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Very nice. I'm glad to hear you'll keep it stock lol. Keep that beauty maintained and protected. Undercoat the bottom and other mods I could see is maybe stuff the truck didnt original come with. Like upgraded radiator, transcooler, maybe power steering cooler, and whatever else you think. Otherwise big 3 and keep her protected. Shell get many more miles. My baby got 473k and there's always something to replace lol. Yours got plenty of life yet just treat her right and do a multipoint inspection everytime you take her out.
I'd ditch the 4.3 air cleaner & snorkel.
Get one from a 350 truck, the older "barrel" style resonator thing looks better IMO as well, if you want to continue to run one. Otherwise, get a snorkel from a 305 truck which will run from the air cleaner straight to the intake on the fender.
Really nice truck, RC|SB trucks are rare, especially 4x4's. Shame about the automatic though
I hadn’t given a ton of thought to the trans-cooler yet but I like the idea. When I swapped in the 350 I got a radiator off of a 1995 Z71 truck with a towing package so the radiator is 2-1/4 in thick (I believe) it also has an engine oil cooler that I added in but that’s all on the same radiator. The truck must’ve been special ordered because it already has the power steering cooler.
Do you have an estimate on what it would cost to mount a separate transmission cooler? And would I have to replace the cooler lines all the way back from the trans?
Awesome thanks for the info. I would think that maybe it would be better that it goes to the aux cooler second to avoid heat soak. How much help do you think an extra trans cooler would give the transmission in lasting longer?Well heres an update looks like gm has a trans line going to the aux then up to radiator then out to back to trans. Or if I'm backwards. It would be trans line to radiator out down to aux out to return to trans.
Awesome thanks for the info. I would think that maybe it would be better that it goes to the aux cooler second to avoid heat soak. How much help do you think an extra trans cooler would give the transmission in lasting longer?