89 RCLB K1500 - Quality time with my son building his first truck.

[Laredo]

So the flat part of the washers is out towards the nut and head of the bolt?

Correct---the beveled edge of each washer faces inward towards the frame/upper mounting surface.

 

[Laredo]

I like the power steering hoses. They appear to be stainless steel. Is that correct? If so, I should have purchased those to match my stainless steel brake and fuel lines. I'm gonna' have to start consulting you before ordering more parts for my truck.

 

[SNCTMPL]

I like the power steering hoses. They appear to be stainless steel. Is that correct? If so, I should have purchased those to match my stainless steel brake and fuel lines. I'm gonna' have to start consulting you before ordering more parts for my truck.

I don't think that they are s.s., I think they are zinc plated. I will check for you though.

 

[SNCTMPL]

So I’m going to interrupt the regularly scheduled program to show you guys and girls my last 400. I bought it in 96 when it was about 1.5 years old and bone stock. It went through three different iterations before I sold it to a friend in 17. It was tough to let it go, but I had just bought a 16 Duramax and it was twice the truck (sorry). I’m going to show you the final version and before anyone gives me any grief, if I it to do over it would have different side mirrors.
Well here we go.

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[SNCTMPL]

She had three different 383’s over the years, here’s the last one with pro-filer 195’s, comp. 218-228 cam, Accel 4bbl throttle body w/4 injectors and I tuned it all with the EBL flash. If I remember right, the last tuning session it was putting down 340-350 hp to the tires.

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[SNCTMPL]

While the engine was out, one thing led to another, and the tranny and transfer case got rebuilt. It was my first rebuild of an automatic transmission, and with some good guidance and good parts, it was about as good as 4L60e could get. It still shifts great 10 years later.

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[SNCTMPL]

Why stop there? Swapped in a 14b and rebuilt both diffs with Yukon 4.56’s, trutrac and a few other things.

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[GrimsterGMC]

So I’m going to interrupt the regularly scheduled program to show you guys and girls my last 400. I bought it in 96 when it was about 1.5 years old and bone stock. It went through three different iterations before I sold it to a friend in 17. It was tough to let it go, but I had just bought a 16 Duramax and it was twice the truck (sorry). I’m going to show you the final version and before anyone gives me any grief, if I it to do over it would have different side mirrors.
Well here we go.

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Are those just anti-tramp rods in the back or a whole different suspension setup?

 

[SNCTMPL]

When a guy is this close he might as well do the steering, suspension and brakes, don’t you think?

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[SNCTMPL]

Are those just anti-tramp rods in the back or a whole different suspension setup?

They are just traction bars. When I finished the final build the guys at Bilstein helped me get the proper shocks on it so it lost the two in the back on the bars and just had them in the stock locations. Up front I had three shocks and ended up removing the ones in the stock location and going with duals up front. It rode so much better after they helped get properly valved shocks where they were supposed to be.