I don't know how I missed this. Thanks Chas. I swapped relays but heck on it, it's going into the shop tomorrow.
Changed the exhaust manifold gasket and the donut on the downpipe on the S-10. Soooo easy, no rust and room in the compartment! Ran hot too so I swapped the t-stat out to a 180 degree.
Failed echeck, super high NO. Turns out GM has a patent on the EGR, so the aftermarkets don't function very well (they had to change the design a little), THEN, GM in their infinite wisdom decided to source theirs from the same place as the aftermarkets - nobody makes the 'good' part anymore.
New tires. The tire guy is my good friends' kid I know well. He had his younger brother take a look at the exhaust, turns out it had a bad weld, he climbs under it with a grinder and I kick him in the rear (I'm 'Uncle Pete') and chew him out for no jack stand.
He places the stands goes to the jack, starts pumping and immediately the truck fell off the jack!
Fortunately it only bent a tierod end and it turns out all the tierods are bad anyway.
Paint buffed up decently, and I added a 'trunk', a butterfly box:
Pete