I have a thread over on the A-body site but this one will be more in depth I hope. From the beginning, I got it on Wednesday around 3 p.m. after spending all day flying home from Iraq for mid tour leave for 15 days. I got a smoking deal on it, I paid less then 10 percent of the base price of $16,260. The original price was around 24k and isn't the most optioned truck ever built either but it has what matters. A 5.9l with 3.55 limited slip and it only has 89XXX miles on it. It ran really rough when I got her so before I ever went home I made a trip to Autozone. I bought new plugs, wires, distributor cap and rotor, and oil and filter. Spent the next morning cleaning under the hood and giving her a good bath. She isn't perfect but from about 10 feet she looks pretty good if I do say so myself. The previous owner told me that it had all new brakes, rotors, calipers, wheel cylinders,and drums except the left front. He screwed up one of the lug nuts and couldn't get it off. Screwed up is an under statement, there was nothing left to get a hold of. All that was left was the tapered part the seats in the rim. So I unbolted the caliper and removed the center cap from the rim and pulled the dust cap off the rotor and removed the spindle nut and removed the rim/rotor/caliper as a unit. I took it down to a local mechanic shop and they cut the stud off the rotor from the backside. I came home put on the new rotor and caliper that came with the truck bled the brakes slapped the rim back on and called it good. Afer that I gave her a good tune up, she ran really rough when I got her but she SCREAMS now!!! From a dead stop she will light them both up for about 50 feet. I also replaced the crappy aftermarket radio with a factory CD/Cassette/AM/FM I got off Ebay while I was in Kuwait waiting for my flight. First pics are as I bought her.
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