BurbWithNoName
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As I alluded to in my intro thread, a combination of issues and aspirations have lead me to graduate from my beloved '90 350 TBI v2500 Burb to the now affectionately named "Big Momma." Truth be told, I had looked for a 6.5 before getting into the square, but good specimens seemed hard to find.
Growing up, my grandfather had a gold '96 3500 with the 6.5 that we took on countless road trips. I always liked the sound it made and it's slow, steady pace. After combing through pages and pages of basic obs ads, I finally found a nearly mint looking burb. Not only that, but GoLions had written the most epic, red-blooded, American ad I have ever read (which I'll post eventually). I reached out to tell him as much and compliment his ride, but the seed was already planted. It didn't matter much that he was in northern Virginia and I was in Houston. After all, I flew to Salt Lake to pick up my square and drove it home across the desert in July...what was another 1500 mile trip in an untested rig?
Several emails,texts, and a short flight later I was eyeing my prize.
Now, I've never owned a diesel and I'm slowly scaling the mountain of knowledge with the 6.5, but it seemed that he had already tackled some of the common problem areas.
I made the trip back home with no real issues, other than the temp creeping up at a stop. I've had another instance with temp climbing closer to 215-220 in this lovely Texas summer heat. I plan to check out the cooling stack and get a better idea of just what I have going on in the cooling dept, as suggested by you guys.
Two other things I've noticed: the upper intake stays wet looking all the time (pics later) and the the ac compressor squeaks a bit. Other than that, she seems in pretty good condition to my untrained eye.
Plans: to have a reliable truck and whatever that entails! I did score the same brush guard my grandfather had on his truck, though I'll have to fab up some mounts.
Anyways, here she is all washed up:
Here's the brush guard
Growing up, my grandfather had a gold '96 3500 with the 6.5 that we took on countless road trips. I always liked the sound it made and it's slow, steady pace. After combing through pages and pages of basic obs ads, I finally found a nearly mint looking burb. Not only that, but GoLions had written the most epic, red-blooded, American ad I have ever read (which I'll post eventually). I reached out to tell him as much and compliment his ride, but the seed was already planted. It didn't matter much that he was in northern Virginia and I was in Houston. After all, I flew to Salt Lake to pick up my square and drove it home across the desert in July...what was another 1500 mile trip in an untested rig?
Several emails,texts, and a short flight later I was eyeing my prize.
Now, I've never owned a diesel and I'm slowly scaling the mountain of knowledge with the 6.5, but it seemed that he had already tackled some of the common problem areas.
I made the trip back home with no real issues, other than the temp creeping up at a stop. I've had another instance with temp climbing closer to 215-220 in this lovely Texas summer heat. I plan to check out the cooling stack and get a better idea of just what I have going on in the cooling dept, as suggested by you guys.
Two other things I've noticed: the upper intake stays wet looking all the time (pics later) and the the ac compressor squeaks a bit. Other than that, she seems in pretty good condition to my untrained eye.
Plans: to have a reliable truck and whatever that entails! I did score the same brush guard my grandfather had on his truck, though I'll have to fab up some mounts.
Anyways, here she is all washed up:
Here's the brush guard
