Category: Blazer

The Blazer center console has been progressing, slower than I wanted but I’m learning the 3D printing part of the project.

Figuring out how to use Autodesk Fusion 360 was time well invested.

This morning I drove to Lodi and registered at the Cars N’ Coffee put on by the Central Valley Classics and Customs.

Long story short I won a cool trophy.

I totally did not expect to win anything, my intentions was to hang out with like minded folks.

The trophy is very cool, a nice piece of jewelry for my first trophy. Next year I’ll come out with some big changes. Make this ride truly my own.

I have been wanting to measure the air ride current on the blazer.

The current probe I have been using was specifically for low current measurements.

I picked up a high current probe and will perform measurements this weekend.

I took my grandson out the Ione Car Show. The town of Ione is not far but it was the first trip out of town since the fuel pump circuit went out heading to Sacramento a week before.

We arrived at the setup location right on time, 7 am. By the time we arrived there were 3 rows of registered vehicles already in place. This turned out to be an advantage for us and worked out great. By arriving at the moment we did we were able to get a nice parking spot on Main Street.

There were a few registered owner that got pissed off because they came and were numbers 3 and 4 in line. They ended up having to park on one of the side streets and not on Main Street.

This was the first time I have gone to the Ione car show. It’s a cool small show. We had a good time hanging out. Having all the business open and being able to buy stuff easily was a plus.

I decided to go with a different speaker location for the 6×9 three ways.

The pods are 3D printed and angle out towards the driver and passenger.

The stock grill color was black which did not match theme I have going on. The color matched paint (dashboard) was used to give it custom look. .

The panel area where the passenger and driver doors would normally be required support hanging the custom made 6×9 speaker pods. I used a thin piece of sheet metal place at the back of the panel to strengthen the mounting area.

I spent the afternoon replacing the all bulbs in the Chevrolet 3100 gauge cluster to the same type of 194 bulbs purchased in bulk.

I also retired the separate fuel and dual air pressure gauges to run off the lighting circuit headlamp switch.

This will allow me to still make use of the knob dimmer switch and activate when the headlamps are in use.

I had wired these gauges to the ignition on circuit, this meant they would always be active when the car was running. Not an ideal situation during the daylight hours.

I worked on getting all the lights operational for each individual gauge.

This meant installing the bulb holders for the stock 194 bulbs, non-LED.

The gauge to the furthest left for some reason is illuminated in a different color temperature and intensity. It is using the same parts as the air pressure monitor gauges.

I need to figure this out.

The Blazer is now parked in the Manetarium Bay 3. I’ve rearranged Bay 2 and Bay 3 for a larger working area.

We participated in our first Stockton Cruise night. We brought the Blazer that has HydroDrop II installed.

I decided to work on the gauge cluster. The current cluster

During the idle trouble shooting process using TunePro RT I monitored the throttle position sensor.

The value measured was “0” which indicated no measured value from the control signal pin. This particular sensor is mechanically driven. The throttle linkage on the drivers side of the throttle body adjust the TPS lever positioning. The TPS is a variable sliding potentiometer that has a +5VDC voltage on pin 3 and ground at Pin 1. While the lever is sliding along the potentiometer the voltage at Pin 2 control signal ranges from 0.5 to 4.5 volts. That’s a rough an estimated value.

After changing the TPS the measurement was correct, in the “0.59” range.

The TPS is a critical component of the fuel circuitry.