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I’ve had the pulley go out on a road trip. Should have known as it was a reaching. It went out on a downgrade with canyon walls on both sides. Lost power steering and brakes. Basically coasted down the grade until I got onto open flat area with a pull off on the old Oregon trail. It was...

Am I cursed or blessed? I was inflating the rear tires after installing balance beads in the tires. Heard what sounded like truck falling off the jack stands, but that was not the case. Shut the engine down and inspected the engine. Found the serp belt completely loose and off the PS pulley. Go...

A bit of a dash update. I installed a Pioneer NEX-2550 head unit into the ‘99 Suburban. MrMarty graciously provided an aftermarket bezel by Metra for the double DIN pioneer. It fit pretty well, though my dash is so brittle that several of the receptacles for the metal clips just broke out. My...

The window on the liftgate to my wife's 2014 4Runner started to bind up such that it would not go all the way up. To make matters worse, the button is in the center console and the dog has a habit of stepping on it. He also was able to hit the unlock button on driver's side door AND step on the...

Filled up this am at $3.63 for diesel, because of Iran’s threat to close the Hormuz Strait. If they try, I think they will lose their entire navy. No other country in the Middle East wants to see the Hormuz Strait closed. I did a mpg calculation based on the full and I average 17.3. This was...

A short while ago I posted somewhere here about my left rear wheel locking up and causing pull to the left under moderate to heavy braking. I finally got around to adjusting the rear brakes. I only adjusted the right rear which needed quite a bit of adjustment. That corrected the pulling problem...

Paveltolz:

You’re right. I was not paying attention. I’ll have to order another w/ rear defogger and return the other.

Tabs broke off the climate control panel when I tried to pull it out, so ordered a new one:

Send me a DM with the postage amount and your address and I’ll pay you.

I started on the install of this Pioneer head unit in the ‘99 Suburban: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07MXNXB5N?ref_=pe_123509780_1038749300_t_fed_asin_title This is narrower than the original stereo units, so I had to order adapter brackets and face plate to the fill the gaps: I’m done with...

Funny, in the video they were bragging about the owner being a billionaire.

How long are the IPs good for?

This ^^^ is coming from a guy who did a Duramax + Allison conversion on a 1995 K2500 Suburban.

I just repowered a K2500 Suburban with a new long block 6.5 Optimizer. Paveltolz and I did the install. It cost me approximately $11K. If a shop had done the work, it would have been $20+K. It does run very nice. My alternative was new truck at $60K to $80K which was a big F no for my intended use.

Clapped out????

The 6.5 in his HumVee sounds like it has lost a cylinder. https://www.facebook.com/share/r/19opTfaN4k/?mibextid=wwXIfr

I know have 4,000 miles on the 6.5 Optimizer.

Thank you Paveltolz for hosting me. Glad you finally got to drive the ‘99 after our Optimizer install last August (transfer case was stuck in neutral, so we couldn’t drive it). I’ll some minor things to work on, but hopefully I am mostly fishing. The 2nd leg of the trip to Montana was uneventful.