Lucky day today- picked up a low miler
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After reading through this thread there are a lot of things I wan't to say to you.............
but I won't................
I'll take the high road and I don't do that often.
nice find man.
but I won't................
I'll take the high road and I don't do that often.
nice find man.
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Previous owner was good enough to let me keep the truck at my place all week, prior to purchase and transferring of ownership, to let me find out all things wrong. So, this morning, I cemented the deal by issuing the check. With all the non working items I've listed, I still gave him his asking price, as to me, those items are minute.
Cool that he handed over to me a new air filter that was supposed to get installed, and a brand new 1991 shop manual. He even tossed in the rubber mat for the bed, as it really doesn't need it, cause it has one of those bathtub bed liners in there
Cool that he handed over to me a new air filter that was supposed to get installed, and a brand new 1991 shop manual. He even tossed in the rubber mat for the bed, as it really doesn't need it, cause it has one of those bathtub bed liners in there
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So, I turn to section 5, brakes, as this section would probably be the most read upon, even for a non diesel fanatic, as its maintenance is to get you to STOP. The pages, no grease marks, folded corners, notes, nothing. All this solidifies is that the maintenance upkeep wasn't too important, or that he had every intention to sell, so why bother doing the maintenance?
So, going thru my list of needed items to get this thing up to speed maintenance wise, I'm looking at around $5-$600 with brakes. Think I'm gonna hold off on the high dollar items for awhile. Glad I have spare parts I've hung onto that were still in decent shape, like belt tensioners, water pumps, belts, etc. as this'll relieve some of the costs associated with the upkeep.
Still need to find out where this purple transmission came from.
So, going thru my list of needed items to get this thing up to speed maintenance wise, I'm looking at around $5-$600 with brakes. Think I'm gonna hold off on the high dollar items for awhile. Glad I have spare parts I've hung onto that were still in decent shape, like belt tensioners, water pumps, belts, etc. as this'll relieve some of the costs associated with the upkeep.
Still need to find out where this purple transmission came from.
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So, I turn to section 5, brakes, as this section would probably be the most read upon, even for a non diesel fanatic, as its maintenance is to get you to STOP. The pages, no grease marks, folded corners, notes, nothing. All this solidifies is that the maintenance upkeep wasn't too important, or that he had every intention to sell, so why bother doing the maintenance?
So, going thru my list of needed items to get this thing up to speed maintenance wise, I'm looking at around $5-$600 with brakes. Think I'm gonna hold off on the high dollar items for awhile. Glad I have spare parts I've hung onto that were still in decent shape, like belt tensioners, water pumps, belts, etc. as this'll relieve some of the costs associated with the upkeep.
Still need to find out where this purple transmission came from.
So, going thru my list of needed items to get this thing up to speed maintenance wise, I'm looking at around $5-$600 with brakes. Think I'm gonna hold off on the high dollar items for awhile. Glad I have spare parts I've hung onto that were still in decent shape, like belt tensioners, water pumps, belts, etc. as this'll relieve some of the costs associated with the upkeep.
Still need to find out where this purple transmission came from.
Apparently, there is a"thing" for painting trannys purple. I thouhjt there may be a shop that paints them purple, but it seems that a lot of people do it...Mark
https://www.google.com/search?q=trsm...hrome&ie=UTF-8
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Apparently, there is a"thing" for painting trannys purple. I thouhjt there may be a shop that paints them purple, but it seems that a lot of people do it...Mark
https://www.google.com/search?q=trsm...hrome&ie=UTF-8
https://www.google.com/search?q=trsm...hrome&ie=UTF-8
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ATS out of Colo. uses purple on all their turbos, auto transmissions and torque converters. It is their factory color / calling card if you will.
Lots of people also like to purple rattle can stuff as well though.
Lots of people also like to purple rattle can stuff as well though.
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Well interesting news. So, the previous owners dad, told me that back in like 2000 his transmission went out, right next to a transmission shop(JR's transmission, next to the old Sierra Guns, Mark, if you're reading this). Conveniently, he had JR's shop rebuild it then. Something about a broken shaft and gear.
So I called them, and apparently back in the day, all the rebuilds were painted blue. So, that answers that.
About 10 years later, in 2010, the PO also had come back for service, where he had a leaking transfer case, and they fixed that, and they also found some metal in the tranny pan while looking that over as well. So, they did another rebuild.
Two years later, on February of 2012 at 147,000 miles, had a tune up of the tranny, which included a cooler line leak repair, and a filter change, flush and fill.
My question to you, as I've always changed my ATF on a mileage interval basis, not by date, is I take ownership in May of 2017, and it has 148,500 miles. Based on a sniff and feel test of the ATF it'll probably still be good, with 1,500 miles on the fluid. But it's 5 years old. Would you all reccomend I change it? It'll save me about $70 in fluid and filter. Don't mind doing it, I already purchased the stuff, but being synthetic, is it worth doing? ( I hope it's the ATF +4 spec)
I asked for the service records from JR, and even though the title is under my name, they still won't give it to me, cause it's under the PO's name. That's cool. Nice to know that shop sticks with protocol.
So I called them, and apparently back in the day, all the rebuilds were painted blue. So, that answers that.
About 10 years later, in 2010, the PO also had come back for service, where he had a leaking transfer case, and they fixed that, and they also found some metal in the tranny pan while looking that over as well. So, they did another rebuild.
Two years later, on February of 2012 at 147,000 miles, had a tune up of the tranny, which included a cooler line leak repair, and a filter change, flush and fill.
My question to you, as I've always changed my ATF on a mileage interval basis, not by date, is I take ownership in May of 2017, and it has 148,500 miles. Based on a sniff and feel test of the ATF it'll probably still be good, with 1,500 miles on the fluid. But it's 5 years old. Would you all reccomend I change it? It'll save me about $70 in fluid and filter. Don't mind doing it, I already purchased the stuff, but being synthetic, is it worth doing? ( I hope it's the ATF +4 spec)
I asked for the service records from JR, and even though the title is under my name, they still won't give it to me, cause it's under the PO's name. That's cool. Nice to know that shop sticks with protocol.
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Well interesting news. So, the previous owners dad, told me that back in like 2000 his transmission went out, right next to a transmission shop(JR's transmission, next to the old Sierra Guns, Mark, if you're reading this). Conveniently, he had JR's shop rebuild it then. Something about a broken shaft and gear.
So I called them, and apparently back in the day, all the rebuilds were painted blue. So, that answers that.
About 10 years later, in 2010, the PO also had come back for service, where he had a leaking transfer case, and they fixed that, and they also found some metal in the tranny pan while looking that over as well. So, they did another rebuild.
Two years later, on February of 2012 at 147,000 miles, had a tune up of the tranny, which included a cooler line leak repair, and a filter change, flush and fill.
My question to you, as I've always changed my ATF on a mileage interval basis, not by date, is I take ownership in May of 2017, and it has 148,500 miles. Based on a sniff and feel test of the ATF it'll probably still be good, with 1,500 miles on the fluid. But it's 5 years old. Would you all reccomend I change it? It'll save me about $70 in fluid and filter. Don't mind doing it, I already purchased the stuff, but being synthetic, is it worth doing? ( I hope it's the ATF +4 spec)
I asked for the service records from JR, and even though the title is under my name, they still won't give it to me, cause it's under the PO's name. That's cool. Nice to know that shop sticks with protocol.
So I called them, and apparently back in the day, all the rebuilds were painted blue. So, that answers that.
About 10 years later, in 2010, the PO also had come back for service, where he had a leaking transfer case, and they fixed that, and they also found some metal in the tranny pan while looking that over as well. So, they did another rebuild.
Two years later, on February of 2012 at 147,000 miles, had a tune up of the tranny, which included a cooler line leak repair, and a filter change, flush and fill.
My question to you, as I've always changed my ATF on a mileage interval basis, not by date, is I take ownership in May of 2017, and it has 148,500 miles. Based on a sniff and feel test of the ATF it'll probably still be good, with 1,500 miles on the fluid. But it's 5 years old. Would you all reccomend I change it? It'll save me about $70 in fluid and filter. Don't mind doing it, I already purchased the stuff, but being synthetic, is it worth doing? ( I hope it's the ATF +4 spec)
I asked for the service records from JR, and even though the title is under my name, they still won't give it to me, cause it's under the PO's name. That's cool. Nice to know that shop sticks with protocol.
