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What did you do with your GMT400 today...or yesterday....

deejaaa said:
not sure. there is so little info on LT tires. not even sure what the UTQG is,
as explained here:
https://www.tirerack.com/tires/tiretech/techpage.jsp?techid=48
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It's more important to read the DOT age of the tire, link below. Anything over 6 years is questionable and 10 years is scrap no matter what. Phoenix heat makes tires scrap over 5 years old. Run the old ones here and discover tire bombs leaving debris all over the road... Trailer tires, ST, appear to age faster than LT tires making 5 years a NQA replacement age IF they make it that long. Separation like you had usually leads to a blowout and can do so on the spare tire rack. Immediately let the air out of a tire that lost it's tread before you handle it via valve stem, or core, removal.

https://www.tirerack.com/tires/tiretech/techpage.jsp?techid=11
 
sometimes i place a 55 gallon barrel of diesel on the tailgate and i tighten up until it's slid off. so i removed the crappy and questionable cables, installing strap hinges. they are OEM, offered on the early version trucks. funny how some things, introduced with the new platform, were cutting edge and others were carryovers until an 'improved' version replaced it:
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cables no mas:
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thanks to Shiny on GMT400 for them!
that's Jet Lube on the moving parts:
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real thick, similar to pitch. used on locomotives to lube the traction motor gears:
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didn't realize the pics were out of focus.
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good stuff that won't wash off.
 
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Over the last week or so,,, we did the full power steering hydro boost system flush and fill. Had all 4 tires balanced and rotated. Oil change, Air Filter, and a quick detail for upcoming trip. Discovered my front driveshaft is both seized and has both bad u-joints. Run tires up to 55psi, and did 70-80Mph with AC on for a 320 round trip yesterday to Au Gres, Mi. for a day on the Big Lake. Family, cooler, 4 beach chairs, Big beach umbrella, 4 Kites, both dogs, and 2 kayaks. Those were strapped on the roof. We fueled at same pump before and after. 16.3 MPG. I've done 19 before, but that was no ac and running state roads instead of interstate.
 
did some welding on the replacement rear bumper for the 93. had this thing for a few years on the 96, but since i'm parting it out, i took it off. it was found on the side of the road on the way to work one day. fell off a dump or cement truck. cut it down, welded in a place for the plate and braces and added some handles(never know when someone will want to hang on).
this time i cut a hole through it, welded in a pipe, for the spare tire rod. welded on a step. it's solid bar that was a brake rod for a train at one time. just need a couple of holes for the plate lights, sand/wire wheel, primer and spray on bed liner. not the best stuff but it works.
will post pics when done.
 
cut a bracket for the brake controller plug to mount on the bumper. plan is weld it up and remove the rest of it from the 96 tomorrow.
hopeful to get a visitor today to buy the bed and tailgate from the 96.
 
Hauled a bed full to the dump in the project truck.

Patch is getting work/adjustments to run properly.
 
Put a battery tender on the batteries. I've been so busy at work and on the new house that the truck don't get drove as much as it should. Batteries are about 5 months old so I'm going to try and keep them good as long as possible and keep the tender on while the truck is just sitting there looking pretty
 
Hauled a half yard of pit run gravel and unloaded it where a guy is going to pour some sidewalk.
Then hauled a 1/2 yrd load of 3-4" rock for the same guy, unloaded that and then came home and had a sammich. LOL
 
had some friends from work stop by to help mount the rear bumper. we got it on with a 20 pound sledge. it appears that the 3/4 and 1 ton frames are just different enough and made it hard to slide in the bumper. i had made handles on it just in case i drove through Jasper but they were beat to hell from the sledge so i cut them off.
i will get pics after i put a coat of bed liner on it, maybe tomorrow.
weird: a jet just flew over our house, sounded like 20 feet high, going in a SW direction. wife ran in the house all freaked out. sounded like a freight train.
 
Yeah, if you aren't used to it, a jet can give you quite the surprise. My Dad was a lifer in the USAF, so F15, A10, etc was a normal sound day or night. When I moved away from it I hard a hard time falling asleep without hearing at least one for an hour.
Friends or cousins would visit my folks house and the windows shook and we all just stop talking like it's normal- they freak out and say "wth is that!?!" Same response from all of us since I remember in the early 70's: "freedom"
 
Will L. said:
Yeah, if you aren't used to it, a jet can give you quite the surprise. My Dad was a lifer in the USAF, so F15, A10, etc was a normal sound day or night. When I moved away from it I hard a hard time falling asleep without hearing at least one for an hour.
Friends or cousins would visit my folks house and the windows shook and we all just stop talking like it's normal- they freak out and say "wth is that!?!" Same response from all of us since I remember in the early 70's: "freedom"
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My son in alaska, His house must have been lined up with the military landing strips. There was always some type of military air craft flying over and not much above tree top level. sometimes it would be a C1-30 with several fighters around it and sometimes it would be just fighters. a mighty impressive sight seeing them coming in in formation.
In the early mornings, there would be a steady stream of smaller civilian air craft from Anchorage flying out, an hour or two later thay would be heading back in, then before dark, out they would go again to return an hour or two later. LOL
I guess they was hauling out people to go fishing and such then retrieving them back in again.
 
we are 40 miles from the nearest airport. we are 3 miles from the drag strip. we hear the racers on friday night so are used to the sounds but have never seen or heard a plane flying so low before. it was surreal. it literally sounded like a freight train.
 
C-130's use to buzz this ridge about once a week, usually at night until I built a house on top of it. However about 2 months ago one came over during the day and it was so low there was a huge shadow went across the front yard. I ran outside to see it but it was gone. One day I was mowing the yard and something caught my eye, I looked up and two C-17 Globemasters are flying up the valley like they were headed right towards me, they banked to the right before they got to my house. Man that was a sight to see. Occasionally the Apache gunships will fly some missions around here.

Will L mentioned the early 70's, as a kid I remember seeing F-4 Phantom jets literally buzzed the tree tops near the house, they practiced making bombing runs on some targets nearby. Those guys were training for missions in Nam, I suppose.
 
Yesterday, I was on the Salt Flats with the Burb. Today, I was washing the undercarriage to ensure all salt was gone.
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I also received my Battery Cables & Glowplug Harness from PT Wiring Solutions, 4-High harness from Painless (Headlight Switch bypass harness on back order), LED Tail Lights.
 
A guy called Me a while ago. He said He knows someone that wants to get rid of a 6.2 diesel engine, said it came from a roll over 3/4 ton vehicle.
I just do not have room to store any more stuff, as much as I would like having the engine setting here.
Might tell Him to tell them to haul it off.
 
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