I did something reckless today, but I'm ok with it :)
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I’ve had them on my truck for over 100k miles. Salt will not be kind but miles and rough roads are fine. Every single part is replaceable and a basic rebuild is easy and about $40 if you do it yourself.
Why change to a paper air filter? A K+N with a "wrap" such as a PreCharger is pretty good. Free flowing and will work forever.
I'm not sure about their reasoning. I might be wrong about the upgrade, all the stuff is still in a box and I have not sorted through it yet. I saw a panel filter and assumed
Did upper and lower ball joints today on the front.
Also purchased new tires. The fronts were toast , plus they are 10 years old. Wanted to keep it looking original so I went with the duratrac
Having been a Ford guy my whole life I know nothing about GM transmissions. Is it a good unit?
I did the tires today. Holy cow what a process. The stupid run flat donuts are so tight to the rim they are almost impossible to get off.
After much frustration and cursing I finally came up with a method that worked. 4 of the 5 tires went real fast once I used the tractor. The 5th one, which happened to be the last one took 45 minutes and a ton of murphys tire snot.
Anything I can do to keep it healthy? I'm already planning a fluid and filter change. The only computer on this whole vehicle is for the trans, It's a custom unit but I know there have been growler users who have replaced faulty ones with off the shelf ecu's.
you have like 200 lb ft of torque just drive
it will be good for 100s of thousands of miles
That thing is downright cool. I like it! Interesting job on the tire change.
I think I'm falling in love... Before your original post I didn't even know these things existed, and now I just want one as a daily. Hopefully it's just a fad for me... Because if not - I better start thinking of ways to explain such purchase to my other half... Tough one.
I don't know if I would use it as a daily
It's loud and has the turning radius of a battle ship. Also slightly under powered, but it will do 65 comfortable (reasonably)
Terms like "loud, slow, and underpowered" are perfect descriptions for 3/4 of my fleet, so won't be anything newI don't know if I would use it as a daily
It's loud and has the turning radius of a battle ship. Also slightly under powered, but it will do 65 comfortable (reasonably)
If you do search one of these down I would opt for the M1161. The M1163 is just to short. I just meet a guy local to me that has 2 M1163's and he was not happy with the short wheelbase. These things are very narrow and combined with the short wheelbase of the M1163 makes for a not very useful vehicle. The shorter one was designed to pull a trailer 100% of the time I think.Terms like "loud, slow, and underpowered" are perfect descriptions for 3/4 of my fleet, so won't be anything new