My name's Josh, I live near Thief River Falls Minnesota, and last September I bought a 99 Suburban LT with nearly 240k miles on her for $1800. It's the first Chevy I have owned, but not the first I have worked on. I'm not a mechanic but I sold parts for about 10 years and have turned wrenches on my junk and a few friends race cars. I know just enough to get myself into trouble.
The Battleship, I call her that because she's big and grey, needed a few odds and ends, brake light switch to get the cruise control working again, the AC compressor was shot, the water pump was seeping a bit, one of the door lock actuators had broken it's rivets somehow, and the drivers seat cover and outside door handle needed to be replaced. I have done all of that and earlier this summer I pulled the interior apart to put in a touch screen head unit and backup camera and replace the speakers. I didn't run new wiring for the speakers so now I'm chasing a short [emoji58]. I'm going to just run fresh wire direct to the head unit and be done with it, and I have a Massive Audio Hippo 8' in a ported box for a little bump. It sounded like it was much bigger than it is when I had it in the trunk of a car but in the burb' it leaves me wanting a bit more power so sooner or later I'll be getting a couple of 12's probably. I bought the truck to be my tow rig, more often than not it sits parked and I drive my lady's car, it gets like three times the mileage [emoji16]. Oh and I dipped the grille black and put some steel 17's off a newer Sierra on there after I dipped them black too. For the mileage and the year it's real clean, almost no rust which around here is super rare. Once I get the brake booster fixed, really not looking forward to that job, she'll be 100% until something else breaks lol. She's pretty dirty right now but I'll try and post some pics later. Don't know how active this board is but if anyone has some tips on the best way to access the vacuum booster mounting nuts I'm all ears. I had to have my girl help me with that brake light switch because my hands are too big to get up in there.
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The Battleship, I call her that because she's big and grey, needed a few odds and ends, brake light switch to get the cruise control working again, the AC compressor was shot, the water pump was seeping a bit, one of the door lock actuators had broken it's rivets somehow, and the drivers seat cover and outside door handle needed to be replaced. I have done all of that and earlier this summer I pulled the interior apart to put in a touch screen head unit and backup camera and replace the speakers. I didn't run new wiring for the speakers so now I'm chasing a short [emoji58]. I'm going to just run fresh wire direct to the head unit and be done with it, and I have a Massive Audio Hippo 8' in a ported box for a little bump. It sounded like it was much bigger than it is when I had it in the trunk of a car but in the burb' it leaves me wanting a bit more power so sooner or later I'll be getting a couple of 12's probably. I bought the truck to be my tow rig, more often than not it sits parked and I drive my lady's car, it gets like three times the mileage [emoji16]. Oh and I dipped the grille black and put some steel 17's off a newer Sierra on there after I dipped them black too. For the mileage and the year it's real clean, almost no rust which around here is super rare. Once I get the brake booster fixed, really not looking forward to that job, she'll be 100% until something else breaks lol. She's pretty dirty right now but I'll try and post some pics later. Don't know how active this board is but if anyone has some tips on the best way to access the vacuum booster mounting nuts I'm all ears. I had to have my girl help me with that brake light switch because my hands are too big to get up in there.
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