1986 c20 revival

[Jered1987]

Originally Posted by Dead Parrot

#1. Don't have your pregnant wife in the truck with you when you are driving the truck back. That way, if the truck breaks down, she is safe at home or with her parents.

If you can, find out what axle it has now and buy rear end oil and a new gasket. Inspect the gears before you hit the highway. Highway driving is fairly easy on spider gears as you are mostly going straight. If they are in decent shape, just drive it to your new home.

Price renting a vehicle hauling trailer and tow vehicle and just haul the truck to its new home. Will let you fix it local to you and not risk a road side breakdown.

Add to your list of stuff: A gallon or 2 of antifreeze, oil change + filter, new wiper blades, and a quart or 2 of ATF.

My wife's grandfather has a newer Silverado 1500 and a car trailer was thinking about that but sometimes he can be rather moody. He didn't know the gear ratio. And he said that the truck is good enough around town, but not for the couple hour drive from stockbridge to Calhoun georgia. Are axles that bad to tear apart and redo? They looked pretty straight forward but didn't know if the shims and what not make them horrible to do .on a side note, anywhere in particular i should get better quality brake tools or will autozone/ Napa tools be good enough?