Almost a Tahoe owner

[zcrosby]

Hey guys. I'm looking at buying an 01 Tahoe this Sunday to become my daily driver. Currently my 01 Tacoma is my daily driver so the Tacoma will become an off-road and camping specific rig while I rack up miles on the Tahoe. Here's the Tacoma.

So I have a few questions going into this buy. It's an 01 2wd Tahoe. Would 285/75r16 tires fit by just cranking the torsion bars about an inch or would I need more lift than that? I ask because I have some sitting behind my house if I can make them fit I won't have to buy tires for a while.

Next I always replace headlights on a new to me vehicle because it always seems to make a night and day difference in the looks. Would Amazon or eBay be the best places to buy headlights? And is there any brand that seems to be best?

The fuel gauge doesn't work on the Tahoe so I did a little reading and it seems it's the sending unit in the tank that is the common problem for that. Is the common practice to just replace the whole fuel pump?

Thank you for your patience with a Tahoe newbie




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[treehan77]

You should have good luck with "Depo" brand headlights. Got mine on Amazon. Your fuel gauge is probably not the sender, but the instrument cluster stepper motors. Very common, you can remove the cluster yourself and fix it for less than 50 bucks if you can solder, or send it out for 80-150 bucks. This will include replacing All stepper motors, cause the other gauges will start to fail soon after. You could get a WIfi OBD reader for like 20 bucks and it will show fuel etc, this will confirm if **** the sender or gauge. Highly likely it's the gauge. But the fuel pumps are suspect on these as well.

 

[zcrosby]

Awesome. Thanks for the input.

Got pictures of the Tahoe now.

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[clandr1]

Congrats on the new truck!

Here's my advice:

Headlights:
If you're getting this to be a daily driver, only put as much money as necessary into it. I would forego headlight swap unless the current lenses are just extremely faded due to UV exposure. I would be more concerned changing fluids to get a baseline on maintenance.

Tires:
don't mess w/ the torsion bars. Sell the tires you have, and use that money to buy a decent set of used tires. It is a 2WD, so i wouldn't mess with geometry because it'll cause excessive wear on parts and tires.

Fuel gauge:
excellent advice by treehan77 in the post above this.

 

[zcrosby]

Thank you guys.

So tires and suspension are staying. Tires were in a lot better shape than I thought and also the headlights were too. I'm so use to used vehicles having terrible headlights.

I'll be looking into the stepper motors.

Here's a couple pictures.

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