'98 Busurban Storm Chase Vehicle Build

[jjester6000]

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Progress has been slow since I've been taking on some extra hours, but I now am test fitting my OEM replacement floor pan.

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[jjester6000]

I just made a startling discovery.

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The Burb was rolled back!!!!!
(Actually someone probably replaced the gauge cluster).

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And I figured out that it has approximately 267,000 miles on it (give or take a few thousand).

 

[HotWheelsBurban]

I just made a startling discovery.

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The Burb was rolled back!!!!!
(Actually someone probably replaced the gauge cluster).

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And I figured out that it has approximately 267,000 miles on it (give or take a few thousand).

Carfax is great--as long as the shop doing the repairs reports the repairs! Had them run reports on 2 of our trucks, and there were things on both that weren't on the report. And of course, anything you do to your vehicle yourself isn't reported....
BTW, if CarFox has a first name, shouldn't it be Otto?
Edit: I can't take credit for this; my brother actually came up with it!

 

[jjester6000]

I stripped out all the seat bolts, so I ended up just cutting from the seatbelts forward.

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It really smelled like seawater, so I assume that while the truck was in new jersey 20 years ago, it might have seen a flood (definitely explains the rusty floor).

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I'm going to cover the area I cut out with some furnace insulation and this stuff.

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One more thing, this truck was a school district vehicle, was probably in a flood, was a plow truck, had its odometer rolled back, has been in at least 2 accidents, and is now going to be a storm chase vehicle.

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That's pretty cool.

 

[Supercharged111]

Are you gonna hit that floor with a wire brush? The bits that aren't getting replaced.

 

[HotWheelsBurban]

I stripped out all the seat bolts, so I ended up just cutting from the seatbelts forward.

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It really smelled like seawater, so I assume that while the truck was in new jersey 20 years ago, it might have seen a flood (definitely explains the rusty floor).

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I'm going to cover the area I cut out with some furnace insulation and this stuff.

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One more thing, this truck was a school district vehicle, was probably in a flood, was a plow truck, had its odometer rolled back, has been in at least 2 accidents, and is now going to be a storm chase vehicle.

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That's pretty cool.

Probably was involved in Superstorm Sandy. IIRC that hit Jersey pretty badly.
My 99 C1500 Burb was probably in at least one wreck before my family got it in 2013, after our first 99 Burb got totalled. When my Dad and cousin looked at it before we bought it, they could tell it had some issues. We originally bought it intending that it would be the swap meet truck, since we had other daily driver vehicles. So it wasn't used much for 3 or 4 years. I had kinda forgotten about that, until I was checking the service records yesterday ( logging the spark plugs changed).
While it was parked in front of Dad's shop building in 2017, Hurricane Harvey came through greater Houston, and there were tornadoes in Stafford ( the suburb of Houston we used to live in and still have the building in). Tore the sh#t out of several businesses, and one of them came down our street. Took out the neighbor's car port,did roof damage to several houses including ours, knocked over trees. When I heard about the tornado, I figured that the Burb was a goner. But it was unscathed!
I think that it's cool when an old truck or car has a history.

 

[jjester6000]

Are you gonna hit that floor with a wire brush? The bits that aren't getting replaced.

Yup, and I'm going to put down some POR15.

 

[jjester6000]

I am in kid of a hurry to get the Burb back together since my best friend just wrecked his ranger and needs a car.

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The frame might be twisted out of square, and the airbags went off, so he probably isn't going to fix it (He might, it depends on the frame).

 

[jjester6000]

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I got it all back together.

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I installed an older style T-Case shifter.

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I also I need a new gauge cluster since I slightly ****** the odometer while I was trying to roll it forward in order to get the correct mileage.

 

[Supercharged111]

You can change odometers without the cluster.