New to me today.
Been reading since March. Many thanks to all the previous posters and the admins for keeping this going. I've done several builds and this is a nice site with alot of info. Makes it easy, and convinces gullible individuals to buy a vehicle that don't need, just to f**k with it.
I've worked on Astros before and always said "remind me not to buy one of these".
But I had a stroke last August, and somebody posted about AWD and I fell for it. :doh:
So after looking online everywhere I could think of, and several false starts, I bought an Astro in my tiny NC town.
2004 Astro base but AWD.
My plan is a mild lift 235-75-15s
4472 all the time transfer case replacement
some kind of v8 replacement, maybe 350 CPI, maybe 6.0 :shock:
It was fleet bought by the Red Cross. Hopefully well maintained, but nope, the wipers don't even work....I think I remember how to fix that.
I had to install the hitch on my '99 and '02 (same hitch, just moved) by myself because my husband was otherwise occupied. I found that putting it as high as I could on jackstands, then using the bottle jack from my long-gone '84 Isuzu Trooper II (really long handle with 2, 90° bends in it) was the way to go. Got it up close, then the jack cranked it up far enough to get a bolt started on one side, slide the jack slightly and get one bolt started on the other side, then easy-peasy to get the rest in.
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