Duramax Pulling in rough terrain

A little rough on the gear but made it through. PS...the broom survived

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Autos & Vehicles

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• Duramax
• diesel
• pulling

[Oh6Lbz]

invest in some tie rod sleeves

[desktop100]

@Oh6Lbz Got 'em

[desktop100]

I see you guys are starting the need for helmets while commenting. Keep it decent folks or your comments will be deleted.

[aguyfromalabama]

looks like your trying to wear out your truck... should have bought a ford! ;)

[desktop100]

@aguyfromalabama Hmmm. Truck is still running good and strong. Granted - Fords may last longer because they are never subjected to this proper use of an HD truck. They're always in the shop or their owners are afraid they'll never start in the bush.... so they put 12" lifts on them with 24's and rubber band tires and wheel the hell out of mall parking lots. :-)

[bisquik3006]

@desktop100 I agree with that. Kind of strange out on the farm though. People generally use Chevy's for running to town and other small errands. I wonder why about 90% of the "heavy duty" trucks are Dodge, and Fords.

[desktop100]

@bisquik3006 hmmm gonna say because the ford and dodges arent allowed off the property. Towing gets expensive...lol. The Dmax gets it done AND still able to whip into town for a parts run for the other brands. I'm playing around......When they break, they're ALL junk, and I am able to say i've been pretty upset at my dmax a time or two.

[desktop100]

@sovereign126 Lived there for 3 years....beat the crap out of a Hilux, and a bunch of LC75's ("bugger" lol). Had to post a letter to the guy in front if you wanted to overtake them... tough but couldnt pull like this.

[montanachevy]

one thing i forgot to mention was that it has an old 6.6l 400 chevy gas motor, not the "woosy" 5.7 most 1990 chevs had then. way more low end torque which is what allows me to pull such big loads, plus 4lo helps too, it sounds to hard to believe, but it's totally true, if i didn't so much money on cable and saws instead of a video camera i would like to prove it. very interesting and fun, dangerous as hell too. not to mention somewhat illegal.

[montanachevy]

just about everyone i know around here owns a gm truck 1500 to HD and they've never front end issues, from farmers to loggers, i even use my heavy half chevy to pull turns of trees down mountains when we cut our firewood, biggest turn of logs was three 80 ft. doug firs, our gear 200 ft of cable three blocks, 3 chokers, my tie rods didn't break but the backend of my truck went up in the air about 6ft. and i bent a rim and busted my fender on a rock. got the trees down though. no lie true story.

[bisquik3006]

@desktop100 True. They are all pretty tough, and they will all break eventually. We just can't use GM for the abuse. The frames will hold up now, but we would destroy IFS.

[UPNorthOutdoors450]

@bottzxI32 hey there buckwheat, you're a prime example of all the idiots out there that cause pointless arguments on videos. and im pretty sure the biggest competition yota makes to an American truck is a lousy half ton, so its pointless putting a heavy duty diesel in such a small truck. plus, there is no American and foreign truck competition in the U.S., genius.

[Mehnameismud]

Sweet, IFS will be not lasting long on that truck