About Ron Cris Expertise I welcome all questions about basic automotive repair..Brakes..Front End and Engine rebuilding..I am especially trained in rebuilding Chevrolet v8 Engines.
Experience I have 25 yrs experience a a journeyman mechanic
I'm about to leap off a building with this Blazer issue.
SPECS: 92 Blazer 4x4, FI, 4cyl Auto
CONDITION: Sitting on a gravel drive for last 2+ years not having been run or moved.
PROBLEM: Won't start and Shifter (on column) won't move (it's frozen).
Engine will run briefly if I put some starting fluid or gas into air-cleaner area; so I know it is a fuel problem. I did NOT hear the Fuel pump, so I beat on the tank quite a few times and then I could hear it. But then I found a rubber hose that leaked like crazy so several days later I replaced the hose. Then I tried starting it again and now the fuel pump is not working again. Hitting the tank does not make it work now. I really don't want to drop tank. Things are too rusty down there!
And then to top this all off, I can even budge the Shifter lever. I was thinking of going under the vehicle and taking a pipe wrench carefully and put some torque directly on the Trans Shifter mechanism coming out of the trans.??
Any ideas?? Should I try beating on the tank while I have someone else turn the key switch on, so that there is Power to the fuel pump at the SAME TIME I am hitting the fuel tank?? Do you have any million dollar thoughts??
Thanks so much for your help.
Dave
630-896-8888 or email
Answer You might try spraying WD-40 on all of the shifter linkage joints..
and try working it loose engough to shift..
As for the fuel pump..
you might just have to drop the tank and change it out..
It probably has alot of hours on it already.
Good luck..
RC
