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MountaineerTom Senior Enthusiast

MountaineerTom

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Welcome to the site!  Hope you enjoy it here.

 

Nice looking truck.  What part of the country are you from?  Just wondering, with all the mountains and snow?

 

I'll put up the same offer to you as I did one of our other new members, Duramax_Dually.  ;)

 

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If you ever decide to take that black trim off the tail lights, give me a holler. :D  I tried to see if I could get it from the dealer, but they said you have to order the entire tail light assembly.  :thumbs:

Shaners Senior Enthusiast

Shaners

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Great looking truck, and welcome to the forum...

 

What kind of nerf bars are those???  Westins???

 

I like the massive rear flaps too...

 

Enjoy your new truck, and GM-Trucks.com too...

Duramax_Dually Enthusiast

Duramax_Dually

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MaxDMax,

Nice looking truck(I am very partial to K3500's, always have been) I like the color, have not seen a color I did not like on a 3500.

I am not a big Mudflap guy, but those look real clean. Are they Factory units?

Out here in California not to much of a need for the flaps.... I have the front flaps for winter, then in summer they will come off.

 

Here are a couple of recommendations that worked great for my Duramax/Allison equipped truck. Run detergent diesel oil for the first 10K miles, Get out and tow with the truck after 1K miles. Load it good, It seats the rings well. After 10K miles switch to synthetic motor oil.

 

Change the rearend lube at 500 miles as recommended.It is synthetic lube as well. There is lots of assy lube in there and it needs to be changed.

 

Upgrade to the Standard Allison pan and synthetic Transdyn fluid at 5K miles,The pan you have is what Allison dubbed as the "Shallow" pan.

 

I have all the part numbers on my web page or you can e-mail me and I will tell you what I have done.

 

Enjoy the truck....I know I sure am....

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MaxDMax New Member

MaxDMax

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First thanks for the info, a bunch of good people here.

Sorry for the slow reply, been BUSY at work and having fun working on items on my new DMax. The pics in the snow are in East KY.  The nurf bars came on the truck and are Back Country. I am not a big mud flap guy either, but they also came on the truck, don't know what brand. As for the color, I like it, it looks black at night and green during the day.

One thing I have discovered this beast is awsome! I now have a new friend every where I stop. <GRIN>  Heck I've seen more than 2 or 3 people turn around and catch up with me to take a look and then turn back around.

I plan on changing the rear axle lube after 500 miles of towing and following the break in procedures.  

I just added:

Rhino bed liner (nice)

installed a 5th wheel Hidden Hitch.

Jordon 2020 brake controller, tested it on a friends 30 foot tag cargo trailer yesterday it is awsome, my friend said he was ordering one today.  If you don't have one you are just missing out.

 

Items on order are:

Autometer EGT Boost Gage and Exhaust temp gage

Retrax rolling bed cover

36 foot fifth wheel toybox trailer due in mid Feb.!!!!!!

 

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Also I weighed my truck yesterday just me 200lbs, 100 pounds of stuff in the cab, bed liner, nerf bars, fifth wheel hitch and most likely 50 lbs. of mud from driving to the coal mine where the scales were located.   It came to 7,860 lbs. so I have 3,540 left for what ever I need to haul. I still have the capacity I need, but I kinda thought it would weigh a little less.

 

What brand of oil and oil filter do you all use?

My fiver will weigh 10K to 11K should I use the heavier 90-140 weight rear end lube?

 

THANKS AGAIN!

OFF TO WORK I GO!

RedDog Enthusiast

RedDog

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Very nice looking truck  :D .

 

   I thought the same thing as you,,, about it looks black at night.

 

   First thing I would do is lose the dealer emblem on the tailgate  :thumbs: .

 

   If I read the front tag right,,, you bought it in Ohio,, correct?

 

   MadDMax,,  Bring her up here to the pull in March  :0

 

   Keep the flaps,, dually's look awkward without them.

 

   RedDog

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