For that money, they will extract their pound of flesh, no doubt. But that’s what it cost to hire a good people these days.
What did you do to your NNBS GMT900 Tahoe/Yukon Today?
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interesting. I've not seen that. I was thinking of something with manifold still on in the car. but yeah.. pretty cool.
I picked up the same kit.. haven't installed it yet.
agreed the neck looks blah, I'll probably reuse oem. was bummed they sent a motorad stat. I've not been impressed with them. I saw a corvette guy test like 6 of them in a pot of water and all of them opened at different Temps. I didn't listen, put a 180 on the c6 when stock is 187. car ran warmer by a few degrees then it did with the oem. (ls are weird, stat is on the cold water inlet side, temp sensor is on the outlet side in the head, 187 stat runs 210-220) so I went down a rabbit hole and made a 170 out of MAHLE which looks like what gm used oem but for a 240sx and parts from the stock one. super happy with the Temps it ran after that, 190ish adv. so when motorad came with the millings kit I said blah and ordered a oem acdelco one for it.
it's probably fine but meh. wasn't happy once, don't want to deal with it twice. especially with the ridiculous price of coolent these days. my 2 cents is to get a oem stat.
I picked up the same kit.. haven't installed it yet.
agreed the neck looks blah, I'll probably reuse oem. was bummed they sent a motorad stat. I've not been impressed with them. I saw a corvette guy test like 6 of them in a pot of water and all of them opened at different Temps. I didn't listen, put a 180 on the c6 when stock is 187. car ran warmer by a few degrees then it did with the oem. (ls are weird, stat is on the cold water inlet side, temp sensor is on the outlet side in the head, 187 stat runs 210-220) so I went down a rabbit hole and made a 170 out of MAHLE which looks like what gm used oem but for a 240sx and parts from the stock one. super happy with the Temps it ran after that, 190ish adv. so when motorad came with the millings kit I said blah and ordered a oem acdelco one for it.
it's probably fine but meh. wasn't happy once, don't want to deal with it twice. especially with the ridiculous price of coolent these days. my 2 cents is to get a oem stat.
if you're ever in tx on a weekend or holiday, avoid them at all costs if in a hurry. they have become amusement parks. I've had employees tell me on some days it can take and hour and a half just get gas use the bathroom and get back on the road. especially the older smaller one on i10.
if you got time to kill and people watch its worth it once or twice. if you just want a nice place to stop quickly, there's a knock off that's kinda better and almost as big called "The Texan"
I didn't think about the copper tube. huh.
but nah, I'm not pulling the manifold off this thing unless something very bad has gone wrong haha.
Sparksalot
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Whachootalkinbout weekends? Pretty much continuous.
If you mean the I-10 location near Lockhart, then that's changiing. They're building a new one to replace it. Largest in the fleet.
Sparksalot
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Alright gents, a generic question for y’all. My girlfriend’s daughter drives a hybrid Fjord. GF is thinking of a jump pack in case something happens. Does being a hybrid make any difference in the choice of jump pack?
avalonandl
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I don't think so. Hybrids still use a 12v battery to start
Sparksalot
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That's my thinking as well, but you never know with the odd interactions of computers on wheels.
pretty much all hybrid cars do nothing without a good 12v battery, even if it's not cranking the engine with it.
there's like 3 major different types of hybrid setups. and each one of those is done a little different by each manufacturer. all react differently to everything.
I want to say a Serial hybrid a parallel hybrid and a plug-in hybrid.
my hybrid yukon, if you try to jump start it. you might set off crash code which needs tech 2 level scanner to reset. you must charge the battery, disconnect and then try and start. but it doesn't cranks anything, so if you find it dead, it's either a old battery that's probably not going to take a charge or some other issue that a jump isn't going to fix anyways. the hybrid battery cranks the engine. if that's dead you need a tech 2 to charge that.
my volt you jump start 2 different ways, if you're jumping it you do it from the back, 12v is in the hatch. if you're jumping someone else it's from under the hood from special terminals. or vice versa. I can never remember, I'd have to check the manual. luckily the car has never needed it, but my wife was trying to jump someone else's car at work once. I told her they had to read the manual to do it. that was enough for them to use something else haha.
that's a prius type hybrid, that's all the Tahoe system really is, just tranny copying of Allison bus instead of a Toyota cvt. and a plug in hybrid.
I was just looking at a guy's loaner truck at work. a hemi e torque I think it's called, it's a hybrid, no clue battery pack. just a huge alternator on a 8 rib belt that becomes a electric motor when needed. says it puts out 130ft of tq. I don't know how you'd jump that thing.
