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    Anyone Tried Cunningham OBS- tie rod sleeves

    Have them. Great product. Nice to support a small business making cool parts for our trucks. Get the door bushings and a rag joint delete while you're at it.
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    Apps that read CMP Retard Offset?

    Torque pro has the best layout of any of these apps, by far (but the bar is set awfully low). I have used it for many things, but I was unable to get it to to CMP Retard. There are threads out there with the "recipe" to add it as a new PID, but I spent days struggling to make it work. Finally...
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    Really wish ppl would stop bringing me trucks with hydraulic fluid in trans

    Manitoba had it well into the 2000s
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    1991 CHEVY S10 TAHOE 4X4 5.7 VORTEC

    2wd headers tend to be longtubes, 4wd tend to be shorties. Long tubes make more power, shorties don't do as much. Do a search for camshaft, there are a pile of threads with lots of detail. There are a couple of GM cams, a couple of comps, and a couple of lunatti that usually come up...
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    Really wish ppl would stop bringing me trucks with hydraulic fluid in trans

    Bob Is The Oil Guy is an entire forum dedicated to armchair engineers arguing about which dinosaur juice is better, and its absolutely insufferable. I second the motion to return to whale oil.
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    Oil Filters with good anti-drainback valves?

    Worn valve guides might be,. Worn valve stem seals are often the culprit behind the puff of blue smoke on vehicle startup, and accelerated oil consumption.
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    stuff that catches my eye

    Still waiting for a good price on a 96-99 vortec Whipple, but the TBIs keep coming up...
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    89 RCLB K1500 - Quality time with my son building his first truck.

    I made the same mistake, and it cost me a set of bolts. Truck looks great! Really clean job you're doing.
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    Famous Fuel Pressure

    what voltage is the fuel pump getting? Any corrosion in connectors or wires?
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    Rebuilt Motor Backfiring No Start

    With cylinder #1 at TDC, you need to line up the marks on the distributor housing, and the part that rotates and drop it in. The confusing part is, when it settles in place, the marks will no longer be lined up. To get your cam-crank correlation the ball-park, Same distributor as it had in it...
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    Reseal/rebuild NP241C parts???

    I've always had bad luck ordering seals ahead of time. There always seems to be a couple versions of these things in slightly different measurements. Whichever one I order, is the one I don't have.
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    Anyone ever change out a crank position sensor?

    There are shims intended to get the air gap set correctly. I believe you're supposed to use a small piece of playdoh on the sensor, torque it down, and remove it to measure the gap. Check the FSM for exact details, I can't recall it offhand.
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    Swapping front diff help

    The second bit is a switch. In my truck, when the front dif is actuated the switch is tripped and it completes the circuit to the lightbulb in the 4x4 lever housing. I assume its similar with the electronic transfer case models, but maybe not. 97 was supposedly the year a lot of models started...
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    Holes in pads (not GMT400)

    Just the backing plate right? It doesn't look like they go through the friction material. A blind guess on my part is harmonic resonance, but I'm definitely no engineer. I'll await the more informed among us to correct me.
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    TBI Whipple

    I've been keeping my eyes open for the Vortec 5.7 whipples, but they aren't common. The TBI kits come up every few months. This on is pricey, but maybe the seller is open to a more down-to-earth offer.
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