1971 GMC 9500 started after 26 years Now will it drive 1767 Miles (I make BAD choices) (PT1) 

I took a driving test in one of these. It was 100 degrees, no A/C. The instructor told me to turn around after 2 blocks, "I can't ride in this thing. You pass."

Dude, the first truck I drove way back in 75 was a 9500 Jimmy with a 6-71 Detroit and a 13 speed day cab! Loud, rode like crap, no power when loaded, just a peach! Did not take me long to switch to a 71 Diamond Reo, 6-71, 13 speed day cab! Same thing but a touch more comfortable! About a month in that truck, and I started eyeing a 68 Diamond Reo with a 250 Cummins and a twin stick 4 by 4 my boss had out in the weeds! He said it ran when they parked it out there, but no one wanted to drive it because of the twin stick. I took some fresh batteries out to it, pulled the compression release, turned it over till i saw oil pressure, shoved the CR back in, that old Cummins came to life! Drove it out of the weeds to the shop, put new tires on it, checked everything over, and started hauling Road oil in a tanker with it! Been a Cummins man ever since! You may need to "Excite" that alternator, to get it to start working again. I know you have already dealt with this, but if you saved it, it may still be good!

I know everybody loves the Cummins but you can't beat the sound of a Detroit.

I just love it when an old 2 stroke comes roaring back to life!

That has to be the most original untouched Detroit left on earth. 😮

Love the aesthetics of the GMC 9500. Robust looking truck.

My Dad retired from GM Truck & Bus in 1990. I remember as a kid in 1968(10 yrs old) going with my Mom to pick my Dad up from work, I remember seeing these GMC 9500 in the lot waiting to be delivered, seen many GMC Generals....

I love the old 671's. Great sounding engine. Good looking truck

wjhat a detroit that does not leak oil or make you deaf,and using a leaf blower to clean it out ,priceless,gotta ; love old iron

Glad to know Everyone is ok. Miss Your videos but totally understand. Especially in this world we're living in now unfortunately.. Looks like You found a Gem in the Rough ..Great Video Sir ..

Great video glad to see you back I know life gets in the way

welcome back we missed you and Joe with all your antics.

Glad to see you back, missed watching your videos.

This is great love it. Keep us posted on this beast please..

Good to see you again. That’s how my 6v71 1974 Diamond Reo starts, just a touch of the key. I will be following your adventure and it is an adventure!

That's awesome!!!! See you have Joe out there working!!!! Thanks!

Great to see you back . Cheers mate 🇦🇺

I'm building a camper this would be perfect for this old 40 yr truck driver still want to smell the diesel fumes plus I drove one of those for 3yrs I love them

What a nice old truck. Great find. Thanks for sharing.

Glad to have you back. Thnks for all you do.❤️ By the way, you mentioned the day job? You come up missing long enough to be a secret agent or a mercanary or something. Good to see Joe❤️that old guy. Hes forgot more about Detroits than most people ever knew. Glad to hear you still have the Potatoe Farm in Wisconsin. Love them mountains in your videos❤️

Making some cab & frame crossmember modifications to mount a Link cab mate air ride suspension would greatly improve the overall ride quality of the truck.Some air ride high back seats and installing some air bags on the front axle will also improve the ride quality of the truck.

Hey man love the rig anytime Joe's in the video you know it's a 2 stroke dd looking forward to your next video been a while

Welcome back!! Glad to see you posting another video.

Glad to see you finally come back and make another video I like your videos a lot. I live by Des Moines Iowa keep making more videos I'd like to see the end of this one good luck and Merry Christmas to you all heavy duty

Hi very first time watching your channel. Very enjoyable & educational content. Thank you .

Congrats to finding such a nice truck. Where I am, I only find rust-jacked, cancerous, circling-the-drain-of-eternal-death non-runners that had the last will to live sucked out of them a long time ago. An "old" truck here is from the 1990'!

Nice meeting you at Frieghtliner, they finally got me running.

How the heck are you I missed you. Hope you had a great Christmas. I wish you a happy New year. That's some truck. Just love sound of the engine. 👍🤙

Good ol' Joe. I thought I recognized him in the first part of the video...."late at night, under the truck setting the brakes" made it obvious....that's how Joe rolls.

Welcome back man! Missed your videos!

Love that jimmy spent manny days and knights

Good to see you back!

The second I saw you posted a video I instantly clicked on it to watch! It’s been a while!

I love them old trucks

That 6-71 is humming beautiful sound

damn thought you gave up making videos, awesome to see you back

Great to see you back

Good to know ur still in the game,stay happy n healthy.kinda reminds me of coops mustang content he was in process of rebuilding his late fathers mach mustang and knew very little mechanics,his older brother was mentoring him thru it,well i gquess his bro got vaccines for covid,had complications and passed,just this week he posted he was selling the project because it caused him heartache to be reminded of fun with bro who was now gone.so he posted why he has been awol all this time.he may return when he heals and maybe not!!!anyhow we understand utubers have there own life to live and to grieve how they must.best regards on ur return.mr.snooky aka snooky pa.💥👍🤪😜👍💥

Can I buy I life size autographed poster of Joe? That should cover the hole from the fire I accidently set.

Hermoso camión, un clasico de los 70,s 👏👏👏😉

Good to see you again

About time you showed your face, I was getting worried. Welcome back

I drove one of those 28yr ago as a dump truck those were the days 😅

Good to see you back again making videos my dad was a owner operator he had a 1989 brigadier I hope I spelled that right it was red good truck until it dropped injector then the motor was gone after that he got a cab over GMC Astro he run that 4 a bunch years then the turbo went out Then he said that’s it he went out of business I thought you might want to hear the. Story be safe

Way cool to see that running. Looks Mean!

Thanks Danny

I was raised up with one like that but ours had a 318 Detroit and a 13 speed!!! Dad said they had one just like that one with the 671 Detroit,I love the 318 and a 13 speed

That ol beauty came from Pasco, WA. I seen it sit in that same spot off court street for 20 years.

Nice to see your still buying screaming detroits and had time to post👍

Nice truck ! Those engines just keep going but do require regular maintenance. Straight 40 weight oil is what they need. Bus Grease Monkey is the specialist on 2 stroke Detroit engines. Good luck with the truck. Have a Blessed Day

I have a 97 c7500 gmc . Love the truck

A great find in your GMC. Onward!

Welcome back dude!

Just beautiful

What a beautiful machine

OMFG he's back!

Great looking Machine.

Anxious to see how this ends

Your from Wisconsin,cool,I'm from Wisconsin nice truck,looks like an old 13- or 18-speed

Such a cool truck

Love the 6-71

Cool ol' GMC!! 👍👍

good job, man

I love these old trucks. Can you do all the upgrades like in snow runner 😁

my uncle who died a week ago was a 2 stroke detroit specialist in the 70s & 80s. when he died, i thought of the dying art of setting up a rack on the old engines.he learned how to work on them in the service.was in his shop i first ever saw a 8V92 with a 8 inch hole in the block from a rod going thru it.he was putting another engine in the truck.im guessing the driver let it roll down a hill into an overspeed condition.i never had one over 2150, & never had a problem.

Welcome back.

Beautiful truck!

my dad always talks about the detroits slobbering oil if you let them idle too long, so hes right.

Nice Opel gt in the background!!!!

I'm jealous... Nice 😎

That thing is so bad ass.

Pool Noodled up ready to go.

Wow it’s been along time

Used to drive one of these in the northeast, uncomfortable noisy beast of a truck!!

The precursor to the Brigadier!

The greatest creator on RU-vid is BACK!!! I’m so happy to see you again man!

I just started fallowing your Channel I love old Detroit engines My father was a diesel mechanic for years. He worked for manure spreader company almost all the trucks had Detroit 8V-71 in them they were some screaming engines, Was that a Buick Opel in your shop? Good luck on the build of this cool old GMC.

WICKED KOOL. 🇺🇸👍

Best not to idle these engines or wet stacking and stuck rings occur They need to get a load and get hot . In marina we had guys idle them in boats at dock and not take them out in bay . Would be all loaded up carbon and stuck rings diesel in crankcase oil . Nice truck !

Good to know you are still around and collecting! Been a while since any activity. Did you get your Case crawler converted over to Detroit? Thank you for the video!

I would love to find one of these BIG TRUCKS as a project ... Seattle area

First truck I drove to the shop for a pm sweating bullets my dads boss standing on the fuel tank telling me it was time to learn I was 12

Bostrom makes a low profile air ride seat for that cab, I have many miles in a GMC brigadeer with one and I am 6 foor 6 inches

Been wondering about you bud!

O-H-I-O Porter greetings.🇺🇸 Happy New Year! This is one quite unusual GMC! Will It Start..Oh, this is running so well that I just wanna take it home! So there!🤩 I bet you were a bit shocked, huh?! The body looks like it is in really good shape! That’s a bit unusual. I love the hitch you added to it.🥰 What is the mechanism in front of the 5th wheel? Is that some kind of hydraulic lifter for the 5th wheel? What a find!! Really looking forward seeing more of this fine old truck! You must have a shirt in the charging system or something is really draining it. Keep it coming & be safe out there!🥰😎✌️

i need to find one of these to build my welding rig, at this point im willing to take one thats just cab and frame. hard to find in decent enough shape to rebuild

thats almost the same truck i cut my "trucking teeth" with 238 detroit with a 13 spd....sweet ride,probably why im hard a hearing....

What do expect , this isn't Japan where the vehicles almost never breakdown. Here in America tow truck drivers sit along side the roads and highways like vultures ready to tow our junk so they can capitalize . That is the way it is and it will always be that way. Truck shops expect you to break down a lot here so they make $150- $200 an hour off of our crap that is made right here in the USA. So the usa manufactures know not to make stuff to good or the roadside vultures will go hungry. Plus if they made trucks too good you won't come back to buy another one.

Hendrickson walking beam suspension that’ll cause some back problems

You should name that truck Big Twinkie and have Ernie Hudson sign it.

So what happened to the big Detroit you got started on the last vid way back and the cab over Ford with the beaver tail bed?AL B.

Did you make it or what

Ok I have one of these trucks my truck is a 1970 or 71 Chevy air brakes two axle dump truck 4 yard it has no engine , it is a gas engine only truck and it none tilt hood , it regular hood opening with fenders , im not interested in put a Diesel in it , im in California, lol thank you .praise Jesus Christ grace grace grace amen 🙏

6-71 Detroit diesel aka the driptroit diesel they say those 2 stroke detroits made more HP than the 4 strokes of that time

Icecold,,,,tee-shirt weather

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😱Oh My No! 😓

671 with a 5 and 2 speed rear no ac no radio no power steering

Hard to find anyone who can tune those two strokes anymore.

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