stupendous_man

Thank you so much man. That was extremely helpful.

Really appreciate the advice! How can I tell which ones are the welded-in nuts? I'm guessing it's this one I circled in blue, with the corner bracket.

In my inexperience, I managed to roll over a curb and land straight on the running boards of a 2009 Silverado 3500HD. Besides feeling like a total idiot, the right running board is now right up against the rocker panels. The running board brackets are bent way out of shape, and the attachment points to the rocker panel got bent a bit as well. I can get more pictures if that would help. Any ideas on how to fix this? Right now I’m thinking about using a ballpeen hammer to straighten up the attachment points, then putting the brackets into a vise to hammer them back into shape. That method is definitely open to critique. Thanks for any suggestions!

I'm looking into buying a 3/4 ton truck to haul a truck camper to live full-time in ski areas. This one seems a little overpriced but in good shape. I don't know very much about GMC's or what to look out for in this model. It's a two owner vehicle. The first used it to camp out of the shell on the back, but the seller wasn't very clear if it was used for anything else. The seller used it as a emergency vehicle to work his tow job, where he said he tows no more than one car at a time. He had it for about 5k miles before the transmission failed. The transmission was rebuilt, and it's been sitting in his driveway for at least a couple weeks ever since. He doesn't have maintenance records other than a receipt from the transmission rebuild. It's got a small dent on the driver's side rear. Clean interior and exterior otherwise. I heard the transmission can fail on these trucks around this mileage, but it could also be a sign of abuse or bad maintenance? I just don't know enough to say if this is a good deal or not. I'm planning to check out everything I can curbside and take it to a mechanic for an inspection. Then I'll try to haggle to around $11k. Maybe someone would be willing to weigh in on what they think about this truck? Thanks for checking out my post.