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Originally Posted by special-K
I don't know much about these year trucks since I have yet to own one. I've owned some Suburbans from the '40s, '60s, '70s, and '90s. I drive a '95 now. My sister bought a '99 K2500 Suburban new and still runs it. It's the 3/4t 4wds I especially like and mostly owned. I know the 8-lugs aren't offered any more, but what was the last year? Were manual transmissions offered in these years? I was real disappointed when GM decided to drop the diesel Suburban.
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The 99 K2500 suburban should still be the GMT400 style(same as your 95)
The 2000-2006 2500 suburbans still had 8 lugs. They kept the 2500 suburban/Yukon XL going to the 2013 model year(and it still had 8 lugs). There weren't any manual transmissions offered in the 2000+. After 2000, the only engines were the 6.0 and the 8.1. the only engine offered after 07 was the 6.0.
There is a 3500 suburban offered 2016 to present(and its 8 lug), but they are all goverment orders.
I dont think it made much sense to have a diesel suburban to begin with( at least with underpowered diesels). In the GMT400 platform, the diesel had 420 ft/lbs of torque. The 454 had 410. Is that 10 ft/lbs worth the extra maintainence and cost and noise?