88GMCtruck
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I'm not sure currently, but it'll be a bit before I take anything apart on it. you in the need for black ones?Got plans for the hood & the driver's fender?
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I'm not sure currently, but it'll be a bit before I take anything apart on it. you in the need for black ones?Got plans for the hood & the driver's fender?
Ah gotcha! I know the feeling of the first truck, and the 5-speed stuff!Yea. I have a new passenger fender. The '98's driver's side isn't that bad, but it is tweaked.
Thinking about the '98's cowl hood for the '97. Like to keep the stocker on it now for whenever. So the '98 will need a hood.
In a bit of a quandry right now over the '98's future. Thinkin' about maybe dropping the '98's rear suspension under the '97, 3.73 posi & all, and cutting one of the '97's coils so it'll end up @ 4/7.
The V6 is puffing a bit of blue very now & then on the downshifts, so it may be time for a 5.3/t-56. Probably just valve seals, but I just can't see dropping even that minimal amount of $$$ into a 4.3.
WIth those 3.73's, a 5.3 + a moderate cam & headers, & she'll be a nasty ***** as a daily!
With the swapped rear out of my '97 & put back to just a 2/4 with the stock coils I have now in the stock pile, the '98 could be a 'for sale' candidate.
I'd also keep the buckets/console & swap them for the bench that's in my parts bin.
I dunno. Maybe I've lost a bit of steam on the '98 as a project. But then, if I was to come across a decentley priced 6.0/4L08e (6L80e!!!?) the perspective could change.
Only real diff between the 2 trucks is one's an auto/air/cruise & the other's a plain jane stick.
Wish I could combine the two.
Power everything + still be shifty, too!
I drove for the first 4 years of having a d/license with a stick. First loves, y'know? To me, a stick is for someone that likes to drive. A real truck. A MAN'S truck! No time to be suckin' back that triple, no-foam, decaf pumpkin latte! Lol!