1992 GMC Safari XT review from North America

Water Pump.

Head Cracked (because of water pump failure I presume). I will explain below.

Muffler - general maintenance though.

Steering gear box leaking.

Can't find brake fluid leak anywhere, but the front reservoir is always low or out.

Power lock and window stopped working on passenger side, but figured out which wires were /are broke and did a temporary fix to get the window at least working.

The van is comfy to ride in, in my opinion.

I bought it used obviously as a "handy man special". The guy said it had a leaky water pump, I replaced it. They must have got it "warm' because the head gasket blew within a few hundred km's. Then, I believe is when I cracked the head. So that sucked. I ended up getting 2 "like new" head from a wrecker so I replaced both heads as they had 400000km's on them and the 2 I got really were in like new shape.

I got awesome fuel mileage before the head incident and not so good now so not sure if that one highway trip I messed up figuring it out, or I need some fine tuning.

I am surprised with the power it has, the 4.3 TBI is quite impressive.

It is not quite as "carish" as a Montana or Windstar or caravan, etc. But, for myself that is good, I use it off and on to run my electrical business out of. Can't imagine a better van for hauling stuff. As one other person put, a trick cargo van with factory tinted windows. I put some low profile 60's on and it looks good. A little bit a bark to my new muffler and it does look a bit trick.

Good van, but the only one I have owned so hard to say it is better in all ways than any other van.