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Offline 77c10diesel

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My new 84 K30 4x4 Dually Fire Truck 17K miles
« on: October 25, 2017, 11:02:23 AM »
I recently moved to a large plot of land in central Wa. I also bought a 30 ft travel trailer and knew my 1/2 ton truck would not pull the trailer or handle the duty around the land.
I have owned many square body trucks and so I went looking for another. I found this truck in Yakima Wa. It was owned by the Selah Wa. Fire Department as an EMS/Rescue truck. As such, it has no tank or pumps, just the service body that held all the medical supplies.
It is an 84 K30, 454, 205 T-case, THM400, D60/D70 and it only has 17K original miles on it.
I have paperwork in the glove box that shows it had the oil changed every year and it averaged under 500 miles a year. The only bad news with this is that I looked at the date codes on the tires, the rears are from 94 and the fronts from 03. Time for some new tires.
This is going to be the perfect rig for towing the TT, I can lock up all the tools and extra stuff in the service box and not have to pack it all in the TT.



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Re: My new 84 K30 4x4 Dually Fire Truck 17K miles
« Reply #1 on: October 25, 2017, 04:45:22 PM »
Nice

Offline big_al273

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Re: My new 84 K30 4x4 Dually Fire Truck 17K miles
« Reply #2 on: November 04, 2017, 12:40:00 PM »
cool truck, i would look into getting rid of those auto lock hubs though GM discontinued them and went back to exclusively manual locking hubs in the D60 because the auto hubs and semi-syncroed NP205 weren't holding up, the syncros in the 205 don't last and the hubs tend to blow up if they engage under stress, another note is that if this truck is a factory C&C (cab & chassis) then it should have a Corporate 14 ff rear axle not a D70 (easy way to tell the difference is to look at the pinion input if it has a removable center section held in with 6 bolts it is a corp 14 if the differential is smooth without a removable center section it is a Dana 70)

Old fire dept vehicles are awesome mine was a Brush truck in the City of cottage Grove, Minnesota until the guy i bought it from brought it to Canada in 2013 after 25 years of service
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Offline Jason S

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Re: My new 84 K30 4x4 Dually Fire Truck 17K miles
« Reply #3 on: November 04, 2017, 12:58:14 PM »
It is an 84 K30, 454, 205 T-case, THM400, D60/D70 and it only has 17K original miles on it.

That's a great find!
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