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

[willinnashville]

Hey, I get to participate today!

After I lowered my Denali a couple weeks ago I took it to a custom shop close to me for an alignment. First time they told me it was ready, it was so twitchy and pulled left that I only got about a quarter mile down the street before I brought it back. The next day they called and said it was ready again. It didn't feel right but it was at least drivable. I didn't really want that shop touching my truck anymore so I started calling around local but no one wanted to touch it since it was lowered. I inquired about alignment shops on a local Facebook group for lowered full sizes and found a dude on the north side of Nashville (I'm on the south end). Took it over to him today and he did a great job. It was worth the drive home through rush hour traffic downtown to get it steering and tracking right. I'm pretty stoked about that one.

 

[Tonyrodz]

Damn Amazon sent the ac idler pulley. Not the one I need.

 

[Tonyrodz]

Messed up my weekend now.

 

[clandr1]

I was about to ask why, with all the other oddball solutions companies have created for the common failures, someone hasn't made a relocation kit. Looked it up before posting- they have.

Who offers it? Would you mind sharing the link?

 

[iamdub]

Who offers it? Would you mind sharing the link?

I saw a few, but here's an example from ebay. That was the best I saw as others looked to have some extra connections that could be avoided with the specific adapters the Evil Energy one has. They all seem to be $109-$129. If it were me, I'd probably just buy the $15 hose and the two $20 adapter fittings to screw together myself and save half the cost.

 

[Doubeleive]

I saw a few, but here's an example from ebay. That was the best I saw as others looked to have some extra connections that could be avoided with the specific adapters the Evil Energy one has. They all seem to be $109-$129. If it were me, I'd probably just buy the $15 hose and the two $20 adapter fittings to screw together myself and save half the cost.

yep that dudes making $50 a dollars a pop for a hose and 2 adapters

 

[Donal]

Tried driving the Hoe last night. I had replaced the serpentine belt maybe a week ago. I bought the same belt that was on there, which was a little bigger then stock because the original size didn't fit, due to me getting a larger output alternator. The original sized belt wouldn't go on, it was too small after the new alternator. I'd, maybe the pulley was a different size. While driving it I got the "Hot Coolant Temp". Would a wrong sized belt cause it to overheat? Maybe due to the belt slipping? The belt also squealed a few times while accelerating--which its never done before? I was thinking of getting the original sized belt to see if it would fit this time.

Maybe check and verify the belt routing. Maybe water pump is rotating in reverse.

 

[blueinkd]

Did the rear brakes pads and new rotors.
Truck look like it still had the original rotors on it after 300k miles. Still had GM stamping on them.

 

[clandr1]

Hit 260k this weekend.

 

[Tonyrodz]

The correct tensioner finally came today. Got motivated enough to put my pants on and swapped it out on the Hoe. Took it for a ride and it's gtg! So that's what the issue was, damn tensioner.
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There definitely was A LOT of excessive play in it. New one is tight as a drum.