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I just wanted to drop in here again and update on the marine intake. I've not been on the site in a while as I sold my crew about a year ago but I still have a 97 S10 that I did a marine intake swap on. If I still had my crew cab and was towing with it I would do this and the LS1 E-fans on it in a s...

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Tonight I'm dropping my crew off at the dealer. Traded for a 2005 Tahoe, loaded with 48,000 miles. Same Year, Same Mileage Tahoe I Traded For, I Miss The Crew But I Love The Tahoe's Space, Towing Ability, And Getting The Same Gas Mileage With The 5.3 Is Nice Too :D . How good was your deal? :D I do...

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Are you taking all the good stuff off it before you trade it in?? Nope.. i really didn't mean to buy last night. But man. they wanted to deal. We got up to leave and they dropped the price another $1500 to our low ball offer so we took it. So it goes with the topper, boise spring works kit, bigger ...

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Tonight I'm dropping my crew off at the dealer. Traded for a 2005 Tahoe, loaded with 48,000 miles. I hated to do it but with 2 kids the back seat was just getting to crowded. I'm still have my 97 s-10 but I'll be sorry to leave the Crew sitting at the dealer....

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I know there are a handful of Ham's on the site.. Anybody taking their crew to Dayton this year? I think mine may be taking its first trek. I've been the last 4 years but always caught a ride with someone else.

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On second thought.. I bet the crew can handle a triple axle 3 car goose neck trailer... no problems. As far as I could tell this guy was still mobile and had not actually had an accident. The three cops had simply pulled him over for .... stupidity among other things I'm guessing. http://ubergobbie....

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I thought I saw somebody paint over them with some matching fabric paint. Didn't look to bad.

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. I have played with it a little here and there. The difference is very noticeable. It will be a huge help when heavily loaded, or when towing. I still use mine regularly. I just had it on for a trip our of down town chicago with a 6x12 U-haul trailer. It was invaluable for the downtown traffic but...

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Man. I wish we had figured out the BCM \ VAT solution in 2006 when I set mine up. Oh well.. live and learn. Probably not worth all the changes to back mine out just to make the light come on on the dash.

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Anybody ever install a "Mercruiser Volvo 4.3 MPI 8 Bolt Intake Manifold" on their truck? I found a decent deal on eBay for about $250 shipped at: http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Mercruiser-Volvo-4-3-MPI-8-Bolt-Intake-Manifold-V6_W0QQitemZ370139528292QQcmdZViewItemQQptZBoat_Parts_Accessories_Gear?has...

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f9k9 wrote:Was the replacement delco or aftermarket. Good info. Thanks!

The replacement was a refurb' from O'Reilly Auto Parts. ~$150 after the core return. They were the cheapest in town. I found it for $125 online but O'Reily has a lifetime warranty on it.

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I just replaced my encoder motor and wanted to throw a couple hints: 1. My encoder would not wiggle off the transfer case easily. It was hanging on the front drive shaft yoke. After some swearing I looked at the new one going in and one of the plastic reinforcing webs that the old one was hanging up...

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The oil pressure sending units on chevy small blocks(or 4.3's) are known to fail and look EXACTLY like a rear main. They are at the very back of the top of the block(kind of under the distributor) so when they leak, they run down over the rear main. You have to stand on your head and grow an extra j...

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I've been pretty impressed with the snow capabilities of the truck. I have just a t-bar crank and Boise springs on the back with BFG's all the way around. It handles the snow pretty well but it has its limits: http://www.ubergobbie.com/gallery/d/828-2/resizedrifts_119.jpg That was about 2-3 foot dee...

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I just did the swap to a 6 speed manual in my 2wd automatic. Swapping auto to manual is not easy but it is not impossible. Plan on removing the entire dash to put in the pedals and the hole in the firewall for the master cylinder. (see pics of heater core replacement) This alone is ~8+ hours of labo...

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I don't but my neighbor does... http://www.dmacc.edu/programs/cat/images/caterpillar.gif I got you beat there. These roll off the assembly line across the street from where I'm sitting right now. Actually when I saw the post i was going to ask what other color of Cat is there? But we make white one...

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Yes, as a matter of a fact I do.

http://www.daveandheathersfamily.com/ma ... alNumber=2

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There have been some posts going around on the SCCA boards of people getting canceled due to racing. Mind you not an accident while racing but just due to the fact that they were racing. There are mixed results on how the insurance companies were finding out but the SCCA guys are pretty big on posti...

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LOL the only thing he needs now is to isolate the pipe itself. On one of my Subaru's the cold air intake was the same diameter as a soda can so all you did was get a bunch of the drink cozies, cut the bottoms out and slide them on. They would only last a year or two under the hood but then you just ...

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Mine was the randomly generated name given to me with my first internet account circa 1991-2. A local collage was giving free internet email address and a portal to the internet out with a bank of brand new, high speed 2400 baud modems. It was straight ASCII text and it made me upgrade from my 300 b...

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Did you ever get this fixed?

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The custom plates here in IL used to be free.. but now cost an extra $15 a year. Custom means they follow the 'normal' letter number combination rules for the type of plate. Vanity plates are still at least double and are all letter or all numbers. Current plates Crew Cab 4 D YURT -- Yurt is the Mon...

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It might work well. But for the general public with all the differences between lockers, limited slip, open diffs and which wheel(s) you should have off the ground to run put the truck in drive and not have it drive off would seem imposable to explain in a owners manual that nobody reads. Not to men...

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http://www.thestickler.com/

Does anybody else see about 100 different failure modes for this thing? The best ones just wind up with your truck sitting on the ground with the brake drum\disk digging a hole in the ground.

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You guys are a little ahead of me. Mine has taken his first wobbly steps this week.

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... Which brings me to my next question does any one know where to buy a decent one and are they hard to replace? Do i need to know anything particular about them? The 2 I replaced by myself came from gmpartsdirect.com. As far as replacing them, they have all been on older s-series. 97 and 99. Thos...

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I've posted this a couple times but I've had 3 S-series with weird starting and dieing problems that were eventually tracked back to a bad ignition switch. All 3 of them got worse in the cold weather. The contacts in the switch would get stuck \ gummy \ weak and would not make good contact. All 3 of...

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I was using my crew as a tractor over the holiday dragging a tandem dump trailer around a building site. I was in low 4 all day shuttling dirt around the 5 acer site. About half way through the day, I thought.. humm wonder what tow haul does in low range.... I'm towing right? :D Don't do this in low...

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MARBLEYARD wrote:Thanks for the input. What about the governor?

The computer shuts off the fuel at about 98mph from the factory. Any flash upgrade of the BCM (hypertech, pcmforless...) can remove it or move it to a speed faster than the truck can actually go.

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This really depends on what you are used to... I have a 1997 S-10 with the zq8 suspension and 255 45 17" tires on it. I wouldn't describe its handling as good as what some of you are describing your crew handles. I put a set of shocks, a rear sway bar, Boise spring works kit and a torsen bar crank, ...

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You can always pull out the current carpet. Have it cleaned or clean it yourself out of the truck. Do the spray in bed liner idea. Then when you are ready to sell.. slap the carpet back in. Be ready for some serious road noise. I've ridden in a lot of auto x cars with the carpet and isolation remove...

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Just a quick word of caution with this kit installed. Its rather obvious now but I didn't think of it until after it happened to me. It is really easy to get way too much tongue weight on a trailer and not notice it with this kit installed. I loaded down my new trailer that is a 5 x 10 with the axle...

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Well I'm back from my trip. The crew did very well as expected. The temps stayed down even at 90+ with the AC on running 70-75. It handled the trailer very well. I was glad I did the bigger radiator on the way home. I got stuck in a 15+ mile backup on I80 at the IN \ OH border when 3 semi's rear end...

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Ok I finally got the ODB II laptop hooked back up and and time to make a run up the hill. Differences this time over the first 2 runs: It was about 5 degrees hotter outside, and I added a couple hundred more pounds of gear to the bed of the truck. I was VERY happy with the results. The was a large d...

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I got the tranny cooler installed. Not to bad of a job but it wasn't the 30 mins listed under the mod page.. More like 2 hours or so. I'm not real happy with the top hose routing. Makes a little sharper bend than I'd like coming out of the cooler but I think it will be ok. I can see it with the gril...

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I ran the ford fan on my 97 s-10 for a while. It was quieter than the stock one but I really couldn't tell any performance gain. Running auto cross with the high capacity radiator I never had any over heating problems. When I did a water pump I switched back to the OEM one because I stepped on a bla...

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There is always somebody faster! http://www.thelocal.se/7869/20070712/ And... its nice to have multiple OC3 connections through multiple providers at work. I will have to test again when there are not 40,000 + other employees competing for my bandwith. http://www.speedtest.net/result/153744739.png

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Well I'm headed down the Cooling Mod list now as much for the tranny as for the engine. I picked up a new 5 x 10 foot enclosed trailer that should tip the scales at close to 3,500lb loaded. I will be towing it 1,500 miles in Aug out of the IL flatlands to PA. So, I know I I need something more than ...

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bwenny247 wrote:how come you've got your trees on a leash?
residential area???

we just let ours roam free

Its AZ.. they will wonder off looking for shade if you don't keep them tied up!!

daevans315

I had not done much towing in the last 6 months so I didn't have any real updates, however, last week I picked up a 5 x 10 enclosed trailer. This weekend I loaded it down pretty heavy and drove 100 miles or so. I like the shift pattern with a good heavy load in Tow mode. It holds each gear quite a b...

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Looks like a good investment. Too bad trans temp is not offered. I agreed so I sent them an email asking if they would be adding a transmission temp option. We are adding a feature to the next software release that will let you add vehicle specific gauges for your vehicle. We will show on our site ...

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Tony wrote:I've used the performance friction pads before, but I really don't remember how much brake dust there was. Is there alot?

I've heard that after a few months they tend to glaze over and don't stop as well.

Glazed pads = Way to hard on brakes OR way to light on brakes.

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I have Goodyear Gatorback belts on all my cars and none of them ever squeak or squeal. :D They are IMO the best belts made. :wink: Steve The Gatorback belts are the only ones that don't chirp at WOT shifts on my 97 s-10 with a shift kit. At my 50,000 mile tune up I put one on the crew and love it.

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My favorite brake pads are Performance Friction. :D I second that, I have them on all 3 of my disk brake vehicles. They wear nice and even. What brake dust they do produce is purplish so it looks kind of cool. They didn't fail at the track when I blued my rotors and had wheel bearing grease running...

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I second f9k9's comments. I had a back door doing this under warranty. Also, if this is the case, watch for it deciding the door is suddenly open in the garage at 2 AM. The resultant honking is usually enough to cause minor heart attacks.

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Walt wrote: Always go up, never go down.

There is a joke there somewhere.. but this is a family site.

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I vote for the AEM brute force. It's a bit more expensive than the K&N but i feel it's worth it. It's not an oiled filter, so there's no issue with over oiling it and gunking up your MAF sensor. It also comes with a 9" filter vs the 6"-ish filter on the K&N. It mounts with bolts to the throttle bod...

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Looks like the solution is already found but just as a FYI: My 97 Extended cab has a 2 piece steel drive shaft with a carrier bearing (or midship bearing). Over all the length looks very similar to the crew. However, you don't want any part of those. The second half has special U-joints that are hal...

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Congrats! We're expecting our first in June, so any pointers will be much appreciated! 8) Keep the gas tank full, maybe a fresh oil change. Make sure your spare tire is full of air. Do that and the truck will be fine. As far as the baby, your on your own just like the rest of us! :lol: :lol: :lol:

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Thanks for all the congrat's. We are settling in pretty well.

Best advice so far...

"It goes in one end. It comes out the other, and you just have to keep both ends clean."

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Well the crew took my wife and I 23 miles to the hospital on Saturday and last night brought us +1 home.

Nathaniel Paris Evans came into this world 3-17-07 at 8:07 PM. A 9 pound 13 oz 22in long happy baby boy. Our first.

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This is maybe a ABS question now but its still related. I pulled the wheel off and immediately saw the problem with the ABS sensor. The wire was broken right at the first hold down clip. I thought I had it ran exactly the same way as the other side with the same amount of slack but I must not have g...

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Seems like when I screwed mine up on my 97 it was < $20 for a new one and it came color matched already... So I would say you have lots of choices.

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Also, would it be possible to grease the hub with the sensor removed? Might not be a bad idea to squirt some new grease in these things every once in a while if possible. The autozone guy read me their procedure for swapping the sensor separately from the bearing. It stated multiple times not to pr...

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I just spoke with autozone. No problem doing a warranty refund on a 'new' bearing with the 'old' sensor. So.. off to autozone to buy a bearing just to return the sensor. I'll try and take some pic's but it won't be till the weekend.

daevans315

Guess what.. I get to do this job AGAIN!!

ABS light came on and it appears to be the passengers wheel sensor. At least its still under warranty.

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Ya.. heated garages are better.. but then the snow converts to 30 gallons of water, attempts to run under the garage door and freezes. So you walk out the next AM and hit the opener button and it just makes a funny noise until you walk along and kick the bottom of the door..

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Auto show was fun. Nothing way out of the ordinary but I did find my next crew cab...

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After installing my bilsteins upfront I feel like getting the boise spring kit and putting bilsteins in the rear. Can anyone descibe the ride? I have airshocks now and with them pumped up to get the lift i want I kinda bounce around a little. I want a solid ride without bounce or jarring around if ...

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Thanks for the quick reply Kwalsh. I am almost to the point of putting in a rear sliding window to see if that helps my problem. It is bad enough that if I have the front windows down half way, they shake so badly that I am afraid they will shatter! Guess I will keep using the AC when its hot inste...

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2kwik4u wrote:My thinking is that with the trans already being overworked. Every little bit helps.

The drain plug is another neat feature to help keep things easy to service.

I'll agree with both of those points.

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I've at those or just the cast aluminum finned ones. I'm just not sure how much air is really moving up by the tranny. Its up a little high and out of the main air flow.

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The other links were getting down there a ways for the current snow storm.
Just got back in and uploaded these. More commentary tomorrow.

http://www.ubergobbie.com/thumbnails.php?album=8&page=1

Here is my favorite.

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two foot drifts SO FAR here today :D supposed to be 12-14 inches total here b tonight, and its blowing like ALL H*LL! We miss the brunt of it here.. only about 8" on the ground.. I think.. its hard to tell. There are 1 and 2 foot drifts in the subdivision. I took the password off my web cam looking...

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I did go through the jeep display too. We road in a four door wrangler. The little coarse they had set-up was pretty impressive and worth the wait to try it out. Of coarse I couldn't drive but too see the sway bar disconnect work and how it handled the terrain was pretty cool. Overall good show, I ...

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That's odd.. :? ..I never new about that law when I lived there. I drove my truck that had truck plates all the time around Chicago and downtown with no issues. There is an article about it in the local papers about once a year. $50 ticket. There is a snip from the first google writeup I found. The...

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I think I'm headed to the Chicago Auto Show for the day on Thursday. Any other 'locals' headed up that way? http://www.chicagoautoshow.com I won't be taking the crew as it is illegal to drive vehicles with truck plates on them on several of the streets around the convention center. Notice I didn't s...

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I'm guessing on top of his rear drive shaft. Yep wedged over the drive shaft. I though I could hear something rubbing when I was still running slow but I wasn't sure. I hit about 30 out on the road and something was defiantly wrong. When I stuck my head under the truck and saw that sticking out I h...

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I did about 200 yards of off roading today showing a friend around the property. There was one small down tree. I didn't feel like getting out and moving it so I drove over. I got shields everywhere... right. The smell of burning wood and a drive train shake made me wish I'd gotten out. Looks like n...

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This turned out to be a bad ignition switch. When it was cold it wasn't supplying power to the necessary systems (computer, fuel pump ect) Only to the starter relay. The spring loaded contact was gummy so when it got very cold it wouldn't pop up and make contact. This is my second weird problem on t...

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Did the fuel filter with the tune up. Fuel pump is suspect. Unfortunately the car is now 200 miles away from me in Madison WI. I've been trying to save her some money but I think its time to make a dealer appointment...

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I'm having problems with a 2002 Blazer 4wd that took over maintenance on but it isn't mine. Last winter we had to crank on it a long time to start when it was below 10 or so... below zero, it wouldn't start at all. I though it was water in the tank so I ran several tanks through with heat in it and ...

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Only one speeding ticket. A little over a year ago. 55 in a 45 construction zone during rush hour. In a my CRX with no front tag stickers, fart cannon on the rear end and after market wheels. I had owned it 6 days. In IL construction zone tickets are minimum of a $375 fine. For 10 over it was $475. ...

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wow they are that strict down there?? here in ontario they dont seem to care about the hid and led conversions they worry more about street racing I'm guessing many times its "I didn't see you doing anything wrong but I've gotten reports of you screwing around. So this is what you get your ticket f...

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Be careful with those. If they don't have the DOT approval on them you can get a ticket or impounded. The Rice'rs around here have been getting busted for the clear tail lights and HID headlights that are not DOT approved. They should have DOT imprinted into the glass or plastic. If they don't it ma...

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