If You Could Do It All Over Again...

[95C1500]

What would you do differently? I don't know about you guys, but when I was in high school, I was all about the plstidip and clapped out redneck lookin trucks. (ie: grille guards, headache racks, full replacement bumpers, tons of lift, big beefy tires, etc...). Now I like the stock look. If I were to go buy a new truck, odds are, I'd keep it pretty much stock besides tint, exhaust, etc... I'm more into upgrading the truck to make it a more capable truck. Instead of a lift and huge tires, I prefer stock or slightly lifted with average size tires. Instead of the loud exhaust, I like a nice rumble, nice tone, and a little roar on the throttle. I'd rather focus on towing/hauling capabilities than "how many light bars can I put on this thing?". It's amazing how tastes change.

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This is what I started with.

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This is the highschool phase

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Now the college phase
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For me, I would have left the truck pretty much stock looking. I'd do a 3" bodylift, 6 lug swap with a C2500 LD axle and disc swap, stock sawblade wheels with 265 or 285s, Hidden hitch(or the tahoe/burb hitches; whichever ones tuck up with the bumper if you have a body lift), decent sounding muffler w/ stock tailpipe/relocated for the body lift, window tint, tonneau cover, LED interior, 60/40 split bench swap, z71 stickers , 4 hi mod, 4 corner mod... I think that's about it. Oh maybe this paint scheme

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I've realized how much money I've put into it over the years of owning this truck, all to find out that it was a waste. What I want now would have cost a fraction of what I have into it right now. Who's to say my tastes won't change again in a couple years?

Enough of my rambling. If you could do it all over again, start from scratch, what would you do differently?

 

[kkirwan71]

Wouldn't have cranked the t bars to the moon on 31s. Wouldn't have re-cranked t bars after the wreck and front end rebuild #1. Wouldn't have stuffed 33s on a 15x10 -toofrigginmuch offset wheels. Wouldn't have had the trans rebuilt when I got rid of the thing 3 months later. All in all I'd do it again just with better judgement

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[mistaake]

I would have never sold my 96 Yukon and gone through half a dozen vehicles after that one... shoulda just had the tranny rebuilt when it died :/

on the Yukon I probably would have gone one tire size up and done a small body lift and put a nice stereo and left it like that!

 

[DaltonB98]

Lol I can understand where your comin from Scott(I think that's what your name is). I'm 21 almost owned my truck for a year. ive bought my truck just about as is haven't done much since I've had my purchase. But if it was a stock truck the only thing I would have done would be... 1) add different rims 18-17" aftermarket rims that would fit with whatever tire. 2)Entire new sound system because stock sound on these trucks blow. 3) And maybe a low profile tool box, window tint. 4) an led light bar on a headache rack or push bar. Since I live and drive on a lot of country off road crap were stock headlights don't show anything.

 

[whiplash473]

I never did anything that wasn't easily reversed. I went crazy with niteshade in high school. New lenses - easy fix. Stickers have always been on my truck but there was a while I just had too many. Not even close to some trucks but too many for my taste now. I guess I was just trying to work with what I had for a long time.

Overall I probably wouldn't do anything different. I did the 3" body lift about 5yrs ago and threw 33s on, which was good at the time, but I always wanted to throw a kit under it. I finally got to do it this year. So basically I had about a decade of thinking/dreaming about doing it, that's a lot of time to have a mind change and now I'm very happy with it the way it is. I never leave things alone for too long though, but the recent lift and whatnot is all the big upgrade that's gonna happen for a while.

EDIT: The one regret I do have is not holding out for 14 bolt axles to throw under it. I paid to have the 10bolts re-geared... REALLY? Who re-gears 10bolt axles planning on running 37s? That's my one regret right now.

 

[Justin S]

Yeah, i'd probably wouldn't have put the wing and scoop on my 72 Chevelle back in highschool. My only defense is that Fast and Furious had just come out! I do miss that thing.

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[BowtieBrody]

Woulda done more maintenance when I first got it. Replace and rebuild parts, all that wonderful stuff.

23X,*** miles on all original parts when I first got it, and now things are starting to go on it at 245,870, and if I woulda gone through and replaced the little stuff like hoses and caught some of the leaks and whatnot, I wouldn't be dealing with this nickel and dime **** all the time now.
Can't drive the damn thing without blowing out a hose, or something else breaking.

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[whiplash473]

Woulda done more maintenance when I first got it. Replace and rebuild parts, all that wonderful stuff.

Frickin' thing is clean though. Ever since mine started rusting out I'm like obsessed with clean doors, haha.

 

[BowtieBrody]

Frickin' thing is clean though. Ever since mine started rusting out I'm like obsessed with clean doors, haha.

It's not as clean as it looks
A shitton of scratches in the paint, surface rust on the roof, clear coat and paint faded so it looks like ass on the hood; no severe rust though; coming from the Midwest I love Southern trucks, no rust....just a lot of them are ragged out hunks of **** now.
Damn kids and their bald ass Nittos and Toyos, ****** Amazon light bars, over-cranking and lack of blocks in the rear.

 

[whiplash473]

Damn kids and their bald ass Nittos and Toyos, ****** Amazon light bars, over-cranking and lack of blocks in the rear.

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