Saving a few NBS'ssss

[drowssap]

So first I have to say thank you all for all that you have contributed to this forum over the years. I cannot believe how much incredible info is at my fingertips. They are all 4WD.
The silver 06 Yukon with 75k miles is going to be for my wife and will be replacing her 15' Honda Pilot. (I absolutely hate that thing!) It too is pristine with the exception of the obvious!.
The white 05 Z71 is what I picked up for my brother in law and you guessed it....it has 75k miles on it!! I honestly do not know how I came across Colorado NBS trucks with the same low mileage but then again...that is why they are in my possession!
What I want to point out is that while I have saved vehicles that were complete wrecks...I am not ambitious about that kind of work anymore. When I do uni-body wrecks I typically pull in the tolerance numbers tighter than how they left from the factory but like I said....I don't want to deal with that anxiety anymore so I opted for the easy fender benders that appeared to be very well taken care of from the beginning.

 

[drowssap]

Here are pics of the Z71. The Z is getting repaired before the yukon.

 

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And the yukon

 

[HiHoeSilver]

Wow. That's what you call a fleet. Jealous.

 

[kwOH]

You know that crazy guy that lives out of town and has a bunch of cars in the front yard, that’d be me with GM suv’s if I had the land lol

 

[drowssap]

You know that crazy guy that lives out of town and has a bunch of cars in the front yard, that’d be me with GM suv’s if I had the land lol

Hilarious! Me too.....If you look at the pic of the 03 on the trailer you will see my house in the background. I do have a 3 car garage but I also have 2 other vehicles! Problem is that as you can see my neighbors are right on top of me and I live in a hoitey toitey neighborhood that REALLY frowns upon this kind of stuff. In fact...I am probably the only one here that actually gets his hands dirty for a living. It gets really difficult because I can ONLY do work inside my garage with the doors shut and it gets to be a pain jockeying cars around all of the time.

 

[drowssap]

Aside from just fixing the 03....my first mod was the electric fan conversion. I managed to score the complete set up with harness from an 05 Yukon with only 60k. I stripped and cleaned the harness and added new wire loom. Unfortunately I didn't get the pic of the final product on the harness. I have to go back to the yard to get the pins out of the donor ECU and then get a tuner to activate them.

 

[drowssap]

I also made sure to get my hands on one of these!!!

 

[swathdiver]

Gotta have one of those when you have these trucks!

 

[HiHoeSilver]

You know that crazy guy that lives out of town and has a bunch of cars in the front yard, that’d be me with GM suv’s if I had the land lol

Like @TheWarBeast? Lol. Good luck catching him. I'm pretty sure he has about 230 of them.

 

[Tonyrodz]

Like @TheWarBeast? Lol. Good luck catching him. I'm pretty sure he has about 230 of them.

Ain't that the truth! Nice, another build thread. Do they all have clean titles?

 

[drowssap]

Ain't that the truth! Nice, another build thread. Do they all have clean titles?

Yes! I normally do not mind branded titles but it sucks to own one here in Colorado. Before you get the vehicle inspected....you have to stamp "REBUILT FROM SALVAGE" into the B-pillar. The problem is that the metal is just a hollow tube and instead of stamping the metal....you just end up bashing it in.

 

[Rocket Man]

I also made sure to get my hands on one of these!!!

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You can use that to turn on the fan pins in the ECU.

 

[Tonyrodz]

You can use that to turn on the fan pins in the ECU.

I was told that when a flash is done on the com you need to buy a pic e bae from gm to do it. Is that true? If so, would a license be needed to flash the pcm just for the fans?

 

[Rocket Man]

I was told that when a flash is done on the com you need to buy a pic e bae from gm to do it. Is that true? If so, would a license be needed to flash the pcm just for the fans?

IDK. I only know enough to get in trouble. Or get someone else in trouble.

 

[jerryjoe28]

quite a collection! defiantly need more info on the fan swap

 

[Rocket Man]

quite a collection! defiantly need more info on the fan swap

What do you need to know? I've done it. There's write-ups in the tech section. You can either use the OEM fans and harness out of the 05-06's or buy new fans and use an alternate harness although there's been issues with the aftermarket harnesses, as in melting. There's a member here (@ScottyBoy ) who sells the OEM harnesses and fans. Either way you need to plug a wiring pin into the PCM connector and have that pin activated so the PCM knows to control the fan.

 

[MadDogDelpho]

Looks like fun. Subbed!

 

[jerryjoe28]

What do you need to know? I've done it. There's write-ups in the tech section. You can either use the OEM fans and harness out of the 05-06's or buy new fans and use an alternate harness although there's been issues with the aftermarket harnesses, as in melting. There's a member here (@ScottyBoy ) who sells the OEM harnesses and fans. Either way you need to plug a wiring pin into the PCM connector and have that pin activated so the PCM knows to control the fan.

so basically I need a fan out of an 05-06 and the harness that gos with it. (guessing just remove the pins? (any idea on pin locations for 04?) then have my tuner turn the fans? is that just one of the system options on hp tuners? like where the AC controls are? im sure I can find all this info with a search but any info u could give would be appreciated

 

[Rocket Man]

so basically I need a fan out of an 05-06 and the harness that gos with it. (guessing just remove the pins? (any idea on pin locations for 04?) then have my tuner turn the fans? is that just one of the system options on hp tuners? like where the AC controls are? im sure I can find all this info with a search but any info u could give would be appreciated

Sure, I'll help you with a link to the tech section article. Read up. There's another one too from Scottyboy in there. All you have to do is stroll through the tech section, you don't even have to search. I have no idea about HP Tuners. I had BlackBear turn my pin on.
http://www.tahoeyukonforum.com/threads/how-to-install-e-fans.9400/