2001 Team DC Audio build (2025 revive)

[05Single]

happened to be looking at my corner lights and noticed the lens was separating damnit. Upon further inspection the butyl I used from Home Depot isn’t like the morimoto retro rubber where it actually sticks and hardens up. So the butyl I used literally did nothing basically I’m surprised they held together this long lol. I pulled the lights back apart without even baking them.
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Spent a couple hours clearing off all the old butyl, adding retro rubber, and resealing them. Also hit them with a quick polish and they are good to go luckily.
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Didn’t want to out you but I’m gonna do it anyway and say “paint your rad support already!!!”

 

[Sam Harris]

Went to the wrecking yard with the lady today. There was a 02 Escalade ext truck sitting in the very back. Gauge Cluster was still in it!!! My buddy works there so I called him and asked for a price and mileage.
He said they normally sell them for 175 but he will give me it for 125. Okay score rarely can find them that cheap. And he said the mileage was 194000. Mines at 204000. So pretty close. We got up to the front and he said He would do 100. Hell yes!! I’m stoked at this point.
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Got home and pulled my HD cluster out. Swapped over the green leds. Also for anyone who has problems with 00-02 clusters acting up I found out after bass broke my hd one that the female end on the cluster doesn’t have support so where it solders to the circuit board breaks easily. Made sure to fix this one before that can happen. Just put a layer of ca glue underneath it for support and sturdiness.
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got it hooked up and it’s at 199000 so only 4000 away from mine. Couldn’t have luck like that again I’m super stoked been wanting one since I bought the Tahoe. View attachment 237860

SCORE!!

 

[Thatsquishykid717]

I like the green.

Yeah the green leds look really good in the Escalade cluster especially at night. Way better than the hd looked

 

[Thatsquishykid717]

Didn’t want to out you but I’m gonna do it anyway and say “paint your rad support already!!!”

Funny thing is when I was posting that photo I was thinking, “I should make a comment about how I need to paint that and how 05single has given me crap for it before” hahahahaha

 

[Sam Harris]

Yeah the green leds look really good in the Escalade cluster especially at night. Way better than the hd looked View attachment 237887

Dope

 

[mainecrab]

Damn that is sweet cluster!

 

[Thatsquishykid717]

Last night turned into a shit show real quick. Met up with a few buddies to go to a car meet in Tigard(about a hour drive).
Got right past the Woodburn exit, 20 miles from where the meet was, went to pass someone and when I got to 85 all the sudden it felt like I was driving on the rumble strip with all 4 tires, aggressive vibration and shaking. Got to the side of the freeway and couldn’t see anything wrong underneath. Pulled back out on the highway and it started doing it again at about 30mph+. Luckily there was a weigh station turn off right there. so I went limped it to a safe spot and found my front u joint blew apart where the driveline connects to the diff. Of course no tools on me or any of the other cars. My step brother drove to a parts store a few miles away to grab an 11mm so I could get the driveline pulled. Well thanks to my Texas speed y pipe I couldn’t get it out and couldn’t get the y pipe apart. Also did I mention it was pouring down rain this whole time? As I was soaked head to toe and frustrated I finally got ahold of my dad as a last resort to bring the truck and trailer but also had him bring a sawzall to cut the driveline out if I didn’t fit on his trailer. (When I had the 20x12s it was to wide to clear the fenders on his flat bed) and with no tape and not remembering how much it wouldn’t clear before he brought the trailer just Incase it would. Well it is still 2” too wide to fit on his flatbed. So sawzall it is. Got it cut in half and pulled out and finally got home after 4 hours of sitting on the side of the freeway soaking wet.

My buddy recently parted out a Tahoe and gave me the front driveline. Fingers crossed it will work. But if not they are like 40 bucks at the wrecking yard so I really wasn’t worried about having to cut it out.

 

[HiHoeSilver]

Went to the wrecking yard with the lady today. There was a 02 Escalade ext truck sitting in the very back. Gauge Cluster was still in it!!! My buddy works there so I called him and asked for a price and mileage.
He said they normally sell them for 175 but he will give me it for 125. Okay score rarely can find them that cheap. And he said the mileage was 194000. Mines at 204000. So pretty close. We got up to the front and he said He would do 100. Hell yes!! I’m stoked at this point.
View attachment 237857
Got home and pulled my HD cluster out. Swapped over the green leds. Also for anyone who has problems with 00-02 clusters acting up I found out after bass broke my hd one that the female end on the cluster doesn’t have support so where it solders to the circuit board breaks easily. Made sure to fix this one before that can happen. Just put a layer of ca glue underneath it for support and sturdiness.
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got it hooked up and it’s at 199000 so only 4000 away from mine. Couldn’t have luck like that again I’m super stoked been wanting one since I bought the Tahoe. View attachment 237860

YES!!!

Last night turned into a shit show real quick. Met up with a few buddies to go to a car meet in Tigard(about a hour drive).
Got right past the Woodburn exit, 20 miles from where the meet was, went to pass someone and when I got to 85 all the sudden it felt like I was driving on the rumble strip with all 4 tires, aggressive vibration and shaking. Got to the side of the freeway and couldn’t see anything wrong underneath. Pulled back out on the highway and it started doing it again at about 30mph+. Luckily there was a weigh station turn off right there. so I went limped it to a safe spot and found my front u joint blew apart where the driveline connects to the diff. Of course no tools on me or any of the other cars. My step brother drove to a parts store a few miles away to grab an 11mm so I could get the driveline pulled. Well thanks to my Texas speed y pipe I couldn’t get it out and couldn’t get the y pipe apart. Also did I mention it was pouring down rain this whole time? As I was soaked head to toe and frustrated I finally got ahold of my dad as a last resort to bring the truck and trailer but also had him bring a sawzall to cut the driveline out if I didn’t fit on his trailer. (When I had the 20x12s it was to wide to clear the fenders on his flat bed) and with no tape and not remembering how much it wouldn’t clear before he brought the trailer just Incase it would. Well it is still 2” too wide to fit on his flatbed. So sawzall it is. Got it cut in half and pulled out and finally got home after 4 hours of sitting on the side of the freeway soaking wet. View attachment 238389View attachment 238390
My buddy recently parted out a Tahoe and gave me the front driveline. Fingers crossed it will work. But if not they are like 40 bucks at the wrecking yard so I really wasn’t worried about having to cut it out.

NOOOO!!!

 

[Thatsquishykid717]

YES!!!



NOOOO!!!

Hahaha yeah one win followed by one loss oh well could have turned out a lot worse than it did I got lucky

 

[05Single]

Hahaha yeah one win followed by one loss oh well could have turned out a lot worse than it did I got lucky

Sounds like fun
What would’ve cause that to happen you think ?

 

[Thatsquishykid717]

Sounds like fun
What would’ve cause that to happen you think ?

honestly i have no clue the u joint doesnt even look that bad. i think they only have 30000 miles on them at most. i replaced all the u joints a couple years ago. looks like it threw a cap on one but the u joint straps were tight when i took them off so i have no idea. still kinda baffled and surpised.

 

[Onebad1983]

God this thread makes me miss my Tahoe!!!! I love the indigo blue and wish I had it on my new Yukon

 

[Onebad1983]

@Thatsquishykid717 one of the pictures from your photo shoot is my new background. Thank you

 

[Thatsquishykid717]

God this thread makes me miss my Tahoe!!!! I love the indigo blue and wish I had it on my new Yukon

@Thatsquishykid717 one of the pictures from your photo shoot is my new background. Thank you

thank you very much man! I love the indigo blue as well besides that it’s a dark color and shows every ding scrape and dent there is of course Hahahah.

 

[Onebad1983]

thank you very much man! I love the indigo blue as well besides that it’s a dark color and shows every ding scrape and dent there is of course Hahahah.

Very true!

 

[Thatsquishykid717]

Not a big update but found a set of clear lenses locally for 40 bucks. The inside corner on the driver side where it meets the grill was cracked but when installed it’s not even visible I still will probably swap it out with another lens. And they are lightly fogging on the side where the 194 marker light is. So I gotta get on that hoping it’s just the seal around the socket if I have to bake it though oh well it’s not hard. Also was given a set of stock lights, stock marker lights, and all clear headlights in that purchase. The passenger side on the new one is deeper so I’m most likely gonna redo my retrofits using them. My current passenger side bugs my ocd how it’s closer to the lens compared to the driver lol. Gonna swap my depo lenses over though because they don’t have all the lines like the new ones.

Excuse the dirty rig. Winter in Oregon and daily driving will do that haha.

Also my buddy trusted me enough to replace all the bulbs in his 2006 lbz cluster. Never did them before but was surprisingly easy imo and made me excited to tackle all my climate control, window switches, 4x4 switches etc. need to order my leds for that now. He just replaced them with regular bulbs but they turned out good!

 

[Onebad1983]

Not a big update but found a set of clear lenses locally for 40 bucks. The inside corner on the driver side where it meets the grill was cracked but when installed it’s not even visible I still will probably swap it out with another lens. And they are lightly fogging on the side where the 194 marker light is. So I gotta get on that hoping it’s just the seal around the socket if I have to bake it though oh well it’s not hard. Also was given a set of stock lights, stock marker lights, and all clear headlights in that purchase. The passenger side on the new one is deeper so I’m most likely gonna redo my retrofits using them. My current passenger side bugs my ocd how it’s closer to the lens compared to the driver lol. Gonna swap my depo lenses over though because they don’t have all the lines like the new ones. View attachment 239450View attachment 239451View attachment 239452
Excuse the dirty rig. Winter in Oregon and daily driving will do that haha.

Also my buddy trusted me enough to replace all the bulbs in his 2006 lbz cluster. Never did them before but was surprisingly easy imo and made me excited to tackle all my climate control, window switches, 4x4 switches etc. need to order my leds for that now. He just replaced them with regular bulbs but they turned out good! View attachment 239453View attachment 239454

How hard is it to do? I need to replace the LEDs in mine and also the stepper motors in the cluster in my Yukon

 

[Thatsquishykid717]

How hard is it to do? I need to replace the LEDs in mine and also the stepper motors in the cluster in my Yukon

If you know how to solder and work with small parts it’s really not that hard at all in my opinion. Just watch lots of videos and do research on it. Make sure you feel 100% confident doing it or find a cheap spare cluster to try it all on first before you do it to your own.

 

[Onebad1983]

If you know how to solder and work with small parts it’s really not that hard at all in my opinion. Just watch lots of videos and do research on it. Make sure you feel 100% confident doing it or find a cheap spare cluster to try it all on first before you do it to your own.

Luckily my grandfather owns a junkyard!

 

[Sam Harris]

Luckily my grandfather owns a junkyard!

Lucky bastard!