Well while I was home in FL last week I traded my T/A in on a 2005 Joe Gibbs ECSB #0396 and im trying to learn more about these trucks. I do know the basic on these but some things I do not understand. One large item is why the brakes are still drum in the rear? I thought rear disc became a standard on trucks, but apparently not.

Is there a website that I can go to or someone know what performance options these truck have? Only thing I have noticed so far is the 3.73 rear, ele fans and Corsa cat back.

Other then that I am very happy with the truck altho I do want to put a set of headers and CAI on it and get the truck re-tuned to remove the 98mph speed limiter and Torque management. After that I feel it may get a little bit better mileage and help out performance.

Here are a few pics...

 

Good lookin truck man, congrats! Only question I have is how many white jg trucks did they make? I've never seen one in white.

 

It should have a supercharger under the hood. IRC.

 

Same here, also would like to find out what production numbers on these trucks are as well. SCSB and ECSB

Negative, this is a 5.3 truck...

 

+1, cause this is this 1st I've seen. Most are black. Did the chrome wheel moldings & bezels come on it? I'm thinkin those were all added post JG.

jadaven, blowers were optional IIRC. Maybe std. on a JG Hoe, but not on trucks. Maybe someone can confirm if they were indeed std. on the JG Hoe, just thought I read that when they were intro'd.

OP, discs were std. for awhile, then in '05 GM reverted back to drums. Regressed IMO. Enjoy your new ride.

 

The supercharger was an option an all Joe Gibbs packages I believe. The only 'standard' gibbs package was appearance only (spoiler, gauge overlay, dash plaque, seat embroidery, wheels, front fascia) But in 05+ the bumper cover became an option, and some came with plastic badges instead of metal ones. Ive seen Gibbs trucks with only wheels and dash plaques before. They started offering them with less options (05-on) because I dont think they were selling very well with a fully optioned RCSB with an MSRP of 40k+ in 2004. I dont know that for a fact just my opinion.

White is rare, Ive only seen 2. I like them!

 

I havent seen any in white myself... But I do enjoy the truck quite a bit, So far I have found a few little querks that I need to work out. One is the left front sensor for the airbag is bad (from DTC read) so I will need to replace that but otherwise the truck runs great and drives fantastic. Also tow's my race car quite well too, combined weight of trailer and car is 5000lbs and the truck doesnt even notice the trailer back there untill you try to stop lol. I need to get the electronic brake controller and hook that up as well.

 

Wow, I didn't know any of that. I've only heard about the ones with the charger under the hood. Learn something new every day.

Congrats

 

Nice truck. Looks good in white. I always believed the Gibbs was only available in black or red.

Good luck finding much out about these trucks. I bought mine 3 months ago and Haven't been able to find much info on total production. I've heard 700 total (I'm #340) But that's just hear say, although I've never seen one with a serial number over 700....

That's weird, my truck also has a bad airbag sensor, I think it has something to do with the bumper cover, it looks like they moved the sensors when they mounted it...

Also have rear drums, was wondering whats up with the front brakes. I was told they're baer brakes, but they just look like stock calipers on bigger rotors. Anybody know anything about them? where to get pads?

 

The Baer brakes was an option like the supercharger. My truck came with neither. I bought a supercharger because that's what they came with. I am more of a turbo guy, but wanted to keep it fairly original looking. The Baer brakes were the Eradispeed brakes. The rotors were bigger, you use your original calipers, and there are calipers brackets to make it work that come with the kit (I was debating this upgrade). My truck (05) has the rear drums too. It I do the brake upgrade, I would swap the rears to disc to make it match. I think the rear drums were a GM thing for the 1/2 ton trucks in 05 because the calipers were sticking in areas of the country like here due to the salt on the roads. I have heard that they made 800/year that they made them. I have never seen high numbers either as mine is #444.