New Member Guide: Start Here — How FSC Works & Where to Post

Welcome to FullSizeChevy.com (FSC). You’ve found the right place for full-size Chevy, GMC, and Cadillac truck owners — Squarebody through T1XX. This guide covers how the forum is laid out, how to use it on your phone, and how to get answers fast.

How FSC Is Organized

FSC is split by truck generation, so you can drop straight into the section for your year and model:

Each generation has the same subcategories inside it: Interior, Exterior, Suspension/Wheels/Tires, Performance & Tuning, Stereo/Wiring/Electronics, and Technical & Maintenance. Post in the one that fits your truck and your question.

Where to Start

  1. Introduce yourself in New Member Check-In — tell us what you drive.
  2. Post your rig in Show Us Your Truck.
  3. Find your generation above and start reading or posting.

Use the search bar before you post. On a platform this old, most common problems have been hit before — your answer may already be here.

Using FSC on Your Phone

Most members read FSC from the garage or the driveway. You can set it up to work like an app and keep you in the loop without living in your inbox.

Add FSC to Your Home Screen

This puts an FSC icon on your phone and opens the forum full-screen, without the browser bars. It is a shortcut to the site — not a separate app to download.

  • Android (Chrome): tap the menu (top right) → Add to Home screen (or Install app) → confirm.
  • iPhone (Safari): tap the Share button (the square with the up arrow) → scroll down → Add to Home ScreenAdd.

Turn On Notifications

Notifications let FSC ping you when someone replies to you or when a new topic lands in a category you follow.

  • Android: open FSC, tap your avatar → the gear/PreferencesNotifications, and allow notifications when your phone asks.
  • iPhone: you must add FSC to your Home Screen first (see above), then open it from that icon and enable notifications in Preferences → Notifications. Apple only allows web push on iPhone once the site is installed to the Home Screen.

Only turn on what you’ll actually want. Follow the generations and topics that matter to you, not everything — that’s how you keep notifications useful instead of noise.

Notification Levels — What They Mean

You can set a level per category or per individual topic. Tap the bell on any category or topic to change it:

  • Normal — you’re notified only if someone replies to you, quotes you, or @mentions you.
  • Tracking — same as Normal, plus you see unread/new counts for that category.
  • Watching First Post — you get notified when a new topic is posted, but not every reply. Good for Announcements or a generation you care about.
  • Watching — you get notified of every new topic and every reply. Use this only for a specific build thread or a category you never want to miss.

If you’re new, leave most things on Normal or Tracking and set Watching First Post on your own generation. You can change it any time.

Posting From Your Phone

Post Your Truck Photos

Photos make FSC worth reading. Posting them from a phone is easy:

  • Start a reply or new topic, tap the upload icon (looks like a picture or an up-arrow), and pick photos from your camera roll.
  • iPhone HEIC photos work fine — so do JPG, PNG, and WebP. You can attach several at once.
  • Big shots are OK (up to ~10 MB each), but if uploads stall on cell service, wait for Wi-Fi.

Start a Topic

Tap + New Topic, pick the right generation subcategory, give it a clear title (year, engine, and the problem help a lot), and post. A title like “2004 5.3 Low Oil Pressure at Hot Idle” pulls in the right people.

Finding New Stuff and Saving It

  • New and Unread live in the sidebar/menu and show you what’s changed since your last visit.
  • Bookmark any useful thread (the bookmark icon under a post) so you can find that fix again later. Your bookmarks are under your avatar.

Rules and Getting Help

Read the Forum Rules & FAQ before posting. Keep it respectful, no spam, stay on topic.

Need a hand or found a bug? Post in Suggestions & Site Feedback or contact the admins.

Welcome to the FSC family — glad you’re here.