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  11. What to do about my daily truck.

    in Off Topic - Random, Misc posts - the forum "Junk Drawer"

    Posted · Edited by Bigg Boy

    Well here is the thing with the tranny, it has like 8 months left on a warranty from the previous owner. But obviously the guy beat the piss out of this truck. So what did he do to the truck before I got it.

    I feel the same way about the truck, just about everything is new. Knowing is better then not knowing. My parents on the other hand call it the devil and tell me to burn it, haha.

  12. What to do about my daily truck.

    in Off Topic - Random, Misc posts - the forum "Junk Drawer"

    Posted

    I am stuck on this and need some opinions on this one guys.

    I bought a 1999 s10 to be my everyday driver, and to keep the magnum as my pure show car. I travel 120 miles round trip for work, in and out of NYC, so the magnum is not the right car to be doing that in.

    I bought the truck for $5k, was in great shape. Only had 73k on it, only thing I knew that was wrong was it need tie rod ends. No biggie, $250.

    2 weeks after I bought the truck, I noticed a tapping sound. I checked the oil, it look like it needed to be changed, so I changed it, went away. Few days after that it made a turn for the worse. I thought it was maybe the lifters, turned out to be 2 of the wrist pins... So $2,500 later for a brand new motor, 3 year warranty.... We did heads, and cam. Should be me some where around 240-250hp, nothing to crazy cause I need this to be a dependable daily driver.

    Now a month after (3 days ago) my air bag lights come on, turns out its two sensors, replaced them $220.

    As I pull out of the shop, I hear a rubbing noise, slow down, hear bang bang BANG! as I stop. Rolled it back into the shops parking lot, let it sit there over the weekend.

    My guys at the shop calls me today, and tell me the hole rear axle need to be rebuilt, all but 1 barring is bad, and the gears in the diff are screwed up pretty bad. Told me $750.

    I am now into this truck $8,700. KBB on it is about $5k. I might get $6k for it because of the new motor and all the new parts...

    No my question is... Would you guys keep it since most of the stuff in the truck is new, and hope I run into nothing else big?

    Or cut my loses and sell it for what I can sell it for, and pick up another car and possibly go through this all again.

    I can't afford to dump hundreds of dollars into this thing every couple weeks. My mechanic says after this the truck should be just about bullet proof, and I should get another 100k out of it with no major problems, but then again, he said that when we dropped the new motor in.

    Thank for your time guys.

  16. My bagged magnum *Teaser*

    in Vehicles In Motion

    Posted

    Front lip and the wheel size isn't letting you go low enough. :P

    Sadly there is nothing I can really do. The front lip is about .5" off the ground. when we put the stock wheels on it i cant drop it all the way or it slams down on the bumper. I think she is low enough tho :)

    I can drop the back another 1" by taking the stops out but then I would rub when I lay it out. I like being able to just pick up the front end and roll. Plus then it wouldn't sit even,

  23. Help with airbag parts for a 02 blazer

    in Air Ride / Hydraulics - Got Switches? Want Switches? Post here!

    Posted

    Not to be a dick, if you have to ask and your installer doesn't know, don't even think about going at this project. You can serously ruin your car if you don't know what your doing. Your looking around 4k to get it to where you would want (thats a good price).

    To answer your question.

    You need:

    Bags

    Tanks

    Compressors,

    ton of fittings

    line

    valves

    wire

    gauges

    etc...

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