4Birdman
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So I bought this giant turd a year or so ago as a DD/tow rig that I could use for my business to haul Jeeps around and also haul my kids and all. Well, it served me well for that time, but it has always been a little rough around the edges. The truck is rust free, but has a few dings and dents and all the paint is gone from the roof. Paint sucks all over generally. The interior is pretty much trash, tan interior, dash is barely hanging on, carpet smells like a turd, and everything is generally broken inside. But it ran and drove good, up until recently.
We drove it in to my in-laws house to take a load of stuff to them, and when we got there it started puking transmission fluid all over. We kept the level full and got it back to the house, but the trans wasn't quite right. It isn't puking it's guts out, but it is just a heavier leak. Well, I used it yesterday to haul a Yukon XL to a friends house down the road and even unloaded the trans was slipping. I think it is time for a tear down.
I figure I have two options. One was to sell it and buy a newer nicer Vortec 454 K2500 Burb, the other would be to rebuild this one. I figure I can build this one to out perform a stock 454 Vortec Burb for marginally more than buying another one, and this will have a fresh drivetrain and I can build the truck how I want.
So the plans are to do a completely new grey interior (I have a nice one I pulled from a rusted K1500 Burb), swap it to an NV4500 manual trans, freshen the engine with either a Vortec roller longblock or just some Vortec heads on my freshed up shortblock. New intake and FITech fuel injection system. Then fix the body and give it a fresh black respray.
So here it is in all it's glory. Yes, I did install a diesel bumper on my gasser.
We drove it in to my in-laws house to take a load of stuff to them, and when we got there it started puking transmission fluid all over. We kept the level full and got it back to the house, but the trans wasn't quite right. It isn't puking it's guts out, but it is just a heavier leak. Well, I used it yesterday to haul a Yukon XL to a friends house down the road and even unloaded the trans was slipping. I think it is time for a tear down.
I figure I have two options. One was to sell it and buy a newer nicer Vortec 454 K2500 Burb, the other would be to rebuild this one. I figure I can build this one to out perform a stock 454 Vortec Burb for marginally more than buying another one, and this will have a fresh drivetrain and I can build the truck how I want.
So the plans are to do a completely new grey interior (I have a nice one I pulled from a rusted K1500 Burb), swap it to an NV4500 manual trans, freshen the engine with either a Vortec roller longblock or just some Vortec heads on my freshed up shortblock. New intake and FITech fuel injection system. Then fix the body and give it a fresh black respray.
So here it is in all it's glory. Yes, I did install a diesel bumper on my gasser.
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