What did you do to your GMT today?

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Tuning will now be more precise with the new addition-wideband from Glowshift.

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after the friday night car meet-just a little burst to see what it does
 
gmcman said:
Lame.

I see a small gap. Inspector should have let you roll out and told you to repair it soon. :smile:

Unless the pad tapered down towards the other side. Just a pain to get it reinspected.
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It looks like the pad is almost completely gone. The arrow looks like it's pointing at a scratch on the metal backing plate.
 
Unplugged the camshaft position sensor on my way to run errands to see if not having it would decrease my symptoms. Drove it until the SES light came on, tested it....symptoms are still there. Plugged it back in and back to the drawing board.

Oh and we added the 44K today too...
 
well today was no good to day i was driving coworker home from work and my stereo didn't work what ever it is old so as we are driving and he pushed on the screen and balm it worked i was so happy. well dropped him off and was driving to the rv shop to get some parts and could smell melting plastic thought is was the tires i had just spun np continued on. got to the rv shop and got the parts ordered so i got the the exit and took a left to the lights and the smell of plastic melting was very strong and i didn't spin the tires that time so i took a right at the lights and was pulling over t
and the was fire coming out around the stereo so i stopped right away and grab the stereo and ripped it out of the truck and threw it out of the window on to the street.
after it was out i grabbed the stereo and threw it out now i have no stereo and almost no truck. sorry no pics was to scared to take photos i will get photos tomorrow morning on my way to work.
 
took the TB on delivery's today.
on the way back, was on a nice straight 2 lane rd., no one behind me, no one in front that i could see,
so i streched her legs, opened her up to between 105 & 110 mph.
after i backed off, i still didn't see a car for about 2 mi.
 
Added 2 Whelen grille lights under the push bumper.

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Fletch do you have it tuned? As far as I knew the stock governor caps at 105, that's what my Denali stopped at (I think about 4k rpm in 3rd gear) and it just wouldn't rev any higher. Got that taken care of with a tune lol
 
fr34kout said:
Fletch do you have it tuned? As far as I knew the stock governor caps at 105, that's what my Denali stopped at (I think about 4k rpm in 3rd gear) and it just wouldn't rev any higher. Got that taken care of with a tune lol
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no tune. only thing extra to engine is K&N CAI.
i do have US Speedo white face gauges, needle was between 105 & 110 hash marks (could be off by a hair)
IIRC rpm was just over 4000 rpm(was watching speedo and road more than tach)
 

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fletch09 said:
no tune. only thing extra to engine is K&N CAI.
i do have US Speedo white face gauges, needle was between 105 & 110 hash marks (could be off by a hair)
IIRC rpm was just over 4000 rpm(was watching speedo and road more than tach)
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Do you have a pic of yours at night? I love the look of the white faces, but don't like the way most of them light up.
 
fletch09 said:
took the TB on delivery's today.
on the way back, was on a nice straight 2 lane rd., no one behind me, no one in front that i could see,
so i streched her legs, opened her up to between 105 & 110 mph.
after i backed off, i still didn't see a car for about 2 mi.
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What ever you do .. DO NOT POST A VIDEO of you doing this.. some dude in TX just got a little visit from the TX state tropers .. he posted a video of him doing 186 on a GSXR.. just a head's up. but still cool man.:raspberry:
 
Finally got the time to do the transfer case. It was fairly clean so someone had at least done that at some point.
 

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Replaced plugs and wires today. 32 degrees outside flurries and a cold garage. What a blast. Purrs like a kitten now. No misfires.
 
Scott_mcd said:
Attempted to put in a new water pump. It's going to the shop on Monday. lol
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What you having problems with?
 
fr34kout said:
Fletch do you have it tuned? As far as I knew the stock governor caps at 105, that's what my Denali stopped at (I think about 4k rpm in 3rd gear) and it just wouldn't rev any higher. Got that taken care of with a tune lol
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My ext gives up at 100 mph indicated. Should be around 103 actual because of the tires. Btw It was legal where I did it
 
AV8ER said:
My ext gives up at 100 mph indicated. Should be around 103 actual because of the tires. Btw It was legal where I did it
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My Rainier will get to 105 then it just shuts down and sends my forehead to the steering wheel was not expecting it to shutdown So dramaticly usually it'll hot Max then kinda coast down and kick back in. I thought I blew engine or dropped tranny when Rainier got governed haha never went past 100 again
 
Wednesday changed my plugs... Cleaned my throttle body and the blow back from my CAI plus a new filter for it.


Then found a praying mantis in my yard.
 

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Voymom said:
Well we spent the last 3 hours checking all of our grounds and wires making sure they are cleaned and in good condition, which they were. We decided to pull the coil packs to check on the spark plugs, we found that the valve cover bolts were really loose, so we tightened those...we also noticed where the loose bolts were, there was leakage. Checked all the coil packs, all are dry, checked all the spark plugs and found that #4 had oil in the bottom, but the plug was completely dry as well as the coil pack. Oil seemed to be dripping from the top and not coming from the bottom(if that makes sense).

Cleaned up what we could, tightened what we could, and put everything back. Not sure if this is the issue...but that's what we have done so far. Rear end links and transfer case will get done today as well....finally.

When I did my spark on my voy, I also found little amounts of oil. Im still wondering whats the cause :confused:. That was about 5k ago and im over it now :biggrin:
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IHZ05VOY said:
When I did my spark on my voy, I also found little amounts of oil. Im still wondering whats the cause :confused:. That was about 5k ago and im over it now :biggrin:
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The valve cover gaskets can develop leaks. You can check the bolts, but as long as the leak isn't too bad, it's just an annoyance.
 
Scott_mcd said:
Getting the fan clutch off. The shop is going to change it for 50.00.
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Yeah, getting the clutch off is a PITA. If I would have read the whole writeup on TV it wouldn't have taken me so long, figured out I need to use the wire trick to stop it from moving.
 
De-badged my 9-7x today. Underneath the emblem however was LARGE scratch ): Time to buy some touch up paint.
 
Hooked up the trailer and made a few runs to the dump. I've got a 4x8 utility trailer and slammed full of junk I forget about it behind me :-) Cant feel the weight at all. I want to pull something 5000lbs just see how the truck handles, there's a lot of go in the I6.
 
Bscfrank914 said:
How did you go about removing the amber from the tail light? Did you do it yourself?
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Red VHT Niteshades :thumbsup:

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I did this yesterday but I I got the email confirmation today. I got a new HU and accessories ordered from crutchfield and found a $20 off coupon so it made the deal all that much better. Nice simple HU that I can hook up to my iPhone. Hopeful I'll receive it and get it installed next weekend.

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Did what was supposed to be a perfectly easy task, in a low-stress environment, and ended up being a 5-hour ordeal.

Change the transmission filter and pan fluid on a 5.3L 2WD 'Blazer. What's hard about that on a 2-post lift in a warm shop?

"Tolerance stacking". That has to be what happened. I can't believe they would design an exhaust system to deliberately interfere with transmission fluid pan removal, yet that's what I had to fight. Drop all the pan bolts but three, loosen and move the shifter telecable bracket out of the way (we won't discuss the forward bolt on that bracket, not in mixed company :wink: ), then remove the last three pan bolts and 'Clank!'. Maybe 1/8" - 3/16" needed for the rear lip to clear the solenoid pack, no matter which way I twisted the pan, because the exhaust crossover pipe from the left header was blocking. Loosening the tailshaft mount didn't help, finally resorted to a pry bar on the pipe to get it low enough. Clean it all up, new filter in, coax it back into position, seal it up and off the lift. 90 minutes gone.

Fill the pan, check levels, open the garage and back the beast out to the driveway. I put it into Drive to go for a quick spin around the equipment storage area and ... the damn thing won't move past a creep. What. The. Fsckin'. Hell? Reverse works great, solid bump into gear, but anything going forward is mush. Now, I'm sweating bullets.

Back inside slowly, up on the lift again, get the pan off again (ricocheting between two HOT cats for awhile), checked the new filter for cracks in the suction tube, looked for damage to the selector switching, then started looking for anything amiss on the exposed valve bodies ... and found an unseated cable connector on the rightmost rear solenoid. Wasn't off, just unclipped. :rolleyes:

<snap!>

Button it all up again, fill, burp it, back out to the driveway, say a couple imprecations to the gods, select Drive ... :thumbsup:
 
bigytwotone said:
well today i replaced my wiper blades for the first time since i bought the truck jan 25 2010
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Thanks, your post reminded me of something I forgot to do. Ever since I had the windshield replaced the Rainsense wipers no longer function properly, they had a mind of thier own and didn't work well at all, if it rained they spent most of the time wiping really fast with no control. I just went out and pulled fuse # 29 under the back seat and now I have normal GM intermittent wipers. This is so much better than those stupid rainNOSENCE wipers :thumbsup:
 
Trouble shot an hid issues found to be bad ballast. I went and just ordered a whole 2nd set of vvme just to have the Extra parts around right now my truck looks like a moron half yellow light half hid
 
STLtrailbSS said:
Trouble shot an hid issues found to be bad ballast. I went and just ordered a whole 2nd set of vvme just to have the Extra parts around right now my truck looks like a moron half yellow light half hid
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Too bad it didn't fail around halloween. Could have said it had zombie eye :biggrin:
 
Took the pickup to Wally World to get another free rotate & balance. And they greased all the zerks for free.

Gotta love lifetime rotate & balance!
 
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