Let's sift through every square inch of a 2013 Tahoe PPV

[Caddylack]

Quick, cheap and easy way to lower it about 2". Rough Country sells or used to sell a "drop kit" exactly for this. It was bolts and nuts of a particular grade (12.x? 14.x?) and spacers. With the strut bolted directly to the bottom side, it's less than a 2" drop. The spacers make it a full 2". @89Suburban and I think @kbuskill have or had theirs lowered by this. Some people feel sketched out by this method but I've never heard of any failures. I doubt Rough Country would risk their business on a simple $40 drop kit. I've read discussions of hardware tensile strength, the theoretical maximum loads the front of a GMT900 SUV could put on those points, etc. Apparently, Grade 8 is "sufficient" and some have ran or are running Grade 8 hardware for this drop. The extra strength, yet not brittle hardware spec'ed and supplied by RC is probably over- over-kill as a CYA. Proper torque specs are a factor, too. I have this hardware kit on standby as a drop option for when I get back into messing with mine.

Nice. You also just gave me a top secret idea. Thanks!

 

[iamdub]

Rough country's nuts and bolts are grade 9.

Thanks. I knew it was some uncommon number.

 

[iamdub]

Nice. You also just gave me a top secret idea. Thanks!

Being a (or the?) crackpot suspension experiment teaser on this forum, I might've already thought of, if not tried it.

 

[Caddylack]

So... What the Dickens is this?



I'm pretty happy with the welding job.



Among the items that have been replaced on this car: The trans crossmember. Very interesting.



Arizona on full display here.

 

[iamdub]

So... What the Dickens is this?

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Third cat. Further cleans up the exhaust beyond what the two primary cats do. Also provides more muffling, which might be why you can get away with such a tiny muffler. I think that third cat was an '09+ thing. My '08 didn't have it.

 

[iamdub]

Arizona on full display here.

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[Caddylack]

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What happened to your driveshaft?

 

[Caddylack]

@Tonyrodz why the frown? Lmao. That was supposed to be a positive post.

 

[Tonyrodz]

@Tonyrodz why the frown? Lmao. That was supposed to be a positive post.

Sorry I mis-frowned

 

[iamdub]

What happened to your driveshaft?

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Y'all keep fuckín' wit me 'bout my driveshaft. Ima give y'all díckheads sumpin' to cluck about.