MadDogDelpho
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Sumbitch. Hope everything turns out ok Tony.
Tonyrodz's Tahoe Build Thread
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Tonyrodz
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That's some whack news buddy. Hope it's nothing major. But if you need a rebuild at least you know you'll be good for a long time. Excuse to upgrade.
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Tonyrodz
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Finally got to the tps pigtail today. Didn't run into any issues, even tho the new pigtail had all white wires. Just make sure you do one wire at a time. I went back at least 10' and cut and spliced the new wires in. I used some dialectic grease and then used some heat shrink. I don't have any pics of the process, but it's pretty straight forward.
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Here's the pigtail pics. Don't have pics of the heatshrink process
Here's the offender!
Hopefully this will take care of the reduced engine power.
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I also was able to load the installation DVD for the obd tool. It looks somewhat easy. Maybe tomorrow I'll be able to install it in the Hoe and grab some useful data.
10' ? Where'd you cut them, by the gas tank? .......kidding tony, being my normal ******* self..... i know you meant 10"....and thats what she said....
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Tonyrodz
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I still have reverse, so I'm hoping that's good news. I'm gonna try to make some calls tomorrow. Hoping for some good news.
On another note, I installed the HD hood liner. I had the underhood light that I wired up and installed an led bulb. That wasn't hard, but I installed some led underhood strips, I wired them to the hot lead going to the stock underhood lamp. Everything lit up great, but the strips wouldn't shut off once the hood was pulled down. I tried every combination of wiring but I couldn't figure it out. I even tried running a wire to the mercury type ballast inside the light housing. No good. I just left it for now.
The switch inside the light housing probably interrupts the ground not the hot. Wire both sides of your strips to both sides of the underhood light, positive and negative.
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Tonyrodz
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Inside the light housing itself? You're right, it does interrupt the ground. I took the light apart and there's a metal weight that acts like a pendulum. I even tried wiring to the bar that surrounds that pendulum.
That weight is the switch. I just soldered to either side of the light contacts, where the bulb snaps in. Make sure polarity is correct for LED's.
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I gotta do that. You have to see all the wiring I laid out! Ran wire through the hood, under the hinges, lol.
You've seen mine, right? Kinda like disco lights lol. I kept mine all on the hood.
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That's what I was aiming for. The other night I had to pull over and check under the hood. It was dark and all I had was my phone for light. It sucked!
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It's the trans!
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That sucks. Hope you don't have to take too large of a hit.
Damn, sorry tony
Dammit Tony.
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Just talked to a trans guy, $1500-1800, depending if it needs planetaries or not. He wanted $800 to just replace what was wrong instead of a whole rebuild, so what's the sense in that? He said doing that, we night get another year or 2 out of it. Do it once, and do it right! In the long run, it'll be less money. On a high note, I just sold my Jack for $20! So now we just need $1780. We're almost there.
