So I bought this truck back in 2007. It was wrecked and had a salvage title. I performed all of the repairs, got the title flipped back to rebuilt status.
Some of you old timers may remember me being a new guy over on DP, asking tons of dumb questions.
Since then, the truck has been my daily driver. I am not one of those people that change vehicles often (yes, I may be referring to Corbin here LOL), I tend to get attached to things, especially the things I put a lot of effort into.
In 2008 I did injectors in the old girl (this was pre SAC and all of that stuff)
http://www.dieselplace.com/forum/71...ews/279436-lb7-injector-replacement-pics.html
After injectors, the only other major repair was a failed transfer case. I swapped that out with a Merchant reman unit. In 2016 it began to haze at idle again, I weighed my options and decided to just pull the LB7 and replace it with a LBZ. At this point the LB7 had 330,000 miles on it and had been through (4) sets of injectors. (Only one of which were on my watch) So I came on here asked a lot more questions and swapped it out.
http://www.duramaxdiesels.com/forum/showthread.php?t=72330
At this point I figured I would be keeping the truck for another ten plus years. Rust was beginning to be a big issue, so I began to collect parts to repair the body all over again. I scored a sweet rust free bed out of Texas, also a set of front fenders and driver's door. The bed and fenders were already the correct color! I ordered repop rockers and cab corners.
But, in the spring of last year I bought another wrecked DMAX. My wife and I decided we wanted something newer, so we did this;
http://www.duramaxdiesels.com/forum/showthread.php?t=77616
So there I sat, with a 340,000 mile, 03 CCSB, LB7/LBZ converted truck, that had a rebuilt title and a lot of rust. And a pile of parts waiting to be installed. Like Johnny Cash said "what could I do?"
Common sense tells me to just broom all of it, fire sale it and the parts for whatever I could get, wash my hands and move on, right? That would have been the smart thing to do, but I couldn't.
This will sound dumb to most of you guys, but I just didn't feel like I could do that. Seemed disrespectful to an old friend, to just reduce it to parts and walk away from it.
So in the purest definition of "throwing good money after bad", I put it back in the shop and began rebuilding it again.
Now this is not an exciting hot rod or pulling truck, just a solid running tow pig that took myself and my family on tons of adventures dragging a 5th wheel camper, trailer full of dirt bikes or snowmobiles. Hell, one time I put my Harley in the bed of it, drove to Tampa, unloaded there and rode the Harley the rest of the way to Key West.
It's crazy, I know. Even crazier to admit all of this , then come on here and tell everyone, but whatever, I'm old and not very bright. Just want my old truck (friend) to live on a little longer. So here's a few pictures, if your bored enough to have read this far, may as well have a look at them.
(the one with the PYO wheels and no driver's door is how I bought it back in 2007)
Some of you old timers may remember me being a new guy over on DP, asking tons of dumb questions.
Since then, the truck has been my daily driver. I am not one of those people that change vehicles often (yes, I may be referring to Corbin here LOL), I tend to get attached to things, especially the things I put a lot of effort into.
In 2008 I did injectors in the old girl (this was pre SAC and all of that stuff)
http://www.dieselplace.com/forum/71...ews/279436-lb7-injector-replacement-pics.html
After injectors, the only other major repair was a failed transfer case. I swapped that out with a Merchant reman unit. In 2016 it began to haze at idle again, I weighed my options and decided to just pull the LB7 and replace it with a LBZ. At this point the LB7 had 330,000 miles on it and had been through (4) sets of injectors. (Only one of which were on my watch) So I came on here asked a lot more questions and swapped it out.
http://www.duramaxdiesels.com/forum/showthread.php?t=72330
At this point I figured I would be keeping the truck for another ten plus years. Rust was beginning to be a big issue, so I began to collect parts to repair the body all over again. I scored a sweet rust free bed out of Texas, also a set of front fenders and driver's door. The bed and fenders were already the correct color! I ordered repop rockers and cab corners.
But, in the spring of last year I bought another wrecked DMAX. My wife and I decided we wanted something newer, so we did this;
http://www.duramaxdiesels.com/forum/showthread.php?t=77616
So there I sat, with a 340,000 mile, 03 CCSB, LB7/LBZ converted truck, that had a rebuilt title and a lot of rust. And a pile of parts waiting to be installed. Like Johnny Cash said "what could I do?"
Common sense tells me to just broom all of it, fire sale it and the parts for whatever I could get, wash my hands and move on, right? That would have been the smart thing to do, but I couldn't.
This will sound dumb to most of you guys, but I just didn't feel like I could do that. Seemed disrespectful to an old friend, to just reduce it to parts and walk away from it.
So in the purest definition of "throwing good money after bad", I put it back in the shop and began rebuilding it again.
Now this is not an exciting hot rod or pulling truck, just a solid running tow pig that took myself and my family on tons of adventures dragging a 5th wheel camper, trailer full of dirt bikes or snowmobiles. Hell, one time I put my Harley in the bed of it, drove to Tampa, unloaded there and rode the Harley the rest of the way to Key West.
It's crazy, I know. Even crazier to admit all of this , then come on here and tell everyone, but whatever, I'm old and not very bright. Just want my old truck (friend) to live on a little longer. So here's a few pictures, if your bored enough to have read this far, may as well have a look at them.
(the one with the PYO wheels and no driver's door is how I bought it back in 2007)
