Rocket Man's 02 Denali Build Thread AKA "THE BEAST"
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Damn man, what a *****. Sorry you had to go through that, and that there’s no obvious sign of the problem. At least you got it one (HUGE) step closer to being back in business. Good job showing the Beast who’s boss brother!! Git r done!
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Impressive, as usual. You are one persistent son of a gun.
That's brutal.
Yeah, ive crushed many finger tips. Fingers, hands etc dropping transfer cases, trans etc etc when i was a young whipper snapper swapping yanking motors swapping cabs, frames out of k5 blazers, pickups etc...definitely sucks and not even sure I would attempt it anymore...lol
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Were they your finger tips, hands, or your buddy's lol? Working at midnight auto, you have that time constraint, so sometimes ya gotta hurry up
lol.
I have bench pressed many a NP 203 t-cases and A-727 transmissions into old Dodge trucks I owned back in the day. Those days are long ******* gone for me and I don't miss them a bit.
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I called Performabuilt today and they said to just ship it in with a description of what happened. Sounds like they will cover it, real nice guys. So I pulled everything off it , drained it, double wrapped it and put it back in the box it came in. They gave me instructions on the converter, as far as draining it and checking for stuff as is drains. Also told me they will inspect the converter filter when they pull the trans apart and advise me if I need to send it to FTI. I pulled the pan and didn't see much in the way of junk, barely a few metal shavings and no clutch material. I thing something just broke inside. I have it loaded in the Tahoe, will drop off at UPS tomorrow. I tried creating a shipping label but UPS said "system error, try again later or call tech support"... I think the 120 lbs shipping weight broke their website.
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I got the label to print today and dropped it off at UPS. $110 for 120 lbs of fun shipped to Pennsylvania.
Thats actually not bad, I thought it would be more coming across the country...
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No not bad at all for that weight all the way across the country. It was about $160 initially until I signed into my UPS account and got a discount. It’s scheduled for delivery next Tuesday.
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UPS had some delays due to all the Midwest floods so it won’t get there until tomorrow (Friday) so I talked to Alan at Performabuilt and he said they’d rebuild it on Monday and it should ship Tuesday. Now that’s customer service.
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Kinda hard to do until they open it up. But they will let me know.
Yeah, okay, I misunderstood the timing.
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Good to see this is moving along. Sounds like you had issues and it was a PITA, but I'm jealous that you're able to do it yourself. Wish I had the knowledge to work on vehicles like you do. Might feel crappy, but you done damn good from an outsiders perspective my man. 
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Yeah, he's pretty good for an old fart.Good to see this is moving along. Sounds like you had issues and it was a PITA, but I'm jealous that you're able to do it yourself. Wish I had the knowledge to work on vehicles like you do. Might feel crappy, but you done damn good from an outsiders perspective my man.
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Better than I could do!
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Thanks guys. I am definately getting too old to be pulling trannys in my driveway. I might end up building a shop in my backyard though.
