My 1988 GMC Extended Cab S15

This past weekend I was able to get some stuff cleaned up in the back yard. I had to clean out the shed and take it down, it's a plastic shed, go to the local Home Depot and pick up some sand to level up the ground and then put the shed back together. I ended up using 12 60 pound bags and 4 2x4x96 pieces of mud sill lumber to  get it done. It came out nearly perfect. It better have with the almost 20 years of construction experience I have. But, with the way things happen around here, it took a few days to get it done. 6 people in the house, and the only help I got was to remove the roof which ended up getting pulled completely apart anyways to get it back on without help. So why am I telling you all about a shed when I write about automotive stuff? Well, I had to get that done in order to organize the shed, clean out the storage shelving in the garage, and get it all into the shed so that I could have access to the back of the garage. And the sink hole under the shed from where the pool company dug their line needed to be fixed.

After I brought it home!

So as far as my house goes, it has a decent 3 car garage. The 3rd car area has a garage door on the front, and the back so we can have easier access to the back yard. It only took seven years, and a reason to use the area behind it to get the stuff cleaned up. I needed the area cleaned so I could get my 1988 GMC Sierra S15 Extended Cab truck back there so I could get to pulling out the engine and transmission and replace them. I have to get this done in order to have transportation to the local (20 minutes away) community college. I will be finishing up my Autobody Collision Repair and Refinishing classes this Spring semester, and since right now my trucks transmission is junk, I decided to just replace the engine while I'm at it. I will have until the 9th of January to do it, but I hope it will only be a few days to complete it. As far as the engine, I don't have the money to put in a brand new one, so decided to get one from a place I checked into several  months back. I am getting the set up for a very very good price, and since I getting it at a reasonable price, I am just going to remove the engine and tranny that's in it and just throw the other in the truck so I have a way to get to school. Then take the old one and rebuild it as time and money permits me to be able to do so.

Definitely a project!

Now, as I sit here wondering how it all is going to turn out, I feel a little more confident doing the work since I just finished a Basic Automotive Systems class where I took an engine and did a complete tear down and rebuild with a couple of my classmates. It was a fun experience. I'll be adding a video of the final outcome in the next few days. THANKS FOR READING! (5EVMKGK25XVZ)

From when I took the top end of the motor down and rebuilt it.
I had no idea it was worse. My first time actually working on a vehicle.

The first tare down

The Top End rebuild

Started the tare down on the S15

Well today was one of those days where you are tired from not getting enough sleep, but just seem to keep going. I went to my Autobody Collision class this morning as I do every Monday and Tuesday. I couldn't get to sleep last night until very late and had to to get up around 6:30 to be at school by 8:00. Class was good, but I just wasn't in the mood to do more dent repairs. Yesterday was no issue, but for some reason today I didn't feel like doing it.

I ended up getting home around 12:30pm, and when I got home I decided I'd better start to do some work to my '88 GMC S15 Extended Cab (My Project). A few weeks back I had a nice Heater Core blowout that soaked the passenger floor. Well I got that fixed but just didn't have any opportunity to removed the soaked carpet until today. The carpet was very nasty anyways, so this gave me an excuse to get it the hell out of there. I removed the ugly seats, tore it out, found a pine cone, some fries and some change from whomever owned the truck before. Oh yeah! I found some plastic green car that was junk and tossed it out too. Then I decided to somewhat fix some of the holes on the bed rail. The previous owner must have had a camper or a rack on it. The holes are raised a lowered and needed to be fixed. All 32 of them! I'll get around to spot welding the holes in and smoothing the dents out later when I actually know how to weld. After that I cleaned the nasty dirty bare floor of the cab and put the seats back in. Then I needed to put a couple of quarts of oil in it and adjusted the Hood Latch so I had less of a problem trying to release it. Now I got all that squared away. My next job is to removed the hood and fenders and get them sanded down and primered. From there I will start the bed repairs and see where I need to go when I get that done. I just need it to get me through until October. Then the serious stuff begins.

That's all I have for now! Off to get some rest so I can get some more stuff taken care of tomorrow before I head to my Photography Class in the evening.

LATER!!!