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[Aaron Poston]

Awesome! I was thinking about changing to bilstein shocks as well. Thanks for the info!

 

[Z71Hobbs]

Some of my latest finds..I may need therapy. The switches are multiplying!

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[98chevy2500SS]

No way man... I just bought a Esky cluster with the woodgrain a few weeks ago as well! The needle on the gas gauge is melted somehow... So I'll have to pull some needles from a late 90s Buick LeSabre cluster. I also grabbed the bezel off of it too and finally have another fog light switch. For $25, I couldn't pass on it. And damn, that's a lot of switches... Love your inventory, just keep it growing, you can't have too many switches.

 

[Z71Hobbs]

It’s been a while since I posted. Here’s a pic from yesterday in the snow.

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[86454k30]

Very nice truck and workmanship.

 

[98chevy2500SS]

You ready for more snow this weekend? Iowa's gonna get more than this past weekend's storm, can't wait!

 

[Z71Hobbs]

Well..yeah..I’m horrible at project updates.

Not much has really happened with the truck. I continue to scour junkyards and fb marketplace and eBay for things I can use or things that people need (or is want a better word choice in some situations).

One find was a set of Bosch e code lights that I have been hunting for a while. I finally have a complete set and have starting gathering parts to get those installed.

One of these trips ending up taking me out to the Seattle area and hanging out with @88GMCtruck and @83GMCK2500. We hit 9 yards or so (trip was a blur) in a just a few short days. I had to leave sooo much behind it saddened me. But we did find some cool stuff along the way. If you look close, you can see some of the carcass remains of the 88 gmc truck in the background.

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[88GMCtruck]

A total blur was right. But it was a blast.

 

[JCribb]

Don’t feel bad about updates, I’m just as slow updating mine. I’m chasing a light problem on mine, so it’s got me paused for progress. I did get a chance to drive mine finally a few weeks ago, and I remembered how much I missed it.

 

[Z71Hobbs]

Some of the other cool stuff I’ve found was a 4x4 Tahoe issued for a fire department. It had the certified 100 mph cluster, an aux switch, and the DRL off switch. It was located in a questionable area, could have swore I heard banjos playing on the way there.

https://www.gmt400.com/threads/100-mph-certified-and-130-mph-certified-clusters.44772/#post-1045552

In other news, since I work slow and don’t have a lot of time to spend on truck stuff, I started working on the other end of my fog light setup.

Years ago I found a pace truck at the local pic a part, and it had a damaged set of valence fog lights and brackets. Well several years later I finally found another damaged set from a Gmt400 dismantler, and thankfully the damage was on the other side. So bingo..I was able to piece together a damaged set and an undamaged set. I’ve been able to rework the damaged set to around 95 percent in my opinion.

I then blasted and painted them both up and put some new grand am fog lights in the brackets. These are genuine gm lights, but have a plastic lens as opposed to the original glass lens. The only difference in the grand am lights and the Gmt400 lights is that the adjuster is on the bottom as opposed to the top. So the lights have to be rotated 180 degrees, and a new orientation notch cut into the internal housing webbing to retain proper optics.

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