What did you do to your GMT today?
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Matt
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- Dec 2, 2011
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Got my passengers side fog working again, diagnosed as the connector not making enough contact. Ran down to Summit and picked up a new connector to replace it over the weekend.
Was experiencing random misfiring last night. This afternoon I went to start up the truck and sure enough Cylinder 4 was misfiring. Took off Coil pack 4 and I was in for a huge surprise....
Water flooded all inside! The coil pack looks to be origional since its a Delphi and the gasket sure was garbage upon inspection. Water started seeping into the 3rd and 5th coil packs wells too, but not flooded. Sucked the water out with a shop vac, dried all three out, and went ahead and ordered a whole new set of them. Even though two aren't even 2yrs old yet, I'll just use those two as spares.
Water flooded all inside! The coil pack looks to be origional since its a Delphi and the gasket sure was garbage upon inspection. Water started seeping into the 3rd and 5th coil packs wells too, but not flooded. Sucked the water out with a shop vac, dried all three out, and went ahead and ordered a whole new set of them. Even though two aren't even 2yrs old yet, I'll just use those two as spares.
Sparky
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- Dec 4, 2011
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Oh, that's the infamous #4 getting water via poor hood seal. Easy fix (though I never bothered to). A little extra weather stripping to direct water coming down the windshield to the sides and away from the top of the motor so it can't drip down on top of the valve cover and get stuff soggy.
I've had that happen a couple of times. I just dried it up and kept trucking. I still have all factory coils too
I've had that happen a couple of times. I just dried it up and kept trucking. I still have all factory coils too
Sib
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- Sep 6, 2014
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Technically I didn't do it, but a guy I know built me a sub box and installed an old 10" Eclipse sub and a Kenwood amp for me today. Had both of them laying around since HS. We traded off him doing that and I gave his daughter some softball equipment from my work.
Sounds awesome. Some hip hop songs hit pretty hard, and any rock or country sound sweet.
I'll get a pic later and post it up. Wife has the truck over at the MIL's house right now.
Sounds awesome. Some hip hop songs hit pretty hard, and any rock or country sound sweet.
I'll get a pic later and post it up. Wife has the truck over at the MIL's house right now.
littleblazer
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HARDTRAILZ
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- Nov 18, 2011
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Today i sadly left it in the driveway yet again, but yesterday i topped off fluids and rotated tires and took it for a nice windows down cruise to air the winter out of it.
tsmith1156
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gmcman
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- Dec 12, 2011
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Badly needed wash job, and had some new tires mounted on the stock wheels. Leaving winter tires on this week until I change the lower control arm brackets and get an alignment.
Mounce
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Messed around and ran a relay harness for the fogs which will soon have HIDs. Did some testing and ended up running the battery down. Jumped it off after about 5 minutes of trying to establish solid contact with jumper cables (FU GM side post batteries) and have her sitting on charge now.
Ordered spark plugs and am about to order coil boots and an air filter as well. Gonna look about a fuel filter while I'm at it. Hoping I've just got oil or water in some of the plug wells because it's been acting awful on cold starts lately. Due for a tune up anyways though.
Ordered spark plugs and am about to order coil boots and an air filter as well. Gonna look about a fuel filter while I'm at it. Hoping I've just got oil or water in some of the plug wells because it's been acting awful on cold starts lately. Due for a tune up anyways though.
Sib
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Finally was able to get my door fixed. Opens and closes wonderfully now.
Looking forward to giving her a nice bath now that the door closes all the way.
Looking forward to giving her a nice bath now that the door closes all the way.
HARDTRAILZ
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- Nov 18, 2011
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so cleaned them up and sprayed some Tire Shine on the tires to shine them up a bit too.
tsmith1156
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HARDTRAILZ
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No. I have a few sets of those. I got some aftermarket projectors w led drls to tide me over until i pony up the cash for a custom set of projectors.
tsmith1156
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I hear ya there, Chris68chevy I think is his user name on offroadtb makes retrofits, I know him from Instagram
HARDTRAILZ
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gmcman
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Matt
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Diagnosed the water pump needing to be replaced...I think. Squealing coming from under the hood. Wiggled the shaft and have no play up and down but probably 1/8" to 1/4" play side to side. 
Will order a new on when we get back from Florida.
Hopefully the fan clutch is easier to get off than it was when we replaced it at a meet a couple of years ago.
Will order a new on when we get back from Florida.Hopefully the fan clutch is easier to get off than it was when we replaced it at a meet a couple of years ago.
gmcman
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Mounted new Michelin Defender LTX's and had alignment performed. I'll give them some time before I pass judgement but so far they are very nice.
Eric04
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Oil change and tire rotation. Looked into the crystal ball and saw a brake job in my future.
littleblazer
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Denali n DOO
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Put the summer wheels back on. Looks much better.
xavierny25
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Drove it into work this morning. She's been running really well the whole time I've had her. Ive never had any big surprise so far. (Knock on wood). I might change out the oil and filter seeing as I still got a pallet full of fresh Mobil 1 synthetic at my brother-in-law house. I did the math and it's just at about 2300 miles since the last time I changed it out.
Stretched out the 4x4 legs. Nothing too deep for street tires.
Blckshdw
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@Denali n DOO I've always loved the look of the Voy Denali rockers/running boards. The LWB are even more rare, but if I could score some, I'd definitely color match a set and put them on my EXT. 
Why so soon?
As for me, earlier this week, I've been noticing a seemlingly random rattle in the passenger door, so decided to investigate. The inside handle seemed firm, but when poking around the edges looking for maybe a broken/loose clip, I came across this...
I think my friend, last weekend, closed the door by grabbing the top of the panel and somehow pulled the lip out of the channel. Figured while I was at it, to go around the other doors, and sure enough the 2 driver's side doors weren't well seated either.
This reminds me, I need to get new door handle bezels, stupid broken clips bug me.
Why so soon?
As for me, earlier this week, I've been noticing a seemlingly random rattle in the passenger door, so decided to investigate. The inside handle seemed firm, but when poking around the edges looking for maybe a broken/loose clip, I came across this...
I think my friend, last weekend, closed the door by grabbing the top of the panel and somehow pulled the lip out of the channel. Figured while I was at it, to go around the other doors, and sure enough the 2 driver's side doors weren't well seated either.
This reminds me, I need to get new door handle bezels, stupid broken clips bug me.
xavierny25
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I got a FREE pallet full of mobile 1 synthetic from my brother who works at Mercedes months ago. He's owed me a lot of favors over the years and is slowing evening the odds.lol. So all its going to cost me is a filter. Maybe I'll wait till 3000.
Sparky
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- Dec 4, 2011
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I would save it until you actually need it. 10k miles or bust!
215k miles can't be wrong...
215k miles can't be wrong...
Blckshdw
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The oil isn't gonna spoil or go bad, hang onto it for a while...Stretched out the 4x4 legs. Nothing too deep for street tires.
Do you go in alone?
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Added an extra 3/4" to the rear, since perfect level just wasn't looking right in 99% of real life scenarios. Wheel spacers went on as well. Much better. Rear sway links are hammered, brakes aren't lookin too sweet back there either. Sounding like a bad bearing up front (spacers should help accelerate that issue, ha) so looks like I'll be going back in sometime soon!
xavierny25
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Figured I'd quote all you guys on this.
I've noticed that after 3k I start either burning oil or its in my intake resonator and tb. Don't know why this is. I check and top off 1qrt at almost exactly 3k after all my oil changes. She runs fine. No smoke out the back end. The cat was checked and it's all good. Exhausted manifold was cracked 2 yrs ago. That's when I had them inspect the cat. And considering I have 3.42's my mpg's are pretty good.
So that's why I choose to start changing it out sooner. Any thing after 3k I have to top off 1qrt after every 1k.
Don't want to start a thread on this cause I'm sure this is just the way it is I guess in my case.
Mounce
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Tuneup day for the TB! All in all about 2 hours from tear down to test fire.
Replaced the plugs and coil boots, boots looked perfectly fine but since I had a set of replacements on hand, I threw them in while I had it apart.
Cleaned throttle body and replaced the air filter
Plugs appeared to be original at 117,000 miles, weren't replaced since the part number was updated to 41-103 at least. Didn't find any oil or water in the plug wells. #5 was seeping a little oil but nothing major.
Plugs 1-3 left to right
And 4-6 left to right
Such a satisfying feeling when it fires right up. Next on the list is CPAS, belt, and fuel filter, probably fuel filter first. Then last thing is diy "trans flush" with filter replacement and rear diff.
Replaced the plugs and coil boots, boots looked perfectly fine but since I had a set of replacements on hand, I threw them in while I had it apart.
Cleaned throttle body and replaced the air filter
Plugs appeared to be original at 117,000 miles, weren't replaced since the part number was updated to 41-103 at least. Didn't find any oil or water in the plug wells. #5 was seeping a little oil but nothing major.
Plugs 1-3 left to right
And 4-6 left to right
Such a satisfying feeling when it fires right up. Next on the list is CPAS, belt, and fuel filter, probably fuel filter first. Then last thing is diy "trans flush" with filter replacement and rear diff.
Kurb
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- May 3, 2014
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Replaced the cigarette lighter fuse (#13) after the scan tool failed to work yesterday. I feared that the shop welding for the manifold replacement caused a problem with PCM until I saw another MAY03LT video. I would have never thought that the cigarette lighter would share a fuse with the OBDII connector. It's worse that the it is only labelled as a cigarette lighter fuse and not cig/OBDII or cig/DLC. Ugh!!
I also finally reinstalled the trim into the rear of the vehicle after a year or two after old rear HAVC repairs. It looks much better now, but I am sure something else will go wrong now that it's back together.
I also finally reinstalled the trim into the rear of the vehicle after a year or two after old rear HAVC repairs. It looks much better now, but I am sure something else will go wrong now that it's back together.
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