Bush truck
- Thread starter Bad Lieutenant
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Appreciate all the replies guys. I'm still looking. Probably won't get anything until the spring. I will definitely look at Jeep, Toyota, Dodge & Ford, but I think I'm leaning to Chev/GMC
This would do just fine. 20 years old. Good looking. Tough. Roomy. Powerful. Lots of easy to find parts at decent prices. Can do a lot of repairs myself. When I finally get something, I will definitely post it up here.
Coming from someone who has owned multiple GM and Toyota trucks I honestly think these trucks are some of the best bang for your buck units you can buy, easy to work on, cheap parts and plenty of them, decent payload capacity, very hard to kill and would make an excellent cabin truck. Don't let people worry you about the IFS, its honestly much stronger than it gets credit for. You can pick up a 6" rough country lift with shocks for 1200 shipped to your door and install it in 6-8 hours with basic tools.
My 85 Toyota on 33s broke more front end parts than I did on my 92 2 door GMC Yukon, 2003 GMC 1500 and 2007 GMC 2500 duramax COMBINED and every single one of those trucks gets pounded on with 33-37.5" tires. That being said I loved my little Toyota as a wheeler but as a work/hunting truck.. not so much. I think my ultimate bush truck was my 86 GMC K3500 with an 8" lift, hydraulic assisted crossover steering, 454 big block and 40" tires. Hard on fuel but she took some serious abuse, the guy I sold it to has been running it in mud bogs locally for the last couple years and its still going strong.
