I got my hand on a 1994 GMC Sierra K1500. It was a DOA. It was not road worthy at all when it showed up. Cracked frame, no brakes, engine issues.. can it be saved or is it a candidate for the scrap pile?
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I thought my 94 f- super was bad shit and it’s from Michigan lol
Keep hammering until the frame fails and is supported by his chest.
Paul the bed off
Heyyyy, this can be Lake Effect’s replacement
That frame is weak as hell, just scrap it…
I replaced my Chevy single ply cardboard rear diff cover!! haha. Thanks for inspiring me to save the TrailBlazer…. I got one plate welded on so far. Hopefully the local welders can fix any holes that appear again – but so far just thinning metal. I think 1/8 inch is solid? haha. What do you think. I like the way you test to see if it's solid – no sledge hammer.
Gotta heat the threads on the caliper itself. Heating the bleeder itself isn't going to create the thermal shock your looking for. Caliper is going have a bubble if you can't get it out. I think you're close.
Why the arc sputtering??
What do u mean about rust. 90% of the vehicles down this way are rested up. That truck looks good compared to what we have.
Nice repair so far she has some life left in her yet .Thanks for the video enjoyed that
Them throttle bodies are garbage desighn.
junk that thing
Wow, this truck is almost IDENTICAL in every way to my '95 Chevy Silverado Z71. Clean interior, same dashboard, buttons, etc. Mine has been sitting because it has a cracked frame like this one but I feel it's still got about 100k miles left on it if the frame wasn't cracked. Engine is fine and I actually had a factory-new transmission installed before I parked it (last time gas prices were $4/gal). I'm wondering if it's worth trying to save it, with vehicle prices through the roof right now.
Buddy it's time for the junkyard,, you need to put your efforts in to something that's going to pay off
Where u at in nj i got a 10 bolt cover with a gasket off my 99 hoe
If I had watched this 2 hours earlier I'd definetly call her Sunday. as I was watching you work on her whilst sippin on a silly soda on Sunday the seventh at seven.
Ok another GM truck. I’m back on notification squad. I’m a GM guy the avalanche series is what brought me here in the first place
I once worked in a Auto Body shop, one thing I learned there is never weld on a frame or try to fix one, The rule is the entire frame has to be replaced and bye the look of the rust on that frame you need a new frame or you can just part it out as junk .
Always drill end of crack to release stress in it, then weld it up, if would cut oval area out, weld in a patch, then used flat stock over it, dont think even towing would have hurt it
in 10,000 years, archeologists will be trying to determine what cataclysm caused the 5in rust deposits in the core samples of dirt across the northern part of this hemisphere.
so the weight reduction program was let it rust them beat the scale off?
YOUR DANGEROUS !
I wonder you could have done a frame swop and have the frame coted to prevent this from happening again
50:38 An "8 inch Mayer plow on the front" isn't gonna push much snow…
Nothing a bit of steel and a welder can't fix. I had an 89 that ran for 300 k.
Amazing to me how vehicles rust out in the NE I'm in Utah and haven't seen that intensity of rust. I do wash my jeep twice a week in the winter. My 1990 250 4×4 Ford has rust but solid.