Wildbill0088's 97 Build Thread

[Wildbill0088]

Ok this thread may fall flat on it's face but gonna try anyways. Bought this truck three years ago. 1997 C1500 ECLB 5.0 Vortec

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Was sitting in a buddies front yard on three wheels paid supposedly had no park but I found immediately that it was just a bad shift cable so I through a battery in it and heard it run but found the intake gasket was shot. So I gave him $500 and hauled it home and did a bunch of little repairs. Also removed three big trash bags worth of crap from the interior and ended up pressure washing the carpet at a car wash haha.

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Drove it like I stole it, had a rear end howl the whole time I drove it and started throwing transmission codes the day after I started driving it, right after the "buddy" I bought it off of told me the trans was blown and took off in his Dmax laughing. His trans blew up an hour later Karma is a ***** lmao! Meanwhile I drove mine a year and a half till problems got bad.

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Worked it regularly and was mostly issue free for a year and a half till second let go in the trans and it got parked, gradually losing random parts here and there to the other trucks.

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How it currently sits. Was gonna part it out but now thinking I may fix the thing up since I want a DD that can do what I need it to.

 

[Darkrider]

Heh like i said it looks like scotts truck after a bar fight lmao

 

[Wildbill0088]

Heh like i said it looks like scotts truck after a bar fight lmao

More like a world war between the previous owners and me lmao

 

[Darkrider]

This might just be a wild hair thought...but what about the idea of taking the 5 speed out of your '93 and dropping it into this truck or the 305 from this truck into the '93 with an ECM swap and a GM performance TBI intake for the vortec heads?

 

[Wildbill0088]

The w/t is on the back burner got big plans a ways down the road for it lol. Want the extended cab for a DD. if I came across another nv3500 equipped truck may consider a swap. Besides if I put a different motor in the w/t it will sure as hell be a 350 or bigger

 

[Darkrider]

The w/t is on the back burner got big plans a ways down the road for it lol. Want the extended cab for a DD. if I came across another nv3500 equipped truck may consider a swap. Besides if I put a different motor in the w/t it will sure as hell be a 350 or bigger

Lol fair enough...what about pulling the NV3500 for this truck though and putting an LS 6.0 into the w/t with a TH700R4?

 

[1997chevydriver]

So is it just the trans and rear end that needs replacement? (minus all the little stuff that may have migrated to other trucks)

 

[Darkrider]

So is it just the trans and rear end that needs replacement? (minus all the little stuff that may have migrated to other trucks)

Sounds like it

 

[Wildbill0088]

I think the radiator has a cracked tank and I'm gonna also replace the timing chain since the crank and cam sensors were throwing a code saying they were not aligned so probably those too while I'm at it. The nv3500 in the w/t needs a rebuild and I don't have any of the clutch components available for a 95+. May have a trans and rear lined up gotta go look into that.

 

[Wildbill0088]

Oh and a bit of front end work it likes eating the outside edge of the right front tire