Most base model truck you've seen? 1989 Cheyenne K2500 4x4

[someotherguy]

I’m not sure on the tow hooks. It’s a strange puppy.

One other weird thing is it only has 2 speed wipers, Hi and Lo. Not that incredibly uncommon, but there is no self-park feature on them, which was strange to me.

I also didn’t realize there was no cargo lamp on the rear cab - just nothing! I can’t ever recall seeing that before either, I think even the W/T were all optioned with cargo lamps.

Tow hooks are RPO V76 (my former '94 GMC C1500 came with 'em, so that's from its SPID label)

I've seen the 2 speed wipers (non-intermittent/pulse); I'm pretty sure (not 100%!) they should still have a park function. It may be that your harness socket on the wiper motor circuit board has bad solder joints which is a very common problem, though it's a little bit extra work to get the board out of the pre-1991 style wiper motor in order to repair it. 1991-up is cake to repair. There's also a contact disc inside that has grease on it and over the years the grease hardens up; it may be interfering with the motor's ability to determine its position in order to park correctly.

Cargo lamps on the early trucks were very much optional equipment; RPO UF2. I've seen a lot without them. Once 1994 came along it was standard equipment since the CHMSL was federally mandated, it was a no-brainer and easy for them to include a cargo lamp along with the brake lamp assembly. Not sure if the 1994-up CHSML/cargo assembly has its own RPO or if it's included in one of the "lamp group" RPO's.

Richard

 

[Edward Case]

Did it have an am radio?I think my 91 came with an am radio.

 

[Nick_R_23]

Damn guys, knocking it out of the park here.

Great view on that diagram. I was curious how the storage cubby went in, so now I’ll know what to look for at the junkyards.

I’ll take a look at the wiper motor itself and see if there’s anything I can find inside. I would imagine self park would be a feature, but with this truck it would not surprise me if it wasn’t.

The UK4 code calls out an AM/FM radio, I believe a strictly AM radio received a different RPO code. I’ll bet I even have a factory radio stashed away from a truck a long time ago, I should dig around and see if I still have it.

The next big step is pinning down the misfire that it has. I’m banking on it having a dead cylinder and needing a rebuild.

 

[jjester6000]

I've had 3 very Base trucks:

My '74 GMC with an I6/3 on the tree and nothing else.

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(I added the chrome side molding/two tone)

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My '89 k2500 Cheyenne with no radio, but A/C and power windows.

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(I screwed some side molding on this one as well)
And my Current daily, a '98 Suburban K1500 with 3 bench seats, no dome lights, wind up windows, rubber flooring, and a manual T-Case.

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You guys ever watch coldwarmotors?

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[Nick_R_23]

I like that suburban. The older I get, the more I seem to appreciate manual everything. It just rarely fails!

I’m curious on your ‘no radio’ truck also. Can you post a picture of that dash too? Did it come with some sort of blank plate for the radio?

 

[jjester6000]

I like that suburban. The older I get, the more I seem to appreciate manual everything. It just rarely fails!

I’m curious on your ‘no radio’ truck also. Can you post a picture of that dash too? Did it come with some sort of blank plate for the radio?

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The guy I got it from had put a radio into it, so I didn't get a blanking plate, but he told me that he got it without one.

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Speaking of radios, My '74 didn't come with a radio either, but someone installed a mid 50s Becker Europa Highway Hifi AM/FM radio into it and made it look factory.
(IT STILL HAS TUBES!)

 

[thinger2]

My 83 K5 Blazer was an Arizona "Salt River Project" truck.
It came with nothing but a/c
2 speed wipers, rubber floor mats, radio delete plastic crap door panels etc..
The only other time ive seen something like that is when I was a Dodge salesman.
We always had a bone basic no option truck on the lot so we could run an add in the paper
"Dodge Ram blah, blah, blah...
Only $15,995!
A truck so horrible that no one would ever consider buying it.
Called a "bait mobile"
Ocasionally, someone would buy that **** wagon and it was a mad scramble to get another one

 

[east302]

We always had a bone basic no option truck on the lot so we could run an add in the paper
"Dodge Ram blah, blah, blah...
Only $15,995!

Ha, I remember those ads! Mighty V6 Magnum regular cabs.


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[noabarron3]

This truck is awesome! I’d love to have it; especially if it was a manual.

 

[skylark]

I had an 88 k1500 ex Pacific Power truck that was optioned with a short bed and the 305. Otherwise nothing else. No ac, radio, gauges-nothing. I finally put in a radio when I was singing "Old McDonald had a Camaro e-i-e-i-o and his Camaro fell off the blocks e-i-e-i-o". That day I mounted a radio underneath the dash. I didn't have any brackets handy so I used hinges but dang it, I had a radio!