this damn little truck keeps impressing me everyday

[Will]

I won't badmouth my B2. As I said, I live on a steep hill. My B2 does yoeman duty as a yard tug moving trailers (loaded like this one) down to where I can hook on them with my truck. It has enough weight to handle a trailer--and has a brake controller in it because of this. I have had a couple of more hill inspired episodes.

The first was when the International whose cab is on the trailer in that pic was together. I was towing it up the hill with the B2 and the International has a problem where the steering would go to the left every 20 feet. Well, it was wet of course. And I would have to keep getting out to straighten the wheel on the truck I was moving. And when I got out of the B2 I would lock the parking brake (which locks all four when the case is in 4x4) and it would start a slow 4-wheel slide because the International was too heavy. So I would dash out, grab the wood block, run up and put it under the tire again to stop the slide. Then turn the wheel back to the right, get back in the B2 to pull it another few feet--which it would. That was nerve wracking.

The other was when I thought it would be a good idea to move my 2-car hauler down the gravel drive with the B2. I just slid all the way down the drive and out into the road and made the right turn at the bottom without so much as a by your leave to the gate posts and thank God no cars were passing by. It's doughty, but there are limits to its abilities.

 

[Hahnsb2]

I pulled my sploder sport donor rig home with my b2 when it still had the 2.9, did a little better than I though it would but damn that was a lot of weight, must have really sucked for my dad who had to drive the sploder, the tranny was blown and it could only move with the clutch pushed in, even in neutral, luckily it was only about 5 miles. I don't think I'll ever tow anything more than a small motorcycle trailer behind it.

 

[racsan]

when i had the '88 2.3 2wd s/c i pulled home my wife's dead '87 astro van. havent done much with the '93, but last winter some freinds got their crysler minivan stuck and it was blizzard conditions. couldnt find a good hookup point on the front of the van. so i put the tow strap on both trailer hitches and drug the van backwards, a half mile through deep snow to the nearest paved lot. i didnt know it at the time, but the driver of the van was frightend and had her foot on the brakes the whole time. 4-low and good tires/weight distribution did the job!

 

[PaleBlue90]

well i did it again. my friend tryed to drive his GMC from our friend josh's to his house and it caught fire again.....i towed it back to my friend joshes.

Ranger 2 - GMC 0

 

[srteach]

I had to rescue my son from Laramie Wyoming, a 1400 mile round trip over the continental divide. I pulled a heavy flatbed trailer out there to load his 280Z and all his possessions into my ranger. The empty trailer weighed as much as my truck. Loaded was over 6000lbs. My 4.0 ranger at the time had three bad exhaust valves. Sucked fuel, but ran great all the way.

 

[stockfornow]

the most i hauled with my 89 was 2 bomidare quads. a 2wd rally200 in the the bed weighing about 400. and a 4wd outlander 2up on a 4x8 trailer that the quad just fits on weighing about 1200.

 

[PaleBlue90]

im very happy with my little pickup. im very tempted to put a GM recovery sticker on my tailgate