Rawhide and The Burb

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HotWheelsBurban

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Yes it's funny how this came together like it did. He had just posted the truck the night before you saw it, and then I saw it an hour after your post.
Turns out the grandson lives in Katy, goes back and forth between there and Pleasanton where the family place is. My mom is a Methodist preacher's kid, and she started school in Jourdanton, just down the road from Pleasanton. The family moved every few years as her dad was assigned to a new church; they lived all over central Texas.
The family who owned this truck(grandpa bought it new)wanted the truck to go to someone who really wanted it,and not just to someone who would flip it.....
And when I had the VIN number run, this truck is one of a little over 15,000 built in '97. It's very early production, built on September 27, 1996. That date was my dad's mother's birthday.....
 

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Yes it's funny how this came together like it did. He had just posted the truck the night before you saw it, and then I saw it an hour after your post.
Turns out the grandson lives in Katy, goes back and forth between there and Pleasanton where the family place is. My mom is a Methodist preacher's kid, and she started school in Jourdanton, just down the road from Pleasanton. The family moved every few years as her dad was assigned to a new church; they lived all over central Texas.
The family who owned this truck(grandpa bought it new)wanted the truck to go to someone who really wanted it,and not just to someone who would flip it.....
And when I had the VIN number run, this truck is one of a little over 15,000 built in '97. It's very early production, built on September 27, 1996. That date was my dad's mother's birthday.....
A funny about all this was that I live in San Antonio, and was in Houston when all this was going on. Lolol

It’s cool to have some sort of history on the truck.
 

HotWheelsBurban

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A funny about all this was that I live in San Antonio, and was in Houston when all this was going on. Lolol

It’s cool to have some sort of history on the truck.
Yes I thought so too! Maybe y'all passed each other on I 10?
I've always thought it was cool when you had a vehicle with a story, or one that's been in the same family for generations (like @SUBURBAN5's for example).
 

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No AC on the burb?! That pizza may have been cooked when you got it, but it was more cooked when you got it home! Have you identified what's bad? I used about 40# of compressed air to hunt for the leaks in that dually I flipped, it worked great.

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I think I used Simple Green to generate the bubbles.
 

HotWheelsBurban

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No AC on the burb?! That pizza may have been cooked when you got it, but it was more cooked when you got it home! Have you identified what's bad? I used about 40# of compressed air to hunt for the leaks in that dually I flipped, it worked great.

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I think I used Simple Green to generate the bubbles.
One of the problems is that the blower doesn't blow. I haven't been able to see whether it's the motor,or the switch or resistor. Until I can see what that is and rectify it, I can't do too much about getting it going.
 

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At the garage, getting the hydro boost unit replaced. Getting a reman; no new ones are available from their suppliers. Gonna be $600, so this is now a $5500 truck.....
 

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At the garage, getting the hydro boost unit replaced. Getting a reman; no new ones are available from their suppliers. Gonna be $600, so this is now a $5500 truck.....
Still not terrible. And it's still a better platform than anything in the past 10 years.
 
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