25% of stove bolt post are wrong info.

[BarryGMC]

Just for you guys to ponder. At least 25% of the stove bolt post are full of wrong info. This includes lots of the senior posters. !67 -72 has issues but not as bad as the bolt. Dont trust the bolt posts. Barry

[David R Leifheit]

Typically that is because they believe that GMC and Chevrolet are identical and what applies to one applies to both.

I was reading a thread regarding wiring and they told the GMC owner that his wiring was all messed up because the regulator was on the wrong side... told him that there shouldn't be anything wired on the passenger side.
That might be true of a Chevy, but not of a GMC.
What I thought was terrible was that they were so positive they were correct, they didn't seem to entertain any notion that his truck was correct and they were wrong.

Which is probably why I never registered an account there (that I can remember anyway).

[GMCNUT]

I don't think I am a "Stovebolter" or if I am I do not know my login info LOL
But this sounds like a good opportunity for some of us who do know apples from oranges to educate uneducated readers on any forum. We should assume the burden of the educator to prevent mis-information wherever it is being spread.

Just an opinion

[Pope]

Wow 25% ?... I have seen wrong info on pretty much every forum, and cannot really say that one is as bad as the other when it's pretty much the same people who spew wrong informaton each site. Sometimes it's just someone who is trying to help since no one else has posted a reply, and yes other times it's a knuckle head that's just plain wrong. I think a good idea to help preserve facts and keep people on the right information highway would be to start picture loaded permanent post on the forums with the differences between GMC and Chevrolet trucks rather than get twisted up about something that I agree sometimes gets to be an issue, and can benefit from the attention. Another tool to help is the moderator of the forum, if you see blatant wrong post let them know so they can help, many moderators get busy and don't always know or can catch the crap that gets posted.

[6066gmcguy]

way back when i started playing online, I signed up on that site. two things to remember, that site stared out covering the older trucks, pre-1956 mostly, than they added the newer trucks later, and what David said above..."they believe that GMC and Chevrolet are identical".

back when I was putting the 6066 GMC Trucks website together, I posted a lot of info that was wrong, but as the right info was found I made the changes needed to get it right. the trouble with forums is once its posted, it never really gets changed once some one finds out they were wrong.

[GMCNUT]

if you guys think people are clueless about 60's GMC and the V6, you should take a ride around the internet and listen to the BS and cockeyed info being spread about the 55-59 Blue Chip trucks. WOW. For example, even magazines as prestigious as Hemmings Motor News continually do incorrect fact containing articles on them. Just about every person, and magazine writer refers to GMC's version of a Chevrolet Cameo as a "Suburban Carrier". No such name ever existed, but because everyone keeps telling each other this is the right name, it gets spread to epidemic proportions. The GMC "Cameo" truck was called a "Suburban Pickup". The "Carrier" name got stuck on the GMC because the Cameo correct full name is Cameo Carrier. My 57 Suburban Pickup has original firewall grease pencil markings that say "Sub P.U." so we know this is correct. No one ever tells the Pontiac V8 engine story right either, or dozens of other GMC vs Chevy differences separating the two lines. Its a full time job keeping everybody I talk to straight on the 55-59 stuff much less adding the 60-66 stuff on top of that hehehehe

[GMCDAC]

Originally Posted by GMCNUT

if you guys think people are clueless about 60's GMC and the V6, you should take a ride around the internet and listen to the BS and cockeyed info being spread about the 55-59 Blue Chip trucks. WOW. For example, even magazines as prestigious as Hemmings Motor News continually do incorrect fact containing articles on them. Just about every person, and magazine writer refers to GMC's version of a Chevrolet Cameo as a "Suburban Carrier". No such name ever existed, but because everyone keeps telling each other this is the right name, it gets spread to epidemic proportions. The GMC "Cameo" truck was called a "Suburban Pickup". The "Carrier" name got stuck on the GMC because the Cameo correct full name is Cameo Carrier. My 57 Suburban Pickup has original firewall grease pencil markings that say "Sub P.U." so we know this is correct. No one ever tells the Pontiac V8 engine story right either, or dozens of other GMC vs Chevy differences separating the two lines. Its a full time job keeping everybody I talk to straight on the 55-59 stuff much less adding the 60-66 stuff on top of that hehehehe

Good comment GMCNUT! I sure don't know a lot about all this GMC stuff but they are still my passion. Right now there is a debate on the "big city truck site" about a distributor on an I-6 1959 GMC. The owner can't understand why the distributor moves while the engine is running. I'm pretty sure that the distributor is supposed to rotate to advance and retard the timing. I don't own a GMC engine that does that, but do have a 1957 Chevy truck 235 that the whole distributor rotates. Everyone is agreeing with him that something is wrong with the distributor and it should be stationary. I can't understand that they would think that just for the reason this kid said it had a steel vacuum advance line. The "experts" over there are showing him drawings of 60's and 70's Chevy points and HEI distributors trying to help and even offering to send him free Chevy distributors. I'm pretty sure that ain't gonna work!---LOL! I quit trying to give this kid information when they were giving him 55-59 Chevy pics and info of how to wire dash gauges in a GMC. I got ignored trying to explain that one indicator flashed for right or left turn signals back then (at least in my '55 GMC), so I quit trying to help.

Never cared much for Stovebolt. Not enough pics for me and pics explain more to me than anything else.

DAC

[BarryGMC]

What. The 55-59 gmc trucks don't have buick motors? DAC. That thread with the 59 gmc on 67-72 is painfull to read. Holy cow. That has to get my vote for the worst. The blind leading the blind in circles while they all think they have made great progress.
My favorite v6 myth out there is that they only ever got 5mpg. I just heard this again from a local at the grocery store. I don't even correct em any more. I said that's why it has 3 tanks.
My second favorite myth centers around a 60 Chevy truck I have with a 348. 9 out of ten people who see it all have stories about one they had or an uncle or there dad had one just like it. It was ordered that way. Bla bla bla. I used to correct them. Now I just say bet you wished you kept it. Super rare and worth huge money back east. 50-60 grand.

[GMCNUT]

Originally Posted by BarryGMC

What. The 55-59 gmc trucks don't have buick motors? DAC. That thread with the 59 gmc on 67-72 is painfull to read. Holy cow. That has to get my vote for the worst. The blind leading the blind in circles while they all think they have made great progress.
My favorite v6 myth out there is that they only ever got 5mpg. I just heard this again from a local at the grocery store. I don't even correct em any more. I said that's why it has 3 tanks.
My second favorite myth centers around a 60 Chevy truck I have with a 348. 9 out of ten people who see it all have stories about one they had or an uncle or there dad had one just like it. It was ordered that way. Bla bla bla. I used to correct them. Now I just say bet you wished you kept it. Super rare and worth huge money back east. 50-60 grand.

So I know a 348 could be ordered in a 3/4 ton starting in 1958 or 59, because I have seen a couple of them - not sure about 1960, but I thought you had to move up to the C60 size rig before the 348 was available - what size truck do you have that came with the 348? I guess my 1960 Data Book would say somewhere in it what truck size you had to order to get the 348

[BarryGMC]

No 348 engines in 60-66 light trucks. Only medium duty. The 348 won't bolt into the stock bell housing location without some fire wall work. I put it in. I used bbc motor stands from a 70 truck. T400 trans and crossmember from a 72. Cut out the stock tranny crossmember, and moved it all forward 3 inches. Also used a 60 auto column. I have been building a 61 Chevy k 20 frame to put under this body. This is a real bitsa truck. Some day I may post some on it but for now I don't want to contribute to the delinquency of others.