swathdiver
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Has an old school look to it, back in the day when 15" wheels were big!
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How bad was it getting those manifolds off so you can pull that out? My other truck is a 06 Chevy HD with the 6.0 and it had an exhaust leak pretty bad about a month ago so I went out there to to see if I could snuggle Mall up because one of them was already on kpop 0
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Lucky dog!Was relatively easy, I got lucky and there was enough of the bolt left to use Visegrips to remove it. On top of that, my truck's spent 12 of of its 13 years in Fresno, CA and hasn't seen much rain or water on the road really, so no rust whatsoever. The entire job took me 2 hours tops with a smoke break.
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Thanks!Looks great, should have cleaned up the trailer hitch and painted it while it was all apart tho
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Thanks!
Soon as I removed the bumper and could see how ****** up it was, I’ve come to the conclusion that a new one is warranted. Not even worth the time to spray it black. It’s junk.
I agree.Might be better off powder coating the new or used one
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Nice yeah I'm in Arizona so mine doesn't have any rust or corrosion anywhere either so I'm hoping they will come off pretty easy toWas relatively easy, I got lucky and there was enough of the bolt left to use Visegrips to remove it. On top of that, my truck's spent 12 of of its 13 years in Fresno, CA and hasn't seen much rain or water on the road really, so no rust whatsoever. The entire job took me 2 hours tops with a smoke break.
They have held up great but no better than the mid level mevotechProforged tie rods arrived today. Pretty impressed with quality and package presentation.
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View attachment 202586 View attachment 202588 View attachment 202589 View attachment 202590 Rear bumper is done! I managed to save all hardware and brackets with a little bit of luck and a torch.
Damn you with these ideas!!!Take it back off. Color match the plate lights, spare lock door, and paint the hitch. Lol
... there 17x9 0offset on 5” backspace. For the size of the tire and all not i have trim the valance but not a huge amount and do norcal mod but dis is on stock height not even on keys.Damn bro those things don't rub like crazy? We need to get some offaet on those bad boys. I went with a deep rim for mine. I guess not everyone likes that look tho so whatever make you happy!
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They have held up great but no better than the mid level mevotech
Did you blow a hose or a connector? I posted about this a years ago saying the connectors get brittle and I guess more trucks are getting up there in age now. Mine broke on me in the middle of downtown dallas..dumped all of my coolant almost immediately. Big steam show and talk about a hard part to find. I just wonder if anyone is having trouble with the hoses as mine have held up.
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I finally got rid of my onstar and useless cassette player for more extra space. I found the cassette cubby in a 97 Silverado and the onstar cubby in a 03 Tahoe. They were both installed with no mods.View attachment 202688
Mine are 17x9 also. I had to buy the steel rims to get the offset and back space that I wanted they disnt make them in aluminum which sucks. I put a set of general grabber 35s on mine that we use on the pro 2 race truck. Custom groove and they always have people confused when they see them lol we groove them ourself so people always say" I have never seen those kind of tires before" then I have to explain why. I have torsion keys on the front of mine that picked it up a few inches but it's a weird thing because the ones I got came with new bolts and they are shorter by about three quarters of an inch which I wonder if that's so you can't use your stock ones and overcrank them to where everything binds up. I'm sure that's got to be the reason for the shorter bolts. But I had them feeling real nice with minimal trimming. It had been trimmed previously because it used to be lowered on 24s a long time ago so I trimmed it then and also I cut the bottom half of the bumper off of it so that helped. I noticed after taking the rear stock shocks off of it that it was starting to Sag pretty bad in the rear because the stock shocks hold up a bunch of the weight on these things. So I got a set of inch and a half rear coil spring spacers and put them in and it picked back up about an inch but now the front end is rubbing like a mofo again. So I had to pull the inner fender well back get my die grinder up in there and cut part of the front fender at the very back bottom off roll it in and then start chopping away at the firewall and cutting sections out. Now I have it to where it clears all the way butt when you turn the wheel it hits the damn body mount on the frame. So there's not much I can do about that other than try and move the body Mountain that's just too much work. So a my case a body lift wouldn't even help. I was thinking for a while. Just throwing a really small 2 inch body lift on it but I didn't because I really do not like them at all. So once these tires were down I'm going to go back to 33s. Plus I've lost a lot of power with the 35.... there 17x9 0offset on 5” backspace. For the size of the tire and all not i have trim the valance but not a huge amount and do norcal mod but dis is on stock height not even on keys.