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  1. August76

    Weird metal on magnetic drain plug..what do you think it is??

    found this while changing oil. Last year i found a smaller peice but definitely the same stuff. It is magnetic and was stuck on drain plug. It on my 03 tahoe 5.3
  2. August76

    98 Yukon rear end, new pinion seal leaks wtf

    So i just did my pinion seal and t case while i had the driveline out. The yoke appears to have a factory sleeve seal combo that rests in the seal in the housing. I marked my bolt the yoke and nutt. I counted the threads. Took plenty of pics.i know i did it right but its leaking. I see the...
  3. August76

    Still got stupid belt water pump chirp sound

    Replaced harmonic balancer that someone hammered on. Face was uneven causing the lower pulley to wobble and it has been like this for over two years that I've owned the truck. replaced it with a new one and the Pulley no longer wobbles at all but yet I still got that stupid belt chirping noise...
  4. August76

    Spider to mpfi wow! What a difference!

    So after removing and reinstalling my intake about 20 different times with several different spider injection units and cleaning and trying to replace different ones and never quite getting rid of the engine misfires, I happen to be at the junkyard and found an Escalade from 99 or 2000 that had...
  5. August76

    Found some rancho rs5001 $6 each at junkyard haha

    So I have these terrible old Edelbrock red shocks so I swapped these in and got rid of the uneven Chinese mud terrain tires in the front. What a difference!
  6. August76

    Bought the palmer performance dashcommand to set CMP retard what a difference

    So for all of you that have put our distributor in before and thought that just getting it set good enough to get the 1345 code to go away well I'm going to tell you right now my trucks been running really rough for quite some time with no check engine light as far as that goes and I downloaded...
  7. August76

    Cylinder 5 misfire. What gives¿?

    I went from a cylinder 5 misfire pulled my plug and Gap was about .06 put fresh AC Delco plugs in there then I ended up with the multiple cylinder misfire.that went away and then it was just a cylinder 5 misfire then a few times there was nothing for a while. now almost anytime the truck is...
  8. August76

    Older bds 6" lift what length shocks?!?

    So I still have this lift kit that I pulled off of a Suburban or Tahoe at the junkyard the shocks on it were Rancho RS 5244 in front but they were toast and rear ones were already missing I'm not even sure if they're the right ones but I need to get a ballpark idea of what size shocks I need to...
  9. August76

    Any one using these LED headlights?

    Saw these on ebay and figured they cant be worse than what i have now. Ive used hid in the past on other vehicles and ballasts burned out often. They also were just flooding light. My housings arent terrible but I can barely see at night.not a fan of ricer tail or head lights. So we shall see if...
  10. August76

    Nasty grinding noise 97 z71 4l60e

    So i was going around a corner from stop light and heard a weird grinding. It seemed to have stopped after the trans shifted. I reached my destination. When leaving i backed up. It felt funny and i heard the noise again. Pulled out into traffic and it did it again. Nasty grinding noise. . It...
  11. August76

    Rear end lost bearing swapped 98 Yukon turns out bigger brakes!

    So I didn't know a Yukon had bigger drums. I'm almost finished with the swap. Just have one e brake cable left. Will these bigger brakes work alot better. This truck sucks for stopping power for sure
  12. August76

    Gibson gp100 headers on 97 gmc Sierra z71 what to do with air tube?

    Just trying to see what most of you guys have done with the air tube that goes to the driver side manifold on a 97 Vortec I don't have emissions here so I'm not super worried about it but I don't want to deal with any problems related to it
  13. August76

    Picked up a BDS 6 inch lift kit off of a 95 Suburban looking for information on this particular kit

    So I believe I've gotten everything that I needed for this kit I have a 97 Z71 4 by 4 it already has 285 75 16 on it and then they do not rub so what I'm trying to figure out is what all do I need besides this lift kit Suburban it came off of had the same as stock brake lines that look like they...
  14. August76

    Tcc pwm solenoid proper ohms and opperation?

    So my truck popped up the infamous 1870 code I didn't actually know I had a code until I noticed the hard shifting from 1st to 2nd or 2nd to 3rd and so I searched it online and found the 1870s can the truck and there's the code but it could be because I also changed the 4 wheel drive push button...
  15. August76

    New here..been lurking. 97gmc z71

    I picked this truck up. For $600 in washington before we moved. It didnt run. Long story. It had a pinched fuel return line. Heres some pics from Arizona high deseret where we live now. Prescott Valley Arizona 190k 285/75/16 mud terains Stock
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