The Plow Truck: 99 454 CCSB

[skylark]

Hey there's cows out here too lol

Well at least you have a good BBQ combo!

 

[Supercharged111]

Hey there's cows out here too lol

At least you have someone to talk to.

 

[Supercharged111]

Well the fuel leak hasn't returned, hopefully it stays that way! I also ended up stealing the taillights off of my 1500 to have functioning, visible rear lighting. The ricer garbage I took off deserves a special place in Hell. Hooked up the open deck trailer and turned the wife loose. She wasn't digging it. The steering is pretty sloppy on this thing still. She did fine, but was a bag of nerves. 1350 miles is a long way to drive while hating your life so I don't think I'm going to subject her to this truck. It simply isn't on the same level as my 1500 in terms of how well it's been maintained and set up to tow as bass ackwards as that may sound.

 

[BNielsen]

Well the fuel leak hasn't returned, hopefully it stays that way! I also ended up stealing the taillights off of my 1500 to have functioning, visible rear lighting. The ricer garbage I took off deserves a special place in Hell. Hooked up the open deck trailer and turned the wife loose. She wasn't digging it. The steering is pretty sloppy on this thing still. She did fine, but was a bag of nerves. 1350 miles is a long way to drive while hating your life so I don't think I'm going to subject her to this truck. It simply isn't on the same level as my 1500 in terms of how well it's been maintained and set up to tow as bass ackwards as that may sound.

Props to you for electing your wife to do a little trailer trucking. I tried to get mine to go for a quick drive hooked up to the trailer but she politely (somewhat) declined.

 

[termite]

Hooked up the open deck trailer and turned the wife loose. She wasn't digging it

I tried to get mine to go for a quick drive hooked up to the trailer but she politely (somewhat) declined

Shoot, I can't even get mine to pull one straight forward in the yard without fussing. Getting her to drive up to the plow so I could pop the pins in it, that was um....interesting.

 

[Supercharged111]

Props to you for electing your wife to do a little trailer trucking. I tried to get mine to go for a quick drive hooked up to the trailer but she politely (somewhat) declined.

Shoot, I can't even get mine to pull one straight forward in the yard without fussing. Getting her to drive up to the plow so I could pop the pins in it, that was um....interesting.

Back in 2009 pre-kids she drove my 1500 from SD to CA pulling my Corolla GTS on my open deck trailer I used to have. No complaints then. She's also very useful for bleeding brakes. Really anything as long as she's strong enough.

Back to the other day though, here's the horrific tails I liberated from it.

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And in case I forgot to mention it, this thing absolutely cannot hold a candle to the 1500 on anything yet. Acceleration, braking, steering/feel, this thing has a ways to go before it's not a nutless piece of crap. I kinda got used to it driving it for a couple of weeks but damn if the 1500 just doesn't crush this thing. Boosted (4psi) 350 vs untuned 454 is a no contest win for the small block.

 

[Supercharged111]

4wd is fixed again, hopefully for good this time! I went for 4lo when we arrived to back the uhaul trailer up my dirt driveway and didn't get it, so I didn't back up as far as I wanted to. As I drove the truck more I noticed the switch panel acting just like the one in my 1500, so I found my Rubbermaid bin full of truck crap and plucked a switch from there. Good to go! Also changed out a window/lock switch as the locks have always been screwy. Turns out one of the posts that is part of the rocker mechanism had snapped off. So now the locks don't suck either. I wish I had more free crap to fix my wipers now.

 

[skylark]

4wd is fixed again, hopefully for good this time! I went for 4lo when we arrived to back the uhaul trailer up my dirt driveway and didn't get it, so I didn't back up as far as I wanted to. As I drove the truck more I noticed the switch panel acting just like the one in my 1500, so I found my Rubbermaid bin full of truck crap and plucked a switch from there. Good to go! Also changed out a window/lock switch as the locks have always been screwy. Turns out one of the posts that is part of the rocker mechanism had snapped off. So now the locks don't suck either. I wish I had more free crap to fix my wipers now.

Free crap that works is the best!

 

[Supercharged111]

Getting **** done.

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I could have easily kept stacking, but it wasn't easy. Wood is heavy. And hard.

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[RichLo]

Nice!

Good you didnt keep going, that looks like a potential busted rear window as it is with the wrong load shift. lol.