Smokeymance's Denali Build

[Smokymance]

Thank you for all the responses guys...appreciate all the help and advice...truck has been a Michigan car all its life....and i agree...for an 07, there is way to much surface rust under the hood...i have a 1998 Mark VIII (sorry for the Ford talk) with 140K on the clock and looks completely perfect compared to that...DD since day one.

i also agree on first year models...im an engineer for the automotive world, and iv seen these trucks get built first hand...and know the whole ordeal with the first year production issues, etc etc...even though for the right price, i will consider one....

i have been looking at 08s and would love to find a deal on one...and yes, im looking for the 6.2L

 

[JochenWoern]

Thank you for all the responses guys...appreciate all the help and advice...truck has been a Michigan car all its life....and i agree...for an 07, there is way to much surface rust under the hood...i have a 1998 Mark VIII (sorry for the Ford talk) with 140K on the clock and looks completely perfect compared to that...DD since day one.

i also agree on first year models...im an engineer for the automotive world, and iv seen these trucks get built first hand...and know the whole ordeal with the first year production issues, etc etc...even though for the right price, i will consider one....

i have been looking at 08s and would love to find a deal on one...and yes, im looking for the 6.2L

As I had mentioned before, keep on looking, the right one will pop up.

And just to clarify for my TYF friends, I did NOT say that this may not be normal, I simply said I would not get it with all that rust under the hood. Even though this may be normal for all you guys out there where there is a hard winter, I guess I am just a spoiled California individual.

 

[mattah]

Yea seems like too much rust, Here is a picture of my 07 with 99K and the first 40K we were living in corpus christi (aka beach area)

 

[Smokymance]

that engine bay/power steering tank look almost brand new...gotta love down south cars!!!

Whats a good place to look at for these trucks? i been searching locally on craigslist/ebay/auto trader....

 

[AmazinglySmooth]

Only downside to TX is the extreme sun beating on the leather seats.

 

[JochenWoern]

that engine bay/power steering tank look almost brand new...gotta love down south cars!!!

Whats a good place to look at for these trucks? i been searching locally on craigslist/ebay/auto trader....

Here is another one which has helped me in the past while searching for a vehicle:

http://autos.yahoo.com/

 

[gnarpow]

Yea seems like too much rust, Here is a picture of my 07 with 99K and the first 40K we were living in corpus christi (aka beach area)

Man that is clean. I guess that's the benefit to living where they don't put salt and magnesium chloride down all the time in the winter. I wish my engine looked like that.

 

[the 18th letter]

Yea seems like too much rust, Here is a picture of my 07 with 99K and the first 40K we were living in corpus christi (aka beach area)

And it's never been cleaned?!? That is one clean engine!

 

[JochenWoern]

And it's never been cleaned?!? That is one clean engine!

Well, here are pictures of my Engine, 2006 Yukon, 90K miles.

As mentioned earlier, maybe I am spoiled because I am from California, but this is the way I like for an Engine Bay to look like.

 

[the 18th letter]

Well, here are pictures of my Engine, 2006 Yukon, 90K miles.

As mentioned earlier, maybe I am spoiled because I am from California, but this is the way I like for an Engine Bay to look like.

WOW! I guess for the miles on your trucks the engine is really not that old. my 99 just turned 116k, BUT the engine looks nowhere near that clean. I was gonna clean my bay once but the mechanic told me the layer of crud was a like a second skin to the computer!! LOL