bye bye Blazer bye bye

[BuffaloRider]

Really putting it's off-road capabilities to the test I see.
Good to hear you weren't injured.

[IPreferDIY]

... It was likely to be traded for something newer within the next 6 months anyway. This sort of bumped the timetable up a bit. Honestly with the insurance, it'll probably end up about as good as the trade-in would have been anyway so all in all, its probably a wash, puns intended.

I'm glad there was a proverbial silver lining in the cloud. Could there have been an issue with the parking brakes getting wet or something?

[88Vic]

That sucks. I liked my friend's 04 Blazer, we put an ebay cold air intake and a Thrush Turbo muffler on it, gave it a bit of growl. The Vortec 4.3 has plenty of power for those little trucks, I know a guy with an S10 Regular Cab 2WD 5spd 4.3, that little truck hauls ass. I can only imagine how fun the old GMC Syclone/Typhoon was to drive, even though they were auto.

[gadget73]

That's one of the reasons why I tolerate my 4.25-ton boat anchor - if THAT starts moving with the wheels locked up there is little chance of ANYTHING keeping that load in check!

So how did they pull it out? Tow truck at the very top of the ramp, with a diver on the other end of the rope?

I think we used 5/8" 3 strand, nothing all that special or heavy tied to the hitch on the neighbor's F250 (or F350, can't recall, 4x4 gasser, single rear axle). I walked across the roof and down the hood, got in the water in front of the front bumper and hooked it. I was standing on the paved ramp at that point, the top of the hood was about waist deep. The front wheels didn't go off the edge. The back end was basically held up by the boat and the trailer being jackknifed behind the rig. If it had not done that, it probably would have just shot straight out and it would have really been a mess.


THe 2010 Silverado she replaced it with manages to do better on fuel and it's got a 5.3 V8. Its a fairly nice truck. Bit over-complicated for my liking but it drives good. We were doing mid-18's on the trip to WV, the Blazer seldom hit 18 at all, 17.5ish was about typical for it.

[packman]

My '92 S-10 did that in the parking lot of work soon after I got it. The one day I parked on the inclined portion and it rolled down to the other side of the parking lot. After that incidence, I replaced the parking brake cable on all of the vehicles. LOL

Packman