[Nick M3]

So, the truck started pissing diesel all over Mike's driveway. We knew that there was some deferred maintenance to deal with, but this has spiralled quite a ways beyond the original scope of fixing some rusty hard lines.

GM's rust protection on GMT800 trucks is notoriously poor. The most famous issue is the uncoated steel brake lines, most of which have already failed and been replaced. Additionally, beyond those (and other) uncoated hard lines, the frame itself is not painted from the factory. Instead, it's shipped to customers with a wax coating that looks like paint if you don't touch it.

So yeah, net-net, the truck looks like this. And, of course, the part that makes this extra weird is that since I'm not spending time at Mike's house, he's doing the work and basically just tells me to get parts delivered.