If you have followed the development with our “shop truck” over the past 6 years you know that we have done a number of mods on two of these “GMT800” short bed GM trucks, found some tricks using OEM pieces, and even developed a few new things. In this round of forum updates (Post #29 and #30) we dig in further on our 2000 Silverado 1500.
A number of “little things” were fixed, then we dug into some “big stuff” like a brake upgrade, new shocks and bushings, and new tires.
In this round we also removed the last of the “good parts” from our original GMT800, the ’99 GMC we called #TruckNorris (shown below). That was a sad day, but at least many of the parts from our previous shop truck will live on in the new one!
Last but not least we discuss a new wheel and tire package we are trying to develop for this popular truck model using the 315mm tire below. Our goal is to fit that under all four corners, without modifications to the stock fenders. A custom test wheel is being made to work with our test tire… hopefully we can make this work and then we will build a run of custom wheels to fit this 6-lug pattern without breaking the bank.
Thanks for reading and click here to see the 2-part forum post!