Cokeman95
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Just buy the electric actuator. I swapped to it on my 95 and it was a big improvement over the thermal one.
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Just buy the electric actuator. I swapped to it on my 95 and it was a big improvement over the thermal one.
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Or go full manual and Posi-Lok it I love mine.
Oh look! You've got a 454 badge now too!
Dude, the factory radiator is already aluminum with 3-4 cores. After I put my new one in it cools fine. I towed my Subaru up 85 from Charlotte in June. No issues, and that's before I out a new radiator in AND towing mode didn't even work! You'd should be fine with the factory radiator if your coolant is in good shape.
Maybe add water-wetter (I think summit carries it, as well as some auto parts stores) to assist the coolant to remove heat.
I wish I would've known that when I had to replace my rad in 2018.Not all have the thick radiators.
Dude, the factory radiator is already aluminum with 3-4 cores..
...do a coolant flush to clean everything out and start running general purpose coolant and water-wetter.
After my little hiccup back in September of overheating the truck while sitting in a drive thru I get real anxious when I see the temp gauge creep up. Plus I think one of the tanks on the rad is starting to crack where the plastic meets the aluminum core
Also I just noticed; the Cold-Case rad I'm looking at is an oversized two-core radiator. So that's interesting.
I really like the tailgate emblem.Okay update time! OR lack thereof.
I bought my girl a camera for her birthday and she insisted on going for a photoshoot at this old gas station that's like straight out of 98; super cool.
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I haven't done jack **** to it in the last 2 weeks. I tried to find and seal up my leak on the passenger side with no luck, so I guess I'll have to pull it all back apart. There's an intermediate higher RPM belt squealing that might be the junky tensioner and/or idler pulley.
The parts pile isn't dwindling but it's not expanding either. I need to get the Big 3 done but I want to throw on an AD244, new Odyssey battery, clean up the 0411 wiring/tow mirror wiring/etc. etc. etc.; still trying to make up my mind on if I want to have some bigger injectors thrown in when I get ready for the dizzy, the fuel pump is still hanging on so that's good.
Then there's some other upgrades like a new 3" thick 3-core fully aluminum rad I've been eye balling from Cold-Case, I'm pretty well convinced at this point after towing almost 9500 pounds I'm going to do the NBS knuckle mod, but there's a few things I'm still not 100% about like the tie-rods. Also trying to figure out master cylinder that'll work with the future rear disc as well as give the brakes a firmer pedal. P30 MC? Or maybe the Express one? Any ideas there?
Still haven't decided on the 4WD situation, I may just buy the electronic actuator instead of trying to dick around with the cable kit or having the front diff permanently engaged and run the risk of tearing **** up. Still waiting on the 4.10 gears, the truck in the yard with them didn't get scrapped so I'm hopeful. Probably also going to pull the trigger on a new hitch, new brake controller and new 7/4 pin as some of that stuff is getting haggard due to me either trying to un-hack what the POs did, or what I had to hack to make it work.
I'm somewhat debating on starting a new thread dedicated for actual updates instead of the incessant rambling of me going off about plans and other stupid **** but I dunno yet. I'd have to recover some photos so I could start from the beginning again.
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IMO, I would too. No sense in trusting some thermal-actuator "red rocket" thing GM had.Guess I'll just cough up the 250 for the electric slug and harness from LMC.