87 V20 D/D and Road trip Burb

[Dieselwrencher]

Bead blast it then clear coat it or have it PC'd clear is my vote.

[68Timber]

Originally Posted by Dieselwrencher

Bead blast it then clear coat it or have it PC'd clear is my vote.

Yep. Either one would be great.

[Jsfucttruck]

The more I clean it, the less patience I have for PC...
It is the route I want to go. It will be more resistant to the pressure washer and leaky fluids.
But...... I am going to put it on as is, and send it out for PC after I clean up the rear axle.


This thing is beautiful.

The bud I got it from had it on his K5 wheeler. He knew they are hard to come by, and even mentioned that he might have ended up ruining it. He put a small scrape on the bottom side. No big deal. In addition to cash, I tossed in a fresh bead blasted stock cover, a gallon of 80-90, and the gear oil resistant rtv.

[Jsfucttruck]

After much overthought. Wasted time. Many long and drawn out conversations with different manufactures of radiators. I went with a cheap lifetime radiator.

It came down to this. Cost/Warranty. I have spent over $800 in brass radiator replacements and repairs. I spent $400-500 for a brass unit to only fail just outside the warranty period. Now, a decent brass rad is $800. That's custom aluminum high dollar status. Not in the budjet for a truck I bought for $750, or my style.

I was just about to have a champion rad modified to the spec I need, but I was told it would void any warranty. Even if modded in house. That was going to be around $500

The lifetime unit is a plastic/aluminum unit. Fingers crossed.

[Jsfucttruck]

While I wait to fix my Burb.... I have been driving my wife's secondary truck. It is a 91 V1500 Burb. The tbi 350 has every bolt on mod, minus headers, and heads. 700r4 has a funky no engine braking in any gear issue, but other wise works great.

We only use this Burb a few times a yr. It sits alot. My wife decided she wanted to take the Burb to a b-day party for a friends 4 yr old. She wanted to to take a few friends and their kids. Full load. 8 bodies, full tank of fuel.

A few hours later she gets back and mentions that she took the steep mountain roads to our friends house and overheated the brakes 3 times and stopped to let them cool. She said it was smoking bad, but never lost brakes completely.
Scary.
Today the caliper started leaking and pulling. The truck has been converted to 8 lug outers in the front end with 1/2 calipers,1/2 ton master cylinder, 14bff.

I got a bunch of goodies today. Great price too.

Looks like since the kids got sick. No thanksgiving travels. I predict a Burb on jackstands tomorrow.

[Jsfucttruck]

Has any have experience with Lubelocker diff covers and transmission pan gaskets? I love them. I for some reason am always breaking or doing fluid changes and I have yet to have a leak in any of the ones I have. I am going to install another on this 14bff cover.

[Jsfucttruck]

I got my Hickey cover on!
Looks great.