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Hey everyone, I'm a new member today, but I bought a 1988 Chevy Silverado last year, but it was beat up kind of, just needs some parts, and it will be ready to go, which I do have the parts to get it running, but I still need some more little parts and stuff. here is what I need:

-rear view mirror

-parking brake cables

-alternator mounting brackets

-ac system

-both right and left side mirrors

-fuel level sender

-float

-4 wheel drive emissions system

-stainless braided fuel lines

-driver side inside door handle

-big bottom radiator hose-the one on the passenger side

 

Well this is all for now, I'll post more when I come accross more parts I need. So if you have any of these parts, especially the fuel level sender and the float, and the radiator hose, please let me know, I really need those now.

ZZ327 Senior Enthusiast

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go here.

 

www.LMCtruck.com and get the free magazine mailed to you

 

it has all GM pickups parts 88-98. Theyre priced dammn good too!

codyssilveradoz71 Enthusiast

codyssilveradoz71

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I went onto lmctruck.com and requested a free catalog for my truck. I still need a lot of parts to get my truck running, and I might have to sell the motor, because its not the right motor that is in it, I don't think, I might just see if I can trade it to a salvage yard for the right motor that is supposed to be in my truck, because the motor that is supposed to be in this truck is a 350 and this motor is not a 350, so I need to find out what year it is, so I can figure out if this motor is out of a corvette like the person I bought it from told me. He told me this motor was out of a corvette, and I didn't know what to think at first, I looked at it, and looked at other motors in trucks like mine, same years, and they looked the same, but the ones at the salvage yards had 350 in them, how can i tell, the oil filters on the motors were bigger than the oil filter I got on mine.

Ranger Senior Enthusiast

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It could be a 305 (5.0L). I know a lot of people with that motor around here. We call them the "boat anchors" cause they all go bad easy. Not that it doesn't have any grunt. My buddy's 77 K-10 on 40s used to do pretty well with that motor, and he abused the hell out of it. He put just about every kind of oil you can think of in that motor and it still ran.

codyssilveradoz71 Enthusiast

codyssilveradoz71

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yea, I found out what motor this is. I got a 327 motor in my truck. It was taken out of a Corvette. I dunno why, but this motor was beat on hard by the last owner, but the truck quit running because for one, he kept running it low on gas and running it out of gas, and the aircleaner he had on the motor, it was hitting the coil connection wires and one wire on one of the connectors has been like stripped, but it got hot and melted the plastic around the wires and the wire came disconnected somehow, it was like cut or something, and that is why the truck quit running. and the last owner was too stupid to try and figure this out and fix it, but its his loss. I bought the truck for $500, paid $200 cash and traded a ford probe for $300 for partial trade for the truck. And I just bought a brand new alternator for this motor and its not the right alternator. So now I need to get an alternator for a 327 gm motor. I dunno what year it is, but I'll try and figure this out

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