W8TVI's 2000 Yukon XL SLT

[W8TVI]

Here is a close-up view of the microphone for my new mobile radio:

 

[W8TVI]

I bought some LED fog light bulbs (on Amazon) to try out on the Yukon.
I locked the shutter (1/10 sec), ISO (800), and white balance (2800K) on all of these pictures to try to give a good comparison between the bulbs.
Before with the stock 880 halogens:

Side by side:

After:

And here they are, setting the camera to full auto, and adding in the headlights:

They were not that easy to install, but I got them on there.

I was thinking about reinstalling my swtichbacks, but I can't find where I stashed them...

I remember saving them, thinking that I might go back to them some time.

Well, I'll do some more cleaning in the next few days and see if they turn up.

 

[MadDogDelpho]

That's quite a difference!

 

[W8TVI]

That's quite a difference!

Yeah, I'm sure I didn't really need them that much brighter, but I hardly use them as fog lights anyway.
The posting claimed 8000 lumen, so that would be 4000 lumen per bulb. I doubt they are really that bright, but they look like they put out closer to around 2000 lumen.

 

[W8TVI]

Bask in the glory glare of my LED fog lights, DRLs, and switchback turn signals!

I re-installed my switchback turn signals.

 

[MadDogDelpho]

Looks good!

 

[05Single]

I knew you'd come back to the switchbacks lol. Looks good buddy!!!

 

[W8TVI]

I knew you'd come back to the switchbacks lol. Looks good buddy!!!

I'll probably switch back to the others later

 

[W8TVI]

Inspired by @MadDogDelpho 's liftgate vinyl I photochoped what a US flag might look like on my truck:

...and added my new bumper sticker

 

[MadDogDelpho]

Looks sick!

 

[W8TVI]

So I tried to seafoam the intake on my Yukon XL like I've done on a couple of other trucks I've had.

Normally once I start spraying the seafoam in there, and get enough where it bogs the engine down a little bit, I'll start getting some smoke out tail pipe, it didn't seem to matter how much I sprayed into the TB. It would barely bog, and it never smoked.

Much cleaner.

 

[05Single]

So in other words your internals are ckean? That's good news right ? I've never heard of a vehicle not blowing out white smoke.

 

[W8TVI]

So after about fifteen minutes of messing with it, I decided to do some cleaning instead.


I used STP Son of a gun and got some parts nice and shiny.

I wanted to pull off the "Vortec" cover to clean it better, but I discovered the brass bushing just spins in its hole, so no dice.

I went around to the back of the truck, and tested out how this stuff would on the vent covers.

 

[W8TVI]

So in other words your internals are ckean? That's good news right ? I've never heard of a vehicle not blowing out white smoke.

Hopefully that is the case. I was hoping it being dirty was the reason for the hard starting problem.

 

[Fosscore]

Nice work man. Clean is a good thing.

 

[W8TVI]

Don't bother with son of a gun on the vent covers... unless you want to do it every day.

I came out to it looking like this after it rained a little bit over night.

Looks like the rain washed it off.

 

[W8TVI]

I scraped off the remains of the bumper stickers on the rear bumper tonight:

After I removed the base layer that they left behind of the round sticker, I found that it looks like they tried to use steel wool to scrub it off.
I used my razor scraper and some goo-gone, and they both came off without trouble or scratches that couldn't be polished out.

I'll probably end up putting my "Fueled by recycled dinosaurs" sticker on this side to hide this.

 

[05Single]

Lame about the bumper. Maybe vinyl wrap it. Can do chrome vinyl or colormatched. Just an idea, I'm always against stickers , especially those of the bumper area

 

[05Single]

Hand polished, took about 10 minutes both sides.

 

[W8TVI]

Hand polished, took about 10 minutes both sides.

What did you use?