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98 k2500. SAS'd and bobbed.

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GWeakland620 said:
That looks nice. Where did you get the vinyl from?
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Its from auto custom carpet. I ordered it on rock auto. it fits well other than how much excess they give you. If they already have a floor to mold it, why cant the trim it too. Also the jute padding they give you is a joke. Im going to try to save the OEM padding off the carpet and put it under the vinyl.
 
I drove it around the block today. Everything seemed good. I was too excited to remember to see if the speedo worked.

I replaced my dead walbro 255 with an aeromotive 11569. Installed my shifter boots and some more interior pieces. And picked up my rear bumper kit from the steel yard today. A stick of 2x4x.188” some 3/8” scrap I had laying around, and a 2” receiver

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Got to be one of my favorite builds now. You sir are doing great!!!

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GWeakland620 said:
Got to be one of my favorite builds now. You sir are doing great!!!

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Thanks man!

Kay86K5 said:
I want those tow mirrors for my 93 3/4 ton suburban...you wanna trade for my stock ones? :D
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I would, but shipping would probably kill it. are they power? The ones on this truck are non powered aftermarket ones I’m pretty sure. Not the original to the truck since I am supposed to have powered mirrors. I see similar looking ones on amazon/eBay for less than $50
 
TreeFarm said:
I would, but shipping would probably kill it. are they power? The ones on this truck are non powered aftermarket ones I’m pretty sure. Not the original to the truck since I am supposed to have powered mirrors. I see similar looking ones on amazon/eBay for less than $50
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Yeah, mine are power. I will eventually get some just like that on mine
 
Thanks guys for the complements.

Today I knocked some things off the list and added others. I changed the oil in my A/c compressor and pulled a vacuum on the system. It doesn’t appear to have any leaks so once everything else is finished up I’ll charge it.

I started on the rear bumper. Got the center section made up. I just need to finish the sides that wrap around.

My electrical gremlins are getting weird. So this truck always had an interment issue with interior accessories. I was able to fix it before by replacing the ignition switch. A common failure on this platform. I notice weird lighting issues once I got the swap done. Turn on the headlights and the gauges would zero out and high beam/turn signal indicators would come on. Play with the dimmer and the gauges would come back but the seatbelt may security light would come on. I figured it to be grounding issues somewhere. This dash only has one ground as far as I’ve found so far and it’s clean.

Well today after I got back from driving it around I plugged in my laptop to the obd2 port and magically the dash worked perfectly. Pull the plug out and everything goes back. Plug in another obd2 device and it’s all good again. So yeah. Now I have to figure out what is going on with that. At least if I leave my WiFi dongle plugged in my dash will work.

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That’s really odd about the dash issues. On the Cat engines I work on all the time a poor ground will be helped by having the communication adapter plugged into it. Makes troubleshooting unhandy that whenever you plug in the computer it fixes itself. Doesn’t sound like that’s what you’re dealing with but just maybe it could be
 
78K30 said:
That’s really odd about the dash issues. On the Cat engines I work on all the time a poor ground will be helped by having the communication adapter plugged into it. Makes troubleshooting unhandy that whenever you plug in the computer it fixes itself. Doesn’t sound like that’s what you’re dealing with but just maybe it could be
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I just figured it out I think. I only thinned one ground from the harness when I re did it. I took out VCM ground or sensor ground. I wasnt using any of the 98 sensors or sending units so I didnt think I needed it. Now it makes sense to me that the gauges would be grounded to the same grounds as the sending units feeding them.

I popped a jumper cable form obd port pin 4(chassis ground) to pin 5(VCM ground) and everything works like its supposed to. I've spent the last week looking for a ground under the dash and scratching my head as to why I couldn't find it. Turns out it wasnt there, everything is grounded directly to the ECM. So Now I can either tie that circuit into the LS sensor ground or just dump it to chassis ground. either way it goes to chassis ground eventually.
 
I like those methods on this truck.

and that's an odd electrical gremlin you have going on......there must be a jumper in your OBD tool that's bringing it back to normal operation.
 
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