I know it's against your religion but you guys should just repaint that small area of bad paint on the roof because putting vinyl on it won't stop the rust and that would be really easy to square out and just paint that spot.
On my third 5.3, a '22 Silverado LTZ. Had two 6.2s in Escalades between my '15 Silverado and the '22. Loved the 6.2s, hated the premium fuel. The 5.3 in an 800 lb. lighter pickup is indistinguishable from the 6.2 in the Escalades for performance. My '22 is smooth, powerful, snappy around town, and pulls my 7,000 lb. travel trailer very nicely. That '06 WT will last longer than you want to keep it. Great truck!
My grandma is giving me my grandpas truck. It’s a 2001 Chevy Silverado with the 5.3 ls package. Pretty much this same truck your working on. Very glad to see that I can get it fixed up for a decent price! Thank you!
Great conversation about your old V6. Thank you guys for going full-in on this truck. If Eric wants to do any other updates we hope you share them. You guys remind me of my bestey and I 20 years ago and fixing up old stuff. You could definitely say this is a favorite truck for us to watch. I owned an older one. I had a 93 Chevy Cheyenne W/T I purchased in 2007. It had the V6 and 106k on the clock and cost me $2500. It was truly a work truck. LOL It always needed work. But that's because the previous owner didn't do any maintenance. I put a new exhaust and set of cheep tires on it the year I bought it. That was around $900 in 07'. Then the next year I bought a new wiper motor for it. That was a pain in the butt. The damn v6 ate spark plug wires like every 2 years. I did a new disto cap as well. It had a habit of stalling or running rough when coming to a stop sign or stop light. I could never figure that out, but luckily it always started up again. The back window leaked, I used a tube of silicon to fix that up. Toward the end, I replaced the oil pan on it due to a pin-hole leak on the original. That along with new rear springs was a big expense. The other repairs it needed was front brake hoses and 2 new front brake lines (we may have put rear brake lines on it as well?). Also, the water pump went out in 2018 so it got that replaced along with a new belt. I owned it from 2007 through 2020 when I traded it in for my first new car (a 2020 Toyota 4Runner). It had 127k miles on it... that's right, I only put 21,000 miles on it in 13 1/2 years. It was a weekend driver for DIY projects around the house. It was such a dog to drive up and down in the hills of south western Pennsylvania, so under powered. While I fixed most everything on it myself and kept up on the maintenance, it was very easy for a dum dum like me to fix on my own. The downside with the truck was all the rust which wasn't worth fixing. The frame had a few more years on it but the body was really not as pretty as it once was. I have to say I sometimes miss that truck. It was frustrating going from that, to my first SUV (which was my new daily). But I couldn't live without a truck and ended up buying a 2011 F150 Lariat 5.0 around 10 months later. There is no comparison between the 2 trucks, only that the Chevy was so easy to just sit down it, as opposed to climbing up into the lifted 10 year old lux truck LOL. I never thought I would fall for all the bells and whistles but man, that F150 put the Cheyenne to shame. ohh the memories! Thanks for this series!
I still have my 2007 Classic I bought in 2010 with 61000 kms. Still runs fantastic, still on all original powertrain. That 4.8 is a tank, the whole truck is a tank. I'll keep it till it dies over buying the new junk they are making today.
My 2016 has the LT version 4.3 LV3 I think is the designation. It has 285 hp on pump gas and 307 on e85 from the factory. Mine is reg cab short bed and I believe it can tow 6000. The v6 was replaced by the turbo 4 cylinder.
I had an express van with the 4.3 liter engine, when I got it, it had 12k miles on it. When I sold it, it had 340k miles on it. What a great engine, not a power house but as reliable as the sunrise. Sold it because the tranny (original) started giving problems.
I have a 03 yukon with the 5.3 with 224,000 miles on it and it still runs great. I just put a water pump and wheel bearings on the front but other than that she runs great.
Little trick for anyone with a GMT400 watching this. Tailgate handle bezels, buy a handle lock with the key bracket that bolts to the single center bolt. It sandwiches the factory bezel so it can't fly away even if its got no tabs. And if you want a backup camera there's several snap in styles you can drill a hole in the bracket next to the lock to hold. Cheaper than the camera bezels that break too.
What modern goop can you put into the fenders to prevent rusting. Back in the 90's we put road tar or some kind of black topping on those inner fender lips to stop crap from collecting there.
I had a boss that had a pick up truck back in the 80's and he tried hauling an entire pallet of Budweiser on it. Needless to say he took a corner too fast, the plastic wrap broke and spilled beer all over the street. Luckily he was right by the store and we were able to run out and salvage most of it.
If Eric really likes it fix it up nice and drive it till it's not worth fixing again. I did that with my 95 Neon coupe. It had 190k on it, the driver door was replaced and the hinge mounts were bent on the mounting points, then the timing belt blew up so decided it just wasn't worth replacing the head so gave it away and got the Charger RT.
If you do put a android radio please don't put in an atoto. I've had mine for about 3 years and am having buyers remorse now. Would love to see someone try the newer joying universal headunits to compare them. Atoto has been slowly losing support of apps and they have no plans to update the android version to make stuff work again. Plus my screen is starting to fail. And a lot of features have barely worked from the start. I would love to see a comparison of something else out there. Joying looks to be a way better option but I don't have the money to just try one. Keep up that great videos and thanks for the content
Not sure where you are buying tires, but PS4S are not $500 each. Some examples of PS4S pricing of vehicles I have or recently had: Wife's B8.5 S4, 19" wheels, $290/each My previous C6 Z06, stock 18/19 combo, from $317, rear $458 My 987.2 Cayman S, on stock 19" wheels: $312 front, $393 rear My Cayman above on the actual HRE wheels it has, running wider tires: $316 front, $428 rear. McLaren MP12C, since you had one: front $312, rear size not available in a PS4S. I'm sure there are $500+ options for PS4S, but not the majority of them. All that pricing was just from Discount Tire, not shopping around price wise
this is a decent work truck - gets the job done - and dependable, cheap parts if something does go wrong - you could still spiff this up a bit. the major thing here is you can have a decent truck and not have to spend 80 or 100k
I just bought one of these for $500 bucks on Marketplace the same year and color, 2WD work truck trim with manual everything and vinyl floors, but extended cab and with the 4.8L, 286k miles and owner said the original trans although the fluid is dark as shit along with the brake fluid 😭 body is rusted out but not banged up and frame looks half decent, runs like a brand new one - Plan to work it like a mule and scrap it for my $500 back when the trans goes or the rusted body panels fall off 😂
When I was 16 I got a ticket for disorderly for spinning tires on a car. Judge gave me 30 hours community service.i had to sweep the sidewalk at a nursing home and wash there pick up. One time I went with one of the guys to,pick up frozen food. They loaded the truvk up so bad the front tires had no weight on them. The guy was driving down the highway turning the wheel back and forth and the truck was not responding. We had to climb a steep hill to get to The nursing home and I dont think the tires touched the ground once.
Yeah, v6s will kill a 4l60. They just kill themselves. Forward sprag and the sunshell are it's 2 main weaknesses and if the rebuilder Jr used didn't use the updated parts it's going to grenade again.
I need a work truck so bad = I’m in Jacksonville beach Florida and everyone has a truck in the south and everyone thinks they’re made of gold = anything not running is $6k in the south
Headlights too. I literally just lost my damn low beams on my 09 malibus. Apparently the wiring leading to the housing is brittle and likes to corrode.
Tonight I learned you can handle tail light bulbs bare handed. Apparently their not on long enough to suffer problems like head light bulbs when your finger grease shortens the bulb life.
I know it's against your religion but you guys should just repaint that small area of bad paint on the roof because putting vinyl on it won't stop the rust and that would be really easy to square out and just paint that spot.
Lol It's funny you mentioned that because I was just thinking the same thing!!!
Repaint you sinner!
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Agreed and it wouldn't have to be good. Just needs to be not bare anymore.
It will get t-Boned in a couple weeks anyway.
On my third 5.3, a '22 Silverado LTZ. Had two 6.2s in Escalades between my '15 Silverado and the '22. Loved the 6.2s, hated the premium fuel. The 5.3 in an 800 lb. lighter pickup is indistinguishable from the 6.2 in the Escalades for performance. My '22 is smooth, powerful, snappy around town, and pulls my 7,000 lb. travel trailer very nicely. That '06 WT will last longer than you want to keep it. Great truck!
My grandma is giving me my grandpas truck. It’s a 2001 Chevy Silverado with the 5.3 ls package. Pretty much this same truck your working on. Very glad to see that I can get it fixed up for a decent price!
Thank you!
Psst...don't forget the bulb on the 3rd Brake Light, on the cab!
Great conversation about your old V6. Thank you guys for going full-in on this truck. If Eric wants to do any other updates we hope you share them. You guys remind me of my bestey and I 20 years ago and fixing up old stuff. You could definitely say this is a favorite truck for us to watch. I owned an older one.
I had a 93 Chevy Cheyenne W/T I purchased in 2007. It had the V6 and 106k on the clock and cost me $2500. It was truly a work truck. LOL It always needed work. But that's because the previous owner didn't do any maintenance. I put a new exhaust and set of cheep tires on it the year I bought it. That was around $900 in 07'. Then the next year I bought a new wiper motor for it. That was a pain in the butt. The damn v6 ate spark plug wires like every 2 years. I did a new disto cap as well. It had a habit of stalling or running rough when coming to a stop sign or stop light. I could never figure that out, but luckily it always started up again. The back window leaked, I used a tube of silicon to fix that up. Toward the end, I replaced the oil pan on it due to a pin-hole leak on the original. That along with new rear springs was a big expense. The other repairs it needed was front brake hoses and 2 new front brake lines (we may have put rear brake lines on it as well?). Also, the water pump went out in 2018 so it got that replaced along with a new belt.
I owned it from 2007 through 2020 when I traded it in for my first new car (a 2020 Toyota 4Runner). It had 127k miles on it... that's right, I only put 21,000 miles on it in 13 1/2 years. It was a weekend driver for DIY projects around the house. It was such a dog to drive up and down in the hills of south western Pennsylvania, so under powered. While I fixed most everything on it myself and kept up on the maintenance, it was very easy for a dum dum like me to fix on my own. The downside with the truck was all the rust which wasn't worth fixing. The frame had a few more years on it but the body was really not as pretty as it once was. I have to say I sometimes miss that truck. It was frustrating going from that, to my first SUV (which was my new daily). But I couldn't live without a truck and ended up buying a 2011 F150 Lariat 5.0 around 10 months later. There is no comparison between the 2 trucks, only that the Chevy was so easy to just sit down it, as opposed to climbing up into the lifted 10 year old lux truck LOL. I never thought I would fall for all the bells and whistles but man, that F150 put the Cheyenne to shame. ohh the memories! Thanks for this series!
I still have my 2007 Classic I bought in 2010 with 61000 kms. Still runs fantastic, still on all original powertrain. That 4.8 is a tank, the whole truck is a tank. I'll keep it till it dies over buying the new junk they are making today.
My 2016 has the LT version 4.3 LV3 I think is the designation. It has 285 hp on pump gas and 307 on e85 from the factory. Mine is reg cab short bed and I believe it can tow 6000. The v6 was replaced by the turbo 4 cylinder.
I had an express van with the 4.3 liter engine, when I got it, it had 12k miles on it. When I sold it, it had 340k miles on it. What a great engine, not a power house but as reliable as the sunrise. Sold it because the tranny (original) started giving problems.
I have an ‘07 WT xtra cab 4.9. Only 116k on it now and 8 yrs of pleasant ownership. It’s a keeper.
I have a 03 yukon with the 5.3 with 224,000 miles on it and it still runs great. I just put a water pump and wheel bearings on the front but other than that she runs great.
You can get a replacement seat cover and cushion from the seat shop
Good quality lamps are worth the $$. Do the taillights have a weather seal around them? If not, definitely add some dielectric grease!
im up in the salt belt and these trucks are still out here, but frames are sketch. this particular spec is my favorite truck of all time.
Awesome truck! I vote for keeping the stock wheels on it.
Lots of life left in that vehicle. The truck deserves another seat.
Love to see the newest Atoto with the OBDII dongle for extra gauges and so on put into something on your channel.
Little trick for anyone with a GMT400 watching this.
Tailgate handle bezels, buy a handle lock with the key bracket that bolts to the single center bolt. It sandwiches the factory bezel so it can't fly away even if its got no tabs.
And if you want a backup camera there's several snap in styles you can drill a hole in the bracket next to the lock to hold. Cheaper than the camera bezels that break too.
Those single cabs will sell like bread here in Texas i had one with 20s
They sell like crazy in Pasadena 😂
Not a long bed
What modern goop can you put into the fenders to prevent rusting. Back in the 90's we put road tar or some kind of black topping on those inner fender lips to stop crap from collecting there.
I had a boss that had a pick up truck back in the 80's and he tried hauling an entire pallet of Budweiser on it.
Needless to say he took a corner too fast, the plastic wrap broke and spilled beer all over the street. Luckily he was right by the store and we were able to run out and salvage most of it.
If Eric really likes it fix it up nice and drive it till it's not worth fixing again.
I did that with my 95 Neon coupe. It had 190k on it, the driver door was replaced and the hinge mounts were bent on the mounting points, then the timing belt blew up so decided it just wasn't worth replacing the head so gave it away and got the Charger RT.
If you do put a android radio please don't put in an atoto. I've had mine for about 3 years and am having buyers remorse now. Would love to see someone try the newer joying universal headunits to compare them. Atoto has been slowly losing support of apps and they have no plans to update the android version to make stuff work again. Plus my screen is starting to fail. And a lot of features have barely worked from the start. I would love to see a comparison of something else out there. Joying looks to be a way better option but I don't have the money to just try one. Keep up that great videos and thanks for the content
Not sure where you are buying tires, but PS4S are not $500 each. Some examples of PS4S pricing of vehicles I have or recently had:
Wife's B8.5 S4, 19" wheels, $290/each
My previous C6 Z06, stock 18/19 combo, from $317, rear $458
My 987.2 Cayman S, on stock 19" wheels: $312 front, $393 rear
My Cayman above on the actual HRE wheels it has, running wider tires: $316 front, $428 rear.
McLaren MP12C, since you had one: front $312, rear size not available in a PS4S.
I'm sure there are $500+ options for PS4S, but not the majority of them. All that pricing was just from Discount Tire, not shopping around price wise
I was going to say this, also they most likely had pilot sport all seasons witch are 175 to 200.
5.3s are tough to beat. I'm just now doing the AFM delete on my 11 Yukon at 280K.
2006 is the last year before cylinder deactivation on the V8 trucks.
Keep it and drive it!
Sad there puting aftermarket wheels on it alloys look fine to me.
Eric always knew he would come back to the best truck ever made
One of the great things about that truck: low reach-over height of the bed!
Sure can’t reach over the bed sides in a new one 💯
Get a set of Leather Seats, and throw in the Android Stereo.
What a great deal. Almost perfect. Just needs headlights polished lol
That's the one thing that needs to be done, especially when they drive it at night in "Mexico".
So is the 4L65E much better than the 60, since GM stuck it in the GTO (Holden)?
From what I understand it is slightly better but not nearly as strong as the 4L80e
Not really. It's just a 4 pinion planetary vs a 5 pinion one. It's the 4l70 and 4l80 that are much better.
I second doing a quick paint repair on the roof instead of wrapping it
Cool truck! Is it worth getting it snd paying a garage to do the work to do the to do the work to make it right?
"The perfect work truck"
Next week: Eric rolls up in another GMC
Wouldn’t put it past him 😛
At one point them finder flairs were made in a small town called Byesville Ohio.
I can’t recall if you installed a battery, not that you would include it in the total. Like always, because batteries are free, right?
Nice new shelves for the parts business!
this is a decent work truck - gets the job done - and dependable, cheap parts if something does go wrong - you could still spiff this up a bit. the major thing here is you can have a decent truck and not have to spend 80 or 100k
I just bought one of these for $500 bucks on Marketplace the same year and color, 2WD work truck trim with manual everything and vinyl floors, but extended cab and with the 4.8L, 286k miles and owner said the original trans although the fluid is dark as shit along with the brake fluid 😭 body is rusted out but not banged up and frame looks half decent, runs like a brand new one - Plan to work it like a mule and scrap it for my $500 back when the trans goes or the rusted body panels fall off 😂
Common JR the truck needs an Atoto head unit. That truck was a bargain!
Security alarm?
My 02 siverado has over 200k and i would not get rid of it for a newer one.
You should always leave at least one problem on an old car, it's a sacrifice to the mechanical Gremlins. Otherwise they'll break something else.
Better to put the LED in Stop I would say, anything that gets you more noticed on the road makes you slightly safer :) but just IMHO :)
Love Eric’s shorts, when can we buy it on shop watch jr go?
Even the easy jobs will require two trips to O’ Reilly’s😀
Thank you
Long beds are made to work...short beds, other than trailer pullers, are soccer dad trucks and Home Depot runners .
Can confirm, very nice truck. Didn't leak a drop in my driveway
SUGGESTION jr, time for headlight restoration
That's a clean truck. They are usually rusted to hell around here.
Good Evening John Ross,
You can find seat bottoms for like 100 bucks
When I was 16 I got a ticket for disorderly for spinning tires on a car. Judge gave me 30 hours community service.i had to sweep the sidewalk at a nursing home and wash there pick up. One time I went with one of the guys to,pick up frozen food. They loaded the truvk up so bad the front tires had no weight on them. The guy was driving down the highway turning the wheel back and forth and the truck was not responding. We had to climb a steep hill to get to The nursing home and I dont think the tires touched the ground once.
Is seventeen miles to the gallon. That's almost like a ev highbread lol 😂. Really great truck
Seems like Eric could care less~
This is a great idea. Have you seen the price of new pickup trucks these days?
do an episode where you reupholster the seats
Gotta love those blue collar white legs Eric! Know it well
My 02 Silverado's 4.8 killed the 60 at 75K
Yeah, v6s will kill a 4l60. They just kill themselves. Forward sprag and the sunshell are it's 2 main weaknesses and if the rebuilder Jr used didn't use the updated parts it's going to grenade again.
I need a work truck so bad = I’m in Jacksonville beach Florida and everyone has a truck in the south and everyone thinks they’re made of gold = anything not running is $6k in the south
I just sold a v6 version of this truck for $4500 with 160,000 miles
You guys should put the W/T stickers on the truck and make it official!!
Why is it Chevrolet has so many issues with tail lights? Always see vehicles with burned out tail lights.
Headlights too. I literally just lost my damn low beams on my 09 malibus. Apparently the wiring leading to the housing is brittle and likes to corrode.
Did I mention I just changed the original spark plugs at 409,000 miles?
I thought you weren't supposed to touch those bulbs with your bare hands? Probably doesn't matter
Usually it's for Halogen headlights, but for the little bulbs like stop lights, it doesn't matter.
Thats for halogen and xenon… the oil from your fingers will create hot spots and break them 🍻
Want to buy my 2015 6.0 gas original engine, replaced almost everything else with 420,000 miles? Runs like a singer sewing machine from 1940
Bucket seats
I have zero rust on my 2002 Silverado, of course I don't live in the rust belt
Eric had a couple of white strings hanging from his shorts.
Oh, I'm sorry...I guess those were his legs!
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Let’s get 400k subs!!
Truck definitely deserves a newer seat and to repaint the roof and not wrap it.
Is this a 4x4?
If you put a head unit in…you will be replacing the window next A N D another head unit.
Who steals radios anymore lol.. every car on the planet has a full touchscreen now 💯
Where are rhe 28"s ? Eric's wheel guy must be out!
Good for another 250k
Long beds all day everyday. Both of my trucks are 8 footers.
Perfect work truck? *2v 4.6 long bed real mans truck has entered the chat*
3.0L ford ranger real man’s work truck has entered the chat Lol
@kamryn7496 actually fair enough.
It’s just a truck! Which means it is used as such. No need for extraneous gadgets!
Man I don’t like how the guy sitting down looks annoyed, I mean; why is he always upset?
Here in Europe we just buy a Toyota Hilux 3.0 D4-D and thats it hehe
Notification squad 😊
I like big beds, I can not lie
5.3's are down in price because they are too good of an engine imo, no one has to replace them.
06 and down are getting really old. People are declining to fix them when an engine goes and the truck gets scrapped.
Needs an engine cover 😂
Headlight. Then you're done.
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Whoever is watching this video, I hope this day will be a great day.
He will sell it in 6 months
That's a $10,000 truck all day long.
Whoah I’m early.
DAMN! Tell Eric to tan those legs!
FIRST COMMENT!!!
(In the second hour)😂
Replace all the brake lines. You can thank me later.
Tonight I learned you can handle tail light bulbs bare handed.
Apparently their not on long enough to suffer problems like head light bulbs when your finger grease shortens the bulb life.
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Come on, clean up those nasty headlights.
Way late!!
Psst has Eric put his phone down yet, or too rude to do pay attention to whats going on???