Randeez 2012 Budget Yukon Denali Build (stick on hood scoops galore)

[Dantheman1540]

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sooo apparently i prob should start doin this for real
ive had a slight oil leak coming from the front of the oil pan for a while, ive tightened em and retightened the front cover bolts and front pan bolts whatever it was always only a little bit that just blew under the truck.
as i was leaving this morning i saw maybe 6" round oil spot under truck bugged me all day so i came up with a plan to pull all the front cover bolts, rtv the threads themselves, clean it up, reset the front cover, yada yada.
get home, get it jacked up, crawl under....bottom is soaked with oil, its now dripping from the oil filter also and all down the driver side of the pan. cleaned up as much as i could ran outta brake cleaner went ahead and took front cover bolts out, rtv'd the front pan bolts to cover. and since i was down there figured i would make sure all the pan bolts were tight.....well eff me, i prob got another 1/4-1 full turn out of pretty much all of them, and prob another turn on the oil filter too.
ive heard of the 2step just rattling the hell out of everything and people literally loctite'ing every single bolt on the car

Whoa I didn't even think of the 2 step causing that!

 

[gat0r]

need to safety wire your oil pan bolts? LOL

 

[randeez]

need to safety wire your oil pan bolts? LOL

imma have to weld the oil on pan

 

[randeez]

Anyone try these slightly overpriced wheel bearings? Couple bux more than a genuine acdelco...might have this truck a while figured I'd give it a go

 

[randeez]

 

[wjburken]

Anyone try these slightly overpriced wheel bearings? Couple bux more than a genuine acdelco...might have this truck a while figured I'd give it a go

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I’ve heard decent reviews of the Kryptonite stuff but no personal experience.

 

[wjburken]

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Looks great!

Make sure to get launch footage!

 

[Dantheman1540]

Anyone try these slightly overpriced wheel bearings? Couple bux more than a genuine acdelco...might have this truck a while figured I'd give it a go

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I have their tierods on both trucks and I think pitman arm on the RCSB but I cheap out on wheel bearings and get the timken which is probably what those are but rebranded lol.

Their stuff is super nice tho the tierods are pure beef

 

[gat0r]

Anyone try these slightly overpriced wheel bearings? Couple bux more than a genuine acdelco...might have this truck a while figured I'd give it a go

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a friend has some of their parts on his f250 & like them a lot.
steering / suspension parts look pretty heavy duty.

id assume bearing would follwo suit, hopefully.


i like what i see & will upgrade once my stuff wears out, unless something better comes along by then

 

[randeez]

cheap shit DEI turbo blanket already tore a seam after like 2 days, sent that junk back...going to try cheaper one i guess.

aborted trying to tune the intake air temp vs VE table....i would put like .005% change in the table and the stft would be 10% off, so not sure wtf it was doing...kept at it for a few days and screwed the whole ve table up. so i set it back to 1.0 (no change) across the bord and started tuning the ve table again. i also broke down and went over the idle tuning one more time for park/nuetral and in gear. i think its idling pretty good... set all of the modifier tables back to stock, along with the ac on tables and it all seems to be working ok