88GMCtruck's 98 Silverado Towpig Build: "Black Fox"

Just went through the whole thread, bbem workin on it for about 5hrs now lol. Dayum. Nice bronco on page 38 and i saw mention of a certain tire abuse video among all the supercharger madness but never saw it? Figured id remind you lol

Biggershaft96 said:

Just went through the whole thread, bbem workin on it for about 5hrs now lol. Dayum. Nice bronco on page 38 and i saw mention of a certain tire abuse video among all the supercharger madness but never saw it? Figured id remind you lol

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Unfortunately, it has yet to happen.....

I should fix that soon.

I know I'm the hundredth person to say this, but...

Just read through the emigre thread. I never got into drw trucks before, but after seeing your build I've never wanted one so bad, haha. Such a nice truck.

I know it's an old subject, but is it possible to mount the light bar in the grille with a Chevy front end? I know you have to cut it, but if done the same way it should fit, wouldn't it?


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adray96 said:

I know I'm the hundredth person to say this, but...

Just read through the emigre thread. I never got into drw trucks before, but after seeing your build I've never wanted one so bad, haha. Such a nice truck.

I know it's an old subject, but is it possible to mount the light bar in the grille with a Chevy front end? I know you have to cut it, but if done the same way it should fit, wouldn't it?

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Thanks man. As far as the lightbar in a chevy grille, I think a couple people have done it, I have not so I can't say for sure, but you should be able to fit it the same way I did.

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Did my normal thing the other weekend, had to show these shots






Most of our group


So, just as an update, last weekend I sold my 02 GMC. Part of me is broken about it, but I literally never used it anymore. It just sat getting dirty all the time outside. A little rememberane.








And yet again, I have more things in the works this weekend and next week..................

88GMCtruck said:

Thanks:... Once they were back up to par, bake them for 10-min at 200 in the over, pull the lenses, add some RTV and slap them on the LED bases. They were a direct fit.

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For clarity - do you bake the lenses in order separate them from the bases - or does it add gloss/shine to the lens?

to separate them

88GMCtruck said:

So, just as an update, last weekend I sold my 02 GMC. Part of me is broken about it, but I literally never used it anymore. It just sat getting dirty all the time outside. A little rememberane.

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Surprised nobody was interested in the reason I had an unloaded trailer behind my truck......









Yup. 1998 K2500 Suburban. Black with grey interior. 454/4L80E/14FF w/ 4.10s & G80. The guy thought the motor was on it's way out, and wasn't sure what was wrong. Ran (Terribly) and the inside was pretty dirty. 285k on the clock. $700 though. Loaded it up and drug it the 2.5 hours home.















After my assessment of it, I plug in the Flashscan V2 and see what I can see - running super rich on bank 2. MAF, plugs, wires, distributor are all basically brand new. So, toss the MAF from another truck on it, runs better but still weird. Decided to check ignition system since it all looked recently touched - distributor cap was loose, and 3 spark plugs weren't plugged in properly.... Now it runs just fine.... G80 works too!





That being said, I bought this for parts. Lots of parts. I could clean it up and flip it, but it's exactly the year/colors and config I've been looking for. Thus far it's going to be helping out 4-6 GMT400 vehicles. The short list of things it will go to


The entire front 1/3 of interior sans the fabrics (dash/door panels/wiring/etc), all engine wiring, intake, injection and accessory parts and basically all of the underhood except the long block are going to be used on my 88. The driver's door and passenger fender are going on my dually as they have better paint. The long block will be used for 83GMCK2500's 96 that has over 300k on it, the transmission will be rebuilt for another friend's truck that is getting due for a 4L80E.... Might also swap axles into another truck to upgrade from 3.73s to 4.10s....

I had soo many things going through my head when i saw that, very first thing was "theres gonna be a little dave coming around" lol. Looks like a good score though especially since it runs good now.

Wow, nice score for $700!