I think I found a keeper. K2500 RCLB (Pigpen)

[Jrgunn5150]

Yeh, it's good for the spirit. The teardown is always fun.

It's good for his life, he loves to hack some crap together. He has about 94 hose clamps on his fuel line right now, he's spent more on hose clamps than he would just redoing the lines lol.

 

[Dylan1991_1500]

Man, that's horrible. Teach him the way.

 

[Jrgunn5150]

Man, that's horrible. Teach him the way.

I'm 35 now, and he's 32. I think he's probably stuck that way now lol.

 

[Dylan1991_1500]

Yeh, that would be an uphill battle.

 

[Jrgunn5150]

The whole SAS thing may not happen at all, I feel like I've narrowed the source of my ridiculous steering play down to my steering box. I was coming back with a socket and breaker bar to check the bolts when I twisted my ankle.

But it would explain why everything under there looks new, yet I have slop. NOTHING else under there shows any obvious play when jerking the wheel back and forth.

And, an SAS, I'd still need a new steering box lol.

So more investigation is needed, probably Friday or Saturday. I suspect my ankle will feel worse tomorrow.

 

[Dylan1991_1500]

Is the rag joint good or could it be causing your issue. Only reason I ask is because JustinS had that turd truck with 347,000 miles on it and the slop was coming from the pitman arm, not the box itself. He's doing away with the rag joint as well.

 

[Jrgunn5150]

Is the rag joint good or could it be causing your issue. Only reason I ask is because JustinS had that turd truck with 347,000 miles on it and the slop was coming from the pitman arm, not the box itself. He's doing away with the rag joint as well.

Visually it seems to be, I mean, my GF saws the wheel, everything moves appropriately up until the box, then it doesn't come out as smoothly lol.

It's hard to say though, everything under there has been replaced, but when, I have no idea.

 

[Jrgunn5150]

So I found this cool chart with a bunch of different spring rates and lengths and widths and whatnot.

http://littlekeylime.com/MrN/mrnimages/leaf_springs.png

 

[Jrgunn5150]

I spent my weekend putting K3500 front brakes on and deleting the ABS. I took it for a brief ride down a nearby straight, usually empty road.

Ran it up to 65 or so, no shimmy's or shakes or wobbles. Just that stupid play in the wheel, I have no idea why.

Next up is getting the rear brakes squared away. I'm considering just buying weld on brackets to save me some money, I should be able to disc swap the rear by just using newer part's, since they do make GMT800's with 14b SF rears and disc.

 

[Jrgunn5150]

I tried out some dark gray on the bottom, kinda like it, I think I might do the flares the same,

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