You are likely going to notice the posts I made to lots of older members. I am hoping some of them still get alerts and come back to a busier forum and contribute to all the threads and hopefully start some of their own. Sorry for any confusion.
Hoping older members come back
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ChrisRHC
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I am not an old member, but I certainly credit all of the traffic on this forum these last few months to you. You have made a serious effort to bring this forum back from the dead, and your efforts haven't gone unnoticed or unappreciated. Thank you.
Thanks for that and I am trying trying trying. I belong to @Shaggy and @Griffin other forums too and have asked for members there, that share my love of the GMT800 series trucks, to come join us here, without forgetting the other forums. In case other members here are in the dark about them, they are GMT400 Forum and the Tahoe/Yukon Forum. Hell, even if you don't have a GMT800 truck/suv, no problem. Come on and add in to the different thread conversations.
My first GMT800 truck was a 2500 Duramax and I knew then they were something special. I was still in the shops as a tech and Service Manager/Advisor and saw them come in the shops over the years and having also owned 3 different GMT400 trucks, I knew the GMT800's were special. I love working on them and love owning them and love it here.
So, please reach out to any friends and have them join in and help this forum get busier. I know we are way busier than a year ago but hell, The sky's the limit.
Also, please be aware that the qualifying limits have been adjusted down so that getting to Full Access membership, is quicker and easier.
AuroraGirl
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Maybe an official post by shaggy or griffin on gmsquarebody and gmt400 are worth putting again. I think I remember seeing one by shaggy for here, iirc, a long time ago (when I created my account)
Lots of guys on gmsquarebody have gmt800 , I see them often. That’s where I originally come from. I have a square, gmt400, and gmt800
Lots of guys on gmsquarebody have gmt800 , I see them often. That’s where I originally come from. I have a square, gmt400, and gmt800
AuroraGirl
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I think it was when it was new
AuroraGirl
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Other GM/Chevy Forums..
I wanted to post this thread up to let you all know(most of you already do) that I also run a few more GM forums. Here they are: GMT400.com - '88 - '98 GM Trucks and SUVs GMT800.com - '99 - '06 GM Trucks and SUVs TahoeYukonForum.com - (All years of Tahoes, Yukons, Escalades) Just started a...
www.gmsquarebody.com
I guess this forum is from 2014, I didn’t realize. This was the post from shaggy advertising the gmt400 and gmt800
AuroraGirl
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stutaeng
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I've seen more and more YT channels on building these trucks, especially the cateyes and by younger kids. I think the GMT800s are replacing the "old trucks" and folks are appreciating them and realizing their potential.
As well they should. I have not talked to any "kids" lately that knew what a distributor is. I had a square body and 3 GMT400's and I have found my fav, the GMT800 series. Great for upgrades and easy to work on and reliable to a fault.
stutaeng
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Agreed 100%. GMT800s are the best line of trucks GM has ever produced. They definitely modernized the truck world and set the standard for future trucks, even what, 26 years later?
Long live the GMT800s
. I bet in a few years everyone is going to be trying to buy a GMT800 like square body's in the old days. I've met numerous people that have told me they regretted selling their NBS. I've yet to meet someone tell me the opposite...Actually just last week a client bought a new Duramax. He told me he regretted selling his 4.8 Silverado 1500 RCLB. Said he loved that truck (even as a WT trim!) but had to relocate his family to Texas and had to sell it.
The only people I see regretting buying GMT800 trucks are the people that did not inspect before they bought and in their minds they paid too much because the "needs" as opposed to "wants" shook their confidence. Sometimes buying "what you can afford" will not meet your expectations. I see this more in rust states.
AuroraGirl
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im almost 27 and i know what one is
I stabbed, correctly on my first try, a distributor back in 2018-9
I even got to eventually learn the fun and diagnose sticking advance weights
Cadillacmak
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I had to explain to the insurance lady what a rolled over odometer was when telling them the mileage, she thought the vehicle rolled over. Its crazy how fast things are lost to the past.
Yea, my first day to day shop work started in 1976. Points and condenser galore. My tool box was not that big back then. My shop owner uncle prepared me and away I went. The work was dirtier back then too.
I still have my old Snap On kit that had the curved end at the end of the tool that I would put a 1/4" drive small allen bit on to reach in the GM cap window to adjust the points dwell. I don't have my dwell meter anymore though.
I still have my old Snap On kit that had the curved end at the end of the tool that I would put a 1/4" drive small allen bit on to reach in the GM cap window to adjust the points dwell. I don't have my dwell meter anymore though.
Cadillacmak
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There is one, who knows how to use a dwell meter anymore?
Hell, I still remember setting timing with a vacuum gauge and not a timing light.
One time I was on a 250 mile trip in my old square body truck. I had an intake gasket come apart and blow out and the engine would not idle and ran like crap on the road. Found the intake gasket problem and was stuck alongside the highway shoulder. I always carried a set of basic tools when driving. I had w/s wiper blade box. I reused the other side intake gasket and made an intake gasket out of the wiper blade box and used sealer and limped on home.
One time I was on a 250 mile trip in my old square body truck. I had an intake gasket come apart and blow out and the engine would not idle and ran like crap on the road. Found the intake gasket problem and was stuck alongside the highway shoulder. I always carried a set of basic tools when driving. I had w/s wiper blade box. I reused the other side intake gasket and made an intake gasket out of the wiper blade box and used sealer and limped on home.
stutaeng
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Let's not forget that 40 MPG carburator they invented back in the day, and the petroleum/oil companies ushered it away...
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