Doing its thing WITH CHAINS this would be a sad site if those chains were not mounted lol

Detroit lockers front and rear

2500 is a hella price maybe if it had 200k miles. That truck would sell from 5-10k easy

@@westcoast2372 umm.... no. You can find a full size, extended cab truck 15 years newer for ten grand.

@@westcoast2372 hell no

The love of a man for a certain brand of truck is a sacred thing. When this is all over, me and that rig should get a parking stall together.

Hunter Bacon about time someone admits it;)

Hunter Bacon dude its an ifs truck too no solid axle in front

ifs has nothing to do with it lol

it was chained on all 4 tires, how is this impresive?

Is it safe to say this calls for the power of a KIA sorento 😎

thanks

Chevy will 9 times out of 10 back out of there ruts that's why I have only ever owned chevys

that is defiantly true. we always carry chains if we are going to the mountains in the snow.

Fyr Dawg

Chains or Z-Cables are like money in the bank. If you ever need em, you'll be glad you had em. Most people never have house fires, but we all carry fire insurance.

You would be much better off putting lockers in your differentials!!!

Got lockers already

Take it from another Idaho boy...you damn well better know how to drive and be packing things like tire chains and what not, and have a damn solid 4x4 truck before you go playing around in the Idaho big woods or they may find your remains someday when spring gets around.

Wiji RS have you ever been snow wheeling??😂 if you have then you know that he can drive

@@wijirs1196 bro... I'm pretty sure you've never driven in the snow if you're saying that

need to put this video someone, you might like the 50s truck arctic crossing video, they rebuild an engine in -30f inside a tent

Then you've never watched Matt's off road recovery

@@SurviventheOnslaught Dude, that’s the funniest shit I’ve heard in some time. Thank you Sir

Paul Christensen What if it was on a Monday?

Reminds me of home in Iskut, BC

Paul Christensen oh yeah buddy. Live in Teton valley. Most days of the week when it's winter here is this.

Every day in up here in Alaska.

Right that's nothing to idahoens

What my what is driving?

You haven't seen much wheeling i guess.

Dont forget about the badass driver!

Aired down on beadlocks. Limited slip rear lockable front or lockable front and rear your choice. Tsl boggers 12.50/14.50 wide yeah she would of climbed better less throttling and rpm

ted s my favorite trucks and engine by far!

Morgan Ruegsegger hell yeah! 5.7 is the best

the 5.3 is more powerful than the 5.7

You know they still make 350 crate engines, right?

I had a 97 Z71 short bed, that 5.7 Vortec made some power with a MPFI upgrade and headers. It was a pretty fast little truck.

DAVID Smith lmfao 1993 edition

I like that song it's a tearjerker and bodies Spirit of America.

I like that song it's a tearjerker and bodies Spirit of America.

Bob seager

DAVID Smith That ad probably sold more trucks then any other is history, I remember it like it was yesterday!

saw the name lol

Who makes the transfer case for this truck? What's the model number? Is the same tcase in another other brand truck? If so do you think their 4x4 will work differently?

@@andrewmorgan5541 new process makes it. Nothing special. What made these trucks do pretty well in snow and mud was the independent front end that doesn’t get hung up like a regular straight axle front end. Also has skid plates that helped it not get hung up. A Limited slip rear end that does pretty good when they are working correctly. Which is a 50/50 shot for the g80 rear end. It would be fun to see another stock full size 4x4 pick up made in 1993-94 trying to do this.

​@@seancarraherI've got a 88 GMC K2500 extended cab and I haven't checked to see what rearend it has but I also have a 94 Dodge RAM 2500 with Dana 44s under it and that old GMC rearend housing looks almost twice the size as that Dana 44 is. If you happen to get this and sounds like you have a lot of knowledge do you think this 88 K2500 might have 80s rear-end also?

bruteman45 Z stands for Zora... Look him up if you don't know. "Zee difference, is in de grease!"

bruteman45 I got a 1997 2 door Tahoe z71. Could it so the same?

Dont be encouraged to try this. As far as I know there is no Z71 package for the tahoe until 2000 and that came with the 4 door. Yours is a 4WD which is a bit mild version of a Z71​@zuruthewolf1184

Mark Melendez The stock LS motor has proven to be capable of 1000 HP something you couldn't do with the old shortblock, about 700 tops. LS is here to stay.

The truck in the video didn't come with the Vortec motor, just a TBI 350. The million mile motor

Robert Polkamp Yeah because everyone totally needs their truck to have 1000 hp. I'd take a stock 5.7 Vtec over a stock 5.3 Ls anytime. The Ls is here to stay because it provides better fuel economy, not because of its actual performance.

million mile motor my ass. Under a heavy work load mine only had 178K before it was finished. In 96 the switched the inefficient TBI for TPI

My dads 350 had 270,000 on it before it went, it all depends on if you take care of the motor or not dumbass

bill thompson best comment here

I think that was his girl, dawg.

Not super powerful, but gobs of torque. I’ve got one and it’s by far my favorite engine I’ve ever had in a vehicle.

Till the 4l60e fails.

Yea the 5.7 is such a great motor. Had truck just like this but black. So just like big companies 5.7 is great let's replace it with a 5.3 lol

@@jarrettbrewer35 that trans is not nearly as bad as some ppl make it out to be. Most ppl abuse it the wonder why it failed.

Justin Stearns gobs of tq? Not even close lmao.

Ignorant comment, proof says otherwise mine has 375,000 miles on its original drivetrain. Hater...

@@justinbrewer2087 yea but pretty much every truck and real SUV of the era had a center lock when in 4lo and LSD in the rear. i'd wager all the LSD's are fully worn out by now anyway and are much closer to open. to support Ernie's theory i have a story. i had a 91 turbo Volvo wagon with a summer and winter set of tires. i thought the summer would be easier to drift in the snow because of the lack of grip. what actually happened is i'd one-tire-fire in a straight line and it wouldn't break loose. i put on the aggressive snow tires and the added grip sent power to both sides and it would instantly break loose like i was locked. what was happening was the inside tire would lose traction (for a fraction of a second) then grab and send power to the outside breaking the whole back end loose and the tires themselves were acting like traction control/electronic LSD. i also experienced this with chains on my tractor. in the Volvo example the snow tires are the chains.

People always talk truck when reality is that no matter what truck a dumb ass driver can get it stuck lol

@@BRollOffroad volvos 'locking' diffs open up above 40 kmh so maybe thats what you were experiencing?

When going downhill or on the back of a reliable flatbed truck.

Parked in your mothers drive way, Jim

Bestivitiness very

Bestivitiness yes sir they do

as a flat rate chevy dealer tech i made a fortune off those trucks.

Jason Zee thank u brother

Glad you liked it.

Thanks it was differently an adventure.

Dry under snow lmao dumbest comment here

nicholas neri what do you mean worst comment? If he broke through crust frozen over mud he woulda been fucked. So there for he does not have a stupid comment, you do tho.

A Stanton1966 funny part is that one doesn't have a rear locker (G80) it has an open rear

Limited slip not a locker

my 01 has the G80 locker and it works great

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Statistics say otherwise. There are far more fords still on the road from those years.

@@rhaunshoden5304in southwest Ohio I see at least 10 obs Chevys to every 1 obs ford

​​@@rhaunshoden5304lmao here we go again. 10 old 90's Chevys for every Ford I see in CA

​@@rhaunshoden530410 early 2000's GM trucks for every Ford too lol

Tim Wilkins or one of those early tahoe z71s too!

look nice.

Except beat a Ford 4x4 f150

It can't break down and look ugly like a ford does.

lostInSpace 1 *jeep Cherokee

The z71 is a rear 1/4 turn automatic locker, thats why he made it as far as he did, thats what makes it a z71. He actually needs a rebuild on that 1993 rear end thats all.

+sammy duran not true. many many many z71s came with out the g80 locker. Many more non z71 trucks had a factory installed locker as well.

Chris Conway​ Not true man if it was a z71 it got gas shocks, scrape plates and a rear G80 lockers. Where you are correct is some non z71 did get lockers

true my 99 z71 has a rear locker

+sammy duran G80's trigger off of tire speed differential. I'm pretty sure that's not an open dif, but if he has a G80, he better pull the cover off and check it because is looks broken to me. It shouldn't release like it is. The ones I've used lock up pretty tight, and I know when they go kaboom! you usually aren't going anywhere after that.

Testimonial to what, that even with chains a Chevy truck can barely make it through fresh powder to save another shitty GM vehicle?

Jim Garrison wym? it made up there. Even my friend ford 150 92 coundlt make like his does lol.

Kevin Velez maybe that should be your testimony to not buy a Ford lol. I've been up worse shit than that in my Dodge without chains and had half the problems. shoulda boughta dodge.

All you guys talking shit and not one of you was there. Videos never do justice. That was not a nice groomed trail, the Chevy did what it was supposed to do and got both vehicles out. Sounds like a win to me.

92clintonr thanks for the comment. this video doesn't do justice at all. most people won't drive that Jeep trail without snow. yet alone go off the trail with several inches of snow over rocks and sage brush. we only did it because we had too.

Fishman Fishman actually no because he’s goin up a steep mountain needs way more momentum rather crawl

I had same truck 1991 4×4 4.3 5 speed maunual. Most rusty truck ever. 265k miles. Wrecked it last year.

Lucky that yours came with 33s