Recent content by Big T

Just a short 10 hour drive today to Paveltolz’s place where I completed the Red, White, and Blue 6.5 lineup: My ‘99 Burb still has vibration issues in the front. Has vibration while braking coming front right front. It increases from subtle while lightly braking, to a heavy shudder under...

My thoughts: sell it. These Blazers had a bad reputation. I cringed when you bought it. You don’t deserve to be punished by this vehicle.

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I had this issue on return line hoses after installing the Optimizer (thanks Paveltolz). Had to get another set of return lines. Ended up driving the last half of the trip from Montana to SoCal with an unknown, but slow leak on the first injector on the driver’s side. It has been fine since...

OK finally got my stainless work table/cabinet loaded in the ‘99 Burb. Also a second 8’ stainless work table, plus my wife’s two glass top tables and legs for all of them. The larger portion of the second row seat would not fit. Frame legs would hit the ceiling and the wheel well in the back, so...

I’ve lost the turbo nuts before. Might consider using locking nuts, not the nylock type. Also blue loctite.

Well the HO pump and Dmax fan on the ‘94 did not have the same effect they did on the ‘99 and the only difference is the crossover.

I’m going off the shitty dash gauges and the ‘94 gauge is really shitty and suspect. Down the road I’ll be getting a digital gauge cluster for the ‘94.

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Same components on my ‘94 and ‘99, except for single vs dual thermostat respectively. ‘94 runs at 195 to 200 a can easily hit 210 on a warm day. ‘99 runs at 187 and is mostly pegged there. It and rarely gets over 200 and you must be charging up a steep mountain grade in summer heat.

This is interesting. Because of all the proponents of the single stat, I left it on the ‘94 which has the upgraded 130gpm water pump and the Dmax fan. However, it still runs warmer than my ‘99. I do have a dual stat crossover on the engine we took out of the ‘95, so I might just put that on the...

Out in the west we generally do not see salt. I installed the original 4” exhaust back when I bought the Suburban back in January 2010. Right now, only the tail section from the muffler back has rot. The section from the muffler forward are fine. Wish I could just buy the tail section. But this...

Yeah, the price. I just purchased aluminized from Quadstar for $409. Did not include the muffler, but I have one in good shape.

I would not use a CV axle from O’Reilly. What vehicle is this for?