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BettyBlue
The trip home was uneventful. It was 10 degrees. I came in. Too cold to be holding on to wrenches down south. The next morning we got on the Nissan. Turned out to be a bad wire on the starter solenoid. Easy enough to fix. We took it back to him At that point my back was done in. We stopped...- TheWarBeast
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BettyBlue
The Epic saga of the broken brakes. On Wednesday before last I went up to get a super sexy Jaguar for scrap. It also came with a lot of tires on rims. The guy said it runs. I haven't tried it out yet. About 2 miles from the house BettyBlue's brakes started to scream. Well not scream...- TheWarBeast
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BettyBlue
IT was broken worse than I suspected. At 845 headed down to TIm's. Right off the bat we had a problem. Steph ran the battery dead with the hazard lights last night. Tim pulled his big e350 van over and jumped it off The truck would not move at all. Since it had a tire chock under the back...- TheWarBeast
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The IronHorse
I forgot to update this. Steph put the starter back in the next day. However, when I was doing the compression test I found that the whole front of the frame is rusted out. NO fixing it. And the engine had bad compression and when I looked in with the borescope the cylinders were scored...- TheWarBeast
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BettyBlue
Not in a day or two. Still trying to fix the ones I have LOL>- TheWarBeast
- Post #35
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BettyBlue
Wellll....... After a year and a half and maybe 100k miles (odometer doesn't work, but that is average for me) the clutch that was bad when I bought the truck finally went out. I am very easy on a clutch. Wife was driving it when it happened so I can blame her. LOL. Tomorrow it goes up on the...- TheWarBeast
- Post #33
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The IronHorse
Since not much happened on the truck here is how my morning went. I nearly strangled a guy this morning. Yesterday morning I was supposed to go get a Crown Vic from him. However, weather had me running late. I texted (the only way I had been in touch with him - not at all unusual) him to...- TheWarBeast
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The JollyGreenGiant
Well, today we took all the tools out of the back of the JollyGreenGiant, stuck all the parts we removed in the back, and moved it out of the carport. I will get back to her later. I moved the Ironhorse into her place. Tomorrow that begins.- TheWarBeast
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The IronHorse
With the untimely death of the JollyGreenGiant, I did some shuffling around, and moved the IronHorse into the carport. The IronHorse is a 1999 (I think I have so many it gets hard to keep up) K2500 Suburban. It is a work truck so it has vinyl seats, roll up windows, and rubber floormats. A...- TheWarBeast
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The JollyGreenGiant
Well CHit. We pulled the heads off today. The Drivers side looked good. The passengers side had a blown gasket. However upon closer inspection.... Scored cylinder. As much as I drive no way I am going to put it back together like this. I do have another truck I bought with a clown...- TheWarBeast
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The JollyGreenGiant
We were outside at about 1030 working on the JollyGreenGiant. In a short time we had the intake manifold off. Think I found the problem. Both sides were like that. After some discussing and thinking, I decided to go ahead and pull the heads. The truck has 400k on it and it got really...- TheWarBeast
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The JollyGreenGiant
So you like stories do you. Yesterday, I got up and headed off to Asheville yesterday to get my nephew's motorcycle. The trip up was great. I got off the interstate and suddenly there were cops everywhere. Enough blue lights to give the whole city an epileptic seizure. They were weaving...- TheWarBeast
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The JollyGreenGiant
Monday I had to go up to Asheville to take my nephews motorcycle up to a dealership for warranty work. Of course there was a monsoon in NC. The roads were terrible. There were places there were 2 feet of water on the road. Enough that it washed the paper tag off the back of the truck. For...- TheWarBeast
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The JollyGreenGiant
Final polishing. I got out the black RTV and put the lenses back on everything Then we stole some mounting tabs off a parts truck. For the first time all the lights up front work Looks a million times better. I was fed up with the puny stock horn so I put the horns we took off the S10...- TheWarBeast
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The JollyGreenGiant
So yet another Suburban is rolling. About a year and a half ago I bought this truck for $800 from a guy. It had a bad trans, and they had been living in it. IT sat in the yard for awhile, then it went to the shop. After almost a year in a buddy's transmission shop - free repair - I got the JGG...- TheWarBeast
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Hello, my name is William....
Not so far. Been busier than a one legged man in a butt kicking competition.- TheWarBeast
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Hello, my name is William....
Bad news. TheKracken is wounded badly. When the radiator went out it did more damage than we thought. Blown head gasket. Since I have the K2500 I am going to repair it. It will be a better work truck and 4wd to boot. It needs headgaskets so it will be the same amount of work either way. I...- TheWarBeast
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BettyBlue
Well, we made it back from TN with minor hiccups. BettyBlue ran perfect and got 15mph running 80 mph up and down the hills. I am happy with that. HOWEVER>>>> (as mentioned above) the starter decided to die when it was hot. If we drove a couple of hours we either had to sit for an hour, or...- TheWarBeast
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BettyBlue
BettyBlue got to running rough so I tuned her up. The plugs looked great! I also found the exhaust leak that I thought was the flange gasket. It ran a lot better. Now the starter is getting hot and not working after an hour long or so drive.- TheWarBeast
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Hello, my name is William....
If it wasn't so damn hot they would all be running now. Well maybe.- TheWarBeast
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Hello, my name is William....
I have 1 An 88 K1500 diesel Burb (oldSmoley) with a Banks turbo. Needs work. 2 An 88 C1500 short bed (Spooky) waiting on me to finish the engine swap and get it running. 3 An 89 C1500 longbed with nothing but a good body. Soon to be mated to the below. 4 A 90 C1500 longbed with a bizillion...- TheWarBeast
- Post #12
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Hello, my name is William....
Soooo the C2500, now named TheKracken, had a bad case of diarrhea today. She got her name because a PO lived in Florida and used her to put boats in the ocean. She has the rust to prove it. Yesterday the rear end started singing. Today I pumped in 3/4 gallon of gear oil and was treated to...- TheWarBeast
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Hello, my name is William....
Found more exciting stuff on the Burb. We had to go get a load of sand in the dump trailer on Monday . So I took a look at the wiring. I found this mess. It had been on fire at one point. Lucky me. So I sliced all the wiring out and fortunately had a new 7 pin connector in the shop. We...- TheWarBeast
- Post #6
- Forum: Suburban / Yukon XL / Escalade ESV