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Thanks for all the advice guys. From what i could tell its never been in an accident. Had them run a car fax too. Didn't feel the steering shaft clunk and I put it through the paces test driving it lol. The only major issue I could find is the diff, I always do fluid changes/maintenance when I buy a vehicle anyways so that's no biggie

Come to think of it, when I was laying under the truck earlier it looked like the seals for the axle shafts were leaking. Any way it could be as simple as the diff just being low/out of fluid?

Thanks for the advice guys, the shop I talked to earlier said it would probably be 1000-1500 to do the diff. And besides that theres a few minor things it needs but im not too worried about because I can do the rest. could use a set of brakes, heated seats don't work for some reason, tie rods, alignment, and some IDIOT took off the stock 20s and put 09 ish Silverado 17s on it (dealership didn't even know it was missing the OE wheels).

Yeah, that's kinda what I was thinking. I just figured the price is cheap enough I could afford to do it right away and have a pretty nice truck for under 10k with less than 100k on it.. Just makes me nervous

Hey guys, Im new here to the forums. Been looking into getting an SS for a few months now since im in the market for a new truck anyways. Im pretty familiar with the Gen III GM motors. I had an 01 sierra with a 4.8 and 5.3 swapped an S-10 with a TH350, so some background motor-wise but AWD is a whole new adventure for me. Ive been dealing with a local chevy dealer looking at a black 03 with 90,500 mi. truck is pretty clean in general just needs some TLC. So today I went over and drove the truck, throttle is very responsive, trans shifts smooth, ac blows cold. However im thinking the front diff fluid needs changed or it is going out all together. At around 50-55 a pretty serious front-end vibration/growl starts and continues all the way up to 90+ if you let off the gas it goes away. From what ive searched and read on here it most likely needs rebuilt. I took it to a trans shop today while I was test driving it and the tech said it sounds like the front diff to him not the t-case. The dealership is selling the truck as-is, they said they got it on a trade over a month ago. Truck books around 13,000 they were asking 12,300. By the end of the day and after pointing out the front end vibrations I got him down to 8700. To make a long story short, do you guys think its worth going through potentially putting a diff in it if im getting it for 8700? Seemed like a good price to me, just don't want to run into a bunch of problems in the near future. Thanks for the help/advice in advance. Justen