Well this is a truck that I got going at the junkyard, came in as a county tow and was abandoned in 2015 or so (it was sitting on someone's abandoned property) so we get it, and we can do whatever we want to it minus selling the body and frame. We actually get paid to take cars and this is the only one recently that I had any motive to mess with.
It's a 99 K2500 Suburban with a Vortec 454 / 4L80e packing grey leather interior with a trashed drivers seat. Has 136k on the clock!
So the revival story. Obviously didn't get keys so I broke the already broken door handle to get in, then tried to hotwire it but the Theftlock system hated that. I drilled out the lock cylinder in probably 15 minutes, stuck in another from a different column, threw in a new battery and it fired up. So I proceeded to throw on a different rim with a decent tire, fill it up with coolant, funnel in $20 worth of gas, and figured it was time to try driving it.
So how is it? Temp gauge doesn't work, gauge says it has anywhere from 0-20psi of oil pressure, it will legit stall if you throw it into gear and not give it some gas at the same time. Oh and the radiator has a nice crack so that's why there wasn't any coolant in it apparently.
It runs absolutely horrible and sounds like it's knocking, BUT... it does burnouts. Or at least one that I recorded. This thing has so much torque it will move the suburban forward while the front brakes were locked up dragging the front tires, that was pretty nuts.
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So what am I going to do with this? Well for one it is not ever allowed to be back on the road ever again since the VIN is killed when we pick up a vehicle funded by the state grant. But I can sell parts off of it, and three of the doors and seats will be soon in my 3500HD while also stealing the power harness for the doors too. The 454 if it is okay may live in a 1999 CCSB truck soon if I end up with the truck and the engine really is toast in that thing. But I will drive this thing around for the hell of it, because I can and it's fun to have some fun with a vehicle in the yard.