My build-DOWN thread...

[y5mgisi]

I maintain the with enough research and preparation you could get it done in two weekends. In an older, pre efi truck, I could easily do the swap in a weekend. Having our trucks be originally equipped with fuel injection and trying to do the swap super clean takes the time.

 

[BlazerFarm]

I just read this whole thread. Very nice work.

 

[y5mgisi]

Thanks!

 

[dhcomp]

I just read this whole thread. Very nice work.

Slow day at work?

 

[BlazerFarm]

Slow day at work?

Ha, actually yes. I work from home on Fridays and "extended" lunch a bit to read this thread.

 

[muddysub]

I love your suburban man, so clean and innocent looking. Did you say that it used to be lifted?

 

[TerryD]

Very nice truck man! I've got to sit down and read through the thread better one rainy day.

 

[Chief Brody]

Looks great! So glad you stayed with the original color, very, very sharp.

 

[y5mgisi]

Thanks dudes! Yea I think in post #1 of this thread there is a pic or two of it lifted. 4" and 36s. Then I realized I was beating up my childhood dream truck and decidedit was time to stop. TThat's when I got my 78 suburban so I could beat it up instead of the 90.

 

[y5mgisi]

Today was a good progress day! Finally got a temp sender for the gauge so I can know how hot it's running without reading the computers sensor. Replaced my radiator heater hose cap with a plug (not as clean but much more secure), put the stereo in, and finally drilled the rest of the holes for the aux battery tray. Wasn't a fuzy feeling when I would hitbumps knowing the battery was only asupposed by two bolts in the fender sheet metal. Now it's solid!

Here is the old cap that cracked out hard in only a year.



And the new setup. It's a brass pex plug from Lowe's.

 

[y5mgisi]

Also, I have been driving it every day since Friday. Runs great and goes down the roadpretty good! Has one really warped rrotor! It's bad! And initially it seemed to have a frozen caliper but I think it freed up. At some point this summer it's goingto get a full frontt brake job.

 

[y5mgisi]

Put about 60 miles on it today. And I'll tell you what, it wasn't enough! On myway home I aalmost just kept driving. Really loving that 5.3. So smooth.

 

[Hogback Fabrication]

Here is the old cap that cracked out hard in only a year.



And the new setup. It's a brass pex plug from Lowe's.

I had the exact same BS plug and did the same fix

 

[muddysub]

Put about 60 miles on it today. And I'll tell you what, it wasn't enough! On myway home I aalmost just kept driving. Really loving that 5.3. So smooth.

That's awesome man, I've only got about 60mi on mine but I know the feeling, smooth and powerful.

I had the exact same BS plug and did the same fix

I had one of those type caps on my steering reservoir and it never made it out of the driveway.

 

[tRustyK5]

Good motivation for the rest of us to see your 'burb come out so nice and clean. Great job!

 

[diesel4me]

I dont trust those rubber "caps",they aren't made of good rubber,no cords in them and they split & crack like that and fail in no time..I trust a hunk of heater hose and a bolt shoved in it a lot more,even if its not as pretty!..
I've seen some nice engines ruined because one of those caps failed and they overheated...

 

[y5mgisi]

Geeze. I didnt realize how much work i have really done to this thing over the past few years.

Before,

After

Before,

After,

 

[muddysub]

That's awesome man!

 

[Chevy305]

I noticed that your using the stock air tube. I replaced mine on my Tahoe with a modular one from Airaid. Gives the engine a deeper sound and a few extra ponies wasted in the noise cancelling chambers of the stock one. Plus it looks way better:

http://autoanything.com/air-intakes/61A1850A0A0.aspx

 

[y5mgisi]

I have considered it, but dig the factory look.