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Horsehammerr wrote:Seems every three or four years one or both need renewed.

how many miles are we talking about, just out of curiousity.

plantone

found this "unversal" kit on amazon, would this be workable solution?

http://a.co/d/6fwOS03

Kit includes: 3 Pieces of Silicone Vacuum Hose : ID 0.12" (3mm) x 10FT (3Meter) + ID 0.16" (4mm) x 6FT (2Meter) + ID 0.31" (8mm) x 3FT (1Meter)

plantone

in doing some regular maintence this week, i noticed that some of my vaccum hoses under the hood were really looking rough. is there a list around here that gives the various diamaters of vac line i would need - and an approx length of each - to go in and replace mine? or do i need to do the old "cu...

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This was the final straw why I traded mine off. Already had new tires and brakes all around and very low miles on 2nd tranny rebuild. Was told 2500.00 to replace core. Inquired of replacing evap core while in there and told it came out from the other side involving removal of hood and RH fender for...

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i just cant believe my luck. replaced the HC right after i got my crew, and here i am 86k later and after driving around all day yesterday all i can smell is antifreeze in the cab :/ this is killing me as i just got out of the shop from a failed sending unit on the fuel pump. while it was in the sho...

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so as an update still going strong with these lights. no problems, no failures. likewise for the set i got for my mom for her trailblazer. i put over 40k miles on my truck in 2017 alone, and 13k in the last two months and they're still rocking. if anyone needs a vote of confidence for the quality of...

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the MM's should still be in good shape. i replaced two of them last year i think it was. one was broken and they said the other needed some love so yea.. do them both kind of thing while you're in there. I'm sure it was just me not getting the cables 100% when i reattached them - single digit temps ...

plantone

ok so quick update - i checked the battery connections. they seemed reasonably tight, but snugged them down a 1/4 turn or so and things have gotten dramatically better! had one hiccup later in the day after i touched them up and been fine since. i did replace the battery recently (first of the year,...

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i'll check the battery connections in the morning.

plantone

So the last couple days my PRND321 indicators have been goofy. the display comes on, but during gear changes sometimes the indicator doesnt display anything (ie: no gear is highlighted) or the wrong gear will be displayed (showing 3 when i'm in D, or R or 3 when i'm in P) most of the time it self co...

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Can't say I've had that experience with the blizzaks. 2nd winter and planets of life left. Think I've put about 15k miles and going strong. I don't do keep them on during summer temps. If it gets over 45 they come off. ya... wasnt suggesting it was the right way to use them, just what he expierence...

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I have the hankook dynapro atm tires on my truck as welll. Probably around 5k on them and been happy with the ride and grip. Need to service the front end soon, seeing some feathering but not due to the tires themselves. Been putting off ripping it apart and doing balljoints, lowers are shot. I was...

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well we got a pile of snow today - north of 10" of the stuff... i'm absolutely in love with these tires. i did put the 4x4 in once the snow got deep, but more for dodging the idiots than anything else. plus these storms bring the kid out in me and i like to play drift buster and ride thru the slop p...

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as a side note - i did NOT go with the cheapest tires i could buy. i put Hankook dynapro ATM's, which are - price point wise - only a few dollars from the Michelin LTX and cooper discoverys were based on the rebates that were available at the time. i should have been more specific. ive got ~15 or 16...

plantone

i just went with hankook's

i havent had them long enough to give a longevity report as a daily driver, but damn do they grab on crappy roads.

i made a run to northern michigan during that first big storm we got that snowed up i75... never even hit the 4x4 button. those things are grippy!

plantone

glad you like the tonneau - hopefully you'll be as happy with as time goes by as i am :) re: floor mats - i bought a generic one size fits all set, the kind that have the nice dirt catch rim but the outer area is trimable to fit your vehicle. i think they were about $35 or so, dont remember the bran...

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i put the synthetic in at about 152k, found all the leaks by 160 or so and had them patched @ 165k. i'm at 191,600 right now and nary a drip and not burning any. when i pull the oil at 6k interval the dipstick is right where she started when i put the oil in new. its a beautiful thing. still getting...

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i switched over to high mileage full synthetic too. it did find all the leaks for me that were "developing" that regular oil didnt show within about 2 oil changes as the detergents did their thing and cleaned my engine up, but i had them buttoned up earlier this year. the worst of the offenders was ...

plantone

The CHMSL has its own fuse and relay in the under hood relay center or your brake switch is bad. Check all of those things. The bulbs also do not last that long, as they often melt the lens over them if you sit in traffic a lot. get the correct LED replacement lamp and that'll never be an issue. th...

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check the hub bearings up front

at 190k if you havent replaced them, they're long past due for a failure to happen, likely even due for another round if they've been replaced once already.

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absolutely. when its rolled up, it flips up and will rest on the bulkhead and against the rear of the cab - completely out of the way of the bed itself. i haul my 4 wheeler like that. i do put tire blocks in to prevent the brush guard from hitting the front rail of the tonneau cover, but thats a mac...

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ApproachMedium wrote:The cig lighter is only a 10A fues, the accessory ports i think are 15 or 20a fuse. Always use the accesssory ports lol.

i replaced a 15A, not a 10A - so unless it was changed by someone else to a 15 i dunno... i didnt look at the diagram to check it, just put a 15 where a 15 was

plantone

i had a truxsport truxedo put on mine. its a roll up with velcro closures. has its own support rods built into the roll up itself.

plantone

bah - figured it out.... damn accessory fuse was cooked, wasnt getting power to the OBDII port. it blew a few weeks ago on me when i was trying to use an induction charger in the truck when my previous phone went wonky. my cig lighter went kapoot on me, and i thought i undone the smoke plug on the o...

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i'm gonna see if powering the relay from the main feed and not the turn on wire makes a difference. maybe that'll help me narrow down where the problem is.

plantone

in my truck the cig lighter and the acc port are always-on. i'm always yankin the cord to turn off the fuzzbuster

plantone

In my LS the speaker config is as follows Doors: 6.5" (all 4) Dash: tweeters - but a shallow mount set of 4x6 will fit (with some vaseline and a shoehorn anyway hehe!) If you remove the jack behind the passenger rear seat you can put a shallow mount 10" sub back there as well. The Rockford fosgate b...

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i guess i should have said amplified antenna, its not a power up/down type antenna. the guy i spoke with at crutchfield said most/all gm's use them. its not a buzzing noise. its a signal loss issue - i get static, or the signal fades in/out like you're right on the edge of a stations broadcast range...

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Here's a photo of the head unit installed. I've been busy and hadn't had a chance to upload it. There's a few other pics I ill post later of the install. I still need to take it back out to hook up the steering wheel controls, which I have figured out now so it'll be all set this weekend. Still wai...

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just the FM signal. nothing else. i had a conversation with a tech at crutchfield about it, and his only guess is that it may be causing an amperage drop on the powered antenna. which i guess is possible if the minion who hooked the radio up used the wrong wire to feed the amp turn on, or the same f...

plantone

ok so i tried a different cable and moved the location of the wifi hotspot to the middle of the truck. in fact it was sitting on the center console. no change. signal interference with the mifi charging, soon as i unplug it - nothing. this is not causing interference any other time other than when t...

plantone

sorry man - stopped out saturday to my cousins and the topper was gone. he comes out smiling and says supprise i sold it for ya .

thanks for your inquiry.

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its on the passenger side b-pillar, right at the top of the plastic before you get to the headliner. here's my ignorance showing itself - how would moving the hotspot to another location change whats happening if its a ground related issue? the power supply's ground point would not be changing. is i...

plantone

if you serious about making the drive i'll try to get some more pics for you in a day or so. the bright side is - if there is a bright side to a 1600 mile road trip - its pretty much a straight run north up i-65 to i-69 for you if you decide to make the trip. is there anything specific besides some ...

plantone

im not equiped to ship something like this, sorry i should have clarified this is local pickup only kind of thing. i dont own a trailer and i'm not taking my tonneau off to deliver it anywhere heh!

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fake moday bump

plantone

bump!

any takers at $275

plantone

bump price drop to $325

no reasonable offer refused, if you're interested but the price isnt right, shoot me a number - i promise i wont kick you in the shins or anything

i'd love to find this topper a forever home - other than sitting on buckets out on the front lawn!

plantone

i recently got a MIFI to use as a dedicated hotspot in my truck for my android indash for the navigation. i mounted it up on the B pillar, above the seatbelt pivot, and snaked a USB cable behind the plastic for charging. since i had both battery power and a turn on wire back behind the rear seat for...

plantone

I'll keep it in mind if the ones we've got up north don't work. From when I can tell by my homework on the web it looks like they should be fine but I got to check the quality of the rubber. We've got to Blazers up there that are just Farm trucks and both of them have steel wheels and my brothers is...

plantone

sold thank you!

plantone

I'd love to help ya out but I'm probably way to far to sell u mine.

If you run out of options and wanna make the drive into michigan drop me a pm and we'll work out the fine details

plantone

so i've finally gotten to the point that i'm pulling the trigger on the tonneau cover. it'll be installed this Thursday. Going with a Trucksport Truxedo.

can ya'll help me put a value on my fiberglass topper, with sliding side windows might be worth on the private market?

thanks!

plantone

i'll have to grab the spare out of his old dime next time i'm up north. hell it might even be still good - its never seen concrete IIRC - and since it was mounted inside the vehicle, it might not even be dry rotted. honestly, if the wheel works, putting a new peice of rubber on it will be minor.

plantone

so i recently went through the chevy "150k rebuild" and took care of all the wear parts on my crew, plus a few unexpected things - like a crank case seal leak, and both front t-case axle seals. I also had the oil pan gasket done while the front end was out since it was only an extra $50 to make sure...

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my dad loves them so much he was actually asking if i could get him some. which shocked me, usually he's not much into "that new fancy s### you guys are playing around with". they were on backorder for a few weeks so hello easy x-mas present. Hopefully they'll be installed when i go up to visit next...

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short term - i've just decided to keep my work tools in the back seat. winter has already taught me that topper locks like to freeze up at inconvenient times - so my bed is officially as secure as a soft tonneau at this time. still haven't dumped the topper, but the stuff i keep in the bed now, othe...

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Currently my truck has a traditional topper on it. and its really (#$*%&(#*$&% getting on my nerves. have been chasing leaks since i got it - the drivers side window frame is a hot mess and i had to caulk the outside to stop all the leaks there, then chased more around the light bar / wind deflector...

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ok so i can confirm that this sub fits behind the seat. we had to cut the brackets where the jack was and remove the whole assmebly, plus use a shoehorn and lots of vaseline, but the seat back locks and it sounds great! :rah: :rah: just enough low to really fill things out, but still an "inside syst...

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with my other car, as much as i drive i was getting about 6-8 months out of a set of sylvania's. not uncommon to replace 2, or sometimes even 3 sets in a year.

if i have to replace them at 2 years - i'll happily do so and not complain one bit!

plantone

i was nervous about buying fan cooled units too, but these come with a 2yr warranty - better than what sylvania puts on its lamps. so if they die, meh. i'll just warrant replace with a new set.

plantone

good stuff. forgot go hop back on. Local speaker shop confirmed that 4x6's fit in the dash, and all that normally needs to be done is modify the mounting plate just a bit. said any competent installer could do so easily. looks like crutchfield was wrong on this one - and their guys are usually prett...

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so i just got off the phone with crutchfield, the tech tells me that the reason their audio component pairer doesnt show anything is nobody makes a speaker that will fit that location - either mounting depth is too deep, or the magnet is too wide, etc. how did you shoehorn a set of polk's in there? ...

plantone

i think i'm gonna stay in the rockford fosgate line so the sound quality is consistent.

with the RF sub in play as the core to this sound system, it should serve alright.

plantone

so i've been buying components up for the new head unit to attach to... but cant find any listing as to what speakers go into the dash? is that just a tweeter in there or what? i dont want to have to hack and slash anything into place, would prefer a drop-in fit. from what i can find on crutchfield ...

plantone

one thing to note. with the LED's in the high beam position, the DRL do not turn on. i'm guessing this means that the power supplied by that circuit does not meet the minimum quantity as needed on the voltage regulator on the LED's. Looks like its time to do the DRL delete mod and throw a switch und...

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some pics as promised - this is post lighting adjustment, although they're still a bit off after tapping a buck a couple weeks back. havent been into the body shop to get the bumper fixed and the plastic repaired yet. Also both headlights are damaged enough to let some moisture in, so there's a bit ...

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I am sure that you know polarity is important for LED. They won't work backward :) + has to be + yes, i'm aware of that. i also tested the strand on an independant confirmed power source so i know they work. ive been swamped the last couple weeks and havent had a chance to chase the voltage drop is...

plantone

if you want LED's for your interior lights... Sylvania ZEVO has a 194 LED replacement that will do the map lights and courtesy lights under the dash.. they come in white, blue and i think even red. heres what the headlights look like against the garage door for color and brightness comparison before...

plantone

so then i *should* have 12v there as well eh? my test at the harness connector was on the ground wire and the running lights as mentioned. ill have to do some more testing tomorrow and check the T in the harness where the feed to the topper connects to and then work my way forward. the battery is re...

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so i ordered a set of these off amazon the other day and got them installed https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B01L0KN6PO color is amazing, and they're awesome to drive on. obviously i cant guarantee the longevity, but with a 2yr warranty - well thats pretty much the price of a set of silverstars. they fit...

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so i was farting around today, working on retrofitting my truck to some LED's, including some ribbon lights along the inside roof of the bed topper. wired them in and when i flipped the switch.. notta get out my trusty multimeter... 10.6 v at the light housing. Traced back to the harness where it co...

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Also, you'll have to speak up, I didn't hear you clearly. :rock: what? :roflmao: :lol: :lol: ya. my first system was a set of punch 8's driven by a 35watt (sony?) amp in the back of my K5 in a ported long skinny "truck box". with the whole fiberglass topper thing we basically tuned it so the whole ...

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ya.. but how low will a 5 or 6" sub in a bazooka go? 60 Hz? maybe 50? i'm not looking for enough system to blow door seals (been there done that with my last box with a pair of vega vega 124's).... but i'd like to at least be able to get somewhere into the 30's. i know i need to be into a 12 to real...

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so with some google time and a couple phone calls to places selling it - apparently this box will fit back there if i remove the stupid scissor jack and mounting brackets and put it in that location! Thank you Sounds of TriState in Claymont, DE! :rah: i'll be sure to keep ya'll posted with some pics...

plantone

thanks.

i dont see how a bazooka tube would fit behind the seat - thats a pretty tight space there between the rear bulkhead and the back seat.

for sure i'll keep ya'll posted if it fits

plantone

anyone?

if ya';ll havent used one of these, has anyone at least got dimensional specs as to what they have put behind the rear seat in theirs?

plantone

it looks like it SHOULD fit, but wondering if anyone has used one\ - or can at least verify the box dimensions of what they've shoehorned behind the rear seat anyway for comparison :) would love to put a little bump in my truck, but my dual 12" vega box is more than i'm looking to do. plus it'd take...

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