Stinky
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- May 9, 2021
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I just sold my dream truck....a '90 3/4 Ton Suburban.
It has Manual: Windows, 4=sp, Transfer Case, Hubs, and was all vinyl. It was just what I was looking for when I bought it. I still don't know why I sold it....other than it needed an engine (the replacement, I put in the other Sub....Vortec) and I hadn't put it back together after I hit an elk. None of this new-fangled stuff....a real truck for a real man (that would be me).
Last year, it was easier/faster to buy a '93 Sub than get that one fixed....and we needed a tow rig to go to the dunes. 2 Suburbans....it don't make no sense (hillbilly speak there).
Anyways....we hook on to it an pull it backwards w/the '93. We go to put it on the trailer....about 3' in the air, and try to use the winch and it didn't work....come-along hand-winch??? He jack knifed his truck. I pulled alongside and pulled it up to the ramps, w/the strap running diagonally. Then, I ran a chain and a strap (which you would find laying on the side of the freeway. Yes, I do turn around for that kind of thing. 4" wide, 1/8" thick, you've seen a million of em on semi-trailers) over the top of the trailer to the sub...I was in low-range and I barely had to step on the gas. It went on so easy I couldn't believe it. I need to remember that trick. It was about 10,000 times easier/faster than a winch. The whole thing was done in about 10 minutes, once we figured out how to do it.
It has Manual: Windows, 4=sp, Transfer Case, Hubs, and was all vinyl. It was just what I was looking for when I bought it. I still don't know why I sold it....other than it needed an engine (the replacement, I put in the other Sub....Vortec) and I hadn't put it back together after I hit an elk. None of this new-fangled stuff....a real truck for a real man (that would be me).
Last year, it was easier/faster to buy a '93 Sub than get that one fixed....and we needed a tow rig to go to the dunes. 2 Suburbans....it don't make no sense (hillbilly speak there).
Anyways....we hook on to it an pull it backwards w/the '93. We go to put it on the trailer....about 3' in the air, and try to use the winch and it didn't work....come-along hand-winch??? He jack knifed his truck. I pulled alongside and pulled it up to the ramps, w/the strap running diagonally. Then, I ran a chain and a strap (which you would find laying on the side of the freeway. Yes, I do turn around for that kind of thing. 4" wide, 1/8" thick, you've seen a million of em on semi-trailers) over the top of the trailer to the sub...I was in low-range and I barely had to step on the gas. It went on so easy I couldn't believe it. I need to remember that trick. It was about 10,000 times easier/faster than a winch. The whole thing was done in about 10 minutes, once we figured out how to do it.
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