Some of us do have a big brand loyalty

 

No ford of mine is going to tow a chevy trader home

 

i liked the chevy up to about 2000. chevy was a good truck until they changed from the 350 to the 327 then it was all down hill from then

 

Mine's a 1999 with the 5.3L, which can mop the floor with a 350. The 350 small block is overrated when compared with modern engines. By the way, the body style that ended in 1999, the "Box Chevy" is horrible.

I'm not a big fan of General Motors in general, and I'm not fan of my truck, except for the engine. The 5.3L is fantastic. Everything else on the truck is falling apart though. The transmission's starting to slip, and the front wheel bearings are going on it.

 

I'll have to say one thing for chevy, the 350 in my old 92 celebrity boat has always run good with very little maintenance. Maybe the credit should go to Mer-cruiser, IDK.

 

That's Chevy for you. The engine will run forever, but the rest of the truck will just fall apart.

It's hard to argue with the proven, hammer tough, reliability of the small block Chevy engine, but I don't like much else about GM. I don't like their politics (taking government money), I think they have the worst union expectations (entitlement mentality of their workers), and I just don't think they build as tough or good looking a truck as Ford does.

 

The old SBC's are tough. I've ran my 350 with zero water at 5K rpm for upwards of 10 min (demo derby) and she still purrs like a kitten.

If you can't get that truck running on the cheap, you can make a killing parting it out. Allison tranny's can bring 2k just for a good used one.

 

I've got to disagree on that Nate. You're correct in the fact that the government motors thing is ridiculous along with the union stuff, but my family has long driven Chevy cars/trucks and ALL of them have gone well over 100k. My brother just got rid of my dads old 95 Chevy 1/2 ton 2wd with a 305 and 5spd for an 01 dually PSD, great upgrade, but that truck, although a complete dog, ran phenomenal and has 200k+ miles. Other brothers commuter 99 cavalier, 185k. Moms 99 Tahoe 180k. Dads 2009 impala 165k. None have fallen apart. I've had many cars and trucks, import/domestic, and they all have faults. I just happen to keep coming back to ford. I fell into this OBS by accident and I love it, but I still have a soft spot for some of the old Chevys

 

Well, I am glad your experience with GM has been a good one, but every GM I have had experience with has been trouble prone with the exception of the drivetrain.

I had a '86 S10 LB 4x4 for a number of years and loved that truck, but the body was absolutely falling off of it. 2.8 V6 and a four speed manual and it was nice driving truck, went like a tank in the snow and mud, but the body and interior was just falling apart.

My wife had a 2002 Olds Alero when we got married and if it weren't for the extended warranty that she bought when she bought the car new, we would have had to let it sit because of all the repairs we had to put into it. Luckily the warranty covered all three wheel bearings, the anti-theft system repair, the emissions system repairs and I don't remember what all else. We sold it with 76,000 mile son it right after the warranty ran out. That car depreciated faster than our payments chipped away at the loan. We paid on that car for 5 years before our payments (at 0.9% interest) caught up to the deflation of the vehicle and we could afford to sell it. I know that is typical when you buy new, but needless to say, I wasn't impressed with the car.

 

The V6 3800 is a good motor. I transplanted one into a 20' Winnebago LaSharo and took it to Alaska, perfect size RV for that. It was a supercharged 3800 out of a 94 Bonnelville and it would go up any mountain.

 

Chevy quit building pickups in 1987. Anything after that I don't want.

 

That sucks that your olds was so crappy, but I just can't buy the idea that all Chevys fall apart. It's not like they're mopars. Powerstrokes FTW!

 

Lol, at least we can agree on something. Mopar =

 

Not all Mopar, the frames of the 64-66 Chrysler Imperials is something to marvel after, any car that weighs over 6000 lbs dry doesn't just fall apart.

 

I didn't know they ever built a pickup?? I've always concidered a chebby pickup an overgrown car. Rides nice, but won't haul *****..