What did you do to your OBS GMT400 Tahoe/Yukon Today?

[retorq]

Thanks Gregski! Yeah, really clean.. Well, now it has a pollen coating, but anyway... As for the rebuild - I found a NEW 5.7 for $2050, delivered to the door, I meant to make a post about it, but forgot, figured I should do it now. Yeah, I think $2050 for a new motor sounds pretty darn good, especially considering what Jasper was asking for a rebuilt...

You think they are still making "new" old school 5.7s??

 

[rushr]

1600 bucks to install a supercharger is retarded. all the brackets are there, every bolt is there, theres nothing custom about it. simple bolt on.

(im more a DIY guy, ive never taken my truck to any shops before since i do all my own work. The only thing i cant do is window tinting and alignments. other then that i wont let a shop touch any of my vehicles. Basically because they abuse, they nick the paint, etc etc)

id buy a crate motor if i was you and start from scratch. full warranty and do it all yourself. its nothing you cant do or the forum can tell you to do.

1600 wasn't just for the supercharger. That was for the whole engine removal/replacement and swapping my charger to the new motor. I would love to do everything myself, I just don't have the time or place to pull the motor.

My quote was originally broken down as follows:

Complete Engine with 140K - $1350
R&R Engine/Includes R&R S/C - $1250
Fluids - $150
Oil Change - $42.99
Shop Cost - $12.00
Taxes - $165.30

Total: $2920.29

Since the motor I would be getting from them wasn't rebuilt or anything and pretty much pulled straight out of another vehicle I figured it was worth the extra few hundred to have mine taken and rebuilt, at least then the motor will basically have all new parts internally. The place that quoted me the rebuild can't do the removal/install though. From the few sites I've looked at I don't have the funds to spring for a crate and pay to install it.

 

[SunlitComet]

1600 wasn't just for the supercharger. That was for the whole engine removal/replacement and swapping my charger to the new motor. I would love to do everything myself, I just don't have the time or place to pull the motor.

My quote was originally broken down as follows:

Complete Engine with 140K - $1350
R&R Engine/Includes R&R S/C - $1250
Fluids - $150
Oil Change - $42.99
Shop Cost - $12.00
Taxes - $165.30

Total: $2920.29

Since the motor I would be getting from them wasn't rebuilt or anything and pretty much pulled straight out of another vehicle I figured it was worth the extra few hundred to have mine taken and rebuilt, at least then the motor will basically have all new parts internally. The place that quoted me the rebuild can't do the removal/install though. From the few sites I've looked at I don't have the funds to spring for a crate and pay to install it.

http://www.jegs.com/i/GM Performance/809/12530282/10002/-1?CT=999
new not remanded.

 

[rushr]

http://www.jegs.com/i/GM Performance/809/12530282/10002/-1?CT=999
new not remanded.

If mine is being rebuilt with all new parts and being completely went through, wouldn't it be practically as good as a new one?

 

[SunlitComet]

block and head casting are new as well. besides does the work include new none regrounded crank and cam?

 

[rushr]

I'm pretty sure they are regrinds.

 

[SunlitComet]

ah, go for the gold and just get a new engine. you won't be disappointed.

 

[IRQVET]

Someone got a well over due bath today . . .

 

[Fishintahoe]

Im new here and just read this whole section. On paying 1100 for a bad fuel pump..... im glad i dont live up north with you guys. My mechanic down the street charged me $60 for labor for changing my fuel pump.. and of course the cost of the part.
Also, i had a problem with my wipers only working when they wanted to. This same mechanic put a new ground wire to a screw in the fire wall and good as new. I didnt have to buy a new wiper motor.
And for Rushr... get a new crate. That one from the junkyard may give you problems just as the original you had in ur rig.

 

[rushr]

ah, go for the gold and just get a new engine. you won't be disappointed.

Alright Sun...I'm going for the new. It's only a couple hundred more than rebuilding mine. Then I can keep my old one to tinker with or even sell. If it's up to the wife I would be selling it...hell I would be selling the whole truck if it was up to her...lol

I'm waiting to see how much of a discount, if I get one, there is for military. I've got the racer's discount now through JEGs, just need to see if the motor is eligble.

Edit: Ok, so as I figured there isn't a discount for the motor but it's all good...lol

Question, should I spend the extra hundred and get a 4 bolt main?

http://www.jegs.com/i/GM-Performance/809/12530283/10002/-1

 

[chitown906]

Just painted my roof rack on my 99 OBS since it was all faded and what not , def looks cleaner than it did originally . Pictures to come after a nice wash and wax.

Chi_town

 

[_Dylan_]

I would get the 4 bolt block. I would also pull the vortec heads off the old block and put them on craigslist and get some money back for them.

 

[rushr]

I would get the 4 bolt block. I would also pull the vortec heads off the old block and put them on craigslist and get some money back for them.

Yeah, that's actually what I plan on doing. Minus selling anything right now. I'm going to keep the other motor to mess with a little. I may build it back up for a future project.

 

[ch4d]

Well to be truthful im f'ed my tahoe is done for... My pistons have hairline cracks my bearings are screwed everything is done for..... I got to send my motor back to the company for warranty and such and get everything done and said with. So no tahoe for a while now.... Motor is toast as of now....

 

[96ProCompTahoe]

drove it to work. have really missed driving it. if the weather ever stays nice for a couple days its getting cleaned back up to where it needs to be.

hopefully the garage remodel will be set in stone soon so it can sleep inside out of the weather. been almost 3.5 years in the making to get to that point!

 

[AtomicHoe094]

finally finished up the exhaust for the long tubes and got the whipple all done


Sorry for the ****** cellpicture. Long tubes to SS 2.5" the magnaflow to dump, looks pretty **** and you cant see it which is even better. Blows the dust off the floor when your creeping

 

[Fishintahoe]

Well to be truthful im f'ed my tahoe is done for... My pistons have hairline cracks my bearings are screwed everything is done for..... I got to send my motor back to the company for warranty and such and get everything done and said with. So no tahoe for a while now.... Motor is toast as of now....

Sorry to hear... any plans on bringing it back to life??

Waiting to get my tahoe back from my brothers exwife....long story.

 

[ch4d]

Sorry to hear... any plans on bringing it back to life??

Waiting to get my tahoe back from my brothers exwife....long story.

sending back to s&j

on another side note coming home from the dunes six miles out of tillamook and boom my tires blows so i use this to get home drove it home 50+ miles going 50+ the spare i had was blown to... my dad never got a new tire for the thing so i was SOL

 

[noJeepshere]

Classy...

 

[ch4d]

Classy...

it worked and im happy lol