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    What are your truck goals for 2025?

    92 K1500 ecsb: De-Silverado (WT grille, manual doors); swap on a stepside bed; rocker panels and cab corner; full chassis refresh; carb conversion; lift including ladder bars; winch (finish bumper build); fancy hood; paint; bed bar and lights; refresh true dual exhaust. 99 K3500: SAS; 5.7 to...
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    Back in the Game

    Think I would have “had” to install the 8.1L… 262 cid stock, -vs- 496 cid transplant? Oh yeah…
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    What’s a good shock

    My 92 K1500 has bright yellow Napa sourced, installed by the local farm co-op tire shop. They seemed to work alright. My 99 K3500 has Bilstein 4600s, look like factory issued based on the surface rust. Nothing special, they kind of work. Will probably replace with Gabriel load assist, truck...
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    98 c3500 cab and chassis tire upgrade?

    Run your VIN on GM Parts Giant. It will tell you everything your truck was built with. My 99 K3500 c&c shipped stock with LT215/85r16D tires. Yep, 3/4t tires from the factory. Currently have LT235/85r16E up front, LT265/75r16E out back. Steers better with 235s than the 265s it had at purxhase...
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    Gm n4500 or dodge nv4500 for 12 valve swap

    Only thing I can offer is buy the best throwout set up you can find. Changing them a year or so later is going to be a chore… My 99 K3500 is making “fitnya blow up” noises, the following were replaced in 2023: engine, transmission, t-case, clutch disc, pressure plate… Roughly 17,000 miles on all...
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    Sagging Springs

    Spring age might be an issue, might not… 1949 Dodge B1b-108, 1/2t 2wd swb stepside, stock springs, stock ride height. 1969 Dodge D100-128, 1/2t 2wd lwb slab side, stock springs (3/4t, heavy half), stock ride height. Licensed as a 1970 Dodge M400, 2t based RV, stock springs, stock ride height...
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    Tow capacity upgrade

    Been threatening to build “this” for years. Just at a normal working ride height. I already have a lwb Sweptline, a 413/727/Spicer 70 dually rear axle and a D/M400 solid front axle. But by the same token, have a C60 with a pto equipped SM465. I don’t do “normal”…
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    Tow capacity upgrade

    My 99 K3500 c&c. Set up for bumper pull and gooseneck use. Vortec 350 (weak), NV4500 (tolerable), Borg Warner 4470 transfer case (tolerable), 14 bolt full float with 4.10s+GovLoc+huge drums. Front is still IFS (sketchy at best) with huge discs, and an appetite for balljoints that surpasses a...
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    Tow capacity upgrade

    Both are K3500 duallies. One is for working, the other… Guaranteed the SAS c&c will out work the IFS standard. Would love to have either, so plan is to build my c&c like the bright red, with the burgundy truck’s grille.
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    Tow capacity upgrade

    I have a yard full of worked to death minitrucks and full sized 1/2 tons. I finally broke down and bought a K3500 dually flatbed, cab and chassis. 12,000# gvwr, 22,000# gcwr. And quite honestly, not enough truck… I need to swap the 350 out for a mechanical diesel, and the weak sister ifs garbage...
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    1994 Ext. Cab Speakers

    That description will seriously help me “gut” my 92 ecsb. Stock speakers, cheap (Pep Boys clearance in 2004) tuner. Has a cd changer under the rear bench, not currently hooked up. Rear bench will become a tiny sedan delivery-esque platform/speaker box. Braxtyn, if you are pulling plastics to...
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    No headlights?

    Even as far back as the 1985 models with a tilt column, it is properly referred to as a “MALFUNCTION” switch… as the OP found out…
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    Front wheels track wider than rear?

    Silverado/Sierra Classic/SLE with 215/85r16D stock tires. And a G80 with 4.10s…
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    Front wheels track wider than rear?

    I run LT235/85r16E up front, LT265/75r16E rears. 120/116 front, 123/120 rears. Run both ends at 55psi because my pos Eagle bullet holes are only rated for 60 psi max. When I get my steel wheels, going to 16 ply commercial all terrain bias in 8.25 or 9.25 sizes. Don’t have the cash for good...
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    Front wheels track wider than rear?

    Upfitter finished label, Bennet Truck Equipment, Orlando FL.
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    Ralle wheels

    Brochures shows them in 15” (2wd) and 16” (4wd) through at least 1996… The 4wd 6 lug version will fit back to the early 1960s 2wd trucks as well as Square, OBS and NBS 4wd. I need a set for my 92 K1500 that will be on bias mudders.
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    Front wheels track wider than rear?

    Builder label specs L215/85r16 D. It left Flint truck plant in 5/99 as an incomplete. Shipped to and finished in Florida as a flatbed.
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    1988 k3500 4x4 SRW lift/leveling kits. Help please.

    Max crank, 99 K3500 c&c dually on LT235.85r16E A/Ts. Truck will be going on 8.25 or 9.25-16LT 16 ply.
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    Front wheels track wider than rear?

    I have steel spacers between my rear wheels, only way to run 265s on a truck designed to run 215s. 99 K3500 c&c standard cab dually. 2” spacer, steel inner wheels, bullet hole aluminum outers. LT265/75r16E AT tires. Truck moonlights as a stock hauler. My 92 K1500 is getting a fresh set of...
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    Project Steve - 94 GMC Z71 ExCab Fenderside Resto

    Nice find on the project truck. I’m in the same wiring boat with a 92 version. But since my truck has what codes out to a 1979 engine with 1992 bolt on stuff, I’m going to “cheat”. And since it has a 700r4/4L60 with a tv cable… Quadrajet, big cap hei, EZ-wiring harness and a Th350 or SM465...
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    I cannot find this valve cover hose anywhere!

    No holes in the base, draws through the hose barb. This one is huge, perfect fit for the oil fill tube on a van engine or Squarebody 4.3L V6. I just swapped the pcv to the other valve cover and plugged the stock location. My K1500 uses the same breather , but with a different base. Perimeter...
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    I cannot find this valve cover hose anywhere!

    I just used a similar breather, and a section of smaller hose. Worked great. Available anywhere they have a cheapy chicoms chrome section.
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    The Shipwreckrolet 1992 K1500 ECSB Resurrection

    Been cataloging the critter damages done while the truck has been sitting: Both radiator hoses chewed up. Both heater hoses chewed up. Power steering hose chewed down to the steel braiding. Brake hose holed. TBI wiring is gone. Sparkplug wires chewed in half. Possum nest in the engine bay...
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    Route LA Customs

    I want a round version, in red, not for my 92 Silverado, but for my 85… Door panel insets. My 92, though going stepside with a black W/T grille, “needs” the red side trim and the red squared off badges. To match the Massey Ferguson red frame paint waiting for better weather. 85 C10 swb, 92 K1500...
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    Remove bed on my 1988 Chevy

    Stepsides are a bit more fragile than fleetsides. When you get the last couple bolts wrung off, try to use 3 people when you lift it off. Set it on sawhorses until you are ready to flip it and remove the inevitably snapped off last 2 bolts. Stand it on the front panel to work on the bolts...

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