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Also now that I have the pitman arm, it's drivable and so I'm going to load it up/fuel it up to full spec and go corner weight it to pick the springs fir the coilovers! Hopefully will be on the new suspension next weekend Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-G870A using Tapatalk

@martin yep I got the you reinforced looking to add install within the next week. So while waiting for a pitman arm (moog problem solver HD) I decided to tackle my rear sleeping/storage platform. I think it came out pretty nice. It weighs less than 50 pounds and I can remove it single-handedly...

+1 search suburban tahoe GMT400 or GMT800 here, and you'll see a decent amount and levels of builds with some documentation. I would start at getting your rig up to a high level of maintenance, researching the weak points and fix them permanently or make some space for spares (not sure what that...

+1 Look around, having a custom welded sliders made locally, can be surprisingly cheap, relatively. All said and done, mine were ~$500 bucks (including materials and all labor) using 2 inch 1/2 square tubing, and I got to tell them exactly what I wanted even measured it out and drew it with...

Look around, having a custom welded sliders made locally, can be surprisingly cheap. All said and done, mine were ~$500 bucks (includign materials and all labor) using 2 inch 1/2 square tubing, and I got to tell them exactly what I wanted. (Mine are simple, but a step wouldn't be hard to do)...

Tidepools- If during the week, Point Loma(cabrillo) $10 to get into the park. It's beautiful and the best, but if I remember correctly, gets busy, also Touraline (spelling?) is awesome and beautiful as well. Haven't been in a few years, so check google/yelp to see if things have changed. If...

Having recently been a kid, still a kid, and having grown up in Norcal and gone to school down south, being the cool SoCal cousin to lots of kid cousins, I do this trip all the time: San Diego: Unless you know your kids go crazy for zoos, I would go to the zoo the first day, see what you get...

Locker can be had without z71, look for the G80 on the sticker. Also many of them have blown up, so no promises that it's actually in there on a high mileage car (as noted they are mis-sused a lot and the 10bolt (1500) are weak.) A lot of people after breaking put in an open to save some bucks...

Yep, so z71 limits to 7200 and the hitch limits it to 5k. Or you could have a 1500/5.3/4.10 sf 14 bolt:). I'm not missing the power of the 2500 especially when I get 16mpg with 33's. The 14 bolt sf from some applications (escalades, hybrids yukons is bolt on for the 1500) Even towing 6klbs...

The highest 1500 of these years is 8,200 (I believe towing package, non-z71 and the 4.10's will get you this number.) The rest are 7,200ish. Be careful though because some of the hitches are only rated to this with weight distribution hitches and otherwise are limited to 5,000lb.) The highest...

All good info. (I would limit torsion bar lifts expectations to 2") kidphc- Your rod and lifter noise on cold start could just be piston slap. Almost every one of the 5.3 engines has piston slap when cold, some worse than other. Great news is piston slap doesn't do anything bad other than the noise

WOW!!! I already bought some materials to start making a rear platform, and your post completely changed everything. Great idea! Don't mind if i steal it.

There have been a few threads recently about the GMT800 trucks.. There are few on here with them. I have brought 2 00-06's up to over 200k, still owning one at 224k of which has been abused and used and will be for the foreseeable far future (lifted, offroading and towing 6k). These, have by...

Gross! I didn't know that! I wonder how much extra the towing package was. The 6 speed is the only real draw for me. The NNBS, always had too much plastic (bumpers) for me to take it off road (even easy moderate trails). I have stuck with the NBS style, and probably will until I can't find...

I was about to repaint my rear lift tailgate with rattle can gloss, matching the rest of the vehicle's OEM paint. (A year ago I was rear ended and the car behind sprayed brake fluid all over the rear door, eating through the paint within a day while sitting in the adjuster's yard- I took a $...

Also, you can loan that tool from any autozone, pepboys ,oreilly etc. for free.

If you are going to crank and want the proper angles for the key, just buy the proper aftermarket keys on ebay. They are cheap...

I have had an Engo 12000 w/ synthetic on the front end of my suburban for over 3 years and haven't had any problems. It's not the smoothest winch, but it's pulled my fully loaded suburban(60 gallons of fuel and fully loaded of crap) out of some tough stuff and more impressively up some decent...

100% agreed. Anyway, bought the atomic mounts, got them today, less than two days after ordering them! First look, they are very well made. Good welds and powdercoating. I plan on going to the scales early next week to get the truck weighed to pick the springs. Should have this installed in...

Atomic is correct, the 4l80e has higher first gear than the 4l60e. The 6l80e is also way larger and the interface apparantly takes some work to get it talking with the older nbs engines. There is a company that sells kits for the 6l80e to fit and also all the wiring/computer but if I remember...