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    84 K1500 stalls when slowing down.

    Update: It looks like the choke adjustment isn’t even close to being correct. I’ll toy with that some and see what happens.
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    Which dually - 8.1 vs pre-DEF 6.6?

    One thing to keep in mind with a used diesel is the cost of the some of the individual components. A replacement turbo for a LB7 is around $800 from the cheapest vendor. Injectors will typically start around $1500 and go up from there. Fuel pumps are often $600+. As someone who has owned a 6.7...
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    Which dually - 8.1 vs pre-DEF 6.6?

    This sums it up well. For people that spend a lot of time with a heavy trailer behind their truck and going on long trips like a hot shot driver or livestock hauler, the diesel makes sense. For all other activities, the best the diesel can offer over the gas is better fuel economy, but the price...
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    84 K1500 stalls when slowing down.

    Electric choke. I have the 12 volt wire hooked up to the windshield wiper circuit. I will double check it’s adjustment.
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    Which dually - 8.1 vs pre-DEF 6.6?

    The biggest issue you’ll find with older Duramax trucks or any older electronic injected diesel for that matter, is that many have been abused by kids who threw a tuner on dad/granpa’s already well-used old farm truck and ran the piss out of it with little to no maintenance. Look at what you’re...
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    84 K1500 stalls when slowing down.

    My ‘84 K1500 (305 with Edelbrock 1406, SM465 transmission.) stalls out when slowing down from highway speeds. The idle is set pretty fast, even with the adjustment screw at its lowest setting. The only way to make it keep running at a red light or stop sign is to keep your foot in the...
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    Little tips and tricks

    Here’s another power window trick, I just remembered that works for a lot of different vehicles and saves a lot of misery. 1: make marks on the old motor and regulator that indicate relative position to one another, after removing them from the door shell while they are still bolted together...
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    Correct speedometer driven gear tooth count?

    My '85 C10 with a Th350C, and 3:08 rear end decided to chew up the driven gear on the tail shaft housing (The one that slips into the "bullet"). What would cause this to happen, and what is the correct tooth count driven gear to replace it with? Thanks.
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    Show your daily driver

    Good luck on your search for a 2 door Yukon/Tahoe. Clean ones that are bargain priced are only getting scarcer these days.
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    1989 Chevy K1500

    I noticed the small hinges when I looked at my friends ‘95 WT with its driver door hanging on for dear life. From what I’ve seen, the hinges seem a little undersized for square body doors too, although the sag doesn’t seem nearly as bad as a lot of GMT400s I’ve seen. Not beefing up the hinges...
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    Show your daily driver

    A lot of guys will tell me I’m crazy for going out of my to buy long beds, but the real kind of crazy is fighting ratchet straps and playing cargo Tetris in a short bed when the same cargo could be hauled by simply loading the bed and shutting the tailgate on a long bed. With that said, there’s...
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    Show your daily driver

    My current 2004 Silverado 2500HD 4x4 6.0/4L80e With it being a crew cab with an 8 foot bed, I rarely run out of room to put things when I am moving a bunch of stuff at once. I saved it from becoming an older gentleman’s “beater truck” since he thought being 20 years old somehow makes it...
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    90s sun visors in my 77

    There’s a lot of GMT400 and GMT800 bits that work surprisingly well in squares with some modification. The rear seat of a crew cab GMT800 or the front seat of an early GMT400 make for nice front seats in a square. I’m honestly pretty comfy in the OE style bench seat though, even if it lacks a...
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    1989 Chevy K1500

    A GMT400 with doors that are not about to fall off of it or don’t require insane force to close is getting rare in my neck of the woods. Most people don’t bother fixing them and shrug it off part of the experience of having an old truck. Kudos to you for going the extra mile and restoring some...
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    1989 Chevy K1500

    You are making good progress on this one. I too would've totally taken my chances with that particular truck if the price was right. Early GMT400s are a neat in the sense that they still have old school stuff like small block V8s, Saginaw columns and other legacy GM bits and pieces but it is all...
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