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

[Tonyrodz]

Lots to report…

I’ve been doing the front, and documenting with pics… BUT… I decided that the original strut bumpers needed to be replaced. At first I planned to just clean them and reuse them, but they were becoming brittle.

My dumb ass threw the originals in the dumpster before I checked the part number. I tried my best to figure out which strut bumpers were appropriate, and I still don’t know if the PPV used different ones in the front or not. I ended up ordering the ones from DJM, just because it seemed like the safe bet since I’m using their coil springs.

As I’m working on the Tahoe, I’m simultaneously driving like a dick in my Challenger, and this happened:

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Hopefully wasn't your fault. Damn.

 

[Caddylack]

DJM sent me the wrong parts, so I still can’t put my struts together. Anyway…

Here is a question about struts…

There is a small metal bracket/spacer that is part of the upper strut mount assembly… Bilstein supplies one with their struts. The OEM version is thicker or “beefier”… Would it make any sense to keep the OEM version? Here is a side by side: