What did you do to your NNBS GMT900 Tahoe/Yukon Today?

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i can only assume its northern salt belt truck and the po was tired of seeing the stupid facking rustyness especially on the frame where the factory bullshite wax coating just peels right off... oh wait thats my truck... carry on

Yeah, I bought her in Chicago, was a Texas truck, but they drove it back and forth. I guess he got transferred, bc he traded her in for a 4x4. I stole it in 14, for 30K, with just over 62k.

Any suggestions on removing this crap? I was thinking the GooGone Auto stuff would work and a wire brush. Thoughts???
 

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Yeah, I bought her in Chicago, was a Texas truck, but they drove it back and forth. I guess he got transferred, bc he traded her in for a 4x4. I stole it in 14, for 30K, with just over 62k.

Any suggestions on removing this crap? I was thinking the GooGone Auto stuff would work and a wire brush. Thoughts???
Try using diesel fuel on a small spot to see if it cuts it.
 

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Try using diesel fuel on a small spot to see if it cuts it.


/\ ive looked around to try and see what works, seems a lot of people soak rags in some sort of petroleum based liquid and wrap the frame then wash it off with hot water pressure washer. I need to clean up the frame in the engine bay on mine as there are a few spots where its all gone and frame has some surface rust. power steering fluid seems to cut it , trans fluid also. tried to pressure wash it off with a small one and unless its old and dried up it doesnt do much
 

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Degreased and pressure washed the engine bay nice enough to eat off of again

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What is your method and what do you use?
well it really wasn't that dirty because I clean it about twice a year, I took the engine cover off and just sprayed it with a whole can of gunk original and then used the car wash pressure washer with high speed soap and then high speed rinsed it, didn't spray directly in the alternator or ecm and didn't spray directly in the air filter everything else is game.
 

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then when I got back to the house I wiped it all down with gunk "shine" which really didn't do shit, don't waste your money I got it just to try it out thinking it would maybe make it all shiny which it it did for about 10 seconds, there is better product out there like ZEP that stuff makes it really shine.
 

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Had the muffler shop put a little bead on the drivers rear seat arm rest, it's a weak spot the arm rest stop wears out and then then it just falls down, should be a permanent fix, previously I used a washer and made the bolt so it would go tighter but the kids keep climbing on it.

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I looked at mine sitting in the garage. Thats about all it does these days. I drove it yesterday, put a bunch of miles on it over the weekend roadtripping with the family.

Oh i did my first oil change on it. Nice to see the fixed some drain issues I had with the older NBS chassis. Also made a GIANT ass mess of my garage floor because i wasnt sure how far things would run out too....it was terrible
 

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Soap and water..... try it......lmao ;)

Smacked ass! :p :slap:



well it really wasn't that dirty because I clean it about twice a year, I took the engine cover off and just sprayed it with a whole can of gunk original and then used the car wash pressure washer with high speed soap and then high speed rinsed it, didn't spray directly in the alternator or ecm and didn't spray directly in the air filter everything else is game.


I'd like to do mine under the intake it's pretty bad under there. I'm gonna be doing the valley pan and intake gaskets in the next couple a weeks, not looking forward to it but it needs to be done. I would love to have it cleaned off ahead of time, I'm just afraid if I have a leaking valley pan gasket I don't want that shit to wash into the motor. Think I am being too paranoid?
 

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Oh wait...i just remembered..i cleaned all the gravel dust from between the rear window and the liftgate yesterday after i was staring at it in the garage haha.


I did order a set of OEM roof rack crossbars for it last night. Appears that part has been discontinued so I jumped on a set i found. 1 step closer to kayak access again!
 

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Smacked ass! :p :slap:






I'd like to do mine under the intake it's pretty bad under there. I'm gonna be doing the valley pan and intake gaskets in the next couple a weeks, not looking forward to it but it needs to be done. I would love to have it cleaned off ahead of time, I'm just afraid if I have a leaking valley pan gasket I don't want that shit to wash into the motor. Think I am being too paranoid?
I think you will be fine, if you have a pressure washer at home it's better to do it while the engine is cool but just spray the crap out of it with degreaser let it sit a few minutes then spray it off, the actual amount of water from a pressure water is not that much it's just under pressure so it's not like your dipping it in a swimming pool, keep the tip back as much as you can just don't stick it up there like your trying to strip the paint off.
 

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Just hit up the local quarter machine car wash that's where I go, I have a pressure washer but I don't have a soap thing for it


Good idea, that way all the grease and oil shit that comes off ***** up their pavement and not mine. :pepper::thumbsup:

We don't have any here anymore manual ones here they are all automatic. I'll have to shoot over a few towns and make a little road trip out of it.
 

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