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    2004 Yukon power loss then normal

    I know this is a few months old, but I'm going to call the fuel pump relay. I had (have?) a problem like this for years, eventually it would die while driving, but start back up about 15 minutes later. Threw every part at it and was about to replace the fuel pump when an old man told me to get...
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    Tank's '02 Z71 Tahoe Rescue

    Well, a funny thing happened on the way to the forum.... Last weekend we had to replace the A/C compressor and then a few days later, the neutral safety switch. Ugh. We replaced the shocks with Bilstein 4600s, but one of the front shocks I ordered from Amazon was wrong, the new one came in...
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    Tank's '02 Z71 Tahoe Rescue

    Very cool. F-bodies just get in your blood. I've been around many makes and models of vehicle in my life, and by far my two favorite are the 1st-4th gen f-body and the GM trucks. My fiancé loves VW and 80's-90's BMWs, which I'm learning are really easy to work on. We're already out of room...
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    Tank's '02 Z71 Tahoe Rescue

    The front tan plastic and carpet that's left to change out isn't going to happen until I get the new seats ready. I pulled the leather back off of one of the Denali seats tonight and tore it. Next time I'll clean and treat the driver's side one to try to save the skin. I have a spare shale...
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    Tank's '02 Z71 Tahoe Rescue

    Here are some pictures of the mostly finished dash and door panels. The RR panel still has a shale armrest until I can find a graphite one, and I need the gray bezels for both rear window switches. The bottom dash came out of an '05, hence the gap with the center console. I have all but one...
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    Tank's '02 Z71 Tahoe Rescue

    I'll keep that in mind...one of the good leather bottoms I'm going to use has a cigarette hole in it. I can do regular leather work, I've done cosplay and western stuff for years, but I've never tried upholstery. I'm actually thinking about buying a leather sewing machine (for other projects)...
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    Tank's '02 Z71 Tahoe Rescue

    Yes, I discovered that as I was trying to pull the body harness. I ran out of time and I'll have to go back for it later. The rear seat came from an '05 Tahoe, so it's not heated. I hope I can pull the Denali harness to get the 8-way working for my front seats and cut it for the back seats...
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    Tank's '02 Z71 Tahoe Rescue

    I'm not good at getting the plastic J-clips back together, I don't have the strength or patience to pull/push on them. The headrests and bottom seats aren't bad, but I'm soooo hating the top seat covers right now. I research everything to extreme. I made a Word doc from all the different...
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    Tank's '02 Z71 Tahoe Rescue

    I forgot to mention that the Denali seats and the back seat only cost me $80. The front seats I pulled from the '05 and all the plastic from the previous haul was $85.
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    Tank's '02 Z71 Tahoe Rescue

    And then you have to get the clip back on, but good to know. I'm missing hog rings right about now. Because I'm so organized I'm disorganized, I have a notebook with cross references to other models, including all the leather colors and codes, and interior RPO codes. I also have the wiring...
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    Tank's '02 Z71 Tahoe Rescue

    Here are the seats I pulled from the Denali. I tried to pull the top leather without cutting it, but that is a helluva job, so I organized all the gray vs. tan parts I have sitting around and washed the truck instead. Here's the shampoo from Dollar Tree for the leather And now I'm...
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    Tank's '02 Z71 Tahoe Rescue

    The dash was just cleaned and treated, 303 protectant is awesome, I've been using it since I restored the GTA. I really like the dark graphite from the silverado. I'll try to remember to grab some new pics of the completed dash tomorrow. Today, I somehow managed to get the 2nd row seat and...
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    Tank's '02 Z71 Tahoe Rescue

    We lined the garage (metal building) with the foil double bubble radiant barrier last summer, and it makes a huge difference in the west Texas heat. When the headliner comes down in the Tahoe, you can bet it's getting lined just for that reason. I wish I'd been brave enough to pull out the rear...
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    Tank's '02 Z71 Tahoe Rescue

    Something else I'm researching is modifying/swapping the center console. I have two '02 tan consoles with rear audio and an '03+ tan console with rear audio. I think I want to mate up the '03 and remove the '02 ashtray/12V parts. I don't like that it doesn't use the full inner space and I...
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    Tank's '02 Z71 Tahoe Rescue

    While replacing the water pump, I did some cleaning on the front of engine. There was about 1/8" of build up all over. After The truck had been sitting for less than a day and the mud daubers decided to nest on the radiator. This is the damage they can do (after I pulled the mudball off)...
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    Tank's '02 Z71 Tahoe Rescue

    I forgot the air vents, so I put in the light gray ones from the donor truck (this has since been remedied). And the airbag cover was still tan, so I vinyl wrapped it in black. I also installed a DD Android 8.0 head unit.
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    Tank's '02 Z71 Tahoe Rescue

    The dash took a full weekend of cleaning then treating with 303 protectant to get it back in shape.
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    Tank's '02 Z71 Tahoe Rescue

    Two weeks ago I hit a local salvage yard and pulled some good leather and gray plastic from an '05 Tahoe, and a dash from an '03+ Silverado.
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    Tank's '02 Z71 Tahoe Rescue

    Some catch up photos.... We pulled the rear gray carpet from the donor truck and I cleaned it for about 2 hours and finally gave up. Here's the result. While removing the knee bolster on the donor, we found an odd little device. Turns out it was a GPS tracker installed by one of those we...
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    Tank's '02 Z71 Tahoe Rescue

    So in the last few weeks, the fuel filter crapped out; I replaced the Schrader valves, accumulator, pulley and belt, and orifice tube for the A/C; and the water pump had to be replaced. I made some progress on the interior, replacing the dash with a dark graphite one from an 03+ silverado...
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    Tank's '02 Z71 Tahoe Rescue

    Here are some photos of the GTA for Tony. All the build photos were taken with 35mm, and I never scanned them.
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    Tank's '02 Z71 Tahoe Rescue

    It is an '89. It was my first major project. I bought it from the original owner after it had been totalled and went through a few donor cars to rebuild it. It sat wrecked in storage while I was in college, and the actual work took about 4 years I think. We've had quite the rodent problem...
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    Purple Power

    Woman here, giving away one of our secret weapons.... I use Krud Kutter for almost everything. It's great to clean your stove, oven and turkey fryer, gets nasty burned wood residue out of my laser cutter beds (steel and aluminum), cleaned the gross, greasy rear carpet out of my donor parts...
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    Tank's '02 Z71 Tahoe Rescue

    The donor truck I picked up on Craigslist. One of the wheels is bad, the grill guard was removed and damaged, no transmission, and a bad running board. It's lived a hard life, but parts is parts.
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    Tank's '02 Z71 Tahoe Rescue

    It took two weeks to get the paperwork from the auction company so that I can transfer the title. I did get a nice, shiny, new title signed by the City of Fort Worth. During that time: We pulled parts from a wrecked '03 at a metal recycler yard ($0.10/lb); I found an identical (except grey...

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