What did you do to your NBS GMT800 Tahoe/Yukon Today?

[ScottyBoy]

With a careful hand, you'll actually have better luck using a high wattage soldering iron in order to not burn components because the required contact time to melt the solder is shorter. Decreases heat dispersal through the components.

Correct. A higher wattage or adjustable wattage soldering iron with a very sharp/fine tip has worked best for me when soldering on circuit boards like instrument clusters or AC control boards. Touch it and melt that solder as fast as possible, because if you hold the iron on the circuit board for too long, you can get the circuit tracers too hot and they will literally lift right up off the board. I learned that the hard way the first time I soldered LEDs on ab AC control panel.

 

[ScottyBoy]

Boats and airplanes tend to tap the wallet pretty good sometimes... I'm sure it will still be worthwhile to refinish, so you can really enjoy the boat.
I was really impressed with the Boyo brand camera I just got from Crutchfield. It was less than $50, but the quality is pretty impressive. Great visibility at night and has nice wide angle view of things.

You will ALWAYS be forking out money if you have a boat.
So get ready to
Break
Out
Another
Thousand

 

[mattbta]

It’s weird, these led bulbs are supposed to last like 20 years and yet I get some that just quit way early. I’ve been doing a full led conversion on my house which is way more expensive than my trucks I found out, especially when finding ones that are compatible with my new smart dimmer system. My front porch light I’m running one from GE that has a dawn-to-dusk sensor and it quit after 6 months. I get it with a vehicle, with all the bouncing around but I feel if they don’t move they should last about forever. Arrrggghhh.

I usually get Cree LED's for the house -- gave up on cheapos long ago for the same reason. Unfortunately in the vehicles, only chinesium available, save for those Sylvanias.

 

[Scottydoggs]

got the new steering box and pitman arm for the front end replaced, then went for tires and an alignment. guy who did the tires and alignment took for ever to get it done. almost 2 hrs. and to top it off the alignment he did sucked donkey balls, and he broke my driver side window vent shade. still waiting for them to call be back with their cctv evidence. so i went back the next day, another guy took almost a hr to re do the alignment but at least its right this time.

 

[mattbta]

Got my spare PCM and performed a read, test write, then full flash of my modified .bin file. Success! Now to install the harness and fans and pcm. See if she runs. Not sure when I'll get around to that, though.

So, VCX Nano, Bench Harness, and PCM Hammer work great.

[05:11:03:826] PCM Hammer 021 [05:11:03:842] Tuesday, January 10 2023 @05:11:03:84 [05:11:03:857] Initializing J2534 Device [05:11:03:873] Loaded DLL [05:11:06:925] Connected to the device. [05:11:06:972] Battery Voltage is: 12.265 [05:11:07:717] Thanks for using PCM Hammer. [05:11:45:874] G:\tahoe-fans.bin [05:11:45:874] Validating 1024k file. [05:11:45:889] Start End Stored Needed Verdict Segment Name [05:11:45:921] 00000 FFFFD D2E8 D2E8 Good Operating system [05:11:45:921] 08002 162CF 4E1B 4E1B Good Engine calibration [05:11:45:936] 162D2 195FF 334C 334C Good Engine diagnostics. [05:11:45:952] 19602 1D8AF F0C5 F0C5 Good Transmission calibration [05:11:45:952] 1D8B2 1E1AF E4E5 E4E5 Good Transmission diagnostics [05:11:45:967] 1E1B2 1F6BF 5805 5805 Good Fuel system [05:11:45:997] 1F6C2 1FEAF C9E5 C9E5 Good System [05:11:46:013] 1FEB2 1FFDF 163E 163E Good Speedometer [05:11:46:029] Requesting operating system ID... [05:11:46:154] PCM and file are both for the same Hardware P01_P59 [05:11:46:169] PCM and file are both operating system 12587603 [05:11:46:388] Unlock succeeded. [05:11:46:419] Attempting switch to VPW 4x [05:11:46:497] Module 0x10 (engine controller) has agreed to enter high-speed mode. [05:11:51:528] Kernel upload 22% complete. [05:11:52:091] Kernel upload 48% complete. [05:11:52:656] Kernel upload 74% complete. [05:11:53:232] Kernel upload 100% complete. [05:11:55:560] Kernel Version: 01030501 [05:11:55:575] Kernel uploaded to PCM succesfully. [05:11:55:654] PCM and image file are both operating system 12587603 [05:11:55:716] Flash chip: AMD AM29F800BB, 1mb [05:11:55:747] Calculating CRCs from file. [05:11:55:778] Initializing CRC algorithm on PCM, this will take a minute... [05:11:55:888] Requesting CRCs from PCM. [05:11:55:903] Range File CRC PCM CRC Verdict Purpose [05:11:57:389] 0F0000-0FFFFF 8D0F8F91 8D0F8F91 Same OperatingSystem [05:11:58:869] 0E0000-0EFFFF A50F3C90 A50F3C90 Same OperatingSystem [05:12:00:374] 0D0000-0DFFFF A50F3C90 A50F3C90 Same OperatingSystem [05:12:01:857] 0C0000-0CFFFF A50F3C90 A50F3C90 Same OperatingSystem [05:12:03:346] 0B0000-0BFFFF A50F3C90 A50F3C90 Same OperatingSystem [05:12:04:825] 0A0000-0AFFFF A50F3C90 A50F3C90 Same OperatingSystem [05:12:06:357] 090000-09FFFF 7DA5C19F 7DA5C19F Same OperatingSystem [05:12:07:858] 080000-08FFFF CDDEAE4C CDDEAE4C Same OperatingSystem [05:12:09:404] 070000-07FFFF D006BDC7 D006BDC7 Same OperatingSystem [05:12:10:921] 060000-06FFFF D2B04EC0 D2B04EC0 Same OperatingSystem [05:12:12:404] 050000-05FFFF 36511E94 36511E94 Same OperatingSystem [05:12:13:899] 040000-04FFFF F6B0E81A F6B0E81A Same OperatingSystem [05:12:15:357] 030000-03FFFF A97E3395 A97E3395 Same OperatingSystem [05:12:16:858] 020000-02FFFF EE1B7BAD EE1B7BAD Same OperatingSystem [05:12:18:325] 010000-01FFFF 20301E97 16038DD8 Different Calibration [05:12:19:134] 008000-00FFFF E4FD019A 8E872C96 Different Calibration [05:12:19:415] 006000-007FFF 85B5BB36 F69DEEA6 Different Parameter [05:12:19:700] 004000-005FFF 09BAEF34 85B5BB36 Different Parameter [05:12:20:153] 000000-003FFF AE42598F AE42598F Same Boot [05:12:20:200] Processing range 010000-01FFFF [05:12:20:231] Erasing. [05:12:20:743] Writing... [05:12:43:919] Processing range 008000-00FFFF [05:12:43:950] Erasing. [05:12:44:340] Writing... [05:12:55:952] Processing range 006000-007FFF [05:12:55:984] Erasing. [05:12:56:201] Writing... [05:12:59:060] Processing range 004000-005FFF [05:12:59:092] Erasing. [05:12:59:310] Writing... [05:13:02:201] Calculating CRCs from file. [05:13:02:243] Initializing CRC algorithm on PCM, this will take a minute... [05:13:02:352] Requesting CRCs from PCM. [05:13:02:368] Range File CRC PCM CRC Verdict Purpose [05:13:03:877] 0F0000-0FFFFF 8D0F8F91 8D0F8F91 Same OperatingSystem [05:13:05:420] 0E0000-0EFFFF A50F3C90 A50F3C90 Same OperatingSystem [05:13:06:904] 0D0000-0DFFFF A50F3C90 A50F3C90 Same OperatingSystem [05:13:08:388] 0C0000-0CFFFF A50F3C90 A50F3C90 Same OperatingSystem [05:13:09:889] 0B0000-0BFFFF A50F3C90 A50F3C90 Same OperatingSystem [05:13:11:388] 0A0000-0AFFFF A50F3C90 A50F3C90 Same OperatingSystem [05:13:12:920] 090000-09FFFF 7DA5C19F 7DA5C19F Same OperatingSystem [05:13:14:417] 080000-08FFFF CDDEAE4C CDDEAE4C Same OperatingSystem [05:13:15:907] 070000-07FFFF D006BDC7 D006BDC7 Same OperatingSystem [05:13:17:385] 060000-06FFFF D2B04EC0 D2B04EC0 Same OperatingSystem [05:13:18:874] 050000-05FFFF 36511E94 36511E94 Same OperatingSystem [05:13:20:388] 040000-04FFFF F6B0E81A F6B0E81A Same OperatingSystem [05:13:21:889] 030000-03FFFF A97E3395 A97E3395 Same OperatingSystem [05:13:23:388] 020000-02FFFF EE1B7BAD EE1B7BAD Same OperatingSystem [05:13:24:951] 010000-01FFFF 20301E97 20301E97 Same Calibration [05:13:25:763] 008000-00FFFF E4FD019A E4FD019A Same Calibration [05:13:26:075] 006000-007FFF 85B5BB36 85B5BB36 Same Parameter [05:13:26:372] 004000-005FFF 09BAEF34 09BAEF34 Same Parameter [05:13:26:855] 000000-003FFF AE42598F AE42598F Same Boot [05:13:26:889] All relevant ranges are identical. [05:13:26:920] All write-request messages succeeded on the first try. You have an excellent connection to the PCM. [05:13:26:952] We're not sure how much retrying is normal for a write operation on a 1024kb PCM. [05:13:26:983] Please help by sharing your results in the PCM Hammer thread at pcmhacking.net. [05:13:27:016] Flash successful! [05:13:27:341] Clearing trouble codes. [05:13:28:467] Elapsed time 00:01:42.0627915

 

[MassHoe04]

I usually get Cree LED's for the house -- gave up on cheapos long ago for the same reason. Unfortunately in the vehicles, only chinesium available, save for those Sylvanias.

I put Sylvania LED replacements in my DRL. They have been in about 15 months. Some of the LED chips are already flickering sometimes.

 

[MassHoe04]

Catching up... Last Friday. Swapped out front rotors.

I had a concerning groaning vibration that felt like it was up front. I first was thinking CV axle(s). Had one ordered and cancelled after it came in. I was not convinced 100% it was CV.

Took to my mechanic. It wasn't as pronounced and was difficult to pinpoint. Beginning to fear the front diff. might be in trouble.

Checked hubs and spun wheels off the ground. Not hearing or feeling anything unusual with hubs, CV axles or the diff for that matter. No scraping on the brakes either.

My hunch kept going back to rotors. I was feeling pulsing feedback in the pedal and could feel some transmitting up to the steering wheel. I figured it had to be the crappy rotors I put on a year ago.

Put new rotors on and still felt not 100%. Improved, but not 100%. I thought it might have been a fail...

After a week of driving and setting the pads pretty good, it has almost disappeared. The smooth and straight rotors and having the pads settle in might have done the trick!

 

[Sam Harris]

I usually get Cree LED's for the house -- gave up on cheapos long ago for the same reason. Unfortunately in the vehicles, only chinesium available, save for those Sylvanias.

Agree, but none of them -automotive, or for home use- last anywhere near as long as advertised. They sell us on that idea, even though they are 10-20+ times as expensive as the incandescent bulbs, you’re still saving $$, because they will last 10 years! BS. Just more government marketing to us, to make the pill easier to swallow.

 

[Sam Harris]

I put Sylvania LED replacements in my DRL. They have been in about 15 months. Some of the LED chips are already flickering sometimes.

Same, I liked the Sylvanias, and they aren’t cheap! I had one fail (flickering) in my DRL, less than 3 months after installation.

 

[MassHoe04]

Same, I liked the Sylvanias, and they aren’t cheap! I had one fail (flickering) in my DRL, less than 3 months after installation.

Maybe I'll try Auxitos when they really begin to crap out. Quite a few people like that brand and most seem to have good experience with them.