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Grim Reaper · 06-04-2004, 11:08 AM

I like helping folks out but throw me a bone here. How about some imprtant details? Stuff like what engine, what year, what mods, what transmssion.

It's not real fair for you to make us hunt for this type of information. So next time you ask a general question and either get no replies or just off the wall stuff....guess who's to blame?

A common problem for a 75 with a TH350 may have simular sypmtoms as a 89 700r4 that is a differenet repar all together.

"My Truck bogs". That's nice general one. So we dish out a bunch of try adjusting the idle mixture. See if the accelerator pump is squirting then you get around to telling us it's a 87 with Fuel injection.

Point is the more info you can provide including modifications the faster you going to get the CORRECT answer.

BeerMonkeY · 06-04-2004, 11:13 AM

i dont know if the tranny one was directed to me but i figured that everybody would know that a 89 burban had a 700r4 in it. sorry about that i will be more discreptive (sp?) from now on

Grim Reaper · 06-04-2004, 11:55 AM

Well it was not directed at you but that's a good example.
All 89 burbs do not have 700R4's. Some have TH400 Just like my 88 Burb does. In some very rare cases you might find a 465. In 91 they had the option of the 4L80 or the 700.

Eyegore · 06-04-2004, 12:02 PM

GR point well taken. I to may have done this w/o thinking. I thought that a 86 would have an od trans but as I found out - not. So in my next post I'll be a little more specific.
thanks.

Tom

Grim Reaper · 06-04-2004, 12:13 PM

These trucks are old now. What was supose to be in them and what is in them are two different things. My 75 has a 79 10 bult under the front and a 77 12 bolt rear.

Eyegore · 06-04-2004, 01:09 PM

"These trucks are old now" -GR, I prefer to think of them as 'more mature'. You see , I'm trying to keep the word 'OLD' out of my vocabulary. As for my 86 as far as I can tell it is completely stock, except for the trans, but as I stated in an earlier post I thought that there would have been an "OD" in the trans selector, I could be wrong but that is how I thought you could tell the difference, but as it is mine came stock with a 350th.
Tom

06-04-2004, 11:08 AM	#1
Grim Reaper Registered User Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Atlanta GA Posts: 1,704	Help Us Help you! Grims rant I like helping folks out but throw me a bone here. How about some imprtant details? Stuff like what engine, what year, what mods, what transmssion. It's not real fair for you to make us hunt for this type of information. So next time you ask a general question and either get no replies or just off the wall stuff....guess who's to blame? A common problem for a 75 with a TH350 may have simular sypmtoms as a 89 700r4 that is a differenet repar all together. "My Truck bogs". That's nice general one. So we dish out a bunch of try adjusting the idle mixture. See if the accelerator pump is squirting then you get around to telling us it's a 87 with Fuel injection. Point is the more info you can provide including modifications the faster you going to get the CORRECT answer. __________________ Grim-Reaper 70 Pontiac LeMans Sport Convertible, worlds longest resto in progress Looking for 71-72 2wd Blazer or Jimmy Project

06-04-2004, 11:13 AM	#2
BeerMonkeY sold Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: PA Posts: 227	i dont know if the tranny one was directed to me but i figured that everybody would know that a 89 burban had a 700r4 in it. sorry about that i will be more discreptive (sp?) from now on __________________ 07 Rubicon, 2" lift,35's on some bling'n 20"s, warn winch. (20's for sale, 5on5) looking for 73-87 crew cab with 8' bed,2wd,PM me if you see one around

06-04-2004, 11:55 AM	#3
Grim Reaper Registered User Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Atlanta GA Posts: 1,704	Well it was not directed at you but that's a good example. All 89 burbs do not have 700R4's. Some have TH400 Just like my 88 Burb does. In some very rare cases you might find a 465. In 91 they had the option of the 4L80 or the 700. __________________ Grim-Reaper 70 Pontiac LeMans Sport Convertible, worlds longest resto in progress Looking for 71-72 2wd Blazer or Jimmy Project

06-04-2004, 12:02 PM	#4
Eyegore What Hump? Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: New River AZ Posts: 2,009	GR point well taken. I to may have done this w/o thinking. I thought that a 86 would have an od trans but as I found out - not. So in my next post I'll be a little more specific. thanks. Tom __________________ Lil red 86 c-10 99 Sub 78 Camper Special w/ 454

06-04-2004, 12:13 PM	#5
Grim Reaper Registered User Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Atlanta GA Posts: 1,704	These trucks are old now. What was supose to be in them and what is in them are two different things. My 75 has a 79 10 bult under the front and a 77 12 bolt rear. __________________ Grim-Reaper 70 Pontiac LeMans Sport Convertible, worlds longest resto in progress Looking for 71-72 2wd Blazer or Jimmy Project

06-04-2004, 01:09 PM	#6
Eyegore What Hump? Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: New River AZ Posts: 2,009	"These trucks are old now" -GR, I prefer to think of them as 'more mature'. You see , I'm trying to keep the word 'OLD' out of my vocabulary. As for my 86 as far as I can tell it is completely stock, except for the trans, but as I stated in an earlier post I thought that there would have been an "OD" in the trans selector, I could be wrong but that is how I thought you could tell the difference, but as it is mine came stock with a 350th. Tom __________________ Lil red 86 c-10 99 Sub 78 Camper Special w/ 454



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