1988 GMC 3500K Sierra advice
I have owned a 1988 GMC 3500K Sierra for many years. I want to buy a travel trailer and am wondering what limitations I should be concerned about. My thought is to "practice" hauling in my home stat...
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It will be a TBI. They started putting them on the trucks in 1987.
blt2ski wrote:cpres wrote:
88 c3500 big block powered dually owner chiming in, you know the condition of the truck and how it has towed other stuff. Yhe bottom line is it comfortable for you, I know these older trucks sure slow down uphill compared to new diesel-powered rigs, I travel and enjoy my old truck and no big payment.
"IF" your 88 is a dually, and 2wd, you have an "R3500" IIRC, A V3500 is the 4wd version. Altho it might be the other way around. Been a long time since 1988. I would also swag you have a 4bbl 454.....altho a bell is ringing it may be a tbi. Which my 88 round body would go thru tbi spacer gaskets every 40-50K or so. Made it from almost gutless, to gutless! My 2000 vortec 350 has more umph than the 88 tbi or 4bbl 454 in an 89 square body flatbed.
The only dually in 88-92 or so, was the 80's square body, not the 88 intro of the 90's more rounded body style GM. Which in "MY" eye, the best looking GM since I started buying them in 81. I am positive some like current body styles.....to each his own.
Marty
