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I need to update my thread on this thing. Got almost 400mi on it now and it's doing great

Debating that. I've always done that in the past. It doesn't offend me on this truck for some reason. I'll probably end up pulling it off anyway

Thanks man. I love how it turned out. Hoping next year to do colormatching, '06/07 hood/grille and a sound system and she'll be good for a good long time

I also bum around junkyards pretty often for work and happened across a loaded up '05 Z71 suburban that had a nice set of DL3s on it. Got them for $100. You can see the driver's side has failed and turned that gold color. Already ordered new mirror glasses for both and some primer/paint/clear...

Buttoned up a bunch of small things on my final checklist last Wednesday and now we wait for the tuner! All that's left at this point is raising the rear bumper and putting the spare tire back in. I didn't go ahead and put the spare in cuz I'm at 498mi on the rear axle, so once I do the initial...

I borrowed my dad's old slider plates and a coworker's old school caster/camber gauge so I could get the alignment good enough. That way I can drive it enough to get the suspension to settle and see how I like the ride and make any adjustments before paying for a real alignment. Almost too...

Gotta run adapter harnesses for these I hate the way it looks but I didn't wanna cut their loom and risk nicking a wire cuz I was semi-rushing at this point. I'll probably go back and do that later on so I can get them to lay down better

Next I moved on to torqueing the balancer bolt down. Picked up this nifty tool that bolts in the starter location and holds the flywheel Had to give a blood sacrifice to get it done but it's torqued to spec lol Then I swapped out the stock 24lb/hr injectors for some FIC 50lb/hrs

So then I decided to work on the 40k install I found a post from years ago on another forum talking about these NAPA fittings, they screw right into the 40k and let your stock lines clip in just like factory. They worked like a charm Took the factory cross bar, turned it upside down and...

Thing turned out f'kn tall! The window reveal molding is at my shoulder lol And since I'm not cranked to the moon, it didn't suck the front tires too far under Prolly gonna have to trim Front ended at 40.5 with the rear right at 40.

Dropped the wheels and tires off somewhere in there to get the 35s mounted Played with different stacks of washers trying to get the bumper tucked a bit more. I think I ended up with 1 big flat washer and 3 smaller washers on each side. Couldn't go any further without elongating the...

Painted these little filler pieces while I had the bumper off Had to cut the bottom 90 off the front bumper to frame brackets And add Zone's new lower brackets My driver's rear cab mount is a little weak apparently. Ended up using a thick fender washer to bring it up even with the bed

Guess I should update this now that I'm basically finished lol. Once I got done with the front suspension, I cranked the bars what I thought was roughly 3/4 of the way up or so. Was shooting for 3/8"-1/2" of clearance at the UCA and droop stop Then a couple days later, I started on the...

I've always cleaned and painted the frame on all my trucks, usually takes a weekend or two and I use a combo of wire brushes in a drill and hand brushes to clean every inch I can, then wipe down with laquer thinner or brake clean, tape up anything I don't want paint on, then prime and paint. I...

So I started about 5pm yesterday tearing it down. This truck is completely rust free but there's just dirt and mud caked everywhere, it's nasty underneath It's been a while since I've done control arms and my dumbass forgot you need to take the nut all the way off and then put it back on a...

So last night I decided I wanted a break from the engine stuff and started on the front suspension. I'd bought all this stuff 6mo ago and it's just been gathering dust waiting on me lol I didn't really wanna drop the coin on Cognito or Kryptonite arms this go-round so I went with Spindle...

So then yesterday I double and triple checked the harness, put the air box/intake tube back in and plugged in the MAF. Hooked up the battery and listened for arcing, watched for smoke, thankfully no magic escaped. Dumped in some VR1, unplugged the coil packs and spun it, it spun nice! So then...

So Tuesday night after work I started buttoning all the other little details up. Started with the valley plate, got new knock sensor grommets installed, torqued it down, installed the knock sensors and harness, put RTV on the harness plugs and then built the usual dams Painted the water pump...

Made small but important progress yesterday. Crawled underneath and measured my gap from the converter to the flexplate with a drill bit (per Circle D's tips and tricks). My 3/16" drill bit wouldn't go all the way between the mounting pad of the converter and the flexplate, I could just barely...

Then got it swung up in the truck Slowly... Slowly... Had to do some sketchy shit to get the hoist to come all the way out, apparently the boom had come out a bit more than the last time I used it lol In and bolted to the transmission! Also got the engine mount bolts halfway started