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  1. Rumbledawg

    Show your daily driver

    thanks. he went into hospice the other day, doc says maybe a week or two. was pretty tough for me and wife to home care for him and still go to work last couple weeks. he looks pretty bad...made a good run though- 87 yrs old. i also inherited about 25 g's of tools from him, plus a john deere...
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    door lock cyl. removal

    just put new ones in my crewcab last weekend. you need to dis-engage the door lock pawl. slightly turn the cylinder to dis-engage and fish the lock out. make sure the door lock is up, it will come out easier. to get the pawl off the lock cylinder you need to bend the middle tab up out of the...
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    Show your daily driver

    wifes dad just signed a do not resuscitate order yesterday, so he signed his truck over to my wife. now we got 4 trucks, 1 suv and a firebird. my driveway is looking like a used car dealers lot... 2014 double cab v6 auto 4by. 76000kms (approx 45000 miles)really nice shape, old man driven
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    King ranch seat in the sqaurebody.

    no idea what yr, but after looking at pics i would say earlier too, '99-'05 ish they were in the truck when i bought it last january. and their not in a square, it's a rcsb obs will get a pic later, still dark out
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    King ranch seat in the sqaurebody.

    not sure of yr. guy i got them from said they were out of his son 's wrecked super duty. not up to par on ford stuff, but i think the KR seats were available in SD's from '03 on. mine are 10 way power with heaters, but only a 2 wire hookup, which leads me to believe they are earlier seats as i...
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    King ranch seat in the sqaurebody.

    well i'm not one of those kind of guys that get all hung up on a name. if something is worlds above what gm orig slapped in the truck, i'm not adverse to using it, esp just some seats. what bugs me is when guys go stick a ford 60 under the front of their truck. two things i like about my seats...
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    King ranch seat in the sqaurebody.

    i got front and rear king ranch seats in my crewcab. leather, power, heated, some of the most comfortable seats i ever had in any of my trucks till i bought a rcsb couple months ago with an escalade seat in it, even more comfy than the king ranch's
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    Looking At Buying 1997 Cheyenne C1500 As Daily Driver Feedback Please

    there are some good trucks out there to be found, like any older truck sometimes you just have to look harder and longer. i myself prefer the manual, esp when you got 3:73 axles, makes for a real good crawl ratio- like around 40:1-ish. after driving nothing but solid axle 4x4's i was kinda...
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    Looking At Buying 1997 Cheyenne C1500 As Daily Driver Feedback Please

    my money pit box....every single dime i've ever put into my '85. got receipts dating all the way back to the '90's in there. no, i've never added them up, no i will never add them up but i would guess roughly on the north side of $30 G's bummer.. my wifey has no problems with me, as she's...
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    Looking At Buying 1997 Cheyenne C1500 As Daily Driver Feedback Please

    amen brother both of mine are fives
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    Looking At Buying 1997 Cheyenne C1500 As Daily Driver Feedback Please

    got nothing' against imports, i know their reliable and all, their just not for me. and don't take it wrong, cause i'm no fan of europeon vehicles either. other than a couple fomoco's and a couple chryco's forty yrs ago, the only thing you'll ever find in my driveway is GM products-and usually...
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    Looking At Buying 1997 Cheyenne C1500 As Daily Driver Feedback Please

    not into an import for the daily driver thing either. may be reliable, but wait until ya gots to repair it. the gmt400's are stupidly simple to work on, cheap on parts and very reliable. my daily is a '90 gmt400 since we bought it off the orig owner in '95. in 30 yrs i put maybe $2-3000 in...
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    air bags

    i got Firestone ride right bags on the back of my crew for 14 yrs, extremely durable, even after driving over a mercury topaz. they also make them for the front, wouldn't hesitate to recommend the firestone bags. Air Lift also makes front and rear bags. my dad threw a set of rear bags on his...
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    Show your daily driver

    been dicking around with my new daily. the day i brought it home in all it's pansy-ness re-did the front bumper and grille. ditched them...
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    GM 4200 I6 swap?

    the 4.2 is not a bad little motor. we bought the wifey's XUV new in '04 and she's still daily driving it 20 yrs later and we have had ZERO issues with the motor. keep them bathed in synthetic and they will run forever. as she has the heaviest model of the trailblazer/envoy/oldsmobile triplets...
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    Show your daily driver

    started de-gayifying my new daily....
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    Show your sick toy !!!

    wish i still had this toy...sold yrs ago to prob finance some other stupid toy..... blown 396
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    Show your sick toy !!!

    nice! my buddy had one, he used to come out wit us. i would trim right up at about 10 knots and give him a 2 ft wake to jump on. when i wasn't making a ramp for buddy, my sidewinder with a 140 V4 would bury the speedo which went to 70 mph, but when you got up to them speeds, it had a tendency to...
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    Show your sick toy !!!

    bikes and quads if you ever wanted to kill yourself, this was the machine to do it...KX 250 with an Athena 292 big bore kit. dyno'ed at 55 hp on a 196lb bike. total e-ticket ride. hardly ever changed the front tire cause it was always in the air, even loping along in 5th, if you cracked the...
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    Show your daily driver

    thanks pretty happy with it so far, no surprises. it did take awhile to find it, i was surfin' the ads for 'bout a year and a half before finding this one. trans is a 3500, same as my stepper. as i stated, lotta miles on my stepper, but never had a single trans issue...hopefully this one is just...
  21. Rumbledawg

    TH400 Information Thread

    wow... pricey indeed. i bought my copy back in '88 or '89 and paid $20 for it. back then it was the GO-TO as there really was no interweb to speak of then. almost tempted to sell mine, but nah...flipping pages is better than navigating some bs stuff online just can't belive the prices for a...
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    Show your daily driver

    started getting rid of the silliness....grille guard and tool box are gone, decals are next. will be putting a 2" lift, just enuff to get some decent 33" mud tires under it. later in the yr i will be swapping the stepper box off my old truck onto this one
  23. Rumbledawg

    Show your daily driver

    my daily for the last 29 yrs been giving me a lot of headaches lately. i've neglected to put any money into it the last few except to keep it alive, all my coin has been going into my crewcab. 380 000 miles and the 350 has never been cracked open, runs like a charm, just the rest of the truck is...
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    New member from Vancouver Island BC

    welcome from another BC'er not a fan either, and i own a 90 stepper this one is the best i've seen someone do, and prob cause they took the time to shave the stupid steps behind the wheels. ifin it was my truck i would also tin over the stock taillights and hang a set of old school lights off...
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    New here from the Wet Coast of Canada

    you from LA (Langley area) or Abbey? pretty sure i've seen your truck on the road before. i'm a little further up the valley myself

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