Originally posted by 40ChevyS10:
They did refer to the truck as a "work truck" with good gas milage and not a street rod or antique. I can only move the engine back about two inches before the transfer case hits the cross member for the torsion bars.
How are you fixed on width? I'd like to do a simular project with a '41 thru '46, and it was my understanding the only difference between '41 thru '46 and the '39 and '40 trucks was the cabs on the '39 and '40 trucks are a bit shorter.
There are likely to be a whole lot of differences between an '88 s10 and a 2000.. hell, i've owned a '91 and a '98 and they ain't even the same truck.
So your only obstacle at the moment is your clutch fan sticks out too far? I don't have a 2000 4.3 sitting around to look at, but couldn't you just replace it with one that doesn't stick out that far? Maybe one from an earlier year engine?
You might measure how far yours sticks out, and determine how much shorter you need it to be and then go peek at the engines of earlier s10's at the u-pick-it bone yard.
