I'm going to have to replace the starter on mine now. It's been dragging forever. Should be an easy job, but no. All kinds of crap has to be moved out of the way and the tranny unbolted at the rear mounts and jacked up.
Well, after months of putting it off, I finally bought a starter and replaced the original. It's been dragging forever, drawing so much current it was killing the battery.
I did some surfing and reading up on others with S10s and what I was in for. I really couldn't come to any conclusions, as there are so many different configurations, 4cy/auto, 4cyl/manual, 4.3/auto, manual, etc. Then different years had different challenges. Some videos, owners were removing the exhaust manifold, even removing cross members, brackets, and jacking up the engine/tranny.
So I finally just bought the starter, raised the truck and slid under there on a creeper to take a look.
I had the old one out and the new one in in 30 mins, nothing had to be moved, or removed. And the engine fires right up, the starter is sooo much better. Should've done this months ago.