Well.. seeing how i might have to relinquish my beloved olds for another one.. mines getting a tad bit old, things starting to go wrong that i cant afford to fix.. im thinking about getting a 1992 bravada with the vortech 4.3, does anyone know anything about these?..pieces of crap or are they decent..it has 124,000 miles on it and the inside is in perfect shape with the digital dash, etc.. any words would be appreciated..thanks

well it is pretty much just an S10 Blazer with a different grill. all through the 90's S trucks were bashed by consumer reports. here's what i know about them from working on them. they have terrible front ends, idler arms and ball joints go on them all the time. with that many miles on it i imagine the fuel injector (called a spider) has been replaced already, and that is a pretty expensive job when it does go, its at least $500 for the part. the oil cooler lines constantly leak on those trucks, even when replacing them with new GM lines, in a year and a half they will be leaking again. i have seen a line completely blow off on the highway, engine was seized by the time they got to the shoulder. i have also seen more than one of these trucks go through a set of front brakes in around 15,000 miles. so i do not recommend buying it.

kinda sounds like the front end was underengineered for the weight and type of vehicle! and that oil cooler thing kinda sounds discouraging.

do you know the person that's selling it? If you know the history of the vehicle and if you know that it wasn't beaten and was well maintained I'd say go for it.... I'd advise you to be really careful if you don't know the person who you're buying it from. I learned that the hard way once with a truck, as most of you know