Rocket Man's 02 Denali Build Thread AKA "THE BEAST"

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It says it has a parking brake pedal self-adjuster, that’s why you have to lock it out when serving the cable or shoes. That supposedly is how you get it to self-adjust.
Right, it pulls the cable tight rather than having the rusted up threaded rod adjuster. That spring in the cable pully at the pedal is not strong enough to overcome the springs at the ends of the cables by the levers. There doesn't appear to be any self adjusting mechanism related to the shoe tension within the rotor/drum.

It can't hurt to do what those instructions call for. It ensures all is well and properly adjusted.

Maybe I got lucky...
 
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There needs to be a separate set of instructions for these trucks that's for the rust belt!:driver:
 
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I did some repair on the grill. It had a few cracks in the honeycomb part so I super glued them and touched up the gloss black that was chipping with some Testers paint. I’ll get a pic in a bit, all I have is The Beast with no grill. Looks mean. I have to say the body color paint isn’t looking too great. I think next I’ll order another aftermarket grill and paint it myself.
 

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The cowl and wipers were looking bad. It’s been a few years since I painted them so I decided to Cerakote the plastic and paint the wiper arms like I just did on The Machine. Before pics.
 

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After. I have to say so far I’m really liking the Cerakote.
 

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