What did you do with your truck/shop today

[kstruckcountry]

Tire rebalance isn't that big of a deal, I've done front end twice on my truck so it ain't hard to do lol

I have a ruptured ball joint boot, so once it goes bad I want to do the whole thing, including bushings and sway links and bearings (I bought the cheap ones so they're probably about done). May check out CVs (not sure if they're rebuildable). Might do axle seals on front too if it needs it... $$$$

[Jsdirt]

But we have quieter cabs

....lol

You haven't rode in my truck - sounds the same as it did the day it left the showroom floor too. More squeaks and rattles than my '94 K1500 had with 266k miles on it. A fine example of modern engineering ...

 

 

 

Spent the past 3 days overhauling my trailer brakes and bearings. Yanked the backing plates off both axles, and installed new complete brake assemblies - genuine Dexter 7k lb.. Ripped all the brake wiring out (wrong gauge from factory - had 21' of 16 gauge ... which may work if you live in Phoenix, but not New England), and ran jacketed 10/2 down both sides of the frame to each pair of drums, eliminating the through-the-axle brake wiring. Thing stops unbelievably now.

 

Trailer is only 6 years old - the roads up here just beat the thing relentlessly. Found another angle iron support that busted free. Welded that back up while the backing plates were off - made that task nice and easy.

 

Got ripped off buying bearings locally. Nobody had the damn things in stock, so had to buy them piecemeal all over the damn place. What a pain in the ass! Local store sells me 2 bearings and 2 kits, because they didn't have the 4 bearings I needed. Get home, and find out they sold me JUST the bearing with no race! WTF ... so bought the races at Advance Auto. Local store has ONE ... the other 3 are 30 miles away round trip. Man, I'll tell ya! Should've just bought the damn things online and been done with it. Think I'd have learned this by now ...

[Chevor]

I'm hating the deep tread of new tires pulling. Rubber flexes in corners and wind.

 

Been awhile since new rubber.

[Jsdirt]

Might be the winter oriented compound of the tires too, unless you got all-seasons ...

 

My Blizzaks have a noticeable change in handling from my wide summer tires - they don't like being pushed at all. They handle it pretty good though, given how soft the compound is.

[Chevor]

No, winter tires. NO need with my weight. The torque of the truck pulling would burn them off in no time.

 

Doesn't help it's a 265/75/16 on a 6.5 wide rim.

 

Wide rims with narrowest approved tires are the most stable.

Edited October 25, 2015 by Chevor

[SarahsGMC]

 

Chrome is back

 

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[Jsdirt]

Back? When did it ever go out?

 

[Tattooo]

That's alotta chrome ....lol

[Jsdirt]

I'm a big fan of black and chrome.

 

 

[white1500]

She was finally washed and cleaned after weeks of random rain. And I'm still liking the meguirs plastic and rubber treatment, so far it's a million times better than the old "horse piss"!

 

I also cleaned out mud from the wheel wells, inside of the bed fore and aft of the tires, and rear bumper. Imagine if they had invented wheel well liners back in 2000...

[Tattooo]

I'm a big fan of black and chrome.

 

 

Nice bike brother

[Chevor]

Someone say chrome?

 

[Conky Conky]

Someone say chrome?

 

Now that's nice just tint the windows and straight pipe it and your all set I'm glad to see I'm not the only chrome guy out there chrome all the way screw that cheap highschool black out look that everyone seems to like. Like ya ill take my $80 000 truck and put black rims on it or plastic dip my factory ones ant I cool there not cool black out look just wrecks trucks now chrome on the other hand just makes a nice truck nicer. Dam nice truck I wish I had it for my 5 th wheel.

[00Silverado4x4]

Went camping with the kids for Cub Scout weekend. It was fun for all...but I'm dragging today.

[dirtfan21]

Put my Zone 2" level on yesterday, nice Sunday afternoon in the driveway.