Maybe she won't try it out to it's limits. If it was a teenage boy, I'd detune it or mount a throttle stop device on it, if there was such a thing. Seen it too many times, red blooded American Male will run the wheels off of one. Unfortunately sometimes it ends in tradgety.
I've got one sitting in the garage, I bought the right year model, I believe as far as having good power and not having DEF, or having to do that regen stuff. I think the 2006 and early 2007 were the last of the Duramaxs that avoided the new emission crap.
Great idea Will. I am trasmission ignorant, I would assume upgrades might mean betrer parts and maybe a shift kit on high performance stuff? I wished I had the ability to rebuild one.
Way back around 1981 or so I had a guy to rebuild a Turbo 350 for me, he put a shift kit in it and put a...
Sorry about your transmission issues, Big T. I just went through that deal with my little daily driver S10, except of course it's got the 4L60E in it. I ended up getting it rebuilt back in October.
My dad had that truck years ago and made the fatal mistake of letting some service...
Welcome to The Truck Stop. A very interesting project that you are about to start. We just love watching those projects progress step by step and seeing the end result....:)
Welcome Bill, great to meet you and to have you here at The Truck Stop. Hope you have a great time here and you will have a wealth of knowledge at your fingers, just feel free to ask questions.
Nice truck, red what a shame that some prick in another vehicle ran into you. These days many drive above their ability, for some reason or another? Poor sorry drivers out there that lack driving skills and could not stick their finger up their, yada, yada......:mad: