drdave81
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I suppose it's time to do one of these. It's a 2001 Yukon Denali and had 194,700 miles on it. I bought it back in Oct 2020. I got it off someone who had picked it up in Colorado so it was almost rust free. Two little spots around the rear wheel wells. Mechanically it was in pretty good shape, you could tell a previous owner had kids judging by the stains in the carpets though. Some of the first things I did were to pull the seats and clean the carpets as best I could...... still not great though. Changed all the lights to LEDs, added a double din radio so I had a back up camera for hooking up our camper, and get rid of a tape deck lol. There were lots of little things before letting it sit for that first winter. I had picked it up before my lease on my 19 Ram was up so I'd have time to get it where I wanted it. Also, ended up being one less MI winter on the salty roads.
The following spring, I had the two rust spots fixed and dropped it 2/4 with the belltech kit with helper bags.
That summer I did the 07+ brake upgrade which was a big improvement over the old brakes, poly sway bar bushings front and rear. I picked up the DJM rear sway bar links, but ended up having to go back to the stock ones after many rounds of emails and phone calls with DJM. I could not get the right side to not contact the shock. DJM determined it was likely the brand of shock I had installed, which was Belltech. They said they hadn't tested it with that so assumed it was too wide. So I'm still sitting with the rear sway bar at a horrible angle.
The following spring, I had the two rust spots fixed and dropped it 2/4 with the belltech kit with helper bags.
That summer I did the 07+ brake upgrade which was a big improvement over the old brakes, poly sway bar bushings front and rear. I picked up the DJM rear sway bar links, but ended up having to go back to the stock ones after many rounds of emails and phone calls with DJM. I could not get the right side to not contact the shock. DJM determined it was likely the brand of shock I had installed, which was Belltech. They said they hadn't tested it with that so assumed it was too wide. So I'm still sitting with the rear sway bar at a horrible angle.