RE: Howdy Y
First welcome to the forum. Even if you don’t own a Burb yet.
Second, don’t worry we are not all just Suburban owners. I have 2 of those full size Ford vans, 88 Club Wagon, and an 84 Cargo Van. Both have the old 300 -6 cylinders. You can easily put 30 bales of hay in either one if the extra seats are not in.
I know they put the diesels in the Burbs in the 80’s, but don’t buy one of those. Was just a reworked gas engine. Genius engineering by GM. Those had a lot of trouble.
Now the newer ones are a lot better. We have several members here that own the newer diesel Burbs, but for the life of me just can’t remember who or what years right now, short term memory loss, and old age I think.
Dealers just want to sell you a new truck and not what they don’t have. Not to mention most of the salesmen don’t have a clue what they are talking about.
Call any Chevy, or GMC dealership and ask for the service dept.
Talk to their service manager, they see all years, the good and the bad. They will be able to tell you what years a diesel was available. If it was available for the pickups, it was available in the Burbs.
Again welcome to the forum and sorry I wasn’t of more help.
By the way, Where are you from? Just wondering, you said you needed 4X4 for snow.
I drove our 86 2 wheel drive Burb for or 10 years here in New England without a hitch as far as getting stuck in the snow. Just so long as you put real snow tires on it, it was great in the snow.
First welcome to the forum. Even if you don’t own a Burb yet.
Second, don’t worry we are not all just Suburban owners. I have 2 of those full size Ford vans, 88 Club Wagon, and an 84 Cargo Van. Both have the old 300 -6 cylinders. You can easily put 30 bales of hay in either one if the extra seats are not in.
I know they put the diesels in the Burbs in the 80’s, but don’t buy one of those. Was just a reworked gas engine. Genius engineering by GM. Those had a lot of trouble.
Now the newer ones are a lot better. We have several members here that own the newer diesel Burbs, but for the life of me just can’t remember who or what years right now, short term memory loss, and old age I think.
Dealers just want to sell you a new truck and not what they don’t have. Not to mention most of the salesmen don’t have a clue what they are talking about.
Call any Chevy, or GMC dealership and ask for the service dept.
Talk to their service manager, they see all years, the good and the bad. They will be able to tell you what years a diesel was available. If it was available for the pickups, it was available in the Burbs.
Again welcome to the forum and sorry I wasn’t of more help.
By the way, Where are you from? Just wondering, you said you needed 4X4 for snow.
I drove our 86 2 wheel drive Burb for or 10 years here in New England without a hitch as far as getting stuck in the snow. Just so long as you put real snow tires on it, it was great in the snow.