88GMCtruck's 98 Silverado Towpig Build: "Black Fox"

[Mr.White98]

From another 6.5L Suburban owner, nice find.

Couldn't help but notice the projector retrofit on the dually. I know there's a bunch of write ups out there on retrofits, but knowing your work I was just wondering if you did anything different to mount/seal the projectors.

 

[88GMCtruck]

Nice find!
But bro, seriously, i think you have a problem....



You don't have dropped street-truck gmt400 yet.

I keep telling myself I have no problem. When i get the itch the cure is another GMT400.

Also, whats 2wd? I've never really owned a 2wd. I find them pointless

From another 6.5L Suburban owner, nice find.

Couldn't help but notice the projector retrofit on the dually. I know there's a bunch of write ups out there on retrofits, but knowing your work I was just wondering if you did anything different to mount/seal the projectors.

I totally forgot I did the projector retrofit on this awhile back... it's been kinda a test run. I picked the lights up at the junkyard and wasn't scared to destroy them. The projectors are Morimoto Matchbox H1s - they are the smallest bi-xenon projector they have.

So in order to fit them in the headlight all I had to do was concave the area right at the bulb a little bit to gain like, 2mm of clearance, and trim the top of the shroud. That is it. It was basically a bolt in affair.

Now I will say after having them awhile, they are OK. They aren't as bright as I'd like (although 55w HIDs might work better) but they have a good cut-off line and aren't offensive.

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[Blue 04 Z71]

I keep telling myself I have no problem. When i get the itch the cure is another GMT400.

Also, whats 2wd? I've never really owned a 2wd. I find them pointless


I totally forgot I did the projector retrofit on this awhile back... it's been kinda a test run. I picked the lights up at the junkyard and wasn't scared to destroy them. The projectors are Morimoto Matchbox H1s - they are the smallest bi-xenon projector they have.

So in order to fit them in the headlight all I had to do was concave the area right at the bulb a little bit to gain like, 2mm of clearance, and trim the top of the shroud. That is it. It was basically a bolt in affair.

Now I will say after having them awhile, they are OK. They aren't as bright as I'd like (although 55w HIDs might work better) but they have a good cut-off line and aren't offensive.

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Those aren't bad at all. I struggled fitting full size mini H1 into the stock housing. Yours fit a lot better.

 

[88GMCtruck]

Not been much going on with this thing for awhile now.

I did remove the Z71 Guard.

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Then spent 8 hours or so fully detailing it inside and a out....

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And parked it in my GMT400 playground. The 88 is looking a bit sad... some updates are in it's thread though, it shouldn't be sad too much longer!

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[Sampuppy1]

You can send that guard my way. I'll give it a good home.

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[88GMCtruck]

Well it has been more than a minute since I've checked in on here...

A slight style change - installed factory "4x4" stickers on it again. I like the style of them and their OEMness. Just something different.

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Few misc camping shots. Some of these should totally be in a GM recreation brochure or something LOL.

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Been using the suburban a bit more, since it's easy to leave the camper on and it gets WAY better economy, and honestly it's more of a "beater". I did put heated seats in it, and found hood and grille with better paint, upgraded the lighting, installed 4" exhaust....

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Took a nice trip on memorial day out in the sand. My happiest place on earth.

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But, on the way home... the way home... the GD MFing thing started making sound... from the trans/transfercase.......... AGAIN.

5th gear backed off on the transmission, which pushes on the input shaft of the transfercase case and destroys it... So this week these got sent out for a nice day at the spa...

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[RDF1]

Is that a NV4500?

 

[dhunt]

Good to see this thread still going. The trans issue is unfortunate though


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[88GMCtruck]

Is that a NV4500?

It is.

 

[dhunt]

Didn’t you in the last year replace the case because of bearing issues?


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