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When I was going to get one of the ebay ones, I was just going to use bare metal foil (used on model cars to simulate stainless/chrome trim) and use that on the letters. I think it would look fine and 99.9% of the people that saw it, wouldn't be able to tell the difference.

I don't think they were ever available separately(at least not with a part number). The ones on eBay are GM overstock from years ago, that I think gm just dumped w/o add the stainless to them. I thought i remember reading on here long ago about someone with access to a waterjet cutting some out of stainless, but I cant find it.

Actually the 05 SS's all had the 8.6 rears, and the small front discs. Where as the drum rear 05 1500s got the big fronts. No SUVs got the big fronts til 07. The disc rear SS's did have the dual piston calipers of the SUV's, instead of the single, same rotors though.

I think the black brake duct pic, and the car show pic, are "example" pics, because he couldn't bother taking some decent shots of it. Looks like there's a chunk missing out of the top front corner of the drivers door cladding, and the front bumper it at a weird angle compared to the fender.

On the front bumper, the aftermarket covers look like a direct re-pop of the originals. I guessing there's only 1 or 2 places in Taiwan cranking them out, and everyone resells them. Never heard about any fitment issues. Yes the front bumper bar is the same once you take the upper and the lower caps off, but there are 8 brackets that bolt to the bumper, and 3 that rivet to the cover to mount it. By the time you buy the cover, brackets, lower grill, brake ducts, and shipping, you'll have nearly $1K in the bumper before paint. You might be better off to get the street scene bumper, would be cheaper and less hassle. I'm not aware of anyone making a re-pop rear cover. You'd have to find a used one. On that one, you should try to find someone with a complete bumper. If you try to buy the cover, upper and lower pads, license plate lights, corner brackets, and jack cover separate, you'll have big $$ in that one too.

Just beware of the ones rattlesnakeswheels or wheel_world(same company) are selling on there. They picture OEM ones, and say they are used with the GM part number, but they are the cheap china repops everyones sells for less.

According to my interchange, the rwd SS's got the 8.6" 4.10 ratio, the VHO's got the 3.73 9.5" in '05.

Great write up. I always wondered what it would take to make a rwd, into an awd, and know I know ? PS that 6.0 is in my truck and runs great. It does have a healthy cam in it.

Anyone want to bet the SSS was a fresh steal too?

At least the first one is a realistic price, not one of those lift kit= double the value. The second one I like that they were missing the top pad for the bumper, so they painted it to look like it was there. And the two tone strip in front to distract from the newer hood/older grill misalignment.

I think mid/late 04 was the change over for half tons. I was digging in an 06 HD ext cab yesterday and it still had the dash switch.

I went with it Gibson, because it was the cheapest one out there. The fit and finish isnt super awesome but it works and sounds good. It a dual in single out, single muffler set up though.

Sorry...had to dig this thread back up to show off this sexy front bumper treatment..Yowza I'm in love!

Yep, that's just a muffler shop cat-back. The exhaust on the summit link says rear wheel drive only, not sure what would be different, but if it fits awd they'd be sure to mention it.

I've got nothing to add to the code discussion, but if you go to rock auto, get the delco part #'s for the o2 sensors, then search them on ebay, you can get them for about $25 each for new delco ones. I bought all new ones for mine this spring.

ok, i'm dumb...i admit it. Just out of curiosity...have you ever had the front shaft spun to make sure its straight?

Maybe I'm reading this wrong, but you have a 3" block under the tranny mount, to raise the t-case towards the floor to correct the rear pinion angle? Wouldn't that raise major hell with the front d/s angle?

I was wondering more about the rear shaft, if it was a junkyard piece, or something you had made? on the front shaft, the yard where i work we sell allot of the blazer shaft you used. Don't know if its wimpy u-joints or what, but the seem to get torn up behind a 4.3 with part time 4x4. Cant imagine what 6.0/awd would do to it. We don't sell nearly as many of the silverado ones(second part #). Maybe swap one of those in to see if it help. Looks like they for around $50 used.

What do you have for a driveshaft? When my front diff was going bad, it seemed to make noise under load. Maybe a bad front hub?

Those are beer pumps man! Don't they have those in Texas?? You just fill up you bed/box, and scoop it out of there all night. Saves the trouble of opening all those bottles and cans. I was going to make a joke about how his right arm might just be really really strong from doing...things, and he might need to start cross-training.

I think with the front driveshaft disconnected, it would allow the t-case to spin, and the truck to roll, even in park. kind of like when you have an open diff in park, but you can jack up one wheel and spin it.

With the ss being that close to being a driver, I'd have trouble cutting it up. I'd end up putting both trucks back on the road, but different strokes for different folks. Is that a factory power sunroof in the rc truck?

$20 bucks and I'll send the pictured one to your door.

This is the vacuum on the left, and hydro on the right. Very different, and not interchangeable. Vacuum is actually shorter, but with the pointed end of the steel rod, they end up about the same.

Craiglist should be full of them from the lift kit crowd putting in those led-halo-blind-oncoming-traffic headlights and tossing the stockers.