What did you do to your NNBS GMT900 Tahoe/Yukon Today?

[gooffeyguy]

not really related but "frustrated" brought back a memory
I remember way back when I was Super broke and Super broke I had a old mazda to get around don't remember the model but I had just beat out about 10,000 other applicants for a job at DANA corp welding and it had a decent starting wage and I thought my money problems would be solved I just had to make it thru 2-weeks training on time everyday in the next town over, no brainer right? well fate decided different on the 2nd morning of leaving to go to training where the throttle cable passed thru the firewall it was a weak spot and the firewall decided to tear and fall inward towards your feet therefore rendering the throttle cable useless, man I considered everything even tying a string to the throttle lol but there just wasn't enough "force" against the return spring to make it happen, needless to say I lost that job opportunity but I did come up with a novel idea of having a bracket made that held the throttle cable where it passed thru the firewall and just made the outer part bigger so it covered over the tear in the firewall and it actually worked quit well, I just made a rough drawing of what I needed and took it to the local machine shop, later while looking in the junkyard for parts to keep it running I noticed a couple more in the junkyard with torn firewalls that likely ended up there just because of that. I sometimes wonder where I would be today if that firewall had never torn...a simple little thing was a life changing event.

Was that before the Twisted Sister gig?

 

[Doubeleive]

Was that before the Twisted Sister gig?

lol this was well after twisted sister was around I remember when they came out I was a strapping young lad with a sony cassette player on a greyhound bus bought there cassette while on a bus stop and jammed it all the way from washington to so-cal, I spent those years high as a kite surprised I have any brain cells left over. I started using drugs when I was about 5-6 years old all the way until I was 23, daily.

 

[Fless]

Those parts are not necessarily vehicle specific, all you need to worry about is the size of the line

Yeah. Size matters!

 

[gooffeyguy]

Yeah. Size matters!

That's what she said

 

[ivin74]

Because they were rusted into oblivion.


I love you guys too much, I have to show you how I attacked this out of mutual respect. Not proud of it but doing what I have to do.

I mean, I am proud, but not in the eyes of the word as it is today.



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I used a Sawzall and drill bits to keep sparks from flying.


And the tie wire is strictly to keep the lines from blowing off the non barbed connections.

After I cut the hole for my FP like you, I hit up the junkyard and I cut a bigger size floor plate to over lap the hole on my suv. I put foam on it and sealed it, you may wanna do that. I'm not going to comment on fuel line fix, lol

 

[89Suburban]

Ok I got these ordered thanks guys.

 

[pwtr02ss]

It's the same with the fuel tank strap bolts -- Dorman says they won't fit mine but they're an exact replacement part.

For these particular retaining clips I used them on my '04 and the GM ones are pretty much all the same, with that style of quick connect. These are the correct size for your two fuel pump lines.

This @89Suburban They will fit. They are pretty much the same for all GM, just get the proper line size. 3/8 and 5/16 from I've been seeing multiple people on here say. I did AN fittings on my 74 so I can't confirm the exact size but I used -6 which is equal to 3/8 IIRC.

 

[Just Fishing]

Building my shopping cart up with the AN fittings I'll need to replace my fluid cooler lines.
Man, i forgot how expensive AN fittings can be...

 

[George B]

@89Suburban
Knowing your situation. This kind if job in the cold and with salt water dripping is a real *****. Just sayn

 

[89Suburban]

@89Suburban
Knowing your situation. This kind if job in the cold and with salt water dripping is a real *****. Just sayn

Yeah the hi for Saturday when I did this was 19.5*. Same shit I went through with my old Suburban when that pump took a shit, dead of winter. Body is still aching.