You are staying with the original wheels?

 

It’s got some aftermarket fake bead locks on it. I’d like to find some original wheels to put on it but these are fine.

Think I found a shop to repair the radiator. Going to try to get it titled this week.

 

Took the tires off to clean the wheels of snail shells and mud. Decided to inspect the front brakes. Passenger front only has 1 of 4 pistons moving. Driver front is fine. I hadn’t gotten around to adjusting rear drums so I checked those. Shoes weren’t even close to touching. Got those tightened up a bit. Maybe my parking brake will work now.

I’m waffling on backing them off another couple of clicks. I can rotate by hand from just the lug but it does take some effort.

Blinker module and new front and rear wipers ordered.

 

Calipers, pads, rotors, radiator, thermostat, and radiator cap ordered.

I called a couple of places and it would cost me more to have the brass tank fixed than to just buy a new one. $200 to clean and pressure test and solder a pin hole. If it's the tanks, they wouldn't even quote me a price. Not worth the hassle.

 

New. Not reman.

 

Nice score on the new calipers. The past few remans I've received have been dog ****.

 

$35 each on Rockauto. Remand were like $25 plus core. Not worth it.

 

Gigantic 54mm socket for these tiny hubs. My one tons on my blazer are half that size. Any bets on this being 1989 OE grease?

 

Well I went to finish the one side up and like everything else today, it fought and eventually won. First, the calipers I got were for the later model year and not the previous model year. No biggie, trim the dust shield and done. Then the pads I got were for the previous model year and not the later model year so they are to short. So gotta get more of those.

 

Brakes bled. New radiator, thermostat, temp sensor, and cap installed. Had to do a bit of trimming on the fan shroud and gotta pick up long bolts for the fan shroud to bolt to the radiator but otherwise it fit pretty well. Pretty certain everything was OE from 1989 except the coolant. It was actually really clean and clear and zero sediment so I’m assuming it got flushed at some point.