reedal's '03 Tahoe build

[reedal]

Well, I decided I didn't want to wait until it gets warmer to tear it apart. It's gonna kill me to drive it torn apart, but oh well. I'm tearing it apart so I can get her all cleaned up. I'll reinstall the drivers seat for driving purposes of course.

Just a little bit more to go. Time to tackle that center console after a little lunch. Once that's done, the ceiling and door panels will be next, then I think I'll go ahead and take the dash apart some. Tomorrow I'll vacuum and wipe it down, and then we wait for a warmer day to make applying the deadener a little easier

 

[reedal]

Second row captains seats came in.

unfortunately, no plastic trim or covers on the rear, but I think I can order that stuff from GM parts direct or something. Leather shows a little age but that's fine. Couple of scuffs. Comfy. And at the moment, I'm stuffing all of the stuff I bring out of the Tahoe into that corner to the top left of the photo. We don't use the dining room table anyways.

 

[reedal]

Done for the day. Some of the floor padding was wet on the passenger side under the dash, so I gotta find where that's coming from. Tomorrow, I'll do some vacuuming and cleanup with acetone. Didn't take the doors or ceiling down, so I'll do that tomorrow too.

 

[Fosscore]

Nice work man stripping that thing down. Gives you a great representation of how the all goes together

Looking back I'm glad I did my headliner and carpet myself for that very reason.

Educational and cheaper of course.

 

[reedal]

Nice work man stripping that thing down. Gives you a great representation of how the all goes together

Looking back I'm glad I did my headliner and carpet myself for that very reason.

Educational and cheaper of course.

Definitely. And now that there aren't any seats in the way, I can actually see just how disgusting a 14 year old vehicle's carpet really gets. I'm only the third owner, so I'd hate to see some that have changed hands more than a pair of rental bowling shoes. I'm gonna have to replace it.

 

[Fosscore]

Here is what mine looked like when I replaced it. Nasty!

 

[Spencer_waynee]

Wow man that was a nice read for me lol. I'd have to say that's the most drastic audio build I've ever read. As far as the roof rack and and steps I removed mine.

 

[reedal]

Wow man that was a nice read for me lol. I'd have to say that's the most drastic audio build I've ever read. As far as the roof rack and and steps I removed mine.

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Haha thanks. I hope it's drastic in a good way. I do really like the way it looks without the rack and steps. One day I'll stop procrastinating and get around to taking them off. I hate to just throw them away though, and without shipping them to someone I'm not too sure on how to sell them to someone else. I'm not too sure on how to ship items that large if I did sell them to someone across the states.

By the way, anything going on with that toy I see parked under the car port?

 

[reedal]

Wife said I need to get the stuff out of the dining room

so yesterday, I spent the day cutting and laying deadener on the floor. I let the beast warm up for a bit and the heat cranked all of the way up to heat the inside up. Wore gloves till I started on the doors. Should have kept the gloves on. Sliced the back side of a finger. Oh well, lesson learned. It sure was hot in there; I was dripping sweat all over the place.

My initial thought of the Second Skin B-stock 40-pounder: it smells very strongly of cats, it weighs more than the SoundQubed Q-mat, but isn't as thick as the Q-mat. Q-mat has more butyl, but Damplifier has much thicker aluminum, which I feel is more important because it will be more rigid than the Q-mat. No, I didn't remove the Q-mat I already have on the doors. I left it and added some damplifier.

The floor took a huge chunk of my 40-pounder out, plus the little I added to the doors. That left me with 6 or so sheets left. I took them inside and applied it to the underside of my dash.

Today, I spent the last two or three hours crawling around the floor of the Tahoe glueing down Overkill Pro and applying to the inside of the doors. I've only got a few scraps left, which I will likely piece randomly on the underside of my dash. It's not "pretty" or neat or anything like that in there. I cut it how I saw fit in order to reapply the interior that I put out. I'll take a picture once I come down from the glue fumes high I'm on, even with the doors open. Definitely should have worn gloves and long sleeves for glueing the Overkill Pro to the doors.

The doors have a double layer on top and bottom of the crossmember that is in the middle of the inner door, and there's a single layer across the floor. I have six sheets of Luxury Liner Pro that I will cut to the shape of the carpet/jute mat (should have thought of that with the Damp pro and Overkill as well for simplicity) to include every bolt/hole that is required. I only hope that everything I put back in still fits after having nearly an extra inch of matting on the floor.


Ill get a few pictures of what I got going on on the inside soon.

 

[Spencer_waynee]

Haha thanks. I hope it's drastic in a good way. I do really like the way it looks without the rack and steps. One day I'll stop procrastinating and get around to taking them off. I hate to just throw them away though, and without shipping them to someone I'm not too sure on how to sell them to someone else. I'm not too sure on how to ship items that large if I did sell them to someone across the states.

By the way, anything going on with that toy I see parked under the car port?

Yea it's for sale lol
It was my grandpas project. Had back surgery and doesn't have time for it. He gave me lot and moved closer to the lake.
Just hasn't came and picked it up yet

 

[reedal]

Damp pro B-stock and Overkill Pro on the floors. Gonna keep piecing the scraps throughout on the bare spots tomorrow.

Three sheets of Luxury Liner Pro cut to size/shape.

after that I put the (unfortunately) old carpet back in. So the front half of the floor is done. Tomorrow I'll cut the other three sheets of LLP to shape for the back half and lay the carpet back down. Put the door panels back up with some scraps of CCF/MLV attached after that, and begin to re-run the wires that go under the carpet before I put the seats and trim panels back in. Maybe I'll have it done by the weekend. My leave is up, so I'll only get to work on it in the evenings after work, and it gets dark quick. Thanks for looking

 

[Fosscore]

Looks good man. Hope those trim pieces snap back in with that extra deadener. Should be a quieter ride for sure.

 

[Tonyrodz]

Looks good man. Hope those trim pieces snap back in with that extra deadener. Should be a quieter ride for sure.

I was thinking the same thing.

 

[reedal]

I don't think it's gonna be too bad snapping them back into place. I do need to grab some new clips though. Some of the older ones have a little too much wiggle in them

 

[reedal]

Got the back half of the lux pro and carpet put in.

theres a considerable height difference in between the top of the carpet and Base of that ring, probably about 3/4".

 

[05Single]

I don't see the plastic trim for the 3rd row feet to latch into clipping back in. But I hope I'm wrong. Please tell me I'm wrong

 

[reedal]

I don't see the plastic trim for the 3rd row feet to latch into clipping back in. But I hope I'm wrong. Please tell me I'm wrong

It did. I can snap a picture tomorrow, I'm stuck on the ship for duty today :/

 

[05Single]

lol I don't miss those days, you have my sympathy

 

[reedal]

On a side note, I have new rear coil springs, bilstein 5100's front and rear, idler and pitman arms, front wheel bearings, and Moog upper and lower CA's (decided the coilover swap Atomic offers just wasn't for me at this time), and tie rods. I've never swapped any of that out myself before, but if I'm able to do it myself I'd like to. Any thoughts on what I can and can't do myself? I've got a floor jack, jack stands, and a ton of tools, and I like doing the work myself, I've just never done those things or seen it done before. Thanks in advance. What I can't do, my brother in-law works at a local shop and can put it on the lift, but I like free labor (me) better, ya know?

 

[reedal]

@05Single here ya go.

Now, it doesn't sit flat on the bars, but it still "locks" into place and doesn't pop off. But if it didn't, I wouldn't mind anyways because there will be a sub enclosure covering the rear area up anyways.

I know the front carpet is supposed to tuck under the beginning of the rear carpet normally, but I'm going to do it this way instead in order to meet my needs