Starting and Driving The 1984 GMC Sierra with 6.2L Diesel

My favorite truck, hands down! Sadly, it has taken a lot of damage from rust over the years. Other than it runs like new and the air conditioner worked great after I converted it to 134a. (There is still a leak in the system that I didn't know about, so I have to fix that and try again.)

Oh, and I got the snow that I was hoping to receive around....September. And no, I don't know why the low coolant light is on. I suspect the sender is bad or there is air trapped somewhere. The truck is full of coolant.

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Autos & Vehicles

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• 1984
• GMC
• Sierra
• 6.2
• Diesel
• start
• run
• drive
• rusty

[youtoobe169]

Great truck and cool video!

[uxwbill]

@youtoobe169 Thanks. Glad you liked it. I hope to restore it someday.

[justforever96]

LOL, "we got brakes even!". I love it. That's my kind of truck. I guess it must be my inner redneck showing through, but somehow I love pulling up to the local store in a rusty, muddy, loud, well "broken-in" vehicle. To hell with all the chrome and paint and stereos...mud and loud exhaust is the way to go.

[uxwbill]

@justforever96 It's a lot of fun. I'd like to restore this some day, when money and time are not concerns. So that will probably happen in like fifty years or something. :-S

The nice thing about driving such wrecks (and I say that with a great deal of pride) is that NOBODY will steal them. As I found out when I drove this truck thirty miles from home without the ignition key in place. (That's how worn the lock is.)

[acres90]

gm got it right with this detroit diesel engine considering the joke 5.7 diesel almost ruined the diesel pickup

[uxwbill]

@acres90 From what I've heard, it wasn't all the 350 diesel engine's fault...although it *was* definitely weak kneed. (I have seen one such truck and the advertising literature as well, and it's true--they really did take away any ability to pull a trailer for fear of overstressing the engine.) Expectations were high and people were focused on fuel economy more than the needs of the engine.

There are some people who can drive those 350 diesels around forever and have very little trouble...

[MOTERHEAD69]

Can you drive a manuel and when did you learn?

[schomminater]

I take it the light that keeps coming on is the glow plug light?

[JethroTull18]

i got a 1980 gmc jimmy, no ac no heat 215k, 350ci engine, and that thing is a tank!

[Mr80smusiclover]

What a Great truck! I'm looking at buying one of those old diesel trucks. My friend has a 1987 7.4 L gasoline engine one ton truck. It's a nice old rig. But I like the diesel trucks they sound amazing! I'm saving up to buy a diesel truck for my 1st car. I can't wait to get one of my own.

[dmcintyre90]

Repaint that truck gold!

[Seattlecarnut]

@justforever96 Yeah. I've visited England and I'd see a lot of words that are spelled differently from how we spell, and yet say the same thing. Some of which I've been spelling since I was a teenager.

[justforever96]

@Seattlecarnut I agree that for many words the European spelling looks better...I'm not so sure about "tyre" though. Personally, I always spell "gray" as "grey"...much, much better, IMHO. =)

[Seattlecarnut]

@justforever96 Oh yeah, great for the pavement! Just this last winter, I used my studded tires, despite the fact that there was no snow! I just wanted to be prepared in case it did snow.

[Seattlecarnut]

@justforever96 LOL! Yeah, I spell a lot of words differently from what alot of Americans spell words. I spell "colour" instead of "color", "centre" instead of "center", "litre" instead of "liter", etc. So yeah, I like to spell words differently from what other people spell.

[justforever96]

@Seattlecarnut LOL, you're from Seattle and you spell it "tyre"? That's interesting. Anyway, yeah, studs are good, but in most situations all you really need is good snow tires, studs or no. But when you hit that random patch of ice, they are sure worth it! It's funny, I recently found out that "drifters" (street racing, that is, not vagrancy) in Japan sometimes put studs in their rear tires just so they make lots of sparks when they burn out around a corner. Must be good for the pavement...