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Hi I'm Gavin and I have an OBSession
When you don't have a girlfriend you can have trucks.......(truth talk)......as well as wtf Gavin you have too many projects already!
For real though I think I'm going to sell my 89 and build this instead. And I want a Cummins for my future 3500HD. I'll explain later.
This is a $450 find, and the guy I bought the parts 95 k1500 from earlier this week had this to pick up but no room to store it on his property and mentioned it to me. Today I actually looked at it!
This guy is named Anthony and loves to wheel and deal. If there is any part in particular I need, he can make it happen, while I'm shocked about that I also find it super cool because he can make stuff I have wanted for years easy.
Well onto this truck. I paid $450 for it, I will be getting a title to it, Nevada tags expired 02/16, and it's sat for a bit.
It's a 98 ECLB K3500 dually with my favorite thing. A big block, and it's a Vortec. It has 137,083 miles on the odometer, the original owner is a old guy, and it has a salvage title because it was hit by a snow plow.
The real problem with it is the transmission. It's packing a 4L80e, and I was told that the guy drove it to a gas station, stopped, then started it again and attempted to go into reverse. It wouldn't go so he just parked it.
When I looked at it today the body is kinda beat, needs a drivers door, fender, hood, and the bed is thrashed. Also needs a back window (I have one) and a seat. No biggie those parts are cheap enough and all I really need is the seat and a white door.
Anthony wants the rear axle and the front hub spacers to dually his Squarebody Suburban, which I'm cool with I didn't want a dually anyway. I have a 14b full float 4.10 axle I was planning to put in the 89 but I'll put it in this truck, as well as the white bed from my parts 95 to make it a SRW truck.
This may be a good truck, and will allow me to tow things while not beating on the dodge which I think is starting to show symptoms of a failing transmission (I sure hope that's not it though).
So now onto the transmission problem. We checked it today and it had absolutely no fluid on the dipstick, so I may just get lucky and install a new filter and fluid and it will run and work. If not, Anothony will sell me a 4x4 nv4500 from a 6.0 Vortec truck for $500 and I give him an SM465 as part of the deal. Tyler has a cast iron top SM465 I would give him in a trade and then just give Tyler the aluminum top SM465 out of my 89.
Now onto the crew cab 3500HD and the 89 k2500. I'm thinking about yanking the engine and trans from the truck and selling the truck frame/body to my friend Joe since he wants to build up another truck. That would get one less project out of my hair (although I just bought the 95 parts truck to yank the 350 to install into the 89). The crew cab I will still get eventually, although I'm sold on putting a Cummins in it and this k3500 will be my temporary tow pig, possibly future SAS.
I'm crazy I know, let me know your opinions and give me ideas I could use them!
For real though I think I'm going to sell my 89 and build this instead. And I want a Cummins for my future 3500HD. I'll explain later.
This is a $450 find, and the guy I bought the parts 95 k1500 from earlier this week had this to pick up but no room to store it on his property and mentioned it to me. Today I actually looked at it!
This guy is named Anthony and loves to wheel and deal. If there is any part in particular I need, he can make it happen, while I'm shocked about that I also find it super cool because he can make stuff I have wanted for years easy.
Well onto this truck. I paid $450 for it, I will be getting a title to it, Nevada tags expired 02/16, and it's sat for a bit.
It's a 98 ECLB K3500 dually with my favorite thing. A big block, and it's a Vortec. It has 137,083 miles on the odometer, the original owner is a old guy, and it has a salvage title because it was hit by a snow plow.
The real problem with it is the transmission. It's packing a 4L80e, and I was told that the guy drove it to a gas station, stopped, then started it again and attempted to go into reverse. It wouldn't go so he just parked it.
When I looked at it today the body is kinda beat, needs a drivers door, fender, hood, and the bed is thrashed. Also needs a back window (I have one) and a seat. No biggie those parts are cheap enough and all I really need is the seat and a white door.
Anthony wants the rear axle and the front hub spacers to dually his Squarebody Suburban, which I'm cool with I didn't want a dually anyway. I have a 14b full float 4.10 axle I was planning to put in the 89 but I'll put it in this truck, as well as the white bed from my parts 95 to make it a SRW truck.
This may be a good truck, and will allow me to tow things while not beating on the dodge which I think is starting to show symptoms of a failing transmission (I sure hope that's not it though).
So now onto the transmission problem. We checked it today and it had absolutely no fluid on the dipstick, so I may just get lucky and install a new filter and fluid and it will run and work. If not, Anothony will sell me a 4x4 nv4500 from a 6.0 Vortec truck for $500 and I give him an SM465 as part of the deal. Tyler has a cast iron top SM465 I would give him in a trade and then just give Tyler the aluminum top SM465 out of my 89.
Now onto the crew cab 3500HD and the 89 k2500. I'm thinking about yanking the engine and trans from the truck and selling the truck frame/body to my friend Joe since he wants to build up another truck. That would get one less project out of my hair (although I just bought the 95 parts truck to yank the 350 to install into the 89). The crew cab I will still get eventually, although I'm sold on putting a Cummins in it and this k3500 will be my temporary tow pig, possibly future SAS.
I'm crazy I know, let me know your opinions and give me ideas I could use them!
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