My 95 OBS
- Thread starter Chris.G.Jr.
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Thanks man, the plastidip did alright, by the time i got done with the opposite side and ready to peel the tap it was dry and would peel the plastidip off so i had to pull all the tape off and get a small strip and touch up spots, then when i washed it i climbed into the bed to hose the roof off and the hose scratched it (this was the the next day after i sprayed em) so i hadnt really had them curing for a couple days. On the bumper idk what ill do with it, idk if i should colormatch it or just leave the truck as is for now......
If you're local then come pull shit off my obs before I sell it. It took a shit while I was away. Couple guys local to me are making offers so in about to let it go
Damn man! If i were closer id be there quick for those lights! Just motor swap it man! dont sell!!!
So I was on the highway during high traffic hour and traffic was bumper to bumper, i let a truck in front of me, traffic begins to move and a car gets behind me, traffic slows and then stops, i stop, then i glance in the rearview and here comes a car not slowing down, BAM hits me. I pull up and over. Get out he gets out, dudes in a VW Golf, i walk back to the back and look, (i ALWAYS have my trailer hitch in) Good thing to, only damage was my trailer wiring connector is mounted to a L bracket and it bent up, I looked at the guy we both asked eachother if we were ok. Both ok, he told me he was looking in the rearview at the car coming up behind him and was sorry, I told him no problem just as long as were both okay, His car had the hood all bent up, bumper cracked, grill busted, radiator smashed, pouring out fluid. I told him look were both okay, theres no damage to mine, if you're alright and have someone you can call to come help you (if not id help) then I'll take off and we can be good. He said ya no problem were all good. Only downside, I lost the smiley face tennis ball that I had on the hitch..... Interesting day!
I always have my trailer hitch in for this reason I've been rear ended about 3 times already. I just look and go about my way
you have to be carefull sometimes if you have it in, and get rearended it can bend the rear of the frame.
Ya its happened twice to my dad, once he was at a dead stop and a ford truck locked up their brakes and hit him pretty good, dented the rear hatch on their yukon and bumper, totaled the front end of the f250 the guy was driving, then some lady in a ford escape hit him and ripped up her bumper and ac condenser.
Good Point, didnt seem like anything was damaged when i checked it out, I can understand if its at a higher speed but I'm certain the guy wasnt going to fast but the hitch was just in the right spot to crush through his grill and right into the radiator.
just throwing it out ther so anyone that reads doesnt thing a hitch can save all, it does help at low speed.
YES! I knew you wouldn't get rid of such a nice OBS.
As you wish here's a much needed update.
I'm 99% done with the console, thanks to the writeup from a fellow OBS owner I got the idea of cupholder lights, so I finally installed them. I wired them into the 4x4 floor shift lights (that lit up the little trim piece) I used the general light for the leds in the cup holders so that they light up when I turn the lights on (gauges etc). While doing so I came across a problem, there is a security light (red light) on the console in front of the cupholders that I was going to wire up to the other light that lit up when 4wd was engaged just to find out the light didnt work......(i had tested it on the battery before 100% wiring it up). So with that being stated, that is the final awaiting task until the console is 100% done. (Other than modifying some sort of hinge for the rear cupholder but thats not drastic)
Notice it matches the gauges
Lit up
Pic whoring BEGIN
As you wish here's a much needed update.
I'm 99% done with the console, thanks to the writeup from a fellow OBS owner I got the idea of cupholder lights, so I finally installed them. I wired them into the 4x4 floor shift lights (that lit up the little trim piece) I used the general light for the leds in the cup holders so that they light up when I turn the lights on (gauges etc). While doing so I came across a problem, there is a security light (red light) on the console in front of the cupholders that I was going to wire up to the other light that lit up when 4wd was engaged just to find out the light didnt work......(i had tested it on the battery before 100% wiring it up). So with that being stated, that is the final awaiting task until the console is 100% done. (Other than modifying some sort of hinge for the rear cupholder but thats not drastic)
Notice it matches the gauges
Lit up
Pic whoring BEGIN
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So the weekend of the 15th my sister was up in bville, she left that afternoon only to get about an hour away (2 hour drive back to the city) before her car died going down the highway. Dad says "hookup the trailer and get going" so I get down there and load up the car. Drive down to the city the rest of the way and drop it off at the mechanics shop around 10pm. Go in the next morning and talk to my mechanic explaining what happened (car died while going down highway, radio was on, a/c was on, battery light came on after it died as well as check engine light.) After pulling over the car wouldn't restart, wait about 15 min then it starts. They looked at it and somehow words got mixed up and they replaced the alternator bc they thought we said it had to be jumped to pull it on the trailer (which it drove on fine). So they gave us the car back, I drove it and was a few miles from my sisters when the car died again (luckily my buddy was following me) so I finally got it restarted and took it back. Did some research that night and came up with (03-05 CTS' have had similar symptoms and the engine light doesn't always come on to indicate the problem, fix? Crankshaft position sensor) So the next day i went back to the shop, after the bill was close to 300 I told him what happened, told him research I found showed a 99% fix is the crankshaft position sensor, he told me that usually it'll throw a code and I agreed but also stated that in some of those cases I read the owners didn't get a check engine light/code, he said they would check out the car and fix it. So then they called my dad after the car had been there and receiving calls from me and my sister. Ended up replacing ignition switch.(NO CHARGE) I got a call from the shop the guy said the car was ready, so with my sister hanging out with her friend and its already 5 and the shop closing at 530 i drove to my gpas and had him take me up there while leaving my truck at his place.
I get the car and get back to my sisters no problem , great right? well I had plans to meet a friend later that night, for truck pics and to hangout. Start to head to my gpas to get my truck and leave sisters car, I get a mile down the road to the turnpike, merge onto turnpike getting up the 70 mph, car DIES AGAIN, feels like I'm coasting, frustrated I merge off the turnpike and am stuck on the off ramp after the toll gate. After stopping and putting the car in park the car wont turn over, I sit a min then turn the key, car turns over and over, numerous times not starting. Waiting like 15 min it finally starts, I think theres a gas station right after the stop light, so i pull up the the light.........car dies again. Luckily got it restarted before it went green, got to gas station waited for my sisters and her friend to follow me to the shop. Next morning I go in, explain what happened and told them when I dropped it back off last night the engine light was on so it should have a code. They call me later that afternoon saying, hey Chris come get the car and drive it and let me know what ya think. Get the car drive it ALL night all around town no problems, Follow my sister to work the next morning no problems. Stop by the shop before heading home and asked what'd ya do? Well he tells me, YUP YOU GUESSED IT! Crankshaft position sensor, I was like Oh? and he told me ya it finally threw a code -_- Now I understand I'm no pro and he didn't want to just throw parts at it (like he did) but I bit my tongue and didn't say "I told ya so" Looking back I should have done some thorough searching on how bad it is to replace the sensor (read it was a bitch but that's it).
That's whats been going on the past 2 weeks, didn't get back home til Friday afternoon, yes the 27th
Truck pulled it great! Dat Background doe
So while I had 2 weeks of waiting to do why not whore out on truck pics
She rolled over to 170k (Just on the truck itself) ALMOST 10k on motor!=170733
Sorry dudes I was a little happy that no damage was on my truck from the accident
(Different almost accident)
So one of the days I was down with a buddy we were headed to the salvage yard to get a few parts for a Taurus I'm working on when a car in front of me (who has 2-3 car lengths between him and the car in front of him) decides "i wanna stop in the middle of the highway" I lock up my brakes and come within inches of plowing into this jackass, then he proceeds to wave his hand out the window like a dipshit "thanks for not hitting me" wtf?
Saw the cleanest Z71 Tahoe,Pics don't do this thing justice.
Saw a Procomp lifted OBS
I get the car and get back to my sisters no problem , great right? well I had plans to meet a friend later that night, for truck pics and to hangout. Start to head to my gpas to get my truck and leave sisters car, I get a mile down the road to the turnpike, merge onto turnpike getting up the 70 mph, car DIES AGAIN, feels like I'm coasting, frustrated I merge off the turnpike and am stuck on the off ramp after the toll gate. After stopping and putting the car in park the car wont turn over, I sit a min then turn the key, car turns over and over, numerous times not starting. Waiting like 15 min it finally starts, I think theres a gas station right after the stop light, so i pull up the the light.........car dies again. Luckily got it restarted before it went green, got to gas station waited for my sisters and her friend to follow me to the shop. Next morning I go in, explain what happened and told them when I dropped it back off last night the engine light was on so it should have a code. They call me later that afternoon saying, hey Chris come get the car and drive it and let me know what ya think. Get the car drive it ALL night all around town no problems, Follow my sister to work the next morning no problems. Stop by the shop before heading home and asked what'd ya do? Well he tells me, YUP YOU GUESSED IT! Crankshaft position sensor, I was like Oh? and he told me ya it finally threw a code -_- Now I understand I'm no pro and he didn't want to just throw parts at it (like he did) but I bit my tongue and didn't say "I told ya so" Looking back I should have done some thorough searching on how bad it is to replace the sensor (read it was a bitch but that's it).
That's whats been going on the past 2 weeks, didn't get back home til Friday afternoon, yes the 27th
Truck pulled it great! Dat Background doe
So while I had 2 weeks of waiting to do why not whore out on truck pics
She rolled over to 170k (Just on the truck itself) ALMOST 10k on motor!=170733
Sorry dudes I was a little happy that no damage was on my truck from the accident
(Different almost accident)
So one of the days I was down with a buddy we were headed to the salvage yard to get a few parts for a Taurus I'm working on when a car in front of me (who has 2-3 car lengths between him and the car in front of him) decides "i wanna stop in the middle of the highway" I lock up my brakes and come within inches of plowing into this jackass, then he proceeds to wave his hand out the window like a dipshit "thanks for not hitting me" wtf?
Saw the cleanest Z71 Tahoe,Pics don't do this thing justice.
Saw a Procomp lifted OBS
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Figured I'd get some shots with my buddies Ram and my truck
That's all I got for now!
That's all I got for now!
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BRUH
clean truck! mines close to it minus the badging, molding, trim, nnbs z71 rims and chrome rockers
yours would look better with bigger wheels and tires.
i like the blue leds' reminds me of my truck
i like the blue leds' reminds me of my truck