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Re: NC road trip to pick up my pickup
Posted: Sun Jul 27, 2014 5:55 pm
by 3X00-Modified
The Vbands I've bought in the past didn't slip over the pipe. They just butt up against it.
Re: NC road trip to pick up my pickup
Posted: Sat Mar 18, 2017 11:19 pm
by woody90gtz
Re: NC road trip to pick up my pickup
Posted: Sat Mar 18, 2017 11:25 pm
by woody90gtz
Re: NC road trip to pick up my pickup
Posted: Mon Mar 20, 2017 8:00 am
by 3X00-Modified
You're a flip the wipers out fool too?
Re: NC road trip to pick up my pickup
Posted: Sun Aug 19, 2018 6:44 pm
by woody90gtz
The fair parking lot got a little nasty, so I had to pull my uncle out. Then a friend's father. Then some Jersey guy. Then a minivan! haha
The minivan family gave my wife $100 for pulling them out. I didn't want to do it cause they couldn't hook to the axle and wanted me to pull them out by the seat belt. I thought it was just gonna break stuff and fill it with mud, but it actually came out really easy.
All in all, I only lost a tow strap cause my uncle didn't have a hitch pin to use my recovery strap. After we broke it I borrowed another hitch pin and could actually yank the recovery strap the way it's supposed to work. First time I've used it and it worked nice.
Wifey said I was famous. When she got back to the fair everybody was talking about the old truck pulling out new ones. One of the parking lot staff kids wanted me to SEND IT! haha
https://youtu.be/dHipLkOYmL8
I like the new look. Hides the rust.
Gorilla tape on the fender? Where?
Re: NC road trip to pick up my pickup
Posted: Tue Aug 28, 2018 1:57 pm
by EPfiffner
That thing rocks. I love that era of gm trucks, mines much like it but only 2wd unfortunately.
Still fun, 3.73 rear w/nv4500.
Re: NC road trip to pick up my pickup
Posted: Fri Sep 07, 2018 10:18 pm
by Rettax3
I did not know about the high/low mode, thanks for sharing on that. Things that make you go, 'hmm.'
I picked up a spare dist. at the junk-yard last week -it was just sitting loose, and looks to have been rebuilt recently -ICM looked clean and the cap was good quality with brass contacts -not sure I should have spent $20 on it, but after rebuilding the unit from the new GTA a few weeks back, I decided it was worth while for zero effort. Besides, even the pick-up coils cost $10 now -last time I rebuilt one they were about three dollars!
Currently, I run the same distributor in four of my cars, plus another one I'll be selling (soon?), so spares spares spares...
Glad to see you get your truck dirty -I never could get onboard with 'my truck is too nice to get dirt on the tires', although a friend of mine does have a super-nice '95 Z71 Short-Bed, and it wouldn't look like that still if he just 'trucked' it all the time, but he isn't afraid to use the bed of it either...
Re: NC road trip to pick up my pickup
Posted: Wed Feb 06, 2019 11:36 pm
by woody90gtz
Re: NC road trip to pick up my pickup
Posted: Thu Feb 07, 2019 11:34 am
by 3X00-Modified
I need to make a front hitch for the wife's Bronco II when I'm not rebuilding my garage... man the list of projects is getting LONG!
Re: NC road trip to pick up my pickup
Posted: Mon Feb 11, 2019 10:37 pm
by woody90gtz
Re: NC road trip to pick up my pickup
Posted: Sun Feb 24, 2019 11:07 pm
by woody90gtz
Re: NC road trip to pick up my pickup
Posted: Mon Feb 25, 2019 3:30 pm
by 3X00-Modified
did you not bedline the whole frame on this current truck? Because if you did that clearly didn't help much...
Re: NC road trip to pick up my pickup
Posted: Mon Feb 25, 2019 6:21 pm
by woody90gtz
I did, but it wasn't blasted first. I only cleaned it with soap and a pressure washer. It rusted from the inside out and flaked the liner off. That monster blaster my dad has should make this round last much better with proper prep.
Dude sent a bunch more pics today and I'm sold on it. Agreed to $1300 and I'll pick it up this weekend. Worst case scenario I'll have about $1000 in it. Plan is to remove engine, trans, bumper, grille, etc., and blast and line the bottom side. Probably should even do the fenders and box. I can get a lot done on the new truck before even taking mine apart to keep down time to a minimum.
Re: NC road trip to pick up my pickup
Posted: Tue Feb 26, 2019 3:05 pm
by Rettax3
That looks decent. Good find, too bad it started out with a slush-box, but at least you can make that part right easy enough.
My friend just sold his '95 Z71 short-bed... I really liked that truck, and he kept it like new -I swear, standing next to it or riding inside, you would swear you got caught in a time-warp and the truck was only three years old... But, sadly the oil-cooler lines were NOT only three years old, and one let loose and dumped the oil-pan dry before he caught it, and ruined the engine. He got a decent price on it though, similar to what you are paying for that extended-cab -decent in that he only had a couple of days to get rid of it before the city towed it away...
Re: NC road trip to pick up my pickup
Posted: Wed Feb 27, 2019 7:28 am
by woody90gtz
The fact that it's automatic to start is actually good. The 4l60e means it got the better 7427 computer, which is what my tune is based from (mine was auto too.)
Fun fact: there's 6'11" between the trailer fenders. Guy says tire to tire it's "just under 7ft". Haha