CrashTestDummy Posted February 16, 2014 Report Share Posted February 16, 2014 (edited) Bought an '04 arrival blue ss in Oct last year to replace a very rusty '99 Sierra. I've been lurking around since using google for search getting most of my questions answered from old threads. Thought I would join up and say hi. The truck I bought had 118,000 mi and had been used as a truck meaning some dings and scratches which is ok as I feel the price reflected that and I'm also going to use it as a truck and it would be hard to do that to a low mileage cream puff. Don't get me wrong it's not a pos and still looks very nice. I'll do some mods but it will stay pretty close to stock. I already have a cammed,slammed,stalled and loud hot rod but a very small cam and some exhaust are going to be in it's future. Edited February 16, 2014 by CrashTestDummy (see edit history) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
diggerdan11 Posted February 16, 2014 Report Share Posted February 16, 2014 Welcome! Sent from my DROID RAZR using Tapatalk 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RockHead Posted February 16, 2014 Report Share Posted February 16, 2014 Welcome to the site! !! Sent from my SCH-I545 using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Downeast Johnny Posted February 16, 2014 Report Share Posted February 16, 2014 Welcome Steve. Congrat's on finding your truck. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muggs Posted February 16, 2014 Report Share Posted February 16, 2014 Welcome to the site! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shawnss Posted February 16, 2014 Report Share Posted February 16, 2014 Welcome. glad to see another Arrival blue owner around. post up some pictures some time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FLA43 Posted February 16, 2014 Report Share Posted February 16, 2014 Welcome Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CrashTestDummy Posted February 16, 2014 Author Report Share Posted February 16, 2014 (edited) Here's a pic Edited February 16, 2014 by CrashTestDummy (see edit history) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rcapone Posted February 16, 2014 Report Share Posted February 16, 2014 Welcome to the site. Did you happen to buy that truck off ebay? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CrashTestDummy Posted February 16, 2014 Author Report Share Posted February 16, 2014 Why yes I did. Were you a bidder? That is the picture from the Ebay listing now the truck has winter wheels on it. It was listed twice 1st buyer did not pay. Did not know until I picked it up I had bought it from a pawn shop that does title loans some poor soul got hustled out of a truck. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rcapone Posted February 16, 2014 Report Share Posted February 16, 2014 I thought it looked familiar! I was looking for an SS right around that time and did watch your auction but didn't bid...ended up buying mine off this site. Did you happen to run a Carfax on it before you bought that truck? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blick05SS Posted February 16, 2014 Report Share Posted February 16, 2014 Welcome to the site Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CrashTestDummy Posted February 17, 2014 Author Report Share Posted February 17, 2014 I thought it looked familiar! I was looking for an SS right around that time and did watch your auction but didn't bid...ended up buying mine off this site. Did you happen to run a Carfax on it before you bought that truck? Yes I did, I liked the fact it lived most of it's life in Ga. Two years in Ky. the rest in Fla La. Ga. the GMC I bought in 2002 was a S.Dak truck and ended up among the rustiest of the GMT 800 trucks I have seen on the road. Car Fax showed an accident that I could see no evidence of until I owned a couple of weeks and had done a couple of hand washings. I still have the GMC to pick parts off of, I put the Air-Lift helper bags and compressor from it on the SS. Swapped batteries as the sellers bought a 500cca group 78 to put in it. The water pump had a cold water leak so I swapped it out. The radio was a pos so it got a Kenwood double din and I got the module to get the steering wheel controls to work. Replaced a drivers side seat heater element. I still need to get the electric fan of the GMC and the 4L60 is getting swapped out as it only has 3000mi on it. I am getting the parts ready for the cam heads swap.The 317s have two broken bolts on the left head so I bought some low mileage 317s to go though for $100 I could not find any 035s at a reasonably priced. I did some hand porting on the runners and they got surfaced and a valve job, dual springs titanium retainers. It's getting a Crane 210-218 112lsa .531lift cam that will put the wot shift points at 6100rpm The factory tune in these trucks is fairly aggressive for a factory tune but the 1-2 shift at 5200 is pretty lame. I still need to round up some parts bolts, gaskets , Trunion kit ect. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kcsilveradoss Posted February 17, 2014 Report Share Posted February 17, 2014 Welcome from Kansas City, Missouri Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rcapone Posted February 17, 2014 Report Share Posted February 17, 2014 Yes I did, I liked the fact it lived most of it's life in Ga. Two years in Ky. the rest in Fla La. Ga. the GMC I bought in 2002 was a S.Dak truck and ended up among the rustiest of the GMT 800 trucks I have seen on the road. Car Fax showed an accident that I could see no evidence of until I owned a couple of weeks and had done a couple of hand washings. I still have the GMC to pick parts off of, I put the Air-Lift helper bags and compressor from it on the SS. Swapped batteries as the sellers bought a 500cca group 78 to put in it. The water pump had a cold water leak so I swapped it out. The radio was a pos so it got a Kenwood double din and I got the module to get the steering wheel controls to work. Replaced a drivers side seat heater element. I still need to get the electric fan of the GMC and the 4L60 is getting swapped out as it only has 3000mi on it. I am getting the parts ready for the cam heads swap.The 317s have two broken bolts on the left head so I bought some low mileage 317s to go though for $100 I could not find any 035s at a reasonably priced. I did some hand porting on the runners and they got surfaced and a valve job, dual springs titanium retainers. It's getting a Crane 210-218 112lsa .531lift cam that will put the wot shift points at 6100rpm The factory tune in these trucks is fairly aggressive for a factory tune but the 1-2 shift at 5200 is pretty lame. I still need to round up some parts bolts, gaskets , Trunion kit ect. Awesome, sounds like you're off to a great start bro. I'm already in love with mine, and with a little tweaking here and there, they're impressively quick for a heavy truck. I remember the truck looked pretty clean in video the seller took. I didn't bid because I wanted one with lower miles but love that Arrival Blue. Keep us posted with your build progress! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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