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GarrettGmc

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Just need it to pass smog once then ur free to do whatever.sounds like u need another smaller run around truck to save some gas
Snow levels down to 2-2500 ft but it's bright an shiny today
 

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Dang, totally spaced saying how Tyler's truck has been, it's been doing good! Super reliable and hasn't given him a single problem.

And too bad my 93 was totalled, that would have been a perfect commuter with a 4.3 and the 5 speed. I really wish it wasn't wrecked!!

Ended up getting like an inch of snow, the drive to Chester today was okay, only spot where you couldn't do the speed limit was up Fredonia where it's like a 6000ft elevation.
 

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So here's kind of a side project on a new gen pole truck we are working on at the junkyard. It's an ex military 1993 K3500 with a factory 6.2 and 4l80e. Only has 18k on the clock, we got it without an engine.

So the 6.5 that was originally in my old old 1994 k1500 was pulled a few days ago and we picked up this DB2-4911 I found on Craigslist which is already adapted for the later injector lines and we are putting it on this 6.5 then dropping it in. Just a little side project worth posting about!

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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.
 
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This poor thing lol. The temp gauge just lives over there I have yet to see it return to the other side. I would totally throw money into saving this thing with a tune up along with everything else if I was able to resell it, but that will never happen. At least I have a solid dash and other parts I need. I find it ironic that I mentioned at the start of the HD build that I wanted a parts 454 k2500 suburban and here I am a year later.

Believe it or not this is the first 454 powered vehicle I've ever driven outside of moving one in a parking lot at the smog station, so I am lead to believe that's why I wanted it to run!

Also don't worry @Chewy1576 your future air box is safe! I should have got photos of it but I didn't today. Spaced it!
 

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I'll know more once I get mine modded proper. It definitely has a lot more ass than a stock 350, but nowhere near what it ought to for what it is. I suspect its potential lies in the exhaust and tune at this point. Sadly the 1500 runs harder, but it is in a lighter truck so it's kinda apples and oranges. I think you have a better comparison in a 2500 platform.
 

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Haha no worries! Flog on it while you can, I’m not in any hurry.


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For running like such trash it seemed to have decent power once the trans stopped slipping and I agree, definitely feels like it has a lot more balls than a stock L31. I like that when it is in high idle at 1k and it's in gear it just pulls 10mph without hitting the gas. Seems to me like all 454s are like that but what I'm erry of is if this thing is a mechanically good engine but I will find out for sure when I yank it out and pull the heads and oil pan off. Seems like a bunch of guys with the L29 are having to do a bunch of mechanical/engine work in the low 100k, and with the 136k on this suburban I don't know. And who knows with the 454 that is in my future 99 CCSB with 120-30k on the clock and supposedly a "bad" engine.

This Suburban won't be running and driving for much longer though, once I finish fixing the ****** 4.7 dodge ram in the shop then get that 6.5 in the green truck it's show time for this suburban. Drive it in and it won't be leaving under it's own power!

Sending you pics of that airbox, took some today @Chewy1576 !

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Sidenote, did put a broken drivers side door handle on it today so I didn't have to keep reaching inside the door for the opening tab (two of the interior door handles are broken, go figure).
 
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