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1983 GMC Jimmy Welcome Home !!

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Acesneights1

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Well thanks to Detriot Dan (an intsrument in my impending divorce ):h)
I got this beauty for 1000$. The sad part is someone spent stupid money on it restoring it at one time with new fenders, new quarters etc but the last owner just plowed the balls off it and never washed it so underneath is ugly but the quarters, fenders tailgate, doors are all good. So it needs MAJOR floor work in the front and rockers. The best part is the way the paint scheme is , I could weld in new rockers and repaint just that part of the truck with plain old PPG Black until I have time to do a full repaint. The motor is sick. Mileage is unkown but title says 330K. You can see in the pics it smokes like a sick whore on a piss pot . It's raw fuel from both banks so I'm thinking dead IP. He gave me a spare one with it but it looks a little shaky. Gonna send it to Tim at Accurate for a bench test. The frame had been nicely undercoated but it's all peeling from the salt but NOT rotted. The ride home was scary. The CUCV fit on my trailer so I had no reason to think this truck wouldn't but the mag wheels stick out further and I was 2 hrs from home so we ah...got it on. It was a scary ride. 40mph home the whole way cause any faster and the trailer started swaying so violently it felt like the whole truck and trailer was going over. So I'll do the IP first and get some sheet metal . Keystone is right near me so probably get the stuff from them or LMC. Heck spring swap meet just around the corner. PO listed the interior as rough but other than the front seats and typical cracked dash , it's pretty nice. seats will be hard to find. May use aftermarket.
 

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So does this ol girl replace the lemon? I heard you were looking to sell it.

That thing smokes like a whore on a piss pot alright. Motor shake bad too? Mine did.

I responded to your PM btw.

I've got random parts for one of these in my shed. Including a windshield i can't get rid of. ):h

1983? i thought 85 was the first year for the "color matched" top?

There's 5 K-5's in the yard at Chuck and Eddies of Southington, all gassers(305,350). I raided that place the other day. Some of the interior's didn't look too bad, but the body's were all falling apart for the most part.

Whens the spring swap meet? Looks like i'll be taking the Screw-baru up again. Big Red's IP is dying it seems, and i don't trust the blazer as it randomly thinks its a 7 cyl diesel for about 30 seconds at a time.
 
Kenny instead of sending the IP out you could just pull the top cover and look inside. If it's rusty in there then it's toast. I brought all my DB2s to Gaspar in fairfield. He pulled the top covers off and told me all my spares had bad gov rings and the one i removed was rusted inside from water damage.

By the smoke your getting, it certianly seems that your met the same fate mine did.

Does it sound like this?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PtjvCJL4G24

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLsD3JrXupQ
 
Acesneights1 said:
Yep. Seen many times before. IP death. The coolant loss is what's concerning me.
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Uh oh. Didn't see that in your original post.

My heater hoses liked to weep a tad at the connection to the heater box. That and a few of my heater hoses had rubbed through in a few spots. Made a mess and i couldn't find exactly where it was coming form until i moved the heater hose and saw the wear through.

Rad holding water ok? hoses tight at the rad? Mine's weeped there before due to a loose hose clamp.

If you've got a pressure tester pump the system with 15 psi and see if you can see any leaks. My entire cooling system was full of them when i bought the truck as you can see above in my post.
 
Not sure yet. Like Dave said, truck is new to me and leaks just about eveything everywhere. Powersteering is full but barely works so Pump is probably toast.
 
You guys like the way I got it on the trailer ? I'm getting too old to take chances. I think that will be the last tim I pull a stunt like that.
 
Sweet find.

I can see why the trailer was not happy. All the weight on the back end of the thing instead of forward on the drawbar.

I too have had some of those scarry rides.

Last rig a dragged home was a little Bronco II

Drove from here (25 south of Portland Oregon) to 50 south of LA and brought it home on a trailer behind the Burb.

The Little baby Bronco is not all that heavy and we towed it over the GrapeVine at 65-70 without a sweat.

Out in the central valley we screamed along at 70-80 and really did not know the thing was back there.

The scarry ride was towing home an old D4 Cat dozer behind an F250 4x4 Ford.

That cat was butt ugly and reeeeeeeeeally heavy to be towing with a pickup truck

Have fun with the "NEW TOY"

Missy
 
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planning on using the plow mount?

hmmm....one more way to bust up my truck. :rofl:
 
Actually I was going to sell it. I have no use for it. I may keep the pump setup for the CUCV since it's belt driven and the POS E60 Meyers I have isonly a matter of time before it breaks. Will most likely sell the mount and blade.
 
Acesneights1 said:
Actually I was going to sell it. I have no use for it. I may keep the pump setup for the CUCV since it's belt driven and the POS E60 Meyers I have isonly a matter of time before it breaks. Will most likely sell the mount and blade.
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Hmmmm......

Any idea what you'd want for it? Be a nice way to make some money in the winter. My dad and i were tossing the idea around. If it'll bolt right up that's a plus too. I"d have to find a pump and the controls for it but that can't be too tough to come across in a junkyard.
 
I might sell the whole thing. Let me think about it. yes it will bolt right up and appears to be in good order other than it's an older(non uni mount) setup. actually the engine driven pumps are the best ones to have. They never fail.
 
Acesneights1 said:
I might sell the whole thing. Let me think about it. yes it will bolt right up and appears to be in good order other than it's an older(non uni mount) setup. actually the engine driven pumps are the best ones to have. They never fail.
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Good to know. I've got enough failing parts already. ):h
 
Acesneights1 said:
I'll be selling the diffs too as soon as I locate some 3/4 ton ones. 1/2 ton junk. Station wagon brakes.
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I"ve got a spare set already. Don't need another set. :p

I've actually got the 12 bolt in the rear on my blazer. Someone swapped it in, so mine a 12 bolt rear and a 10 bolt front. It's always stopped fine.
 
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