Dantheman1540
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Y'all wack! It's nearly impossible to turn a bolt with 2 pairs of gloves on. Let alone even feel the bolt when your hands are frozen.
Rocket Man's 02 Denali Build Thread AKA "THE BEAST"
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Y'all wack! It's nearly impossible to turn a bolt with 2 pairs of gloves on. Let alone even feel the bolt when your hands are frozen.
George B
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Its and interesting thing. When it’s below 35 I am good down to the mid teens without using heat in the garage and will spend a couple hours outside tinkering. When it gets to between 35 and 50 I get chilled and pissed off at the weather. I am good with it here until the end of February. After that I am DONE with it. Spring here sucks in my opinion and if we get an east wind off lake Michigan it is bone chilling. I am usually not happy again until June.
Tonyrodz
Resident Resident
EXACTLY!
Yep! Done a lot of stuff on the car in the garage when it’s below freezing. Below 0, that’s another thing. Guess it’s just part of life here in Iowa and the Midwest in general. I’ll let the car run a little to warm up the engine bay. That residual heat does wonders.
George B
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Don’t have to slap mosquitoes in the winter.
iamdub
Full Access Member
I may never know what's that like.
Tonyrodz
Resident Resident
I hate when it's so cold and you skin your knuckle working under the hood---that you don't bleed right away. That's cold!
OP
OP
F winter. I HATE the cold, maybe because I work outside. I’m glad we don’t see many days below freezing here and snow every 2-3rd winter. It’s pretty mild here.
Anyway....tada. It’s done. Finished everything except the skid plates and I can’t do those until I move the front jack stands. Filled it with fluid, hooked up the battery and started it up and tested it while still on the stands. It’s getting kinda dark so I’ll drop it down tomorrow morning and test drive it. Yay!
Anyway....tada. It’s done. Finished everything except the skid plates and I can’t do those until I move the front jack stands. Filled it with fluid, hooked up the battery and started it up and tested it while still on the stands. It’s getting kinda dark so I’ll drop it down tomorrow morning and test drive it. Yay!
Nice good stuff redF winter. I HATE the cold, maybe because I work outside. I’m glad we don’t see many days below freezing here and snow every 2-3rd winter. It’s pretty mild here.
Anyway....tada. It’s done. Finished everything except the skid plates and I can’t do those until I move the front jack stands. Filled it with fluid, hooked up the battery and started it up and tested it while still on the stands. It’s getting kinda dark so I’ll drop it down tomorrow morning and test drive it. Yay!
OP
OP
The old man’s still got it.
OP
OP
I installed the skid plates and took the pressure washer to the entire truck- undercarriage, engine bay, exterior etc. then dropped it onto the ground and went for a drive. Everything is good. I notice the 1-2 shift isn’t as harsh so I’ll thinking they did something to their in-house shift kit to make that transition a bit more forgiving. Nothing else was changed as far as the tune or converter so obviously Performabuilt did something. I’ll ask them. Anyway here’s a walkaround after the interior cleanup. Zoomed on the freshly painted exterior handles but forgot about the engraving in the Elite Engineering catchcan where it says “ THE BEAST” lol.
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iamdub
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Yeah- they unclogged the fluid passage so the servo can operate properly and cushion the shift.
Tonyrodz
Resident Resident
Yeah- they unclogged the fluid passage so the servo can operate properly and cushion the shift.
OP
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Ahhhhhhh shit....Yeah- they unclogged the fluid passage so the servo can operate properly and cushion the shift.
OP
OP
No seriously though...both times before when they have sent me the trans it has had a real hard 1-2 shift, kinda made the truck shudder. Not now. Weird.
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I just recorded a video of it reviving , just because. My neighbors now hate me lol. I noticed it’s smoking a bit but my last report from Blackstone doesn’t show anything wearing bad so I guess I’m not gonna worry. It does burn a bit of oil but what LS doesn’t?
edit: the muffler is an Aero Turbine.
https://aeroexhaust.com/i-30497605-...3-inside-diameter-necks-aggressive-sound.html
edit: the muffler is an Aero Turbine.
https://aeroexhaust.com/i-30497605-...3-inside-diameter-necks-aggressive-sound.html
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Tonyrodz
Resident Resident
Why would your neighbors hate you? Should be music to their ears!
iamdub
Full Access Member
I really like the way that sounds. How does it sound inside? Any drone at all?
OP
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None that I’ve noticed. It is fairly loud though.
Dantheman1540
Full Access Member
Sounds so good. I love this thing!
Side note. Do you ever tow a trailer? With the blower and the low and sway bars and yada yada it would be a killer tow rig.
Side note. Do you ever tow a trailer? With the blower and the low and sway bars and yada yada it would be a killer tow rig.
