It wasn't what I really wanted, I just settled on it because I couldn't find anything diesel that would do what I wanted and fit the budget - and wasn't a rust bucket. Had to be 4wd for the snow, had to have room for more than one passenger on a long trip, and had to be an automatic. Early last week a '95 Suburban with a 6.5 TD pretty much dropped in my lap. It ain't perfect, but it's diesel and has a solid body. I'm chasing a fuel leak on the low pressure side and a check engine light right now, but I expect I'll get it to be as reliable as one of those can be. 
The learning curve is awful steep on them, though. A whole lot of electrical stuff has to go right just for it to run, where on our Cummins an awful lot of electrical stuff has to break to make 'em quit. 
And I plan to keep this one stock. I want you guys to hold me to this - these things are hand grenades to begin with, and turning them up is like pulling the pin.
It'll get gauges (pyro, boost , trans temp, and fuel pressure), and a free-flowing intake so I can hear the turbo. Better exhaust if it falls off. And that's it! No fair egging me on, either.
It is if you are a genuine "pull-my-finger" redneck. 
) I don't need a WIF light, so the port got tapped for 1/8" NPT. It also had a bad oil pressure switch, on these trucks that's what runs the lift pump. So the IP had to suck fuel through the dead lift pump past the leaky WIF sensor - it's a wonder it ran at all! 