R3cord303
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Just a diag today
What did you do to your NNBS GMT900 Tahoe/Yukon Today?
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iamdub
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Replaced the TJ coils with the Belltech 5305 coils. Meh...
kbuskill
***CAUTION*** I do my own stunts!
Any noticeable difference in height or ride?
Sam Harris
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Why? I didn’t realize there was any issue..?
iamdub
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That's why I finished it with "meh". They MAY be a little softer than the TJ coils. MAYBE. When I finished, I took it around for an aggressive shakedown including large dips and humps at speed to get the body cycling up and down a lot and did some really hard slalom-type steering to rock it side-to-side. Was trying to settle them as quickly as possible. It handles great- very planted and recovers immediately, but so did the TJ coils. I can barely tell any difference in the ride quality. As expected, they're noisier since they have 4 dead coils. But, that may fix itself after the surface rust gets rubbed off, so I'm not so concerned with that at the moment. When I got back home and parked it, it was sitting 3/4" higher than the TJ coils. I'll check it again tomorrow, but I'm not expecting much change. Since it has those dead coils, I can trim the springs to get that 3/4" of drop back and not change the ride or capacity.
I'm tempted to take a flap disc to the McG coils to reduce the wire size a hair to weaken them and see what that leads to. They're advertised as a 3" drop but I got right at 2.5". I only ran them for about a day, though. Maybe they would've settled closer to 3" with some more drive time and I did the same shakedown with them as I've done with all the springs. I'll check with my buddy to see if he's worked on any more TJ suspensions (Jeep/crawler fabricator) and has another set of those coils. I'd rather experiment with them than the McGs. But, I don't wanna mess up my only set of TJ coils since I at least know I like them well enough so I'd cut on the McGs first given those two options.
I don't know why everyone says the 5305s tend to be too soft. They're still considerably firmer than stock.
R3cord303
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Welp. Dealer told me i need a $650 underhood fuse block and didnt charge me for diag. Tech forgot his electrical tape in my engine bay. I drove it home. Now i’m trying to figure out how to pull the fuse block out so I can take it apart and figure out how to make the wipers work.
iamdub
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I want a relatively "cushy" ride from drop coils since I want to reimplement the ALC system, but with Air Lift bags inside the coils instead of the factory sleeve-on-shock design. Supposedly, a common complaint is how soft the 5305s are and they drop 4", so they should've been just what I wanted.
I even compressed my shocks to verify that the specs weren't incorrect and I wasn't just bottoming them out. Speaking of shocks, the Belltech SPs I have were easier to compress than the stock ones, so they're not the reason for the firm ride.
R3cord303
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Update: i reseated the junction block in the mount, didn’t help a bit. Looked online and one from gmpartsdirect is $254 with 24-72 hours to ship, and 5-7 days to delivery. A 3rd party one is 188 and who knows what their availability is or when it would arrive. Soooo i’m trying to take tomorrow morning or afternoon off from work so I can get to the parts yard and pull one from an 07-09 LTZ tahoe for hopefully $20-$50, i’ll swap the fuses over, and see if that helps.
what googling around online seems to say is that the ground strap that goes from the body to the back of the engine gets too much dirt/corosion on it over time, and you start having backup lights/intermittent tpms lights or radio static/popping.
For the past month I’ve been having tpms and radio intermittent issues. Sooo I’m gonna add another body ground and run it to the alternator bracket and maybe see about replacing that ground strap.
what googling around online seems to say is that the ground strap that goes from the body to the back of the engine gets too much dirt/corosion on it over time, and you start having backup lights/intermittent tpms lights or radio static/popping.
For the past month I’ve been having tpms and radio intermittent issues. Sooo I’m gonna add another body ground and run it to the alternator bracket and maybe see about replacing that ground strap.
I was going to say, take it apart probably just some burnt contacts, there just going by the shop manual like I said earlier bcm or fuse block
looks like connector x5
then pins j1, k1, k3 are what you want to check
R3cord303
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I’m going to go to autozone here in a bit for some wire and ring terminals- what do you think some ways to bodge it together would be?
