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Location: back 40, bc
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My son's first truck
our '90 stepper that we bought from the orig owner in '95 with 24 000 miles, finally after 29 yrs of faithful service, 200 000 on road miles, approx 150 000 off road miles and smiles all the way has given it's last....sad face...
had never owned an IFS truck (solids only) and had my doubts, figured it would be a good mall crawler for the wife and to maybe get off our road in the winter. in fact the whole time she drove it (first 9 yrs) she prob had it in 4by maybe 10 times.....sad face... after i took it over in '04, it's off road miles skyrocketed, with a 40-ish to 1 crawl ratio, some good tires and it would go, climb, ford any terrain as long as the tires got traction, and made me a believer out of IFS suspensions shortly after we bought it in '95 wasn't "pretty" enough for the wife, so cranked the bars, some add a leafs, 285 tires, prom chip, flowmaster cat back and a few other accs then i took it over and it's off road chops kicked in. cue the man in black- "I've been everywhere" literally to hell and back, never left me stranded, although i did have to limp it home once or twice after destroying some parts... but for the last few yrs i kinda neglected it and only spent whatever money was needed to keep it running. all my money was going into my crewcab |
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Today, 12:04 PM
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Re: My son's first truck
i did some calculations and i figured it would take 5-7K to bring it back mechanically, not counting the cosmetics.
so it was a no brainer buying this '96 rcsb for $6500. truck was bought new by a hot rod shop that used it for a parts chaser, then they sold it to the gentleman i got it from. 4.3 V6, 5 spd, and 3:73 gears. body is minty mint esp for a 28 yr old truck. hot rod shop also swapped the seats for some out of a Yukon i think. miles were just over a hundred k. runs perfect with no issues, clutch is smooth as is shifting it, brakes, which usually suck on the gmt 400's, are outstanding- they will put your face in the windshield if your not paying attention. didn't get much of a "test drive" as the p.o. was riding with me, but it run and looked so good and i needed a daily, so i bought it. |
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Today, 12:07 PM
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Re: My son's first truck
like i said, for a 28 yr old rig, the body is beautiful
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Today, 12:21 PM
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Re: My son's first truck
on the way home after buying it (aprox 70 miles) i was completely underwhelmed by the V6. never owned a V6 truck in my life, always 8's and i noticed i had to run it up way more when shifting than the 5.7 in the stepper.
but i had bought it and figured after driving it for awhile i would get used to it.... the offending V6.. the first thing i did when i got it home was pull off the cow catcher and toolbox. i need to mount a canopy for my dawgs. sold the grille guard and toolbox for $500 so my investment was now down to 6 K. when the guard came off it was pretty obvious my fr bumper had some plating issues... also had a headliner prob to deal with as well |
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Today, 12:32 PM
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Re: My son's first truck
bumper was a little rougher looking once the chrome came off....
at this time my stepper was still driving, so i figured i would just do a temp fix on the bumper. the plan was to take the mint bumper off the stepper when it died and put it on the new truck. after tons of welding and grinding, it looks acceptable enough for now first winter with us and still hadn't put it on the road yet |
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Today, 12:50 PM
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Re: My son's first truck
new struts on the box and some new paint got me $500 for this goofy-ness
one thing i hated about this truck is the '90's silly-@ss decals on it. a few hrs with a hot air welder from work and there gone. also took off the few pieces of rub strip that were left. where the rest of it went went i have no clue... |
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Today, 02:40 PM
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Re: My son's first truck
I hope you fix up the stepper too but both are great looking red shortboxes
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Today, 04:11 PM
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Re: My son's first truck
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with our little windfall, i had seriously thought about re-doing the stepper, but man it needs a lot. of course we do have some sentimental attachment to it, (29 yrs worth) but i need to be realistic. even if i fixed it up, it's still an almost 400 000 mile (not kms) truck that has seen some serious use. i bought the new truck cause the last fews months one thing after another after another was hitting me with the step. and it won't really "die", it will live on in our new truck.. and i been thinking, we have 3 trucks already, why not get what i want, another blazer, but maybe gmt400 style, or a 2dr tahoe, fairly modern and reliable but easy as $hite to work on |
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