Firsttruck
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Hi guys, complete Newb here...
This is absolutely my first truck of any kind. Before this I was into street legal drag racing and owned a 2004 gto with a 408 cubic inch motor with a 150 shot of nitrous on it. Well along comes a woman and children so things changed the goat had to go and I needed a family vehicle. I found my 2005 Gmc Yukon with 93,000 miles on it and paid $11,900 for it. It came with 24" wheels already on it and also came with the stockers. I live in Iowa so I thought it was a good deal to have the stockers for the winter time.
I immediately changed oil and filter and will be changing transmission fluid within the next few weeks. I inspected the vehicle about as much as I could when I first looked at it. The tires on the 24's are 305/35 r24 and looked in great condition with about 85% of the tread on them. After doing closer inspection crawling around under the vehicle over the next few days I noticed the inside of the tires had been rubbing on the rears. One of them has chords showing on the inside drivers side rear. I did some calling around and found a place to get a new 24" tire mounted which took a while living in a small town in Iowa this isn't common. I also did some calling around and ordered some H&R spacers for the rear because I don't want to keep cutting tires at over $300 a piece. I checked the fronts and there appears to be no rubbing and even at full turning radious there appears to be plenty of room.
I'm a little dissapointed I have to run the spacers, but for a quick fix so I can get this thing back on the road for our family vacation it should get me by. The truck is stock suspension and with the spacers the rears will stick out past the fenders slightly. I don't believe this is a problem in Iowa as far as legality because I see it all the time in my small town. Also the vehicle will not be seeing off road, but it will see some bad winters which I have the stock wheels and could remove the spacers at that time for the snow and ice.
I'm just curious if anyone has any thoughts on this issue?
---------- Post added at 10:18 AM ---------- Previous post was at 10:11 AM ----------
Oh, also on the subject anyone have jacks and jack stands they recommend for changing tires/working on these suv's? Like I said this is my first truck so I have a small hydraulic jack and small jack stands I use when I work on my cars, but I don't have a good setup for working on this Yukon.
I will also say I really liked changing the oil and filter on this thing didn't even jack it up just crawled under it with my catch pan...lol...easiest oil change ever.
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This is absolutely my first truck of any kind. Before this I was into street legal drag racing and owned a 2004 gto with a 408 cubic inch motor with a 150 shot of nitrous on it. Well along comes a woman and children so things changed the goat had to go and I needed a family vehicle. I found my 2005 Gmc Yukon with 93,000 miles on it and paid $11,900 for it. It came with 24" wheels already on it and also came with the stockers. I live in Iowa so I thought it was a good deal to have the stockers for the winter time.
I immediately changed oil and filter and will be changing transmission fluid within the next few weeks. I inspected the vehicle about as much as I could when I first looked at it. The tires on the 24's are 305/35 r24 and looked in great condition with about 85% of the tread on them. After doing closer inspection crawling around under the vehicle over the next few days I noticed the inside of the tires had been rubbing on the rears. One of them has chords showing on the inside drivers side rear. I did some calling around and found a place to get a new 24" tire mounted which took a while living in a small town in Iowa this isn't common. I also did some calling around and ordered some H&R spacers for the rear because I don't want to keep cutting tires at over $300 a piece. I checked the fronts and there appears to be no rubbing and even at full turning radious there appears to be plenty of room.
I'm a little dissapointed I have to run the spacers, but for a quick fix so I can get this thing back on the road for our family vacation it should get me by. The truck is stock suspension and with the spacers the rears will stick out past the fenders slightly. I don't believe this is a problem in Iowa as far as legality because I see it all the time in my small town. Also the vehicle will not be seeing off road, but it will see some bad winters which I have the stock wheels and could remove the spacers at that time for the snow and ice.
I'm just curious if anyone has any thoughts on this issue?
---------- Post added at 10:18 AM ---------- Previous post was at 10:11 AM ----------
Oh, also on the subject anyone have jacks and jack stands they recommend for changing tires/working on these suv's? Like I said this is my first truck so I have a small hydraulic jack and small jack stands I use when I work on my cars, but I don't have a good setup for working on this Yukon.
I will also say I really liked changing the oil and filter on this thing didn't even jack it up just crawled under it with my catch pan...lol...easiest oil change ever.
