Sent an 85 burb to the crusher weighed in @ 5620 LBS.

[fitz]

 I got a call this week to pick up a 1 owner 85 Suburban this week.
 I was all excited to get it but it turned out to be a worn out truck with 255K on it that had been sitting since 1998.
 It must have been a nice truck back in it's day. Fully loaded 4x4 6.2 diesel. The owner bought it for road trips back and forth to Florida. He claimed it got around 25 MPG's on the trips. In 255K he put 3 trannys in it (700R4's). He said once it hit 250K he just didn't trust it for long distance driving so he parked it for the winter back in 98 when he went to Florida. That spring he could not get it started so it sat ever since.
 I thought for sure after 12 years of sitting the brakes would be frozen but it went on the trailer with ease. Not many good parts left on it. The body was rotted, mice got to the interior, so with 255K on the drivetrain, I just junked it. The only thing I saved was the mint GMC grill.
 As a future reference point a fully loaded 85 4x4 suburban with a 6.2 diesel weighs in at 5620 LBS on the scale.

[Irish_Alley]

A way too sad ending for a hard life. Almost like ol yeller, lives a hard trusty life then all of a sudden it’s just put down

[Stewart G Griffin]

Personally, i would have kept it-----a cheap 305 dropped in and it's running again.  But that's just me.


How much did you get for it?

[Lt.Del]

Personally, i would have kept it-----a cheap 305 dropped in and it's running again

rust issues, dry rotted tires, interior eaten up my mice.  Putting in a cheap engine would probably go over the limit as to what it would be worth eventually.  You can still get some good deals on running subs out there because they are gas hogs.

[TexasRed]

Personally, i would have kept it-----a cheap 305 dropped in and it's running again

rust issues, dry rotted tires, interior eaten up my mice.  Putting in a cheap engine would probably go over the limit as to what it would be worth eventually.  You can still get some good deals on running subs out there because they are gas hogs.

+1. The motor had nothing to do with the scrapping issue.

[Captkaos]

I wish I had the AC brackets off the 6.2L.

[Stewart G Griffin]

Personally, i would have kept it-----a cheap 305 dropped in and it's running again

rust issues, dry rotted tires, interior eaten up my mice.  Putting in a cheap engine would probably go over the limit as to what it would be worth eventually.  You can still get some good deals on running subs out there because they are gas hogs.

Like i said, that's just me.

[fitz]

Personally, i would have kept it-----a cheap 305 dropped in and it's running again.  But that's just me.


How much did you get for it?

Scrap is at $175 a ton so the truck was worth $492 and $5 each for the batteries so it came to $502.
As far as trying to save this one it just wasn't worth it. Around here you can buy suburbans that run and drive for about $1000. They will have the typical rust, but probably less than this one did.
I usually pick these trucks clean but where this one had obvious signs of mice living in it there was no way I was going to pull it into my shop.
Captain- I wish I had known about those AC brackets. Like I said I usually take them back to the shop to strip them but this one was just to much of a rat.