What did you do to your GMT today?

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IllogicTC said:
Pliers help if you're careful. Or if you can find some rubber tubing with an inner diameter the same or ever-slightly smaller than the diameter of the bulb, it can greatly assist in changing a bulb, and reach hard-to-get ones. Also provides some grip if you're having trouble with the ones that turn to come out.
Today it was trying to get the grille off and the front headlights out that drew the blood. I like the idea of the clips that hold them in, except where the outer ones are placed under the fender.
 
Get rid of teh power sucking 194 and replace them with T10 LEDs... Didn't Carlton teach you this at the meet? :raspberry:
 
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djthumper said:
Get rid of teh power sucking 194 and replace them with T10 LEDs... Didn't Carlton teach you this at the meet? :raspberry:
He might have, but I had my head in the wheel wells most of the time
 
djthumper said:
Get rid of teh power sucking 194 and replace them with T10 LEDs... Didn't Carlton teach you this at the meet? :raspberry:
:iagree: LEDs FTW. Dont let Carlton hear your replacing incandescent bulbs with more incandescent bulbs :eek:
 
djthumper said:
Get rid of teh power sucking 194 and replace them with T10 LEDs... Didn't Carlton teach you this at the meet? :raspberry:

bmcutright said:
He might have, but I had my head in the wheel wells most of the time

dmanns67 said:
:iagree: LEDs FTW. Dont let Carlton hear your replacing incandescent bulbs with more incandescent bulbs :eek:
Watching the ball joint project, I figured he had enough on his plate at the moment. I was pushing the TXBlazer LED inserts, starting his LED mod bug off gently. After he gets all of his functional stuff working properly, THEN I'll start feeding his LED mod bug more. :yes: :satan:
 
Blckshdw said:
Watching the ball joint project, I figured he had enough on his plate at the moment. I was pushing the TXBlazer LED inserts, starting his LED mod bug off gently. After he gets all of his functional stuff working properly, THEN I'll start feeding his LED mod bug more. :yes: :satan:
Funny thing is.... Even though I'm a vendor for a business that sells Leds...I barely have any in my own vehicles lol.... The tb has switchbacks and Cree headlights (or rather will have them again once I finally send my old driver to Kevin... Keep forgetting to send it out...) And the Blazer has Rigid Duallys on the light bar...
 
Blckshdw said:
Watching the ball joint project, I figured he had enough on his plate at the moment. I was pushing the TXBlazer LED inserts, starting his LED mod bug off gently. After he gets all of his functional stuff working properly, THEN I'll start feeding his LED mod bug more. :yes: :satan:
Well, I think I put more of a bug there for you...

Darkrider_LS said:
Funny thing is.... Even though I'm a vendor for a business that sells Leds...I barely have any in my own vehicles lol.... The tb has switchbacks and Cree headlights (or rather will have them again once I finally send my old driver to Kevin... Keep forgetting to send it out...) And the Blazer has Rigid Duallys on the light bar...
You are just slacking... A vendor who doesn't even use his own products...
 
djthumper said:
Well, I think I put more of a bug there for you...

You are just slacking... A vendor who doesn't even use his own products...
Probably doesn't help that I haven't really had the time to figure out what bulbs I actually need for both suvs...
 
djthumper said:
The TB bulbs are all over the LED mod thread... Just sayin!
I really need to take the time to read through it lol... For the longest time I was concerned that going to leds in the interior would mess up the delayed interior lighting (think it's called theater lighting or something like that)
 
Finished wiring in / installing the back up lights.Still in mock up phase but working. I'll do the metal fabrication later in the week. Can't wait for dark now to see the difference...Going to buy a 7/9 way female plug so I can just plug on any hitch. I have to design a bracket that can fit on over my various hitches and look clean as well as protect the lights a bit. Next week!!
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Sagging door trim....fixed perfectly on the passenger side but the driver side is way off...it looks like I would have to cut the fender well back as much as an inch in order to fix it. I put pop rivets into the trim to keep it in place because I have tried the glue and well.....you know the rest of the story!

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Hooked up the "RED Wire" for the trailer charging.....sanded all the contacts and connections, used a wing nut and no power at the trailer plug....found the the 30amp fuse was blown...tomorrow I'll visit the auto parts store.
 
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Changed the transfer case fluid..........669 pumps on the fluid transfer pump get the 2 containers in there ......how bored was I that I counted them.......thank God it's only every 50,000 Miles
 
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Changed the transfer case fluid..........669 pumps on the fluid transfer pump get the 2 containers in there ......how bored was I that I counted them.......thank God it's only every 50,000 Miles

[/QUOTE]holy cow man i just bought one of these took me like 2 minuets
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Blckshdw said:
Watching the ball joint project, I figured he had enough on his plate at the moment. I was pushing the TXBlazer LED inserts, starting his LED mod bug off gently. After he gets all of his functional stuff working properly, THEN I'll start feeding his LED mod bug more. :yes: :satan:
And my budget
 
Lil paint work
 
Installed Super Sparkz. Idle seems smoother, no test drive yet.
 

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Finally took the beaSSt out for a spin today with a buddy... '10 Shelby GT500 Supercharged. His mods are tuned, smaller pulley, long tube headers, CAI, and full exhaust. Thing f******g SCREAMS and hauls ass! He also has an '08 Z06 Vette.

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24v 4.2 said:
Installed Super Sparkz. Idle seems smoother, no test drive yet.
Sorry you wasted your money. :frown: These are snake oil like throttle body spacers. Their claims have no basis in engineering or physics. :no:

They were extensively discussed here just after the site started:
http://gmtnation.com/forums/topic/561-supersparkz/
 
Robbabob said:
Share what it is..!
Standard screw on cap with hose. Walmart and auto parts stores sell em.
 
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24v 4.2 said:
Installed Super Sparkz. Idle seems smoother, no test drive yet.
The_Roadie said:
Sorry you wasted your money. :frown: These are snake oil like throttle body spacers. Their claims have no basis in engineering or physics. :no:

They were extensively discussed here just after the site started:
http://gmtnation.com/forums/topic/9109-front-mode-actuator-problem/
Mounce said:
Did you site the wrong thread, Roadie? All I see in that one is HVAC mode actuator questions/info.
http://gmtnation.com/forums/topic/561-supersparkz/

This was the thread that I read before...

It is Beryllium copper tubing in the coil pack instead of a steel spring.
 
gpking said:
Gave the TB a bath inside and out, then christened the rear window with a GMTNation.com decal from High Voltage.

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Seems the pic of the decal failed to upload....
 
Man, do I wish I had time to get on here and hang out with y'all more often, been booked up with classes and work - looks like the entire summer's gonna go that way. Picked up a new idler pulley for Mom's Voy at NAPA this evening and popped it on when I got home, no more pretending it has a supercharger! :rotfl:

Also picked up a wheel bearing/hub assembly to replace the one on the driver's side - Dad just got new tires put on plus a line up and we were sure all the noise was the rough old tires, turns out some of was, but the bearing had a lot to do with it too. I guess that since Mom got it when it had 30,000 and now it has 121,000 and we've never had to replace one on it, that's a pretty good run.

Side note: Dad wants to take the thing to a friend (trusted, very competent GM mechanic who has his own place in addition to his job at the GM garage) to have the hub/bearing assembly put on. I've tried to tell him that it's no big deal and we can do it here and save enough money in labor to put on the front sway links that need replaced, but he seems set on having it done elsewhere. Am I crazy, or is it a fairly easy job?? Bear in mind he and I are both good with wrenches, plus I tear down golf cart engines as a job - surely the bearing would be a piece of cake!
 
Envoy_04 said:
Man, do I wish I had time to get on here and hang out with y'all more often, been booked up with classes and work - looks like the entire summer's gonna go that way. Picked up a new idler pulley for Mom's Voy at NAPA this evening and popped it on when I got home, no more pretending it has a supercharger! :rotfl:

Also picked up a wheel bearing/hub assembly to replace the one on the driver's side - Dad just got new tires put on plus a line up and we were sure all the noise was the rough old tires, turns out some of was, but the bearing had a lot to do with it too. I guess that since Mom got it when it had 30,000 and now it has 121,000 and we've never had to replace one on it, that's a pretty good run.

Side note: Dad wants to take the thing to a friend (trusted, very competent GM mechanic who has his own place in addition to his job at the GM garage) to have the hub/bearing assembly put on. I've tried to tell him that it's no big deal and we can do it here and save enough money in labor to put on the front sway links that need replaced, but he seems set on having it done elsewhere. Am I crazy, or is it a fairly easy job?? Bear in mind he and I are both good with wrenches, plus I tear down golf cart engines as a job - surely the bearing would be a piece of cake!
Literally a 36mm socket and a torque wrench that goes over 100 pounds (and one that can hit the little under 20 for two bolts) is all you need, everything else takes common-size stuff. Technically it'd be a 35mm for the stock axle but people say a 36 will work just fine and as a bonus work with some aftermarket axles that supply a slightly larger nut.
 
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36 fits both stock and aftermarket. Its an hour job to swap the hub.
 
I've had my gauge pod for about a year now. It fits "ok" but has a lot of room for improvement. So im hacking it up and im fiberglassing it into my original A pillar panel.

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Read about it, a bit. And now thinking.

I have the digital HVAC, and the actuators have a total of 256 different positions they can take, and I can still never find a setting that's not too hot or too cold. First-world problems.
 
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