Fresh350's 2004 Tahoe Build Thread

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I finally got the rest of the parts needed for my TBSS intake swap... I even found some evap lines for the purge valve off of a NNBS/TBSS. Took me around 3 hours total with swapping injectors and cleaning everything. I just got most of it buttoned up before it started raining like crazy.

Swapping injectors and bolting the rail on
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On the truck and mostly buttoned up

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Now I'm just waiting for the rain to stop so I can drive it but I may just wait til morning so I can make sure everything is good
 

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I finally got the rest of the parts needed for my TBSS intake swap... I even found some evap lines for the purge valve off of a NNBS/TBSS. Took me around 3 hours total with swapping injectors and cleaning everything. I just got most of it buttoned up before it started raining like crazy.

Swapping injectors and bolting the rail on
73fd7304ecd5a6b37915e307fa67c91e.jpg

12e0e8a51370f76a88de34cb778ecb10.jpg

On the truck and mostly buttoned up

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Now I'm just waiting for the rain to stop so I can drive it but I may just wait til morning so I can make sure everything is good
Please let us know what you think about the swap.
 
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Man... it’s been a while since being here. I was going nuts for the last few months at my old job and ended up walking out. Didn’t really touch the Tahoe for a bit besides driving it here and there. It developed a nice little tap/tick that turned into hammering, then she got parked. Figured out the noise was lifter related so started ordering parts and decided to yank the motor to change all the gaskets while I was at it. But then this happened...

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How the lifters and cam looked when coming out...

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And here she is before heading to my engine guy

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He tore it down and said the pistons needed to be recoated and it’s getting all new bearings and rings... also the block will be hot tanked and painted. I’ll be throwing a 2800-3200 stall 10” converter finally and all my other goodies that have been sitting around. Since the cam is done I went with a BTR Stage 4 cam kit with all the fixin’s and a tune is in order after she’s all back together.
 

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Man... it’s been a while since being here. I was going nuts for the last few months at my old job and ended up walking out. Didn’t really touch the Tahoe for a bit besides driving it here and there. It developed a nice little tap/tick that turned into hammering, then she got parked. Figured out the noise was lifter related so started ordering parts and decided to yank the motor to change all the gaskets while I was at it. But then this happened...

b4f3ed0ba345ba05794d358e5ea155e5.jpg

How the lifters and cam looked when coming out...

81835d62431f414ebe338553999aa813.jpg2ba358b1ab9b57c25f4084b1b0d66b91.jpga08c486bc9a19112556b47400c9f3eae.jpg4a3050be529eb7af760bff547075b664.jpg

And here she is before heading to my engine guy

38f229da090db03f757a463374b2a3dd.jpg


He tore it down and said the pistons needed to be recoated and it’s getting all new bearings and rings... also the block will be hot tanked and painted. I’ll be throwing a 2800-3200 stall 10” converter finally and all my other goodies that have been sitting around. Since the cam is done I went with a BTR Stage 4 cam kit with all the fixin’s and a tune is in order after she’s all back together.
Sounds like it's gonna be beastie. I just developed a tick also, hope it's not as bad as yours.
 

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