OK, the new truck is home. Now what?

[glock35ipsc]

The 2002 GMC 1500HD CC/SB 4x4 is officially mine! Brought it home Saturday. The truck has right at 60,000 miles on it. I noticed that the fuel filter is original (at least it still has the OEM sticker on it). I will be pulling our RV to our property in South Dakota in September, and thought I would do a few tune-up things to it before we go. I have planned:

* new fuel filter
* new air filter
* new PCV valve
* new Bosch plugs
* new plug wires
* oil change
* chassis lube

Anything else I should do to it? Like a can of fuel injection cleaner, or ????? The truck runs great, but I am not sure what previous maintenance was done to it over it's life.

TIA!!

[67ChevyRedneck]

I wouldn't buy Bosch plugs. I'd get NGKs. Much better, and cheaper too! I've also heard that Taylor thundervolt wires are excellent for these trucks, but are about $100 a set. My truck needs a set, but it will have to wait a little bit

I'd also change the tranny filter and fluid. They are an absolute pain the in ass to do on a 4x4, you have to take a bunch of crap off just to get the pan off. It's ridiculous! Took me about 4 hours to do mine last year!

I think your truck had the 6.0L? I don't know if they had the same problems the 5.3 had with carbon build up, but you may want to pull the throttle bottle and clean it good, and maybe try a product called "sea foam" to clean the engine.

Go to GM-trucks.com and do a search on these items:

Sea foam
NGK
Taylor wires

and you should get a lot of good information. It's a great site with lots of info on the nbs trucks.

[glock35ipsc]

Excellent, thanks for the tip on the plugs! And for some reason, I never even thought about the tranny It is the 6.0, and I will take a look at the TB too.

[djracer]

plugs and wires on these trucks are good for 100,000 miles why change them 40,000 early.

[glock35ipsc]

Yeah, I suppose. But they are cheap, and I like knowing what is under the hood. Fresh -vs- don't know how hard of a life they have had.........

[67ChevyRedneck]

Originally Posted by glock35ipsc

Excellent, thanks for the tip on the plugs! And for some reason, I never even thought about the tranny It is the 6.0, and I will take a look at the TB too.

I changed mine at 67K (plugs only) with NGK and I've put 23K on the truck since the change... just clicked 90K yesterday with no problems. The truck is starting to develop a bit of a "hic-cup" at redlights and I'm sure it's due to the wires, but I want the good ones and the good ones cost $$$ and I keep dropping $$$$$$$$ into the 67 each month 'cause its SOOOOOOOOOOOOOO close to being done!

I know GM says they are good for 100K, but 4 years is a long time and 60K is A LOT of miles.

I also recommend only using mobil one on these trucks. It's expensive, but its definately good for 5K!

Go back to gm-trucks.com and search: mobil one

I don't hardly ever post over there, but there is SO MUCH info about the 99-present trucks on there it ain't even funny. They also have a lot of good info on the 88-98's too! If you ever have any problems with your truck, do a search over there and you'll most likely find it!