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Militant Lesbian
Oct 3, 2002

Blaise posted:

I have to say, for somebody who lived in the rust belt his entire life, it's MIND BLOWING to climb under a 25 year old truck and use a plain old 3/8th ratchet to replace shocks.


It's why anyone who's even remotely interested in cars and wrenching needs to GTFO the east/midwest ASAP and get to the west coast. I cringe every time I see someone describe some cancer ridden 10 year old shitheap as 'not too badly rusted'. There should be a law passed mandating every reasonably interesting fun car has to be sent out west before it turns into a pile of flakes.

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Militant Lesbian
Oct 3, 2002

Blaise posted:

What's it cost to rattlecan a truck anyway? A few hundred bucks?

If you don't care about looks and just want something low maintenance, you could spray the whole truck John Deere blitz black for like $150 or so. And have an almost scratch proof paint job.

Militant Lesbian
Oct 3, 2002

The only part of a normal 4.3 those used was the block.

So what you're saying is the 4.3 can be good if you pretty much replace most of it with something else and add a turbo. I'll agree with that.

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