Hello all! I have been on the forum browsing for years, never really posted anything. Figure I better write my story on up to now, I will be using this members thread for my "build". I picked up my 99 suburban about a year ago at the dealership I work at. It was sitting in our junk lot, so I wanted to see what was up with it. I took it on a test drive and fell in love with it. I went to get a price and surprisingly I got it for what they had in it, $500! 500 bucks in Iowa for a rust free body I was already ahead. Got it home checked the brakes, all were new, everything was tight in the front end. It was the GMT400 I was looking for. I have put some money into it, but for the most part it seems the old owner took very good care of it. I have put some work into it, but its still going to be along road to get it to where I want it. I have put plugs, wires, u-joints, slip yoke, and a bearing into the transfer case. When the u-joint locked it ate the bearing in the output of the transfer case. I love to do maintenance so with it having 270,*** on the ticker, I have changed Oil, changed out the auto trac II in the transfer case, trans pan drop and filter change, and changed out fluids in front and rear diff. I have ordered a DUI performance distributor, with the aluminum shaft, to get rid of the crappy plastic distributor. I have had a DUI distributor in my 2001 s10 (4.3 Vortec) for about a year and would recommend it to anybody needing a new distributor. While replacing the distributor I am going to do the intake gaskets (with the fel pro metal gaskets) and delete the egr valve. I would also like to get rid of the crappy "pop it" injectors and swap in the "mpfi" fuel spider. But until that day I am doing some extensive rust prevention. I will be using KBS coatings. Seems like a very good product but I will see this week as I am applying it. Now that I have drug this short Bio of my GMT as far as I can, I will get to the pictures.
My Old truck my dad picked up in 97 (the start of my GMT400 addiction) It was a 1991 z71 tbi 350 thing was my baby. Had a 6inch rough county lift with 35/12.50r15s Unfortunately the Iowa rust took her from us ):
Her is her resting place ):
Her is the DD (2001 s10 my take on a "ss") With ZQ8 S10 wheels.
Now on to the show taker! The day I took her home!
Also to anyone that cares I also am a huge GM W-body fanatic. If there are any Wbody fans on here!
I will ad more photos and recent problems in another post as I have posted way to much on this one post. Thanks all!
My Old truck my dad picked up in 97 (the start of my GMT400 addiction) It was a 1991 z71 tbi 350 thing was my baby. Had a 6inch rough county lift with 35/12.50r15s Unfortunately the Iowa rust took her from us ):
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She was originally red, this was what I did to her in highschool after I put rust free doors, and a different box on it. Her is her resting place ):
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Her is the DD (2001 s10 my take on a "ss") With ZQ8 S10 wheels.
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Now on to the show taker! The day I took her home!
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Also to anyone that cares I also am a huge GM W-body fanatic. If there are any Wbody fans on here!
I will ad more photos and recent problems in another post as I have posted way to much on this one post. Thanks all!