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[Spencer_waynee]

Well after a little progress on my Tahoe over the past two months I've had it I decided it's time to finally start a build thread....the pic is the day I brought it home. I was honestly a little hesitant on getting it just for the fact I had always had trucks but needed room for the kiddos...it had 230k ish miles on it but ran suprisingly well and a lot stouter than I was expecting

 

[Spencer_waynee]

So of course first thing that popped in my mind the ugly molding had to go! It's an ls model so it didn't have the paint matched and not to mention it was in pretty rough shape...grabbed a heat gun eraser wheel buffer and some buffing compound and got to work. It was all pretty easy just time consuming. While I was in the process of buffing I decided to do the headlights and parking lights aswell..

 

[Spencer_waynee]

First cold day (45ish) finally rolled around central Arkansas and the hoe threw a fit...cranked it that morning and it started missing stuttering. It cleared out after about 2-3 minutes of driving. So I did a little digging and all my symptoms pointed towards the intake gaskets. Picked a set of fel pros up for about $44 and had them replaced within 2 hours or so. I got everything put back together and it solved all the issues but unfortunately I'm having I slight whistle with no effects to driveablity that I can not track down

 

[Spencer_waynee]

Little cleaning while I was at this stage

 

[Spencer_waynee]

A buddy of mine ended up having a set of factory 05-06 electric fans he gave me and I just so happened to have a relay kit for them laying around....I was pretty surprised when I noticed the Tahoe already had the 34" radiator instead of the 28" didn't know if that was normal for these or not??

 

[Spencer_waynee]

Actually had the time this weekend to go ahead and get the swap done...please excuse the wiring waiting to get some loom Monday to tighty everything up...the swap was pretty straight forward with the ac clutch wire for the relay tying into the dark green wire going into the fuse box

 

[Spencer_waynee]

Got a little bored this evening and dug out an old regency grill laying around the shop...since the Tahoe has the work truck grille and I had the supplies figured I'd paint match my grille for the time being until I find an all chrome grille for it

 

[Tonyrodz]

How's the fan controlled? I'm assuming since you wired one side to the ac clutch it'll come on when the ac is on.

 

[Fosscore]

Nice work so far.

 

[02Burgundybeast]

Looking forward to seeing all the progress. Nice build.

 

[Spencer_waynee]

Tony that's the only downfall with this relay kit the fans have low and high speed but with that kit there's. o way to control speed so when they come on there on high...but to answer your question it has a probe that goes through the fine of the radiator. When it gets to 190 I believe they come one whenever the ac clutch kicks in. Thanks guys I look forward to making more progress on it...I always appreciate input

 

[Spencer_waynee]

Went ahead and put the grille in this evening it turned out ok but looks a little funny without the center pieces I'll have to do something with that soon

 

[Tonyrodz]

Went ahead and put the grille in this evening it turned out ok but looks a little funny without the center pieces I'll have to do something with that soon

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You could try some mesh, maybe paint it black.

 

[Spencer_waynee]

True it definitely needs something I'm not so worried about protecting from objects/bugs just looks a little odd...I'll take it over the w/t grille

 

[Tonyrodz]

HD grill. Blacked it out tho because the chrome was peeling on one end, plus I'm not big on chrome.

Got rid of the red, all black now. The inner grill looks like mesh.

 

[Spencer_waynee]

That looks pretty good I may just end up doing the hood haven't made my mind up yet

 

[Rocket Man]

Good work so far, keep it up.

 

[swampfoxjr]

HD grill. Blacked it out tho because the chrome was peeling on one end, plus I'm not big on chrome. View attachment 68771 View attachment 68772Got rid of the red, all black now. The inner grill looks like mesh.

Did you cut bumper to get grill to fit?


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[Tonyrodz]

Did you cut bumper to get grill to fit?


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No, I had to cut the lower edge of the grill. Maybe an inch to inch 1/2 to get it to fit. Then there's a large mounting peg I had to cut off so the grill will sit flush.

 

[Spencer_waynee]

Scrolling through eBay and having trouble deciding if I want to go with the clear or the black crystal with clear lenses hmmm...