Talk me into, or out of, it...

HotWheelsBurban said:

I'd love to....but the $$$ is not gonna be in the budget anytime soon.
I'd ideally like to do a 2/4 on the Burb, maybe a 4/6. And lower Rawhide enough to notice, but still be able to get through street flooding (I do live in Houston lol).
But right now, every buck coming in, has about 10 places to go....

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Rawhide would look great lowered, but something about stock height makes it look good too! It’s still unique.

someotherguy said:

Forever since the last real update...

Today I dropped her off at the transmission shop. I've had this truck getting close to a year - which seems really surprising to me. I still haven't put 500 miles on it including the trip home from buying it out of town. 40 minute trip from my house to the transmission shop and in the last 10 minutes or so it started running crappy like it was gonna quit on me. FML

Anyway my buddy at the transmission shop has the list: deal with the synchro grind (in other words basically a full rebuild - synchros, bearings, possible input shaft replacement, etc.), throwout bearing, pilot bushing, clutch, resurface the flywheel, and check/replace rear main seal on the engine while he's in there.

Hey; it was a fun little drive until it started crapping out. Nice weather...sunny but a little bit cool.

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Richard

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How is the rear end doing?

skylark said:

How is the rear end doing?

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Dunno! It's about a 40 minute trip to the transmission shop, but max speed about 45-50 so it's not the same as the highway trip to work. When I got there I did check and no signs of trouble.

Richard

Got the call today from the transmission shop, which was a little unexpected! Figured they'd have it longer. He said they did a full rebuild on the transmission (I'm sure it needed it), new clutch, resurfaced the flywheel, new release bearing and fork, and all the miscellaneous other stuff. I forgot to ask if they noticed whether the oil leak was the rear main seal (my buddy Joe immediately responded when I dropped the truck off and mentioned it, he said they'd address it when the trans was out if it was an issue...)

The price was a little eye-watering. I almost don't wanna post it. However, they got the job because I know they'll do it right. With how the truck was acting up on the way over there, I kinda want to go pick up the wrecker from work and tow the thing home and dig into why it's running weird, instead of trusting it for the 40 minute drive back home.

Richard

Glad you're making progress. Remind us, how the truck was running. I re-read your post from the first, and you mentioned "crapping out" but I didn't see anything more specific.

454cid said:

Glad you're making progress. Remind us, how the truck was running. I re-read your post from the first, and you mentioned "crapping out" but I didn't see anything more specific.

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Did fine for most of the trip but the last several miles it had what felt like a misfire, hard to say, maybe ignition or fuel pressure momentarily dropping out. I persuaded it to make it to the transmission shop and once there the idle was surging badly. I hated to leave it with them in that condition but they said when they went to test-drive it after the rebuild it behaved mostly normal, but as it sat idling in their driveway it began surging again.

Richard

Needs a GM medium garnet red metallic air cleaner. That would clear things right up.

Glad you got it back though. Hopefully it’s something easy to fix.

And don’t feel bad about the price. I feel the same when I look at how much my wheels have cost. I feel like a moron.

Creeping up on significant investment in a POS that still doesn't run reliably or have working A/C! And I've done basically all of the work on it myself except for the transmission.

Why do we do this to ourselves? LOL

Richard

I made this last year when I was doing my all my work. Thought you might get a laugh!

fancyTBI said:

I made this last year when I was doing my all my work. Thought you might get a laugh!

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It will still be better than that 80-90k piece of shjt.