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    LLY: Traction Bars recommendation for heavy towing

    Ah. Figured you'd have 4-linked it if searching for those kinds of adjustments.
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    LLY: Traction Bars recommendation for heavy towing

    There is no doubt that there are very different perceptions of NVH between people. My brother has a fairly highly modified 7.3 CCSB with traction bars. He'd tell you that it rides perfectly; I'd tell you that it rides like a brick shit-house. And it's not just his truck. Every truck I've...
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    LLY: Traction Bars recommendation for heavy towing

    Yup, 3 turns is the number I recall as well. But with my truck being lowered, I was only able to get about 2 turns before running out of thread, so I left it there. Nowhere near 0.5" off the spring though. I'll check next time I work on the truck, but from memory, I'd say 0.100"-0.125" TOPS...
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    LLY: Traction Bars recommendation for heavy towing

    Of course, every setup is going to need something a little different. I'm generalizing a bit relative to the OPs situation. That said, the audience I'm addressing are the mildly modified street truck owners. The guys who drive them all the time, maybe tow some, have a hot tune on it, and...
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    LLY: Traction Bars recommendation for heavy towing

    I'll be honest: after a good amount of time spent drawing up my own traction bars to build (triangulated bar with a shackle at the front, like Chevy1925 described), I bought a set of Caltracs on the cheap. I've read all about the noise and stiffness issues with them, but they were too good of...
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    PPEI Next On The Chopping Block???

    Yup. I was saying that 10 years ago when the diesel performance (and delete) industry was getting out to the masses and really taking off. When random coworkers who couldn't turn a wrench if they're life depended on it, were easily able to pay a thousand bucks (or whatever) to have their...
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    Strange Turn Signal / Marker Lamp Electrical Issue - Need Help

    Well, I suppose it's never too late to learn something new. I've had, and been around, a lot of vehicles and trailers, and alternating lights always meant that there was something wrong somewhere, usually a bad ground. But, it sure looks like this is how it's supposed to be. So, I found...
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    Strange Turn Signal / Marker Lamp Electrical Issue - Need Help

    For like 5 days now, I've been scanning the roadways as I drive for another same-body-style truck to see if it does the same or not, lol. Unfortunately, haven't seen one yet, don't have any close friends with one, and haven't found a single video online yet verifying it. Everything else works...
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    Strange Turn Signal / Marker Lamp Electrical Issue - Need Help

    Hello all. I'm having a werid electrical issue with my 2003 Duramax. I'm usually a pretty good troubleshooter, but electrical stuff is sometimes my kryptonite, so I need some help. First off, here's a quick video showing what's going on. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQeIrjCUoKk...
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    LLY: Need NEW Batteries.....Is Interstate any good...??

    One of my co-workers worked as an engineer for an auto battery supplier for over 25 years. Here's a little FYI I've learned from him. Virtually all auto batteries are made by one of three manufacturers: Johnson Controls, Exide, or East Penn. Johnson Controls and Exide are virtually identical...
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    Ever Get a Speeding Ticket When You Positively Were Not Speeding?

    Yup. 85. My 72-73 puts me usually in the next-to-left lane, where virtually everyone is running about the same. The far right lane is full of people running 10-20 under the speed limit, for reasons unknown. And the next-to-right lane is for the do-gooders with hands at 10 and 2 going...
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    Ever Get a Speeding Ticket When You Positively Were Not Speeding?

    Maybe I should have named the thread "Ever Been Outright Wrongly Charged a Traffic Citation"? Might would have been more clear. Yes, I was "speeding" 7-8 mph over. I do that every day, as do millions of other drivers in NC and elsewhere, without any issue. Here's the deal. In NC, a 1-9 mph...
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    Ever Get a Speeding Ticket When You Positively Were Not Speeding?

    Is there really anything you can do about it? In the 13+ years and 500,000+ miles of driving I've done, I've NEVER had a ticket of any kind, but I managed to get one earlier this week. Was on my 60 mile commute to work in NC, on an 4-lane road (each way) with a 65mph limit. Just like I've...
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    Fuel level sensor

    I just pulled my tank to install the Kennedy billet pickup. Dropping the tank is easy. It's the reinstalling it part that'll get you all sorts of angry. If I have to do it again, I'll figure out some way to lift the bed (don't have a lift or overhead crane), because that'll surely be easier...
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    Motorops opinion

    Sorta apples-to-oranges, but I'm running Ridgerunner's tunes in my LB7, and they are great. Makes good, smooth, clean power; drives great just like OEM without any dead or laggy spots; and I've gotten an honest hand-calculated, back-to-back-tank-verified 20-21 mpg several times on 20x9s and...
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    Sump or Not

    Are you sure that the Fass and AirDog pumps are flow-through? I suppose there could be some sort of pilot valve / check valve circuit that will allow fuel to flow through the housing if the pump fails to deliver pressure, but that style of pump (gerotor) is generally not flow-through. Are you...
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    Sump or Not

    I just did a bunch of research on this (for my 2003 LB7), and literally just received my pump yesterday. Planning to install it this weekend. I bought a Kennedy twin pump "everything" kit, which includes the wiring harness, fittings, hose, and billet pickup (not sure if it's needed, but the...
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    10 seconds, stock rods, full weight, crew cab, street truck

    You got that right! Haha. I love guys like Landon and trucks like his. They don't care that the truck isn't perfect, or that maybe there's some work still left to be done on it, or that it's "not ready". They take it in whatever state it's in, and go full-send. I love it. I think I saw him...
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    Lb7 5 speed

    I'm sure he'd appreciate me not just listing out what's in his kit, but you should give Evan a call.
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    Allison 5sp: Newb Transmission questions & issues

    Is the stock Allison input hard enough, that it breaks clean enough, that it'll actually come out? I know my brother's 4R100 builder tried and tried to get his broken input out, but it just wasn't having it. It was hard enough you couldn't drill / tap it, but apparently not so hard that the...
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