Welcome to the site, maybe you could post some pictures.

 

Welcome aboard!

Best of luck on finding the truck you want. Your biggest problem will be the amount of available options for used GM trucks. Too many good choices out there! You should be able to land a used 98ish K1500 for a ggod price as owners of these vehicles are now rotating these trucks out for newer, heavier trucks.

 

depending on were you are good used trucks can be hard to come by. A lot of them are used as trucks and some are not really used. I just sold my 99 1500 that was not loaded, manual windows ect for $7200. I will say it was not used as a truck and was as clean as the day it was built with only 70k miles on it. I put her in the paper at 5500 obo and settled on $7200 . it appears that clean,low mileage trucks are hard to come by.

 

I am 17 and have a 94 k1500 and simply love it. It has 184000 on it and it definitely isnt as clean as it could be, but i absolutely love it and it is a blast to drive.. I would definitely recommend a k1500

 

I will post some pictures of my past toys later on. I just finished classes for the day and I'm super tired. Finding K1500s around here isn't too much trouble at all. I would preferably like a black or white extended cab, regular bed. I would REALLY REALLY like a standard, but it seems like trucks are primarily automatics, so I might have to live with that for now. I don't really mind if the motor/transmission has a lot of miles. I will be overhauling all of that here at school anyway. Biggest thing is just reliability for the time being and a relatively undamaged body.

Is there a way to convert these motors to MPFI, from the DPFI, or throttle body injection? Can the stock fuel setup handle much power reliably?

 

Welcome, Kelly. I had a 97 K1500 as my last truck... it had 250,000 on it, and still drove like a champ! BTW, those 5.7L motors can do wonderful things when you add power to them :twisted:.

 

I enjoyed the power of the LT1, but from experience I know that throttle body injection is not super fun to work with, and I'm trying to figure out if there are ways to upgrade to a modern fuel injection with the stock motor.

 

Hi. My name is Kelly and I am a Female but NOT 18 . I see you are from KCMO. I'm over here in Prairie Village. I'd sell you my 2011 Black Extended Cab Silverado but I don't think that it is quite what you are looking for.
Are you needing the truck as your driver to and from school or are you looking for a class project? If it is a class project, are you wanting something with a good sound body but totally in need of mechanically repairs. Let me know. I might be able to check with some folks.
ChevyGirlKC....Kelly

 

I'm not just in search of a class project. The truck will be DD, and I'll use a lot. I just love to work on cars, and a lot of my buddies have trucks. You know how useful it is to have a truck in this area, especially around winter.

Just an outline for what would be scheduled for the truck in terms of school

Fall '12: Head rebuild, basically addressing the whole valve train, more or less.
Spring '13: Fuel system overhaul
Fall '13: Suspension/steering overhaul, and braking overhaul
Spring '14: No school projects, as far as I know
Fall '14: Engine overhaul
Spring '15: Transmission

I will also work on the truck a lot aside from that too, but those are some of the more major points.

 

So do you have something else to drive while you are doing the work on the truck? What is your budget for buying the truck? It looks like you do need a good body but you are going to do the mechanical stuff.
Kelly

 

Nah. Nothing to drive. I've spend a lot of the last few years with my DD down. I haven't had a running car for the past few months. No big deal.

I will financing whatever I buy, but I will probably try to stay up 4 or 5 grand, which will be very easy. I would like the truck to have a pretty solid body. Little to no rust, and not too many dents. The cleaner the better though.

 

Okay. I'll keep my eyes open for you.
Kelly

 

Thank you very much. I should be selling my Z this weekend. Motor is locked up, and I really don't feel like fixing it since I just rebuilt the whole top end. Waiting on HR to get in at Walmart Tire & Lube right by campus here, but as soon as I get some income, then I will be looking to get something. When I start looking at specific trucks, then I will let you all know.

 

To me, a truck is the only way to go. I've only owned one car and it was a 71 Nova 4 door, but that was a project. It'll be very handy to have a truck if you're going to be hauling around blocks, heads, trans, etc. Those late 90's Silverados/Sierra's are awesome trucks if they've been maintained well and not tortured too bad. I'd try to find one that looks fairly stock with low miles because I've found that the ones that have been lifted or customized very much have problems just waiting to happen a lot of times.
Good luck to you, you should be able to find a good one especially with an automotive background.

 

Definitely stock! One detail I left out. I hate paying for other people's work, because it usually sucks.

 

1998 CHEVY K1500 Z71 4X4 EXTENDED CAB - (RIVERSIDE) $3850

THIS TRUCK IS EQUIPPED WITH THE Z71 PACKAGE AND A TOWING PACKAGE---- IT RUNS AND DRIVES GREAT AND HAS NICE ALLOY WHEELS AND ICE COLD A/C !!!!!! THE INTERIOR IS IN EXCELLENT CONDITION AND THE BODY IS STRAIGHT

I am looking at this truck this weekend. What do you guys thing? It has about 160k miles, it looks like a decent start, I don't like the color, but I can work with that.

 

Almost exactly what I had (except mine was black, a GMC, and had about 2x the miles :lol. GO FOR IT- THESE TRUCKS ROCK!!!!

 

Hopefully I can get it. I've already got a list of stuff I want to do in my head, so I will want to hurry and pay it off so I can start having fun.

 

Welcome to the site...Good luck on ur search...I will tell u this about color..I hated the color of my truck when i got it..but it has grown on me..Green is the color of money..at least its not pink...yes gm did have a pink color at one time lol

 

Welcome to the site...Good luck on ur search...I will tell u this about color..I hated the color of my truck when i got it..but it has grown on me..Green is the color of money..at least its not pink...yes gm did have a pink color at one time lol

To be honest.. unless I had a super clean white truck, I'll LineX the bottom half anyway. OD Green would be cool for the rest I think. I dunno. I'm sure I"ll change my mind a few dozen times.

 

That would be a great truck.. Go for it!

 

I'm going to check out some more places for work today, I don't like waiting. Definitely going to look at the truck this weekend though.

 

welcome to the site!!!! lets see the pics

 

It looks like a solid truck from the photos. Offer them about $3350 and take home. Even at $3850, I think it looks like a good deal though. I like the OD green idea...

 

I'd be financing it, so it'd be hard to get them to budge on the price, but I could certainly try. I wouldn't decide until I actually saw the body and decided whether or not I wanted to try and make it a super clean show truck, or be more practical about it and get something that is easy to touch up.