2003 2500 Express 5.3L

Mud tires and tire chains, half ass tranny job, home made front bumper

Long story short I bought the van from a place I used to work at for $50. Hauled BBQ rotisseries on trailers, a picture of one of their units is in the listting. Drove it home with the battery out of my truck, a slow moving sign and a brake line that blew on the way home. Bought it knowing the transmission slipped. Hauled a couple ton of bales and silage with it on the farm with slippy. Did a half ass rebuild (used tranny parts). Decided it needed a bumper and mud tires. A friend was selling some old mud tires so I offered $50 for two, commandeered the 15inch rims off my dads old c10 thats been sitting in the shed since Christ was a foot soldier. shaved the rear callipers to make the rims fit then mounted those suckers up. worked good but was still lacking in the mud runs. Decided to fallow in Peg legs foot step and took one of the sets of tire chains off the wall. Grandpa loved himself a good pair of tire chains. shaved the fenders a touch and this thing hasn't gotten stuck since. Except when you send it too hard and beach the thing in some tractor ruts... Engine light has been on for so long the bulb burnt out. Just before I took the video all 4 tires locked up like the master cylinders compensating ports aren't open. Cracked the brake lines loose at the master cylinder to let air in and we've got brakes and she actually moves. I guess the red neck gravety blead (taking the master cylinder cap off and shoving a rag on-top) got too much air out of the system. Or maybe it was the power steering fluid I used to keep the brake fluid level up on my drive home from buying it. She's a pretty good calf feeder for a grand total of $100. The vans been jumped a couple too many times off an old cattle scale and the frames a little rotten. Was going to do a body lift with some old hockey pucks but I'm afraid the cab is what's holding it together.\r
P.S. trailer hitch is seized right into that receiver, lost the God damn flag because of those white zip ties JUNK I tell ya!