Supercharged111
Truly Awesome
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- Aug 20, 2015
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Truck smells nice after the Tide bath. I also got a 2nd opinion today. My hangar neighbor has a number of GMT400s and square bodies so I had him drive the dually today to see what he thought of the power that it makes. Compared to my boosted tuned trucks it's so gutless I thought it was broken. Turns out it's not, that's just how they are stock. He said it had more grunt than any of his small block trucks. Then I tossed him the keys to the 1500 and told him to take a rip, he'd understand why I was so uncertain of the power output of this truck. After all that, I got the drivers' window seated properly and fixed the lock that wasn't working right. I'd tweaked the rod and once you locked it and unlocked it, it wouldn't unlock because it didn't have enough travel. I stretched the rod out last year when I installed the window, **** just wasn't playing ball and I resorted to brute force. Clearly that wasn't the answer, so I put a bend in the rod to shorten it and that seemed to do the trick. Then I brought the 3500 home with the camper on its back and swapped in the Rockford Fosgate speakers that I liberated from the flipper. Tomorrow the stockers go into the flipper and the driver's side door panel can FINALLY be reinstalled. Passenger's side panel can go back on when I locate another disgustingly cheap used replacement handle. The one I put on the other day has the tumbler clocked 180 degrees off of what this truck came with. Didn't realize that was a thing with these trucks. I think this junkyard handle came off an SUV, so I'll avoid those. Also gonna take a crack at charging the AC on this thing, hopefully I don't waste a can or 3 in the process.