Darky
NAXJA Forum User
- Location
- 29 Palms, CA
- It was dropped with blocks in the rear and torsion bars were cranked down in the front, so easy to unlower.
- Has a one year old cat, one year tuneup (plugs, distributor, wires, valve stem guide seals, fuel tank vapor recovery and vacuum lines), newer tires.
- The driver's door doesn't match since the window fell off the track in the original. I did it the lazy way and swapped doors. As a result there is one tinted window and the rest aren't. The original door goes with the truck.
- Also has chrome-like grille to go with it, just needs some massaging to fit.
- Has plastichrome mirrors, but they're kinda small. I also have a set of Frontier mirrors to swap on for better visibility.
- Also has a properly done straight pipe, ie new pipe welded in to replace muffler, cat was kept.
- Spray in bed liner
- Air shocks in rear.
It's a good little truck, but it won't meet my needs much longer. It needs a transmission, they're a few hundred at the junkyard, not much to go wrong in a stick. The engine had a blown head gasket a while back that wasn't properly fixed. It still runs fine, but there is a compression leak between cylinders 3 and 4. It still towed a 99 GMC on a dolly 25 miles with no trouble. I need something bigger and 4x4, so this truck goes. Sad to put it up, it's been in the family for over ten yrs, from my wife's first car, to her step dad, to both brothers, and back to us.
It's got over 250k miles, but when we pulled the top end apart to do the valve stem guide seals, everything was still good and clean like it only had 50k. The air shocks leak though.
I'm looking to replace the truck with an M1028 CUCV. Or whichever number corresponds to the 5/4 ton pickup. The wife doesn't want it gone, but she's accepting of the need for it to go.
