Replace the rear wheel bearings and seals on both sides even though one seal was bad. I figured it was time at 315 k. One of the bearings exploded while I was using the slide hammer it was a little tricky to get out after that. That same side had some pitting axle shaft. Nobody around me had replacement shafts available so I used it anyways. There is no abnormal bearing hum before or after. Airbag bag light came on last week and replaced sensor number two on the passenger side I can see why it was malfunctioning, LOL. It's nice driving an old truck like these without having any warning lights on in the dashboard.
What did you do to your NBS GMT800 Tahoe/Yukon Today?
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YukonBrian
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Drove out to Port Orchard on Friday to pick up some replacement seats from the junkyard. I found a 2002 sierra crew cab slt through car-part.com that had an interior with some life left in it.
The front and rears from the pickup are able to bolt into my yukon, but there are some significant differences. The 60/40 middle bench is different in that the back is not large enough to cover the 3rd row footwell and the smaller half seat does not slide foward on a track like the ones from the yukon do. But, both seat halves do fold down just the same.
The more significant difference for me is that the front sierra seats do not have side airbags built into them. My 2000 does have the airbags, so I've ordered some 2.2ohm resistors off amazon to hopefully keep the airbag light off.
My seats aren't in the worst shape, but the dirt is fairly caked in with a nice sheen over top of it. But, the front passenger seat is structurally loose and bounces around a lot and the drivers side has a broken armrest, so I'm mostly trying to address those problems.
I spent Saturday cleaning up the middle bench and installed it this morning, though I don't have a picture just yet. Still waiting on the resistors to arrive before I can test out and possibly install the front seats. I have the fronts all polished up and ready to go in if so.
The seats were $250 each at Kitsap Truck and Auto, which I think was a reasonable deal. So, check them out if you're in the area and need parts, lots of gmt-800 stuff in their yard.
The front and rears from the pickup are able to bolt into my yukon, but there are some significant differences. The 60/40 middle bench is different in that the back is not large enough to cover the 3rd row footwell and the smaller half seat does not slide foward on a track like the ones from the yukon do. But, both seat halves do fold down just the same.
The more significant difference for me is that the front sierra seats do not have side airbags built into them. My 2000 does have the airbags, so I've ordered some 2.2ohm resistors off amazon to hopefully keep the airbag light off.
My seats aren't in the worst shape, but the dirt is fairly caked in with a nice sheen over top of it. But, the front passenger seat is structurally loose and bounces around a lot and the drivers side has a broken armrest, so I'm mostly trying to address those problems.
I spent Saturday cleaning up the middle bench and installed it this morning, though I don't have a picture just yet. Still waiting on the resistors to arrive before I can test out and possibly install the front seats. I have the fronts all polished up and ready to go in if so.
The seats were $250 each at Kitsap Truck and Auto, which I think was a reasonable deal. So, check them out if you're in the area and need parts, lots of gmt-800 stuff in their yard.
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$250 each, so $1,000? Plus the drive, fuel, etc. Did you happen to price new covers, like from Katskin or Roadwire? It's been years since I was in the trade, but a whole leather kit for a 4-door car (including door panel and arm rest pieces) was around $1,000. I'm sure it's gone up now, though.
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I was counting the rear bench as one, so $750 total. I’m not sure all of the steps of katzkinz but think the base price is $1k for the covers, before you get into addons to restore factory features like heating elements and then the actual work to actually replace the covers.
Regardless, my seats were broken and needed replaced, so new covers wouldn’t have completed the job on their own. Though, I’ll probably redo driver side lower seat portion and call the rest good enough.
iamdub
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I'm trackin now. And you upgraded the color- they'll show less dirt!
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Sex appeal. Part of why the 800s just look the best.
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Friday evening I replaced my power brake booster. If it hadn't been for having to lay underneath the dash and remove/install 4 of the hardest to reach nuts I've ever seen, it would've been a 30 minute project. Instead, it took 2 hours. Still glad I did it myself since I paid $341 for the part from Amazon, versus $750 at the dealer plus whatever labor they would've charged me.
Sadly, there's no perceived difference in braking performance, but at least I'm not leaking PS fluid anymore.
Before:
After (I re-routed the soft line behind the hard line after I took this picture):
The old part after removal:
Sadly, there's no perceived difference in braking performance, but at least I'm not leaking PS fluid anymore.
Before:
After (I re-routed the soft line behind the hard line after I took this picture):
The old part after removal:
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My buddy just wrecked his 900, and my second question may have been if he wanted to sell me the intake, lol
I’ve been wanting to replace my brake fluid reservoir ever since I did the same to the coolant overflow reservoir because it was so stained. I need to research if I’ll need to bleed the brakes though. Any idea if I will? I take it you didn’t need to when doing the booster?
Edit: I see the service manual states to remove the MC and then replace the reservoir in which case the entire system would need to be bled. I’m wondering if there’s a way to do it without but probably not lol.
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