Recent content by tug123

Just got back my first blackstone report, a fantastic christmas present. Guess this means I can pretty safely push off a rebuild for a good while, and just accept the minor oil burn. This was 10w-30 (I'm back to 5w-30 now), so my guess is the comment on viscosity is cause I ran 5w-30 prior to...

Much appreciated, thats solid I'll go after bumper repair stuff. Yeah the paint worried me since it's not the body color, that's a fantastic great starting point. This is gonna be a lot more effort than I wanted. That looks really beefy, issue I usually have with pitman arm pullers is they're...

Happy thanksgiving! Turns out someone scraped by car today, its really all exterior moulding and the bumper extension piece. All of this is NLA though, so not much I can really do here?

Got tie rod ends all replaced, new tires (285s) on, and an alignment as well. Toe was unsurprisingly pretty off, main thing that jumps out to me is caster seems a little low. I'm on OME 2861/2862 with stock shocks. I'm thinking maybe if I just replace the radius arm bushings with fresh OEM...

My friend came over today and somehow knocked it out with heat and a hammer in about 2 minutes, so didn't have to pull the arm. I was surprised by the nut on the pitman arm, I didn't even have to break it loose. That's supposed to be 130ft/lb so glad I found that.

Yeah that's fair, that was my nuclear option. Either way seems like I'm gonna have to pull the arm so might as well do that and see if I do get lucky.

It's been awhile, which means nothing's blown up on me. I've been swapping my tie rod ends before I get new tires next week, but this one on the pitman arm has taken up too many hours of my life. Honestly it was this bent when I first took a crack at it, but it snapped my tie rod tool, pickle...

Dang I coulda sworn I saw someone say it was like 7PSI, that is a lot lower than I expected. I think I'll just let it be and swap to 5w-30 before the winter.

Stock oil filter, has about 2.5k miles on it. Been watching it the past couple of days, when it's cold idling it sits pretty centered, as it warms up it goes to the lower marks. Probably just gonna let it be at this point.

It all kind of resolved itself, code never came back and noises disappeared. Quick question on oil though - I was running 5w-30, swapped to 10w-30 and noticed lower oil pressure, also smells at least like it's burning more oil. I don't want to run Xw-40 since it does get very cold here, I guess...

As soon as I think it's all good, CEL comes in - P0116. I just cleared the code, will wait to see if it comes back. I replaced the tstat last summer so if it persists I'm guessing temp sensor. I did notice some squealing coming from my engine bay though this morning when I saw the CEL. I...

It's taking every ounce of self control I have not to pull the engine and rebuild it right now

Popped out the tie rod, popped it back in and now clicking is gone. Not sure if maybe the grease just needed to go through a few heat cycles or what but I'm not complaining. Finally did an oil change and sent that off to blackstone, swapped diff fluid (i'll do one more time probably), and fixed...

Drove it around a bit, clicking is still there. It's strange since it sounds cyclical, with three sequential clicks, pause, three sequential clicks. Checked all of the nuts, grease is between 2/3 and 3/4 full. Wheel play is gone (used to have quite a bit) except for some mild rotational play...

Yeah I didn’t realize @Delta VS sells it but they do now. Wish I had the foresight to buy one.