got the fluid dampr put in, its funny its so much smaller than the stock damper you can't hardly see it looking down in the engine bay, got the old coolant fan pulled and mocked up this new big boy perma cool unit, found 2 massive vacuum leaks and 2 burned plug wires. guess that explains why i couldn't get the thing tuned properly.
got the edelbrock 8881 al water pump put in but only after grinding on it repeatedly with a flap disc to get it to clear the gm serp belt kit. at that point i was looking at the serp belt system and noticed the idler pulley in the gm performance serp belt kit was already missing a lot of the paint and this made me look at where on the wear indicator the belt tensioner was, gm is shipping this kits out with a serp belt that is about a inch to long, the tensioner was at full lock so i found a continental serp belt that is a bit shorter that reminded me of the old gatorback belts so i got that ordered
the vacuum port cap on the back of the fi tech had crumbled from heat and i took this as a sign to run a pcv system from each valve cover into that port. and one cap on a ported vacuum switch had crumbled off to which i think was why every time i tuned the system it just went wrong another way and couldn't hold a proper idle.
the melted plugs i believe was a more recent issue but one i had been worrying about for some time as they are stupid close to those flowtech headers coupled with the fact that if im driving that car there's a solid chance it's high in the rpm range so i ordered new wires that are silicone with ceramic boots and i may add some heat sleeving in there anyways from valve cover down to spark plug.
im hoping that this new fan doubling in air output from 3k cfm to 6k cfm also helps with my vapor locking issue on extended idle on hot days but i'm also going to heat sleeve all the fuel lines in the engine compartment, if that doesn't fix it im going to re route the fuel lines back to the stock location up the pass side frame rail and pop them out the hole in the frame rail as of now it came up the driver side.
also picked up ceramic pads for the front and rear discs as the hawk pads im running are to darm dusty for me.
brand new trans from jegs is still leaking from the tail shaft seat and speedo gear housing, so im gonna try to pull that crap apart and re-seal it but it's a bummer cause i'm going to lose all that fancy jegs trans fluid.
and last up for spring fixing is the blazer wheel bearings, again, the SKF wheel bearings i put in it crapped out after one season of hard cornering use. i'm kind of at a loss on how to stop this thing chewing wheel bearings, i'm going to try moogs and perhaps changing the alignment specs a shade more towards stock, perhaps its scrubbing them a bit but my tires have no odd wear patterns.
if any one has input on any of this feel free to help me out. or just point and laugh lol either way goal for this year is shifting to sort out issues.
