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Old 03-29-2023, 01:30 PM   #1
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Re: Intro from an old Assembly Plant guy

Great article about a great person.
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Old 03-30-2023, 10:38 AM   #2
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Nice article, congratulations!
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Old 03-30-2023, 04:38 PM   #3
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Cool article, congrats! Thanks for sharing, Keith!
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I'm glad I stumbled on to my recent post about drive shaft angles thank Keith
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Keith, again!! THANK YOU! for sharing your life's journey with us. and thank you for the link! hope all is well and that the new year is starting off great for you & your family!
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Old 02-04-2025, 05:47 PM   #6
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The history and pics and stories are fantastic. Thanks for sharing
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Old 02-06-2025, 09:24 AM   #7
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Keith we are very fortunate to have you here. Your extensive knowledge and the sharing of the history of the square bodies priceless.

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Old 02-14-2025, 09:57 PM   #8
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Wow very cool build. You might have the only limited slip equipped V6 C10 with a 4 speed still in existence. I’m always amazed at the number of SPID’s I look at, and almost never see the G80 option. Which seems like a no brainer, especially on a 2wd truck. Never understood why people didn’t get them.

Could you have gotten a factory tach with this combo?
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Old 02-19-2025, 08:00 AM   #9
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Wow very cool build. You might have the only limited slip equipped V6 C10 with a 4 speed still in existence. I’m always amazed at the number of SPID’s I look at, and almost never see the G80 option. Which seems like a no brainer, especially on a 2wd truck. Never understood why people didn’t get them.
Being from a more performance oriented family, and driving 2wd trucks exclusively at the time here in Michigan, my dad and I always ordered the G80 rear axle.

Still do.

But I recognize we are probably outliers.

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Could you have gotten a factory tach with this combo?
Yes –

And no.


Yes – normally. You could get any option content with the MY6 that could be had with any other manual trans (M20, M62/M64). So that would include the tach cluster, and cruise control, etc.

The problem was this: recall that my trans was stop ordered briefly during the ordering process. When they did that the engineering specifications team stripped all the MY6 associated RPO content out of the VDS* (as is their custom). When the stop order was lifted, via the temporary deviation, they had to manually add all that stuff back in – but in the confusion they missed U18 (Tach cluster) and K34 (cruise). As a result when I tried to order my truck with those two options the order got bounced.

It ended up getting built without.

I procured a tach cluster and installed that after the fact. If you were to remove the cluster today you would find some hard wires behind the cluster still that I needed to add in order to make it work.

I recall for the cruise set up I ordered a service kit over the counter. It was packaged and had everything I needed to add cruise (including instructions).

You could get anything over the counter at Milford if it had a GM part number.

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*the Vehicle Description Summary: this is the matrix that defines what options are available on what models and in what combinations
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