Ok so I've been hiding a while, ok a long while, but mainly becasue well I'm kinda in a perpetual state of out of cash, courtesy of the house, stories I may post later, and the fact i was gone a for a couple of months for work. Anyways, the name of the blog came true yesterday, I now have two broke trucks in the yard and zero working ones. Not good. You see it started with me deciding that the Tahoe needed new injectors, I found a reman'ed Bosch sed done by two canook brothers who do crazy stuff to 6.5Ls successfully and are highly respected on the forums for $225. I accidentally paid them 250 on paypal, oops, which led to me sending them another $100, funny how this works, so that they would include a "F" vin intake they had for sale too. You can figure out why the "f" VIN which was found on the commercial trucks is more desirable, hint it may have something to do with airflow.Well, the parts arrived, and I proceeded last weekend to try and install them...uhhh that didn't work out too well. First of all it requires a 19mm wrench, I didn't have a 19mm flare wrench nor does ANYONE stock one locally. The only thing I could find was a set of flare fitting crows feet at Sears which included a 19mm one. Again I would like to note, that they include a 19mm in the crows feet but not in the regular flare wrench set. Against my better fiduciary judgement I spent the $79 on that dang set, which turned out to be a sign, as I would have needed it anyway, even if a 19mm flare had been available, because you see the NR 3 injector line flare decided it didn't want to break loose and the line bent meaning it had to be replaced and that requires removal at the injection pump which would be a tad difficult without a crows foot wrench.
Anyways this lead to the necessity to order a new injector line. Well in order to save 25 bucks on a 56 dollar part I found a new genuine GM one on ebay, and ordered it. Except i may have made one little mistake reading the parts listing on gmpartgiant.com I ordered 10225924 not 10225923. Any one want to guess the difference there. I even took a day off of work so I could install said line when it arrived, you can guess how I reacted when I opened the box and realized humm something doesn't match. So here I am now having to wait another 4 days for the correct line.
As to why I would take a day off of work to fix the truck, my second truck has its own little issue. You see it started out Monday, since I had to drive it to work with the Tahoe out of commission. There was a little noise, which sounded quite like a wheel bearing/hub, which is not that unreasonable with the mileage on the truck, plus I'm getting ready to redo the steering on it anyways, so It was a I'll deal with it then kinda issue. Well on Thursday driving to work and then to the dentist across town the vibration had progressed to the bad...oh so very bad vibration. I figured there was no way it could have degraded that fast and it was getting kinda scary to drive, I glanced at the left front wheel in the parking lot of the fire house subs and what did I find. Err.
For the reference that surface should be flat where the nuts are. Luckily there was a GM dealer down the block, they should have it right, I mean this is a hub extender that has been used since 2001 on GM dually pickups and is still sued on this model year. Nope, closest one is in Ohio, which they could get on Monday if I paid for overnight shipping. Err that's 25lb piece of metal, I think I'll pass on paying fedex or ups for overnight and more importantly, I don't think that I can get the 50 miles back home on a wheel that's got over a 1/4" play and grown as those nuts back, which can no longer be tightened correctly with those rounded nut holes. So a trip to NAPA (who didn't have washers) and then to O'Rileys and a jack and a parking lot netted me this solution which got me home. Thus why I was not to happy with the idea of driving it to work on Friday. Oh I forgot to mention no local wrecking yard seemed to have one the closest was over 100 miles away, so I ended up ordering one from a yard in Georgia for 25 bucks. Even with $20 for shipping, it sure beat the $157 the dealer wanted. So here we are with 2 broke trucks.Hopefully JJ is fairing better than me right now.