What did you do to your GMT today?
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Denali n DOO
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BINGA said:"Roadie Ramps" huh?I like em!
Or is it...Roadie Ramps[SUP]TM[/SUP]
I saw a post of Roadies about ramps, he had suggested layered 2x10's, so that's what got made with some extra wood that was kicking around...they work really well
Ryda55555
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- Apr 11, 2013
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Ripped off the air restrictor in the exhaust, sounds deeper and sportier
Doesnt drone as much and no muffling sound like before but i still want it to be beefier but not much i can do there tho
[video=youtube_share;ZJiK23OtwsQ]http://youtu.be/ZJiK23OtwsQ[/video]
Ripped off the inner centre ring part
Doesnt drone as much and no muffling sound like before but i still want it to be beefier but not much i can do there tho
[video=youtube_share;ZJiK23OtwsQ]http://youtu.be/ZJiK23OtwsQ[/video]
Ripped off the inner centre ring part
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Tire rotation time again. Got that done and checked all the fluids while she was in the air. 20k since I changed the t-case fluid and it was still full and blue as can be, kinda surprised. Had to massage one of the dust shields on the front knuckle very slightly it would just rub rarely against the disc enough to embarrass me in parking lots. Probably bumped it when I changed out the balljoints last fall. Gotta love my reliable old girl....
STLtrailbSS
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- Dec 4, 2011
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Dropped it off at the shop for transmission repair My HIDs also went out this morning just a little present for me when it comes back I guess lol I drove through a huge puddle im wondering if water got into the ballast
Grimor
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Westin nerf bars
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Not sure how the pic looks but they are on. I need to just get some sliders welded up but these will work for now cause I'm tired of searching
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Not sure how the pic looks but they are on. I need to just get some sliders welded up but these will work for now cause I'm tired of searching
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Short Bus
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Boricua SS
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not what I did today... but I forgot to add the pix of the rear vent LED's... (here you go Shawn 
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Darkrider_LS
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Got to fully try out its 4x4 abilities off road today at a friends acreage. His driveway is all fawked up due to flooding so there was deep ruts and dips in it from bigger trucks going over it as well as big chunks of rock and concrete...in short...a perfect test course to get used to see what the TB could do. I was quite impressed...as long as i occasionally popped my head out through the drivers window to see where the drivers front tire was tracking i managed to get it through with lil issue. Some of these holes and dips were deep enough to have me nearly dragging chassis at times. After this i got a good look under the truck and noticed that the transmission crossmember actually does a pretty good job of keeping the transmission and T case out harms way. But Eventually i suspect i will be doing an engine skid plate as well as fabbing one up to go under the Transmission just for an extra bit of piece of mind.
Boricua SS said:not what I did today... but I forgot to add the pix of the rear vent LED's... (here you go Shawn
looks great
HARDTRAILZ
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- Nov 18, 2011
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Last night I changed the lug nuts, made some gap guards for rear fender well, touched up some paint underneath, took off shocks n cleaned them up and painted them, repainted the grill.
oik/filter change, tire rotation, diagnosed the whine from my engine and have a brand new idler and tension pulleys and new belt.
I had horrible experiences at my local Firestone. I bought the lifetime alignment but after what happened I refuse to even go back to that company because of what happened in my local store.
HARDTRAILZ
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fr34kout said:
Please explain. It has been the best company for many people on this site and the previous site for years. Continually recommended by many of us. If there is a good reason not to support them, then it would be nice to have that info.
I have had good luck with them and they were honestly one of the only places that would touch my truck due to the custom work. They even let me do all my own repairs and bring it back without pushing me to spend additional money with them.
Grimor
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fr34kout said:
My local Firestone (Mishawaka,IN by harbor freight) roated my tires and cross threaded 2 lug nuts on the front passenger wheel on my cavalier. Didn't tell me about it and 2 of the lugs had to be replaced. I was just lucky that I wasn't on the side of the road trying to change a flat when I found out.
Other than that I've had good experiences with them and their tires.
Nah it's not the companies fault, like I said it was due to incompetent workers are my local store.
The first time I went in to buy my lifetime alignment I asked if they work on dropped cars and they said yes so I thought perfect. This was right after I did my first 2" drop, DJM A Arms up front with drop strut mounts, and bag adjustments in the back.
Went in, got the alignment, and when they gave me the papers back they said they couldn't adjust the caster. They showed me a diagram and said that there was a cam on the upper control arm that is used to adjust caster and since I replaced the upper control arms the new ones didn't have that cam they couldn't adjust it. I told the guy that I changed the control arms myself, and that piece was never on the stock arms to begin with. He told me not to worry about it, it wouldn't affect tire wear so I went home.
When I got home, I was looking through the papers again and noticed that on the front the alignment page said it was done for a 2008 Yukon Denali...... I called up firestone and told them I'm the guy that just came in for alignment and you were telling me why they couldn't adjust caster. I told him I just saw on the front page that it says 2008 Yukon Denali, but my car is an Envoy Denali. The guy said yea the process is the same for both cars. I didn't quite believe him, but he assured me that it was the same for both cars.
I didn't even bother to look it up until a few weeks later when I was bored at home. I found out that the caster adjustment was on the lower control arm, not the upper control arm. So a few months later when I went back to have them do the alignment correctly, I found the info on the OS and wrote everything down. When I say I wrote everything down, I mean I listed every specification (Caster, Camber, Toe, Cross Toe, EVERYTHING) with the value range that is acceptable. I then also wrote the process for adjusting caster, where the bolts were located, which way to move the LCA, and even the torque specs of the bolts.
When I went back in, I talked to the same manager at the counter that I had spoken to on my last visit, as well as the same guy who told me on the phone that the process was the same for both vehicles. I explained to him that the last time I came in they did the alignment for a YUKON, but I had an ENVOY. I showed him the paper that I wrote all the information on in case the guy still couldn't figure out how to adjust the caster, and made sure to reiterate that my truck is an envoy.
After dropping it off me and 2 of my friends went to grab lunch nearby and then came back about an hour later. After my truck was finished, I went up to the counter to see red in the caster box once again. I looked up at the top of the page, and yet again it said 2008 Yukon Denali. I told the guy once again that the alignment was performed incorrectly and that the mechanic needed to redo it for an Envoy Denali.
After I went outside, the manager told the mechanic to come talk to me. I told him that my truck is an Envoy not a Yukon. He told me I was WRONG. He told me look at the side of your car, do you see where it says Denali? You have a Yukon Denali. I told him Denali is not the fucking model of car, it is the top trim for GMC. I said yes I have a Denali, but I have an ENVOY Denali. They are two completely different trucks, mine is a mid sized SUV and a Yukon is a full sized SUV, how the hell do you not know the difference? I literally had to argue with him to get him to back down from telling me what kind of car I was driving. Finally he asked me to write down what model it was. I grabbed the paperwork he was holding in his hand and flipped to the job sheet that the manager printed out where it clearly said Envoy Denali under vehicle.
Then I had to tell him that I wrote you down instructions. I told him where the bolts were located, which way to move the arms, and the torque specs. He didn't seem to think I could possibly know what I was talking about, but he put it back on the lift and I watched him and the manager looking exactly where I told them and pointing at the bolts. So he did the alignment and I went home frustrated.
This wasn't the worst part though. Remember now when I said that the adjustment he was trying to make for my "Yukon" was on one of the bolts on the upper control arm. Exactly 1 week to the day that I got my alignment, I was driving my truck for work. I was going up a hill and approaching a red light at the top. When I hit my brakes, my car pulled hard to the left. I almost ended up in the lane next to me. I immediately put the car in park and got out. I went to check my front left wheel, and I could literally shake / wobble the wheel by hand. I turned the wheel all the way to the right, and I saw one of the bolts for my upper control arm completely gone. Limped it home at about 5-10 mph down the hill.
I didn't even bother to go back, because I knew I would be fucking furious if I was to step foot back into that store. So either the mechanic loosed my upper control arm bolt because he thought he was working on a Yukon, and didn't torque it back down when he finished his alignment or he did it on purpose after I called him out on being a dumbass and made him do my alignment correctly. Either way I probably wouldn't be able to prove it because they were aftermarket parts that I installed myself, even though they had already been on for over 6 months at that point and the one bolt came off 1 week after being worked on by them.
Luckily there was no damage to my truck, and I was able to just buy the bolt from the dealership for ~$8, but if it would have happened on the freeway I could have easily went into another car or a wall. And I was also grateful that it happened to me who works on their own cars so I knew immediately that something was wrong, vs someone that might not know better and just drive it and end up causing a major accident.
So basically that's my story about Firestone. Incorrect alignment twice, arguing with the mechanic over what type of car I drive, and a control arm bolt coming off my car 1 week after getting the alignment nearly causing me to crash. If they could even get my truck onto the rack now I might go to another location to take advantage of my lifetime alignment, but they had enough problems with the 2" drop. I currently go to one of my good friends neighbor's shop who does nothing but alignment and brakes and he specializes in slammed and lifted trucks.
The first time I went in to buy my lifetime alignment I asked if they work on dropped cars and they said yes so I thought perfect. This was right after I did my first 2" drop, DJM A Arms up front with drop strut mounts, and bag adjustments in the back.
Went in, got the alignment, and when they gave me the papers back they said they couldn't adjust the caster. They showed me a diagram and said that there was a cam on the upper control arm that is used to adjust caster and since I replaced the upper control arms the new ones didn't have that cam they couldn't adjust it. I told the guy that I changed the control arms myself, and that piece was never on the stock arms to begin with. He told me not to worry about it, it wouldn't affect tire wear so I went home.
When I got home, I was looking through the papers again and noticed that on the front the alignment page said it was done for a 2008 Yukon Denali...... I called up firestone and told them I'm the guy that just came in for alignment and you were telling me why they couldn't adjust caster. I told him I just saw on the front page that it says 2008 Yukon Denali, but my car is an Envoy Denali. The guy said yea the process is the same for both cars. I didn't quite believe him, but he assured me that it was the same for both cars.
I didn't even bother to look it up until a few weeks later when I was bored at home. I found out that the caster adjustment was on the lower control arm, not the upper control arm. So a few months later when I went back to have them do the alignment correctly, I found the info on the OS and wrote everything down. When I say I wrote everything down, I mean I listed every specification (Caster, Camber, Toe, Cross Toe, EVERYTHING) with the value range that is acceptable. I then also wrote the process for adjusting caster, where the bolts were located, which way to move the LCA, and even the torque specs of the bolts.
When I went back in, I talked to the same manager at the counter that I had spoken to on my last visit, as well as the same guy who told me on the phone that the process was the same for both vehicles. I explained to him that the last time I came in they did the alignment for a YUKON, but I had an ENVOY. I showed him the paper that I wrote all the information on in case the guy still couldn't figure out how to adjust the caster, and made sure to reiterate that my truck is an envoy.
After dropping it off me and 2 of my friends went to grab lunch nearby and then came back about an hour later. After my truck was finished, I went up to the counter to see red in the caster box once again. I looked up at the top of the page, and yet again it said 2008 Yukon Denali. I told the guy once again that the alignment was performed incorrectly and that the mechanic needed to redo it for an Envoy Denali.
After I went outside, the manager told the mechanic to come talk to me. I told him that my truck is an Envoy not a Yukon. He told me I was WRONG. He told me look at the side of your car, do you see where it says Denali? You have a Yukon Denali. I told him Denali is not the fucking model of car, it is the top trim for GMC. I said yes I have a Denali, but I have an ENVOY Denali. They are two completely different trucks, mine is a mid sized SUV and a Yukon is a full sized SUV, how the hell do you not know the difference? I literally had to argue with him to get him to back down from telling me what kind of car I was driving. Finally he asked me to write down what model it was. I grabbed the paperwork he was holding in his hand and flipped to the job sheet that the manager printed out where it clearly said Envoy Denali under vehicle.
Then I had to tell him that I wrote you down instructions. I told him where the bolts were located, which way to move the arms, and the torque specs. He didn't seem to think I could possibly know what I was talking about, but he put it back on the lift and I watched him and the manager looking exactly where I told them and pointing at the bolts. So he did the alignment and I went home frustrated.
This wasn't the worst part though. Remember now when I said that the adjustment he was trying to make for my "Yukon" was on one of the bolts on the upper control arm. Exactly 1 week to the day that I got my alignment, I was driving my truck for work. I was going up a hill and approaching a red light at the top. When I hit my brakes, my car pulled hard to the left. I almost ended up in the lane next to me. I immediately put the car in park and got out. I went to check my front left wheel, and I could literally shake / wobble the wheel by hand. I turned the wheel all the way to the right, and I saw one of the bolts for my upper control arm completely gone. Limped it home at about 5-10 mph down the hill.
I didn't even bother to go back, because I knew I would be fucking furious if I was to step foot back into that store. So either the mechanic loosed my upper control arm bolt because he thought he was working on a Yukon, and didn't torque it back down when he finished his alignment or he did it on purpose after I called him out on being a dumbass and made him do my alignment correctly. Either way I probably wouldn't be able to prove it because they were aftermarket parts that I installed myself, even though they had already been on for over 6 months at that point and the one bolt came off 1 week after being worked on by them.
Luckily there was no damage to my truck, and I was able to just buy the bolt from the dealership for ~$8, but if it would have happened on the freeway I could have easily went into another car or a wall. And I was also grateful that it happened to me who works on their own cars so I knew immediately that something was wrong, vs someone that might not know better and just drive it and end up causing a major accident.
So basically that's my story about Firestone. Incorrect alignment twice, arguing with the mechanic over what type of car I drive, and a control arm bolt coming off my car 1 week after getting the alignment nearly causing me to crash. If they could even get my truck onto the rack now I might go to another location to take advantage of my lifetime alignment, but they had enough problems with the 2" drop. I currently go to one of my good friends neighbor's shop who does nothing but alignment and brakes and he specializes in slammed and lifted trucks.
I finally installed my new black lugnuts. It's such a crappy day today, and I really wanted to reprint my calipers and rims, and I had to do something, so I just did that.
STLtrailbSS
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tbyoda
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Replaced spark plugs, and cleaned the throttle body. My 08 TB only has 63k but since I am the second owner with no records from pervious owner, I say what the heck. Followed the videos from MAY03LT here on GMTNATION. Only wish he would have said that the truck would idle ruff for while after resetting the PCM and the check eng light would cycle on and off for few minutes during the relearning process. Was little nervous for few minutes. 
thanks MAY03 LT for good videos. Next front, rear axle and transfer case. But that is for another night.
http://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLD76EFDDC2ADF572C
thanks MAY03 LT for good videos. Next front, rear axle and transfer case. But that is for another night.http://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLD76EFDDC2ADF572C
yodaddy4200
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- Feb 3, 2013
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Got my projector fogs in ddmtuning 3k
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Smiley face!!
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I was hoping for a little more yellow but oh well. I ordered 5k and 3k low beam bulbs too!! they should be here in about a week or so.
Im thinking now i definetly need to get some yellow 194 leds for the interior!!
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Smiley face!!
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I was hoping for a little more yellow but oh well. I ordered 5k and 3k low beam bulbs too!! they should be here in about a week or so.
Im thinking now i definetly need to get some yellow 194 leds for the interior!!
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ConeKilrAutoX
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- Dec 8, 2011
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Drove the envoy a bit today (N/A still) but IT RUNS!!! Doing LED's in the door switches tonight 
(video of the voy running in my build thread)
(video of the voy running in my build thread)
willn513
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- Dec 4, 2011
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I noticed that both the drivers side and passengers side mirrors were missing the nuts that hold the mirrors to the doors(WHOOPS!). A quick trip to Lowes and I'm all good now. Also if any of you guys need one the size is 6mm metric fine pitch and they should fit a 10mm socket wrench. I got stop nuts with the plastic in them so hopefully they are there for good. View attachment 28394
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