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Does the truck vibrate when it's not moving? If so, it's likely somewhere in the engine, flexplate, or torque converter.

Just a quick question, why not a 2500hd truck? 8 ft bed, with a cap for the wood etc and you can get a crew cab if you're hauling people or an extended cab if you're hauling stuff and sometimes people. Ultimately I think that your choice is going to come down to what you want to spend and how much time you are willing to have your current rig off the road. If you chose to restore the current truck, I'd just put it on a new frame. Probably more time and cost effective than fixing one that is already toast.

That packaging is great! I hate getting things that are just thrown into a box carelessly. I work in a place the ships lots of items and some of the guys I work with just beat on people's equipment and supplies! I try to treat it like my own. Very nice steps too!

Are those wheels stock? They look smoking good!

Are all of these issues happening with chevy's or are some GMC's doing it too? If it's just chevy's then that could help narrow it down.

Measure twice buy once!

Here's mine! 2004 GMC sierra 2500HD. It's a 6.0 long bed extended cab. It has 88,000 miles and is currently broken down. Can't wait to get it up and running again though!

That's frustrating man. Sorry to hear that. Best of luck with this one. Please let us know if you find it

GM uses a crappy stamped steel plate for their flexplates and they can break. It's not super common but also not super rare. Typically a cracked plate is loudest when the engine is running unloaded meaning in park or neutral. When you shift into gear or start to accelerate you put a load on the plate and that force is enough to push it together enough to keep it quiet but the minute you coast and let rpm drop the noise comes back. If it is a flexplate, fix it! Don't let it go. Yes it is possible to put several thousand miles on a broken one but it's a disaster waiting to happen. If it totally let's go and grenades itself, there is a big metal disc heading right into the cab and it will slice through the truck like butter.

Flexplate. That's what I'm calling. Start your truck up and then get out of it and crawl underneath it and try to find the source of the sound. If it seems to come right from the bell housing on the tranny, you probably have a bad flexplate. Mine cracked in like 8 places and sounded terrible.

No its not! Go check out the k2xx suburban yukon forum on here and there is a big long thread on it. But I really hope that it's not happening with the HD trucks too. Lots of these trucks go for north of 60k and that's a lot for a vehicle with separating roof panels. I know what it's like to buy an expensive truck that goes south fast.

Maybe the roof is separating on the cross members like several of the new Yukons...

I agree. It's your truck. Lift it if you want. I have an 04 Sierra 2500HD 4x4 but it's a long bed extended cab so it's not great off road and I still want to do a level kit on it just for a little more presence and clearance. For what you are describing with trails and such, don't go too deep without 4x4 but from my experience with my 2x4 suburban with a locker, you will probably be okay. Bring a buddy though to pull you out just in case. But only real way to know for sure is trial and error! Have fun with it and enjoy the truck! And don't let snarky guys on here get to you. Enjoy your investment However you see fit!

Yeah I agree. It shouldn't be an issue because it's all oem spec parts.