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    What year tailgate is this??

    I know the raised area on the front of the hood wasn't till 1979 models.... two '79s we had, had it, and the 75 and 78 did not. I know there are differences in the underside structure too but not sure what they are. So that is a '73-'78 hood by my understanding.... I've read the reason for the...
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    Waffling

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    Cruisin the Coast 2024

    I saw a Vette about that age this morning, it was silver though. Too busy picking my jaw up off the floorboard to get a picture....one does not see nice vintage Corvettes in Houston unless they are on the way to/from a car show.....
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    1970s Rally wheel center cap insert decal

    1977 was GM's 50th anniversary, is what I always heard about the gold stripes in the trim.
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    What have you done to your square lately??

    I think the battery might have a dead or dying cell. We went through something similar with my crew cab on Saturday. Got up early, breakfast at Whataburger (SOP for early gigs) and then heading across Houston to a toy show. Running the lights, stereo and heater all the way over there (cool front...
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    Truckin' the Trace November 1 - 2, Tupelo, MS

    One a these years.... Imma go to some of these shows. I want to, bad, but as long as I'm working more or less full time, costs too much to be off very long.
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    Wheel Opening Moldings

    Yes I remember the '90 Burb had the smooth wheel well moldings. When we got the '81 GMC Sierra shop truck, Dad wanted to put the wheel well trims on it; he liked how they made the truck look a little bit more "finished". He bought the rears and they fit fine, but the dealer tried to tell him the...
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    How to ID 16" 8 bolt wheels?

    What he made was kind of over engineered, but he was like that about a lotta stuff. It actually has a half inch drive on the end, so you can swap sockets as needed. He had it in the Denali and when we were cleaning it out, I found it and decided it needed to be in my crew cab. And I agree...
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    How to ID 16" 8 bolt wheels?

    Studs are 9/16", probably takes a 7/8" wrench or socket to tighten/loosen them? 7/8" and 22mm are pretty close. I have a tool Dad made that's basically a nut driver for the lug nuts, with a 22mm socket on it. I used it recently to get the plastic nut covers loose on a center cap I was getting...
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    How to ID 16" 8 bolt wheels?

    I totally understand! I'm pretty much in the same boat.....and I don't have any kids to feed (other than the truck which I call my metal kid). Bad thing about selling anything big or bulky out of state, is what would shipping costs be??
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    How to ID 16" 8 bolt wheels?

    The lug nuts are 14mm threads on the GMT 400, 5 lug and 8 lug. The difference between the lug nuts on my Burb and my crew cab is the Burb ones don't have the external threads on the top, that the plastic covers thread onto, and the crew cab ones do have those. Those covers are what holds the...
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    Hello from East Texas

    Nice Burb, welcome from Houston, Texas.
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    What have you done to your square lately??

    Could also be a dead or dying cell in the battery. Crew cab wouldn't start today, trying to leave the toy show. Got a jump, got the parts store and the battery had a dead cell. Crazy fluctuations in temps like we've had in greater Houston area this week will bring these types of problems out...
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    How to ID 16" 8 bolt wheels?

    Well.... nobody wants them at the swap meets I've had em at in Texas. I had one dude who had the bigger ones on a lifted Blazer, but he didn't want to buy the whole set(and I didn't want to get stuck with two wheels I don't need). I don't want to sell them for scrap either, if someone could use...
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    How to ID 16" 8 bolt wheels?

    I'm told 16.5" tires are rather hard to find and quite expensive when you do find them. By the time the OBS trucks came on the scene, GM had phased out the 16.5" in favor of the 16" tires and wheels. Old Burb had white wheels under the full wheel covers; I pulled the covers to clean them up and...
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    How to ID 16" 8 bolt wheels?

    Yes those are GMT 400/OBS 8 lug wheels. I have a set of my crew cab. They use a stainless steel trim ring and a plastic center cap (either chrome or black). The GMT 400 trucks also used a full wheel covers in stainless steel on these wheels, instead of the trim ring and center cap. These are...
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    Hello fellow squares

    Welcome, from the SE part(Houston) of the state below....
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    Andi from Hannover/Germany with my 1985 C10 Stepside named "Daily-Blue1"

    Nice truck, it's amazing to see all the places around the world, that these old GM trucks are at!
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    Show your daily driver

    We had a 2004 Chrysler and a 2006 GMC, both bought used in 2013, that were "supposed" to be the daily drivers. Both vehicles did that job, but not without frequent servicing. They both quit, and the ol Burb just kept going. Now the ol crew cab does likewise. Only way I'd have something way newer...
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    Cruisin the Coast 2024

    Man I'm diggin' that slammed 'Burban! Wish we could got one of ours that low...but we had to drive em in Houston and haul stuff with em too. Thanks for sharing the pictures, one of these years I'll make this show
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    Tripod mirrors on lowered trucks?

    Back when we had our parts store, one of our drivers was in the '78 Sierra shop truck and got hit by oncoming traffic, knocked the mirror glass out. We got the gasket out of the broken glass, took it down the street to a glass company, and they cut a new mirror. I'm sure they had patterns like...
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    Show your daily driver

    Not much shorter....mine has much more capability and usable space though!
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    Crossfire cap

    That's why I use the vented cap with brass contacts and the matching rotor, on my Vortecs.
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    Howdy from North Texas

    Couple other guys are here, but have different usernames. And Auroragirl is here, I think she hasn't been on the 400 side in a while.

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