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If the studs aren't broken or stripped, I'd just leave them. They are not fun to remove. Just replace the nuts when you reinstall the y-pipe, as well as the gaskets on each manifold (the metal ring on the driver side and the donut on the passenger side).
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Just off of the top of my head, customer pay labor rate for transmission removal and reinstall is usually 5-6 hours for a K truck. A competent tech can usually have it done in 3 hours or so.. but that is how flat rate techs make their money.
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Eagle LS2's on my summer wheels, Dueler Alenza H/L's on my winter wheels. I run those tires because I can snatch them for free from the junk tire bin at work.. it's not uncommon to find decent tires with 7 or 8/32 of tread waiting to be thrown out. Lol
It all comes down to personal preference IMO. I really like the look of the Nitto 420S, though.
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I hate reading these theft threads. I really wish I had a garage to park mine in.. that's a couple of years away for me, though. I just try to minimize the time that I have the truck out of eyesight.
Glad to hear the thieves didn't get your truck! Fkn retards with no respect for other people's property.
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Looks awesome!
DIY or did you send everything out? I dig the look but don't have the patience to pull everything apart. Lol
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The difference between before and after is unreal!
My paint is not nearly that bad.. the SS does need a good detailing/polishing come spring time, though. Just need to find someone local who does a kickass job like that!
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Another case of more money then brains who would buy a new truck with drum brakes
Uh, apparently anybody who bought a GMT800/900 truck equipped with drums!
Just because drums are aesthetically "uglier" than discs, doesn't mean that they should be relegated to ancient history. They serve their purpose well IMO. That being said, I did want to do a rear disc swap on my old '06 Sierra, purely for the look of having 4-wheel discs. From my experience working in a GM dealership servicing many, many different trucks (as well as my own) with either rear discs or drums - discs wear out/need replaced far sooner than drums. Drums are less expensive to manufacture, and definitely less expensive to maintain/replace. Win-win for the manufacturer and the average customer who is clueless as to what makes a vehicle stop.
When I wrote off my '06 Sierra with nearly 150,000kms on it, the rear drum shoe linings had 3-4mm of friction surface (which is plenty, brand new is 5mm) with no abnormal wear on either the shoes or the drums themselves; I was well into my second set of front rotors and pads by that time. On the SS, both front and rear rotors and pads were shot when I purchased the truck at 128,000kms. Even with proper set up of the park brake shoes with new OEM rotors and pads on the rear of the SS, the park brake is just fkn terrible compared to a drum set up.
My 2 cents.
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Here ya go man! Hope this helps.
Evan
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Nice work! Looking forward to more pictures. I've lowered both of my trucks by myself.. I couldn't imagine having to do it on the ground!
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Great potential.. those HRE's are fuggin awesome!!
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Whoever buys this beast is going to have one hell of an amazing truck. IMO it's what all turbo Silvs/Sierras aspire to be. Lol
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Sucks that you had to remove the head just to replace a broken exhaust manifold bolt. I was going to suggest welding a nut onto the end of the broken bolt.. but then I read that you had completed the head r&r yesterday. Lol
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Not everyone is going to like what I'm doing to my SS, but that's ok. I will be the one driving her and enjoying her.
Amen to that.
Love all the smoothing going on with the body, especially the bed rails.
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I'm a big fan of oem stuff, so when my original battery went out just this past winter, an 800cca AC Delco replacement was my first choice. Then again, I work at a dealership, so I get a good deal on parts.
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Like this?
Haha. That was my old Sierra btw. I like the LTZ's, too.. but I have a mint set of chrome oem 20's to go back on when spring hits.. can't f'n wait!
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Damn, that looks fkn baaad.. seriously drooling here. Had no idea LTZ's came in 22" replicas.
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No prob.. the designs of both wheels look similar!
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I was honestly a little surprised to read that some members have used Auto-Trak II in their transfer cases, I know that GM Service Information calls for Dexron VI (actually Dexron III.. outdated much? Lol). Next time around, I might have to try the smurf juice, judging by the responses of those who have used it!
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That was quick. Lol
I was gonna say though, those are Avalanche wheels, not factory SS wheels.
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good looking truck! and welcome. 22 reps? nice bowtie
Agreed, the bowtie looks sick.
Nice trucks fellas.. here is my roach:
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Andy, that sucks! Luckily I haven't had any problems yet with my front tint, either on the Sierra or the SS. I actually got pulled over for doing ~120kph in an 80kph construction zone about a km away from my house a cpl of weeks ago (fkn bonehead move, had my leg in it to pass some slower drivers). He was stopped on the side of the road.. I think I caught him off guard, he def didn't have his radar on. It took him a little while to catch up to me, and I pulled over as soon as I saw the flashing lights. He was a very soft-spoken officer, he told me he understood that I just wanted to get home after a long day of work and asked me to take it a little easier in the future. 40kph over in a construction zone would have been a doozy of a ticket. Lol.
And I'm jealous of your low mileage on that thing.. I just rolled over 145,000kms w/ my truck not long ago. I hate putting on the kms, but there is no other vehicle I'd rather drive. In the summer I'll ride the gixxer a lot to keep the kms off of the truck.
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a little bit of both
Honestly, don't be afraid of a helper bag install. It only takes a couple of hours at the most and can be done with simple hand tools.. I didn't think the price for them was all that bad, either. (I paid a shade under 300$ for the SlamAir kit.) I'm dropped 3/4 as well.. the helper bags are one of the best things that I have done suspension-wise to my truck (toss up between the bags and the front & rear Hotchkis sways). I couldn't believe just how much they smoothed out the ride, and I can actually put shit in the back (like my gixxer 1000) without having the axle ride on the bumpstops.
That being said, I haven't towed anything with my truck as I took off the trailer hitch for a cleaner look.. but I am sure that with the bags pumped up pretty good, that it would have no problem towing a decent-sized trailer.
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I stuck a set of 305/50R20's on my old RCSB '06 Sierra Z71 for fun (truck was dropped 4/6, equivalent to 3/4 on an SS), no fitment issues at all, even with some hard cornering thrown in. That was with 20" Silverado LTZ's.. that wide of a tire looked fkn beefy.
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Good God those look good. Love your drop too, truck looks just killer!
I've always liked those wheels.. a chrome or polished set on a black SS would look awesome IMO.
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Autozone is out to lunch. Lol. I'm a 2nd year apprentice tech at a GM dealership.. I have pulled quite a few transmissions on GMT800 trucks, and they have all had a metal ring on the driver side and a donut gasket on the passenger side. I wish I had access to the pictures that the parts guys at work have.. in GM service information (which I have access to), it shows a ring on the d/s and a donut on the p/s. I can post pics of that up for ya if you want!