1989 GMC Sierra SL Boom Truck Start Up, Engine, and In Depth Tour 

watching these old videos and seeing comments from 5 years ago makes me feel old.

Gotta love that old carbureted sound

Great video as always Kyle! My dad years ago had a '88 Chevrolet work truck, had a box on it but no boom or bucket, and it had the 350 V-8 but only a 3/4 speed, and it was built on a recreational vehicle cab/chassis rather than a truck chassis like that truck. He loved that truck, he bought it new in '88 and it was stolen 8 years later, unfortunately.

"fires right up" LIKE A ROCK!

It was actually fairly common for GM to put a 4.3 L V-6 in most of their trucks during that era. My uncle Don had an 86 GMC pick up with a 4.3 in it, and I wish he’d kept it. That was a great little old truck. I am surprised that they only put a V-6 in a truck this size though.

1:49 horn says wow lol 😂

A couple of cracks? Kyle, you crack me up.

BOOM! Trax, the streets were all over and I was really excited!

Keep them coming dude... and yo if you ever find a Back to the Future Time Machine DeLorean, I will literally find YOU and give you the biggest hug ever.

I think it's safe to say this truck has not been pampered. The front end looked in good nick though.

I think this is the first video i've seen you post in which your hands get greasy just showing us the vehicle lol! I love the variety on your page man, well done!

I love videos of not so common vehicles

I never got up close to see how a boom truck is before!

Nothing like a tour of a service truck to bring the need to wash up and change into fresh clothes, lol. Funny thing we used to have a Ford Super Cab just like the one parked beside this truck. Same exact colors, lol, Thanks Kyle.

My dream truck right here

انت احسن واحد يجرب المواتر تعال جرب عندنا جرب الشاص وجرب الربع انت فنان مشاء الله عليك

No showing operation of the boom?

For this year on this car is pretty good engine

That's actually got the old GM carbureted 4.8L l-6 we had one in a old work truck GMC just like that one. Its a tuff engine too

Square body GMC/Chevy are fantastic

Wow and I thought I've seem them all. Apparently you just proved me wrong. I wonder whats next lol. A bus or a firetruck lmao. Keep the awesome videos coming Kyle.

1:22 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

I wish he went up in the boom that would be cool

all you have to do is look on the sticker on the air cleaner cover and it tells what motor it is.

nice truck indeed, i think with a new seat and a cover for the dashboard can be sold for a nice price, even with that pretty used engine PS: i laughed when you pumped and the small lever under the radio twisted ahaha

After you find a DeLorean (there's one for sale in my area actually...in Bellevue I think...haha) I think it would be super fabulous if you found a Merkur XR4Ti. I had one of those for my first car. Good luck and keep 'em coming :)

its a v8 there is 4 plug wires on the one side so unless its a seven cylinder then id expect there to be 4 plug wires on the other side as well

@celsovera91 It's called a boom truck because the arm that holds the bucket is called a boom.

It's kind of funny because this truck is almost in better condition then some of the leate 90's cars around where I live.

Why are both keys square? Usually the square one is for the ignition and the round one is for the doors/trunk...

"Did somebody say BOOM?"

Yegads man, a little Armor All will fix those cracks on the dash board in no time.

@JakeDaSnakeFilms tes Chevy/GMC restyled teir pick ups in 1988, but cared old body style on heavy duty, duallys, and Suburbans tthru 1991.That old body style first came out in 1973.lol.

Kyle, I believe that would be a 250 in.³ or I can't remember if it is a 4.8 or 4.9 L in-line six in that truck. The 4.3 L V6 was not used in that particular body style because that was the "carryover "version of the GMC truck.

Thats one hell of an exhaust leak.

According to Wikipedia, the only two 6 cyl engines available at that time were the 4.3 v6 or a 4.8 inline 6. Since that is a V shaped engine, it has to be the 4.3.

@Jakeman2164 Maybe because it was a half ton. 3/4 and full tons still had the old look until 91 or 92.

a couple cracks on the dash...

If you want to talk about the 305 engine in an old square body, I have a 1982 square body with a 305 and a four speed in it. With get this, 95,000 original miles.

@cerrystyle those are vinyl seats

the 1973-1991 GMC Sierra was assembled in Atlanta, Georgia Baltimore, Maryland Pontiac, Michigan Flint, Michigan Tarrytown, New York Kansas City, Missouri St. Louis, Missouri Janesville, Wisconsin Norwood, Ohio Fremont, California Oshawa, Ontario Córdoba Argentina Arica, Chile

a couple cracks in the dash? thats an understatement, lol

dude thats a 350.. 8 spark plugs 8 exhaust ports, and curse them if its a 5.0 in a service truck so its definetly a 350

Can you do a cold start on a ford bronco

Oh, okay...thanks!

Did this come from a power company?

Kyle u should have shown if the boom works

@g20s10silveradoman whoops my mistake lol thanks for pointing it out dude hahaha

hey did you do a video on that old ford e van next to it ?

1:22 Harvey Beaks

Wow

damn that ride is older than me .. lol spider confused it self with the engine

Do a tour of a Tank!

One of Bob Seger and the silver bullet band's greatest hits!! The ad campaigns after ROCK sucked

im wondering the new one of these must have the same thing but newer

Yeah, throttle body only on "89s right?

hey could you do a 1998 pontiac trans sport please thank you

Are you sure is a V6 and not a V8? The interior needs re doing lol. Engine sounds good

there was an overlap between the generations. most of the trucks changed for 1988 but the old generation was kept for the crew cabs, commercial trucks, full size SUVs and i think regular cab duallies till after 1991. think the big kodiak, the real big commercial truck, changed for 1990. GM has been overlapping generations since then i think, running the old ones for 1 to a few years for certain kinds or limited runs. ford did it a couple times too even dodge did it at least once maybe twice too;

I hate to tell you sir but you said the carburetor is out of a 5.7 because that is a 6.7 engine. You will never see a 4.3 in a truck that size unless it was modified.

the overlap was until 1991 actually, and dont forget the suburbans;

That's a Massachusetts truck. Has a MA inspection sticker

whats a boom truck

that's a 8 cylinder not a 6

@stephenthabeast He acctually has, they're called Hummer H2 and Escalade haha

@saabkyle04 It's funny to see this video after a 2011 aston martin rapide video....

here in Canada we call a "boom truck" a "cherry picker"

not a bad dash for a 89

how much did u pay for it?

there's a spider lives in the truck's engine bay..

its a bucket truck oka saabkyle01

It has a boom on it that's why they call it a boom truck.

'89???

That's an ok truck just needs some smarting up.

They didnt classify engines by liters back then jus HP

a couple of cracks??

That does not fire right up. Just saying...

ONLY a 6 cylinder!!!!??? I'd think a 350 or 454 V8 would be WAY more appropriate for a truck like this!!!

Why no diesel fuel only?

Diesel??

@stephenthabeast LOL that would be interesting XD

89 f150 or 89 sierra/1500

This is a square body truck 1987 was not tge last year forcthem.

Good old fuelinjected small block 350

thats a ground up restoration

That does not look like a 1989 it looks like a 1979 to me.

Did somebody say boom??

@thecomputerfan1 because of the boom on the back

engine sounds fuel injected too. runs too well to be carb'ed and it has that tbi sound. for being an 89 it should be tbi.

i thought it was called a bucket truck... not boom truck..

@borcilacristian ce mica e lumea :)

I can't se the video

this truck went through trench warfare

Someone says boom

What does a boom truck even do?

hard shape needs to be restored badly....

That's not an 89. Body style went up til 87 on that.

that's a V8.

That's not a 350 it has a 327

U can't take the truck out of a GMC: ) I just had to say it