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1995 K1500 Burb "Big Momma"

a starter and alternator later she's back on the road.

Make sure your tach is still accurate as GM's infinite stupidity used a larger diameter pulley on a lower RPM diesel to charge two batteries. A gas engine pulley on the alternator will read fast. You might be able to still get your core back and pulley swapped if needed.

There are several threads of using a larger and better alternator than the noisy firecracker edge of the thermal envelope GM abused their customers with.

Get under the rig and make sure the rear brace is still on the starter. Trust but verify because if it's missing it can snap the corner of the block off.

IMO this was a shotgun approach as both generally don't fail at the same time. Why not new batteries while they were at it? 🤔
 
A few updates for the old girl:

Added 2 inch spacers to the rear.

I found a massive garvin rack on marketplace for cheap. Must have gone to an h1 or something bc it was 72"x79" and all beef. 1000013467.jpg
I got chopped it down and got rid of a lot of cross bars. It still probably weighs 60+ lbs.
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Mounted the spare up top to free up some cargo space.
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Made the fairing out of 1/8" aluminum. I'm not 100% satisfied, but I'll live with it1000013631.jpg
 

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I have had thoughts of getting the bars from a suburban and mounting them atop of the CC, then adding a rack toooit.
Biggest thing would be if it would make wind noises.
 
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