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So get this: this gigantic box arrives today right? Pretty excited. It’s a new headliner from LMC for my grandparent in-laws 89 C10 suburban (I guess suburban love ran in both sides of the family). Anyhow, their headliner has been falling down for years and they have it held up with about 1000 thumb tacks. They finally decided to replace it and ordered a new vinyl headliner from LMC and it arrived today.

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Anyhow, the box was damaged so I opened it up to make sure the headliner was okay and I find this:

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The back half of the headliner has a cutout in the hardboard for the rear AC, except they didn’t make the same cut out in the vinyl and they stacked the rear half on top of the front half resulting in the exposed vinyl glue glueing to the face of the front half of the headliner.

This is pretty disappointing considering the headliner was $500 and the in-laws’ truck is in mint condition so I want the end result to be a quality product. Anyhow, I called LMC right away and they had me email them photos and said their customer service will get back with me within 24 hours. I’m sure being vinyl the glue will come off but I wanted to report this to LMC right away. Let’s see what ends up happening.

This is their truck:

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AugustDiesel said:
So get this: this gigantic box arrives today right? Pretty excited. It’s a new headliner from LMC for my grandparent in-laws 89 C10 suburban (I guess suburban love ran in both sides of the family). Anyhow, their headliner has been falling down for years and they have it held up with about 1000 thumb tacks. They finally decided to replace it and ordered a new vinyl headliner from LMC and it arrived today.

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Anyhow, the box was damaged so I opened it up to make sure the headliner was okay and I find this:

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The back half of the headliner has a cutout in the hardboard for the rear AC, except they didn’t make the same cut out in the vinyl and they stacked the rear half on top of the front half resulting in the exposed vinyl glue glueing to the face of the front half of the headliner.

This is pretty disappointing considering the headliner was $500 and the in-laws’ truck is in mint condition so I want the end result to be a quality product. Anyhow, I called LMC right away and they had me email them photos and said their customer service will get back with me within 24 hours. I’m sure being vinyl the glue will come off but I wanted to report this to LMC right away. Let’s see what ends up happening.

This is their truck:

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For $500 I'd expect them to ship a replacement.
 
campfire said:
I can think of seven different GM production intakes that would fit that block. Half of which are hanging on David's wall.
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I got as far as I could.

Looks like you’ve got the J single plane. Great intake, and similarly configured to the 6.5 F intake (I have run both).

Keep at it!

David
 
So I think I can honestly say that I am proud to be an LMC customer. They are shipping me another headliner free of charge. Should arrive within 4-8 days. Will see if this one is packaged correctly.

Andy
 
AugustDiesel said:
So I think I can honestly say that I am proud to be an LMC customer. They are shipping me another headliner free of charge. Should arrive within 4-8 days. Will see if this one is packaged correctly.

Andy
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Do you get to keep the damaged one?
 
Tonight I’ll be packing and prepping for my next road trip. Heading to my parents place in Tallahassee to help with cleanup. Hurricane Michael is currently at a Cat 4 with 150mph winds. Their house is very far inland, but will still be a Cat 2 or Cat 3 by the time it reaches their house, which the eye is expected to pass directly over.
 
acm said:
Good luck with the road trip.
Hope everyone stays safe.
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Thank you. The storm made landfall with 155mph winds. That’s 2mph shy of a category 5 hurricane. Even as far inland as they were, the eye of the storm still passed within about 15 miles of their house as a weak Catagory 4 maybe a strong 3. I’ve spoken with everyone and they are safe and well. Some damage has been incurred but not sure how much. I’m hitting the road here in about 30 to see what I can do.

Andy
 
Update:

So I made it out to my parents place by about 10:30 Thursday morning. Everyone was fine and no damage to their house, though not the same story for the rest of their property. There were so many trees down I could not even get to their house. This is what the first turn off the main road looked like:

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And this is as far as I could get before the rest of the way was blocked:

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You can see their house in the background, it’s a blue-ish teal color.

And this is what the rest of their street looked like in front of their house:

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Dozens of trees down. I had to climb through these trees to get to their front door. My mom’s car was totaled but my dad’s truck was minimally damaged, though you would’ve thought differently from this picture:

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They of course were without power, and may be without power for up to a month. Officials say the grid in their county has to be rebuilt. My parents generator isn’t working, so I was able to put my truck with it’s humble 1500 watt power inverter to work for a few days:

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For a small 1500w inverter, I was actually pretty impressed with what it did. It provided a cumulative total of about 24 hours of generator service powering their freezer, refrigerator, microwave, cell phones, small work light, and my dad’s nebulizer so he could get his breathing treatment. In his words, getting that power for those few days proved “life saving”.

My cousin came down and helped get the streets cleared. We managed to get my mom’s car unburied, and cleared the trees in front of the old store you see in the 2nd picture. Made a chainsaw Christmas tree while we were at it:

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Later in the day, a guy came to help us with a wicked fork lift and cleared out the rest of the street:

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Unfortunately he slid into the ditch and got stuck:

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My cousin and I tried to strap our trucks to it and pull it out, but it was just too heavy, made our trucks look like a couple of Priuses (he had a newer Dodge 3500 4x4 Cummins). He was able to get back with some bigger guns the next day though:

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Saturday morning I beat it over to my brother-in-law’s house to pick up his new generator so that I could leave my parents with a reliable source of electricity and get back home myself, loaded up with some extra water and supplies too:

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All in all, the trip was a success. There will be many more as there are still downed trees to cut up and fence repairs to be done, but the family is safe and the truck performed flawlessly. I told my wife that after this experience, no one will ever convince me these kinds of trucks are a waste or not worth the investment. Everything about this truck, and all the work I put into it, from the shear size and space, to the generator capabilities, to the Diesel engine (only one truck in front of me at the pump, verses a mile long line at the gas pump) proved to be a benefit. But I guess that’s why we’re into this kind of hobby, to be able to do things and go places that the average Prius can’t. Rusty lives on.

Andy
 
I did realize that having the Jerry can mounted directly to the barn door was putting too much weight on the door hinges and making it difficult to shut the door properly. So I took it off and it’s just sitting in the shop for now. I will find a way to modify the swing arm that the other one is on so that it can hold both cans.

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Andy
 
AugustDiesel said:
Update:

So I made it out to my parents place by about 10:30 Thursday morning. Everyone was fine and no damage to their house, though not the same story for the rest of their property. There were so many trees down I could not even get to their house. This is what the first turn off the main road looked like:

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And this is as far as I could get before the rest of the way was blocked:

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You can see their house in the background, it’s a blue-ish teal color.

And this is what the rest of their street looked like in front of their house:

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Dozens of trees down. I had to climb through these trees to get to their front door. My mom’s car was totaled but my dad’s truck was minimally damaged, though you would’ve thought differently from this picture:

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They of course were without power, and may be without power for up to a month. Officials say the grid in their county has to be rebuilt. My parents generator isn’t working, so I was able to put my truck with it’s humble 1500 watt power inverter to work for a few days:

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For a small 1500w inverter, I was actually pretty impressed with what it did. It provided a cumulative total of about 24 hours of generator service powering their freezer, refrigerator, microwave, cell phones, small work light, and my dad’s nebulizer so he could get his breathing treatment. In his words, getting that power for those few days proved “life saving”.

My cousin came down and helped get the streets cleared. We managed to get my mom’s car unburied, and cleared the trees in front of the old store you see in the 2nd picture. Made a chainsaw Christmas tree while we were at it:

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Later in the day, a guy came to help us with a wicked fork lift and cleared out the rest of the street:

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Unfortunately he slid into the ditch and got stuck:

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My cousin and I tried to strap our trucks to it and pull it out, but it was just too heavy, made our trucks look like a couple of Priuses (he had a newer Dodge 3500 4x4 Cummins). He was able to get back with some bigger guns the next day though:

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Saturday morning I beat it over to my brother-in-law’s house to pick up his new generator so that I could leave my parents with a reliable source of electricity and get back home myself, loaded up with some extra water and supplies too:

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All in all, the trip was a success. There will be many more as there are still downed trees to cut up and fence repairs to be done, but the family is safe and the truck performed flawlessly. I told my wife that after this experience, no one will ever convince me these kinds of trucks are a waste or not worth the investment. Everything about this truck, and all the work I put into it, from the shear size and space, to the generator capabilities, to the Diesel engine (only one truck in front of me at the pump, verses a mile long line at the gas pump) proved to be a benefit. But I guess that’s why we’re into this kind of hobby, to be able to do things and go places that the average Prius can’t. Rusty lives on.

Andy
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Woohoo!

One question about the first picture...who paid mother nature's $500 fine for all that litter? :eek1:
 
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