Found a k3500 ecdrw

[Acesneights1]

I'm going to run the truck up to a different tire shop and see what they say.

 

[Turbine Doc]

and just a note on lights....I saw matuva had mentioned Mr. Taillight. Im not so sure he is in buisiness anymore. Ordered circuit boards for the rear taillights as well as a high beam kit but nothing ever shipped. Credit card got charged, then I recieved an email saying "sorry for the delay, health issues. Will send parts soon". Well we canceled the payment with the card but I still never recieved the circut boards. This was about a little less then a year ago. Dont know if anyone has done buisiness with them since.

So just a heads up for anyone

Same thing happened to me, I never got parts, or refund, credit card company reversed the charges since I never got parts. MTL out of business as far as I'm concerned, which is a shame as earlier on they were a good vendor.

 

[Matt Bachand]

Rotate tires and see if the shake goes to the seat. Then have them unmount the tires and spin up the rims looking for bends or out of round. This would prove it isn't the rims.

x2. I have a bent rim too, and I stick it in the rear don't feel it. Try rotating.

 

[Acesneights1]

got nuthin to loose..

 

[matuva]

So, if Mr taililght is out of business, here is how you can wire a relay to
build a "high beam kit" :

 

[Matt Bachand]

So, if Mr taililght ius out of business, here is how you can wire a relay to
build a "high beam kit" : View attachment 14064

Sounds like a job for Leroy or Patrick!

 

[midniteplowboyy]

Check the rear lug nuts, make sure the studs all protrude the same depth. The hub has a ledge thats easy for the rim too catch on and cock the wheel, easy to do if not paying attention when tightening up lugs.

Had some new buckshots put on my 91, drove it about twenty miles. The next day(god must have been looking out for me), had a flat, cranked the compressor on the truck, went to air up the tire, missing three lug nuts and two more were about to fall off. I watched the guy tighten up the wheels, they were tight, must have caught on that lip.

Trick I always use is run two nuts up finger tight while rotating the wheel back and forth so I know both rims are up on the ledge, especially if using bolt on simulators, thats four to five pieces of metal behind the lug nut.

 

[Acesneights1]

I'm gonnna try some stuff tonight.

 

[Detroit Dan]

did it come with a spare, in case you do have a bad wheel? I can see a bent rim that wasn't noticeable getting rotated out during tire install, and ending up somewhere where it would be noticeable.
But I would bet on it being a bad or unbalanced tire first.

 

[Acesneights1]

Yeah, I have had enough bad tires in my lifetime that it feels like a bad tire.

 

[Matt Bachand]

My bad rim the guy comes back and says it wont balance... I say do your best and put it on the rear.

 

[Acesneights1]

well I swapped the pass side front to the rear and the vib is nealy non existent which means the scumbag sold me 2 bad tires cause I now have the 2 new ones on the back and two used ones up front. WTF, every thing you buy these days someone is out to f'ya...:suicide:

 

[Matt Bachand]

How do you know its not the bent rim that you just can't feel in the rear?

 

[Acesneights1]

Here's how it sits with the camper. Trying to decide if I have to bring the hitch up a notch or it's good where it is. Pics are kinda dark. I'll take better ones.

 

[Acesneights1]

Well, the trial run didn't go so well. Guess I should have bought my fathers truck. The 200$ towing bill from the side of I84 today wasn't a nice way to spend the day and my fathers truck had rescue the camper besides. Don't know what's wrong but there was a huge puddle of oil and antifreeze on the ground. That is not usually a good sign.
:suicide:

 

[Acesneights1]

This is looking much better.

 

[NVW]

Sorry to hear about this one too, Kenny. Any ideas on what happened?

 

[1999gmc]

That sucks. Hey look at the brite side. Now you have a reason to get that glow plug out. Just kidding. I'm sorry to here that. I have been following this and hoping this truck worked out for you. Did it make any wierd noises? or knocks?

 

[Acesneights1]

well...sometimes things look worse than they really are. Pics to follow but the PO never secured the tranny lines and they were patched with rubber and laying on the exhaust and burned through and apparently I must have overfilled the Coolant bottle and it puked a little at the same time. I'm tellin ya my heart was in my stomach when I saw oil and antifreeze mixed together on the ground. That is usually the sign of catastophic damage. I removed the rubber lines and compression fitting'd steel back in. I also found the starter support bracket bolt is snapped off in the block and not coming out so I modified the bracket to use the hole in the block next to it. I'll take some pics later. Came out pretty good. F'ed up weid azz stuff happens to me that "No one has ever seen before"..Some might think I'm nuts but I now have witnesses. Bill, Matt and TD all saw a new chapter written in PMD failure at my house when we attempted to adjust the IP. I made believers out of them as to the kind of weird bad things that happen but I suppose the bright side is it usually looks worse than it is. we thoght for sure that day the IP was toast Bill even wanted to go as far as pulling the intake to plug the old PMD back in to verify cause no one has ever seen a PMD do what my truck was doing.

 

[Matt Bachand]

:drama:

I can't handle the roller coaster ride anymore Kenny!

Your one possessed f'd up dude! I'm moving!

How were the temps? Did you get any feeling for it?