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  1. Charlie207

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

    Finished the last 10% of the bumper build. Got the little extra steel parts welded and painted, the light bar mounted and wired, and even managed to reuse most of the hard foam insert behind the bumper cover. I imagine it helps funnel air into the radiator and other coolers by blocking off the...
  2. Charlie207

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

    I was just reading about those today, and their rated for 1000Nm, or almost 738ft./lbs. You'll annihilate the gearbox and twist the driveshaft into confetti before the TC slips. Nice.
  3. Charlie207

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

    I doubt you hurt the rubber, as they looked fairly serviceable. I've definitely blown out old rubber balljoint boots after they've been weakened and cracked, and just gave the grease-gun the 21-pump salute. Not wise, but now I know.
  4. Charlie207

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

    It's probably the swaybar bushings that creak/squeak. Also, you don't need to pump so much grease into the ball joints that it blows out. One squirt is enough to supplant the grease that's cycled through the ball/socket as it cycles through its range of motion.
  5. Charlie207

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

    Added the upper/inner gusset plates that I forgot about when I initially welded the bumper up. They were in the bottom of the box, and I didn't see them...oofda. Also, I realized that the giant bumper logo was almost exactly the same size as the LED bar that came on my rig when I bought it. So...
  6. Charlie207

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

    Concur, you need to pull it out. Makes it 10,001% possible. There's no way to fold the seat cover clips up/around onto the frame rails with the seat in the car. Plus, with the seat on the garage/basement floor, you can sit in it, to "seat" the clips fully onto the frame with your body weight.
  7. Charlie207

    Painting frame

    POR-15 also threadlocks all the nuts and bolts you paint over. My old Armada had the entire undercarriage encapsulated with it by the previous owner, which was cool from a never-rust-again scenario, but I had to cut every nut off that was coated with the stuff. Now I just have my car's belly...
  8. Charlie207

    Painting frame

    We used to use Ospho on our ship after knocking all the loose rust free with needle-guns. I actually just grabbed a gallon jug for the Silverado frame, after I pull the bed off. Wire wheel > brake cleaner bath > Ospho applied with a paint brush > primer > paint. (At least that the motivated...
  9. Charlie207

    Curious, what would you guys price out my project to?

    If it's essentially a non-driver at the time of the sale you have to consider that it's just a parts-truck, and those don't carry the value of something beat up, but still a turn-key option. It's a southern-New England rig, so there's gonna be rust, which while totally normal for it's area, is...
  10. Charlie207

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

    Off-topic, but did you source your axles from LQK, or find them locally?
  11. Charlie207

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

    Every time I see folks mess up the difference between "brake" (THIS or THIS) and "break" (THIS) I want to launch a dictionary at them.
  12. Charlie207

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

    What are you getting for struts?
  13. Charlie207

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

    Yeah, I have the GU6 RPO for my Yukon, and the GT5 in my Silverado. They both have the same LY6 engine, and are roughly the same weight. I can definitely feel the difference in acceleration characteristics witht he 4.10s in the truck, and I'm probably going to hunt/peck for that upgrade in the...
  14. Charlie207

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

    Here is where I got mine (I filtered on a 2007 Suburban 1500, but there is a separate 2500 option as well... not sure what you have): https://www.movebumpers.com/collections/chevy-suburban-1500-2007-2014-products There are less expensive kits that you weld together, and the Tahoe/Suburban look...
  15. Charlie207

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

    It is, don't you have 4.10s?
  16. Charlie207

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

    After getting a truck with the GT5 final drive, I'd almost rather have the 4.10s.
  17. Charlie207

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

    95% finished the bumper. Still have some small things to do, and will probably be reinforcing the backside a bit in the future, but for now it's mounted. I also want to add some fog lights, and am hoping to fab* up some brackets to allow me to reuse the factory fogs, but they have a goofy...
  18. Charlie207

    Washer fluid tank relocation

    I ended up ordering two of the tanks from US Plastic, along with some caps and 90° elbows to connect the tanks, and place the sandwiched assembly on the spare batter tray. I'll reuse my pumps and rerout the wiring and tubing as needed. I saw some of the fancy off-road tanks, and also saw...
  19. Charlie207

    Washer fluid tank relocation

    Found this 1gal. container. I could reuse my grommets and pumps. https://www.usplastic.com/catalog/item.aspx?itemid=31881
  20. Charlie207

    Washer fluid tank relocation

    Here is an aftermarket tank w/pump I was looking at... I'd get two, and sandwich them back-to-back, but run some type of plumbing to connect them, and then connect the front wiper hose to one pump, and rear wiper hose to the other. With the two tanks plumbed together I'd only have to fill one...
  21. Charlie207

    Washer fluid tank relocation

    Has anyone relocated the windshield washer fluid tank, and what did they use if changing to a different tank? My new bumper offers much more clearance than the factory Yukon cover, but exposed the area where the tank is placed, in front of the driver fender liner. The tank itself is like 18"...
  22. Charlie207

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

    Started tacking the bumper kit together, and will try to get it all welded up tomorrow. I have to get creative moving heavy stuff in my one man band. Also swapped on my summer wheels/tires today. From back here it with no bumper, it almost reminds me of one of those Icelandic snow rigs.
  23. Charlie207

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

    Fired it up with the new muffler this morning... Haven't been driving this as much now that I have the truck, which is a thing to drive on the still-salty roads.
  24. Charlie207

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

    120lbs. of bumper plates arrived by UPS yesterday. I won't have time for a while to start messing around with that project while I gather more stuff, wait for the weather to clear up/dry out, and still try to find a 2nd bumper cover to chop up.
  25. Charlie207

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

    Continued my exhaust/muffler experiments. The other day I cut the ends off my MBRP (stainless clone) muffler to see what made it tick, and realized there was room in each of the "chambers" to add some dampening material to cut down on the boomy resonance. I ordered some 1" thick ceramic muffler...

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