Worked on the Blazer this past weekend and got some more parts in, just now getting around to posting updates.

OK, so – spent another 5 hours getting the engine, transmission, transfer case etc. yanked and then everything cleaned up for the day. All wire connections on the existing harness marked, fluids drained correctly and WITHOUT MESS (hence why it took 5 hours, because I let everything drain slowly into a pan and would give it 20 minutes to finish.) Cleaned up as I went and in general just took my time. This second half to the process could have easily been done in 3 hours had I put the attention to it, but since getting the motor out was my only goal for the day, there was no need to do that. I just wanted to put a focus on NOT crawling around in fluids and dirt, (like when we pulled the 5.3 from the Burb) and make sure that everything was labeled correctly and went back in place for when I do a test fit of the new motor this upcoming weekend.

I snagged a pressure washer from my father in law - who, by the way, has actually been a tremendous help in keeping me on task (ADHD is a mother f***er sometimes) – and have spent about an hour on the engine bay, and about another hour cleaning up tools and organizing bolts, test fitting the transfer case to the new transmission etc.

So I put about 7 hours on the project this weekend total. No money spent (thank you, sweet 8lb 6oz little baby Jesus) and so far in the project zero specialty tools needed.

I called S&P about the temp sensor adapter and the oil sending unit adapter last week and spoke with Tom. They need specifics as far as which sensor I have – and I haven’t taken the time to pull them out and measure them yet. But the adapters are roughly $20 a piece. These adapters supposedly make it where you just run your existing temp and oil press. sensors and it makes wiring up the gauges a snap. I’ll let you know how that turns out.

OK… not as many pics, because there’s not a lot to document. Everything was pretty straight forward. I will say that it would be easier to drop the transmission support and lower the rear of the trans/transfer case to get to the top bolt on the transfer case… but it’s not bad where it is, just can’t get your eyes on it where it sits.
























Then the next day, pressure washing…






















And at the end of all this noise, I decided to be nice to my neighbors and ziptie the grille back in place so at first glance down my driveway, it doesn’t look quite as much of a disaster as it really is.