss my S10. It was a 2nd gen ('95) stripper model with only 2 options; a/c and the 4.10 rear end. Such a good truck. Unfortunately I live in Chicago and anything over 10 years old has rust holes through the frame. Eventually it succumbed to the rust and I had to let it go.
Thank you Steve
Keep on truckin Steve 🤓🇺🇲
I had a 96 4wd s10 with a 5 speed in 2001. Man that thing was fun to drive. That v6 would lay tire up into 4th gear.
STEVE, WE NEED MORE PUPPIES PLEASE❤ GET WELL!
This was a good one!! almost had me trying to buy it... get well man!
Drove one for work not a bad vehicle but small.
So glad to hear you are almost out of the hospital!!!!!
Thank you Steve, may I have another? Love your vids!
I'm surprised the owner had two 2.8l engines with rod knock. I have a 92 s10 with the 2.8 and it has been indestructible for longer than I can believe. It probably wouldn't win a bicycle race but it has never let me down. Still runs great. Odometer is broken so couldn't tell you the milage but it's provided many years of reliable service. Get well soon Steve you are a living legend!
These things to toss a 350 can still be done for so cheap to have a very capable hunting rig. You can still daily. All the vacuum stuff stock could be such a pain in the butt. Since 350 fits so easy I'm sure modern ls could still work super well. With that much more power problems with rest of drive train probably more evident. I honestly believe these are going to become much more desirable eventually. The same with all the actual frame mini trucks.
Missed this one yesterday, busy with a project. I predict very soon your cabin fever will be cured! 👍 I had a year long case of it in 1983, head on with a school bus, on me motorcycle. Needless to say, grateful to still be kicking at 67. I'll be grateful when your case is "cured"! I'm sure I'll celebrate with a nice cup of coffee and my morning cigar. Lol
These take me back to another time. That generation of S10 didnt survive the northeast. I only see them and that generation Blazer when Im out west. They disappeared in NY around 2005. Classic
I still have my 1999 S-10 extend cab 4x4 About 200,000 miles on it. NO RUST .
It looks new to me too, but I have old eyes as well!😊
I never was a fan of the S-10 after a couple of friends bought them. The V6 seemed to be trouble prone and the body rust thru was a problem in the salt belt. I was a fan of the Ford Ranger pickups and I had them in both two wheel and four wheel drive versions.
I had a 85 S15 "Gypsy"...pulling away from a stop sign and bang the 2.8 V6 crank broke in two....swapped out for a 2.8 out of a Firebird....
But it was a rust bucket
Enjoyed the video!
Get well soon Steve!!!! So happy your on the mend! Heal and feel better brother!!!
I had the 89 2.8 5 speed Durango version with the extended cab in blue, drove it until about 250k miles before selling it. i miss it and want another