Faults:

This truck was a cement contractors truck. The bed was rusted away by the time I got it.

Bed was replaced with a home made flat bed made of angle iron and sheet metal.

The 400 V8 was starting to use a little oil, so I had the engine rebuilt and hopped up.

The cab and doors haven't aged well... a lot of surface rust, but with less than 1k on the rebuild, it's hard to beat.

General Comments:

Fast stock, and faster now.

I once lit the rear tires up for a full block in Chicago, before the engine was hopped up, and it was still spinning when I let up.

But I don't think I ever got better than 9 mpg with the thing.

Faults:

Lets see might be easier to list what has not gone wrong.

Every piece of the rear breaks including the EM cables.

Starter.

Carburetor (twice and counting).

King pins (sort of).

Heater core.

Door seals.

Windshield wiper motor.

Many other things.

General Comments:

I purchased this truck knowing it had been badly neglected for years. That said, I got into more expense than expected and am up over 3 grand in repairs now to get the truck on the road.

The power train had been re-built about 70K miles ago on the truck, and is one reason I purchased it, and overall the power train has not been too bad.

Truck is perfect for pulling or hauling heavy loads, it is pretty much impossible to get enough weight on the truck for it to even notice so far as performance goes, truck has over load springs so...

Biggest most annoying problem I have at this point is leaky door seals, which make the truck very (I mean very very) loud at highway speeds, replacements are available from JCWhitney and are on the list.

Faults:

Since I've had the truck I've been through a new starter,starter solenoid, battery, battery cables, voltage regulator and a new alternator.

General Comments:

The truck is a trailer special which was a limited run in 79 it has a factory heavy duty suspension transmission cooler in tank oil cooler outboard auxiliary oil cooler 4.11-1 rear end automatic c-6 transmission.

Faults:

Seats worn.

Exhaust leak when I got the truck.

General Comments:

I bought this truck because I needed a truck to haul siding and other construction materials. This truck does an excellent job, whether it's siding being carried in the box, or towing the trailer, this truck performs very nicely.

The truck would be better with air conditioning.

The truck is fairly easy on gas.

The C6 transmission with the Dana60 rear-end makes one very impressive pulling combo.