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Not sure how this happened exactly, but I now own a 1990 GMC 2500 Suburban...
Couple months back back a friend asked if I would be interested in a southern, square body suburban, someone he works with had one they wanted to get rid of. So of course, I was like yeah, for the right price I'm always interested. It was conveyed that this was a southern vehicle, very solid, 4x4, etc. I kind of need another vehicle in the fleet (that's debatable...) with multi person and multi season capability, so the proper rationalization was employed. All was good, hopefully we'd hear back and go check it out. I've kind of wanted a square body suburban for while anyways.
Fast forward to this monday; Get a text saying "Remember that burban?" Turns out that the seller ended up just taking it to a semi local equipment auction. Great... Guess they didn't want to deal with, or think it would sell locally first... I figured it would end up bringing $$$, so kind of wrote things off at that point. The auction was ending on mid-week, and i didn't have time to check it out in person.
Auction day: During lunch I check back in on the action site just to see what kind of crazy money that sub is bringing. To my surprise, it's still sitting at $1700. There's a handful of pics on the listing, and they definitely look to be pretty decent and solid looking, no blown out wheel wells or rockers. Mileage is listed at 314k, newer tree-fiddy motor, just rebuilt th400, new tires, etc. At this point my mind starts turning over options, and it somehow landed on the option of needing to bid on this...
I sign up on the auction site, seems kind of "low budget" and spartan, but whatever. Back in my ebay days I used to snipe bids in the last 10 seconds, but with this new and unfamiliar system I didn't want to cut it that close. Figure wait until the last couple minutes to chuck in a bid. Not going to lie, this was bid slightly out of spite, sill a bit salty about not getting to try and do the deal locally first... Bidding time is running down, agonizingly slowly, and things start jumping, up to $1800, then rapid fire up to $2400. Things stall there, until the last 20 seconds, when it hits $2800, basically my top dollar!
The clock ticks down to zero, but then starts blinking, some kind of "soft close" jack-offer-ey where you can keep extending the auction by bidding within 60 seconds of closing...
Eventually the auction finally closes, still at $2800, I can finally breathe. WRONG. The screen reloads to a page that says you "MAY HAVE WON." WTF is this shit!?!
The next day I eventually got an invoice confirming I did indeed buy this thing, along with owing all the extra buyers fees and premiums...
Things to be continued...
Couple months back back a friend asked if I would be interested in a southern, square body suburban, someone he works with had one they wanted to get rid of. So of course, I was like yeah, for the right price I'm always interested. It was conveyed that this was a southern vehicle, very solid, 4x4, etc. I kind of need another vehicle in the fleet (that's debatable...) with multi person and multi season capability, so the proper rationalization was employed. All was good, hopefully we'd hear back and go check it out. I've kind of wanted a square body suburban for while anyways.
Fast forward to this monday; Get a text saying "Remember that burban?" Turns out that the seller ended up just taking it to a semi local equipment auction. Great... Guess they didn't want to deal with, or think it would sell locally first... I figured it would end up bringing $$$, so kind of wrote things off at that point. The auction was ending on mid-week, and i didn't have time to check it out in person.
Auction day: During lunch I check back in on the action site just to see what kind of crazy money that sub is bringing. To my surprise, it's still sitting at $1700. There's a handful of pics on the listing, and they definitely look to be pretty decent and solid looking, no blown out wheel wells or rockers. Mileage is listed at 314k, newer tree-fiddy motor, just rebuilt th400, new tires, etc. At this point my mind starts turning over options, and it somehow landed on the option of needing to bid on this...
I sign up on the auction site, seems kind of "low budget" and spartan, but whatever. Back in my ebay days I used to snipe bids in the last 10 seconds, but with this new and unfamiliar system I didn't want to cut it that close. Figure wait until the last couple minutes to chuck in a bid. Not going to lie, this was bid slightly out of spite, sill a bit salty about not getting to try and do the deal locally first... Bidding time is running down, agonizingly slowly, and things start jumping, up to $1800, then rapid fire up to $2400. Things stall there, until the last 20 seconds, when it hits $2800, basically my top dollar!
The clock ticks down to zero, but then starts blinking, some kind of "soft close" jack-offer-ey where you can keep extending the auction by bidding within 60 seconds of closing... Eventually the auction finally closes, still at $2800, I can finally breathe. WRONG. The screen reloads to a page that says you "MAY HAVE WON." WTF is this shit!?!
The next day I eventually got an invoice confirming I did indeed buy this thing, along with owing all the extra buyers fees and premiums...
Things to be continued...
) It turned out to be pretty decent, but certainly NOT rust free... That's the chance you take not seeing things in person, oh well. 
Thought we were home free, but no, still no injector pulse... The fuel pump however was noticeably louder now and would run for the correct 2 seconds after key on. Used 9v battery to fire some fuel into the TB and tried cranking, but now it wouldn't even try to fire. Went back to the ICM, where the connectors had been a bit stubborn to reinstall, and moved them around. Cranked it once more and boom, fired right off.