cjmspartans
OBS Enthusiast
Well. I wish I had a great story for this truck, but I picked it up in late December of 2017 and have been throwing quite a bit of money at it. Lately I've been using it as my daily driver as my Chevy Cobalt has a nasty exhaust leak... but I intend on using it for camping trips and towing my project car around whenever I need to.
It has the 7.4L Vortec in it, and I managed to squeeze about 12mpg out of it with mixed city and freeway by barely touching the accelerator As of now, it has 161,*** miles on the clock and it seems to be running pretty well. It threw a P0300 code once while going full throttle up a 7% grade which kinda sucked. My guess is it needs a tune up with the ignition system. New plugs, wires, distributor cap and rotor. A new fuel filter really couldn't hurt, either.
I'd love to put a K&N FIPK cold air intake on it for the sound and extra 20hp, but I'm thinking it's a waste of money since I couldn't imagine much of an increase in MPG and it has plenty of power as it is.
Things I need to do to this truck is flush the rear heater core, repair some rust on the roof where it meets the windshield (sigh), and fix the stereo system. The two front speakers work with the aftermarket head unit, but the rear speakers don't work for some unusual reason. The previous owner had a subwoofer and a amp in the back from what I can tell, as the wiring is all there for it. I just hope they didn't ruin any of the wiring in the harness that goes to the head unit as their wiring job is garbage.
A video of it accelerating from 0-80 (I let off the throttle a little around 60mph):
Here's some pictures from my first post in the introduction subforum:
It has the 7.4L Vortec in it, and I managed to squeeze about 12mpg out of it with mixed city and freeway by barely touching the accelerator As of now, it has 161,*** miles on the clock and it seems to be running pretty well. It threw a P0300 code once while going full throttle up a 7% grade which kinda sucked. My guess is it needs a tune up with the ignition system. New plugs, wires, distributor cap and rotor. A new fuel filter really couldn't hurt, either.
I'd love to put a K&N FIPK cold air intake on it for the sound and extra 20hp, but I'm thinking it's a waste of money since I couldn't imagine much of an increase in MPG and it has plenty of power as it is.
Things I need to do to this truck is flush the rear heater core, repair some rust on the roof where it meets the windshield (sigh), and fix the stereo system. The two front speakers work with the aftermarket head unit, but the rear speakers don't work for some unusual reason. The previous owner had a subwoofer and a amp in the back from what I can tell, as the wiring is all there for it. I just hope they didn't ruin any of the wiring in the harness that goes to the head unit as their wiring job is garbage.
A video of it accelerating from 0-80 (I let off the throttle a little around 60mph):
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Here's some pictures from my first post in the introduction subforum:
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