Heavy heavy chevy, 3500HD 10 lug!

[MrBeast]

Well Friday last week after finding an ad on ebay I flew out to Fort Lauderdale Florida and picked up a a 94 Chevy 3500HD wrecker with a 2001 Dynamic Bed.

It was a long trip back with lots of late nights.





I had a lot of problems, wound up losing first the pmd, then the injection pump its self in Pensacola, so I took the truck to Pensacola Fuel Injection and had them rebuild the pump, and put a PMD with a relocation kit on it and when they handed it back to me it was running like a champ pulling over 16 mpg which is pretty damn good for a 8500 lb truck IMO.

From Pensacola I booked it on over to Houston to some other guy's shop and checked out his build that is coming together nicely.



Too bad it was still up on jack stands or we could have had a little photo shoot with our HD's

Richard also helped me get a ton of work done on the truck. When i pulled in it was having some serious issues.



If you look close you can see it has an extra special hood hold up device...



It was the first thing we tackled.

The next to go was the Work truck grill, it was being held in place by 1 screw and 1 zip tie, needless to say it was toast.

After a few hours of tearing the truck apart and putting it back together we had a 4 headlight grill installed, and the truck looking a lot healthier.



The fun didn't stop there, we wound up having to replace the headlight switch, dimmer switch, hi/lo beam switch, and the pig tails for all of those switches because the PO had installed HID headlamps with out installing relays, so it cooked everything, he had burnt up the headlight circuit and had em hooked to the marker lamp circuit.

We also had to redo all of the ends on the battery cables, they were really really rough, and pretty scary.

The last gem on the list was the seat, it was out of a 94-2001 dodge ram. It sat about an inch low on each side sloping towards the center. That was really really good on my back if you all know what I am saying. So we grabbed the seat out of a 96 Richard had up there and stuffed a seat cover on it, and it made things so much nicer driving home.

Needless to say it needed quite a bit, we finally finished up on it about 6:30 in the AM! But Richard was a huge help because he really knows his stuff on these trucks, and had everything we needed on hand, with the exception of a seat cover and battery terminal. Going to go back up in a couple of weeks and help him install the sneeker unit he has on his HD.

Today I got the truck down, got it registered, inspected and lettered, and did my first tow with it. It was a 02 Suburban.



It drug it down the road no problem. A bit later I towed my 85 Crew Cab Dually and utility trailer with it,



it grunted and groaned a bit with the weight of the truck and loaded trailer on the back of it, but it still got the job done and ran 55 mph on the 18 mile trip home.

The plan right now is to finish getting the electrical system put togeather, get new tires on it, king pins, carpet, get the seat re-upholstered, install another dash Richard has for me, and eventually get it painted, and of course it is gonna need a sound system.

I am planning on a Kenwood touch screen unit with a GPS nav system, and bluetooth so it can link up with my cell. I will also be putting a back up camera on it so I can get a better view of the wheel lift as it goes under cars.