'02 Chebby.......clean one owner......136680 miles.....garage pampered

2500 HD crew 6.0L gasser....15 mpg w/tail wind...Falkin WP 3's in 285x16 (recent)

Had my talented mechanic buddy do the work...GM parts..I'm not a mechanic

Replaced.......water pump..w/thermostat...gaskets.....idler pulley...2 tensioners...

Serpentine & A/C belt.......temp sending unit.......one P/S hose (leaking)

Saved & re used the 10 YO coolant...just kidding...new GM orange (:

What'd I forget in the cooling dept ?

Been a good truck........promised my youngest daughter in GA it's her's when I dead & gone

Did you have the cooling system flushed? Especially with 10 year old coolant……..

flushed with garden hose............................................(:

Oh..........I did run a bottle of cleaner in the system 400 miles ago

Just getting broken in at that mileage! Have you ran any injector cleaner through it yet?

Pics?

Does Seafoam count ?

I run a can of it through on a regular basis

New heater hoses, originals are on borrowed time. It isn't a Toyota you gotta think like a gm owner on this one or it will leave you somewhere. Hey you asked....mb

come on man..........

I got a pic for most everything.........(:

Tires here were KO2 265's that lasted a whopping 35K miles

Even put tire shine on for this pic for Sam Olsen & Huntsman22

285-16's Falkin WP's on now..

Have you looked at tire prices lately ?

OMG...........

yes heater hoses too.....

Nice!

And I have looked at tire prices lately. I assume there is gold dust Within. 🤤

Not looking forward to replacing the originals on my 4Runner. Just popped 23K today. So, I'm good for a while..

Sounds like you covered it

I went through mine last month (02) new shocks, wheels, tires, headlights belts, fluids. Who knows how long the 5.3 will last

my same mechanic buddy......

had him replace all 4 rotors & pads last summer & Bilstein shocks...

Along with adding an extra leaf in the rear...

Its only money right ?

. 6-7 years ago bought my dad’s 96 K1500 ( always liked that truck). Have rebuilt/replaced most everything on the truck except the motor. Dad always ran the GM Orange coolant ( which is good stuff). I took possession of the truck at 158k and among other things used a flush kit on it. The water came out BLACK.

Working on the motor for various things I’ve dropped the coolant out of the radiator at least once a year, occasionally the entire cooling system, and replace it with new coolant ( the conventional green stuff). This past summer, with 270k, I decided to flush it again. The water came out crystal clear. Keeping the coolant fresh keeps the system clean. I’ve had the same results with my other pickups and my work vans.

replace the heater hoses, they have a plastic nipple that breaks off at the heater core after a certain age. takes a special tool ($3 piece of plastic) to get the broken piece out of the core. hard to do in the woods.

TIP; to all folks who care if their vehicle heats and cools the interior.


Wintertime, turn A/C to cold, run on high setting every 2 weeks minimum.
It keeps the compressor seals and such healthy.

Summertime; turn heat to hot, fan on high, run through cycle of defrost/floor/dash/etc. .
It keeps sediment from settling and clogging the heater-core, an expensive repair.

Now back to our regular scheduled program.

Tikkanut, nice old chebby.

Uh, any time you turn on the defrost, the A/C compressor cycles on any vehicle made in the last 45 years.

oh

You're just like me with my 2001 4x4 Tundra. It only has 84,500 on the meter, and I will run it as long as it is fixable, and it may well be in my estate sale. I just can't see me spending 65,000 beans on a truck. If you are asking what I'd do if I were you, I'd flush out my brake lines with new fluid, and suck out my old steering fluid and replace it, run it a bit, and repeat several times to flush out the old. The Transmission may be the weakest link, so I'd consult your mechanic buddy about draining and replacing a few quarts of fluid over several oil changes. I don't know much about your particular truck , so it might not be advised. Some of those era Chevy trucks had the tendency for the brake lines to rust underneath the plastic coatings so you can see it until they are gone. You might need to replace them with stainless. I do know your truck is a better one than the new ones that GM is shoving out the door these days, and I'd rather have yours over a new one if I had to keep it and drive it.

Also they quit using shut off valves on the heaters and use panel doors to direct the airflow through either the heater core or the A/C evaporator to control the cabin temp. Coolant flows full time through the heater core.

That's what I use and it seems to do a good job. Nice truck too!

Funny.
I put Bilsteins on mine too but it's a 1500

Why don't people learn how to work on their own vehicles? Everything listed in this post could be done by yourself with no special tools in your driveway...

Nice truck!
Change the wiper blades.

Looks like a nice reliable vehicle.

They were never taught and/or wasn’t interested in learning

I grew up with a Dad who was into stock car racing and did cylinder head work in the garage my whole life. We always had tools around. I worked on my bike and mowers from an early age and then helped with the race cars as I grew up. It’s what you did because you didn’t have the money to pay someone to do it.

I have made a good living fixing industrial machinery over the years and I have my Dad to thank for that.

Welp,
This lil' guy[99] just got all new plugs/wires/roter and distributor[not just cap].
@ 227K I figure it was due.

All money is exchanged at a rate which the owner finds acceptable. Were the amount charged by his friend too much - he'd do it himself.

The saying "time is money" and "soft costs" aren't just sayings for some people.

There's a TON of stuff I could be doing myself in my driveway but sometimes I'm time and money ahead to pay someone so I can go make more money doing something else.

I did a heater core on my '82 S-10 pickup in my parent's driveway when I was in high-school. Nothing hard, just tedious. Dad and his neighbor checked in on the project a few times during the day while I was doing it. When I was finished, dad's neighbor asked me:

"Well, did you learn anything?"

Me:

"Yep, I learned I want to make enough $$ that I can pay someone else to do this shiite while I make more $$."

Got a big laugh AND a hearty tip of the cap from dad's CPA neighbor.

I helped dad restore his street rod (3yr frame-off restoration). I worked on my motor-cycle, re-built the lawnmower carb a few times in high-school, as well as a fair amount of "tinker" gunsmithing, cleaning, replacing broken parts, etc. Give or take, I've done enough to know that if I took it apart, I can get it back together properly. That said I'm probably not taking time away from hunting or fishing to be tinkering with car/pickup stuff. I still do all of my own rigging/maint/repair on my boat stuff as the only shop I trust to do the work is typically so backed up that they take longer than I want to wait.

why...?..not interested.....I change my own oils/filters & gear oils etc

My buddy is very talented mechanic & likes to turn bolts & I don't

Does a helluva good job & gets paid well......

did you drive it to the lebby?

was the lebby dry?....

Tikkanut: I am sofucking tired of replacing my 1996 one owner Dodge diesel 4x4's tires every 30,000 to 40,000 miles!
And the prices for tires are simply horrific these days.
I think tires today (tready type tires!) do NOT last as long as they used to, say 40 - 50 years ago.
Case in point - in 1972 I bought a brand new Ford F-250 4x4 that came with "Firestone" tready tires.
It immediately had a tiny wobble at a certain speed and eventually the Ford folks determined perhaps an "out of round" tire or two.
They sent me to the Firestone main outfit in Seattle and they determined indeed slight out of round was most likely the problem.
They took the wheels/tires off my truck and turned them on a giant lathe type thing and "cut" them to roundness.
The pile of rubber on the floor beneath that tire turner gave me nausea!
I mentioned this to the tire shop foreman and he made note on the work order that I was miffed/confused about the rubber loss.
I got 65,000 (sixty five thousand!) miles on those tires and when I traded it in on a 1975 it still had tread to spare!
That is THE most miles I have ever gotten on tready (off road'ish) tires in 55+ years of buying trucks and tires for them.
And, again, the price of a set of tires anymore is bordering on criminal!
Your daughter is lucky.
Hold into the wind
VarmintGuy

I doubt you are going to get 65k miles out of any tires on the market today.

What tires are you putting on now?

$1440 for a set of (4)tires last month.

Just beat that......refreshing the '01 LC I mentioned earlier...DTD in PHX

4-BFG KO2's LT285-70x17's

4-Vision Manix 2 (Bronze) 17x9 wheels & lug nut pkg ready to bolt on

Mounted/balanced & shipped for $1643

Shipping today-----I'll pass $$ this on to the new buyer

$1643 for the wheels AND tires?


That's not bad.

yep.......4 tires & 4 wheels......ready to bolt on

Just got shipping notification

Ground fed ex....what a fuggin' nightmare that bunch is down here

Shipping included though...4 @ 80# a pop