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Trifecta you ask?!
-Last year square body style, complete with barn doors
-2500 4x4 with 4L80 transmission, only year combo available (Returned 18 mpg driving home 3500 miles!!)
- Lifelong Cali truck, one owner until this year, 135k miles
So, what's the story? Well, I needed a vehicle to drive cross country gathering Rover parts as I went. Not to mention my weakness for old Suburbans, and I found this one- flew out to Cali, drove her home. Averaged 18 mpg, used less than a quart of oil, and had a wonderful uneventful trip. The truck was repainted aprox 5 years ago in orig color, and is decent- certainly not show condition, but no real issues either. I bought new tires before starting the trip, stock 235/85-16 size, and had the headliner replaced when I got home- was a touch saggy. The PO had already bought later style GM alloys, which look great on the truck. There is no rust anywhere on the truck!! It drives extremely tight, no shakes or wander of any type. Stock suspension, and rides amazing- extremely comfortable trip!! It has tilt wheel, F & R A/C which blows ice cold, PW, PL, cruise (in-op but only needs accumulator per PO, about $40), bucket seats with console, third row seat, rear defogger, HD towing package- pretty well all available options IIRC. It did have power mirrors, but the PO changed to chrome GM truck mirrors per his preference.
Negatives? Dash is cracked per the hot Cali sun, but has carpet dash cover. Front pass window a little slow, but does fine, albeit slowly. Driver side rear door sticks occasionally.
It is one thing to say I would drive it cross country tomorrow, but I just did!! Asking $6,950 for Expo members, before going to Ebay and Craigslist.
NOTE/UPDATES:
-12/3: Forgot to add I have already replaced front hubs with Warn Gold lockouts. Why?? Not sure why I did, as the auto hubs were fine... Just gotta 'upgrade' something I suppose ;-)
-12/4: Motor is 350/5.7 Tbi
And now a few pics- let me know if want to see anything specific:
-Last year square body style, complete with barn doors
-2500 4x4 with 4L80 transmission, only year combo available (Returned 18 mpg driving home 3500 miles!!)
- Lifelong Cali truck, one owner until this year, 135k miles
So, what's the story? Well, I needed a vehicle to drive cross country gathering Rover parts as I went. Not to mention my weakness for old Suburbans, and I found this one- flew out to Cali, drove her home. Averaged 18 mpg, used less than a quart of oil, and had a wonderful uneventful trip. The truck was repainted aprox 5 years ago in orig color, and is decent- certainly not show condition, but no real issues either. I bought new tires before starting the trip, stock 235/85-16 size, and had the headliner replaced when I got home- was a touch saggy. The PO had already bought later style GM alloys, which look great on the truck. There is no rust anywhere on the truck!! It drives extremely tight, no shakes or wander of any type. Stock suspension, and rides amazing- extremely comfortable trip!! It has tilt wheel, F & R A/C which blows ice cold, PW, PL, cruise (in-op but only needs accumulator per PO, about $40), bucket seats with console, third row seat, rear defogger, HD towing package- pretty well all available options IIRC. It did have power mirrors, but the PO changed to chrome GM truck mirrors per his preference.
Negatives? Dash is cracked per the hot Cali sun, but has carpet dash cover. Front pass window a little slow, but does fine, albeit slowly. Driver side rear door sticks occasionally.
It is one thing to say I would drive it cross country tomorrow, but I just did!! Asking $6,950 for Expo members, before going to Ebay and Craigslist.
NOTE/UPDATES:
-12/3: Forgot to add I have already replaced front hubs with Warn Gold lockouts. Why?? Not sure why I did, as the auto hubs were fine... Just gotta 'upgrade' something I suppose ;-)
-12/4: Motor is 350/5.7 Tbi
And now a few pics- let me know if want to see anything specific:
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