Jump to content

Archaic2021's Behemoth build

Archaic2021

By Archaic2021
in Member Build Threads

Recommended Posts

Archaic2021 Enthusiast

Archaic2021

Posted
Posted

so..recently i was bless with buying back my old truck. A 2005 sierra slt. It was the last tuck my dad helped me with before he passed away....this was it then.

 

IMG_0115.jpg

 

He called it a behemoth at the time because he complaomed about climbing in. The mods list is/was.

 

6" rcx

5.3 tuned with full bolt ons, headers, intake, and full exhaust.

35" mud graps

16" beadlock rep wheels by procomp.

 

I acquired the truck at a car lot that had it traded in. I noticed the feont axlw was missing, oil was low, pressure not great but it rand down the road good. so 3k later i brought it home.

 

20170413_172156_zpsrzrofxkk.jpg

 

20170413_211512_zpspm1orh5w.jpg

 

now the goal is first to make sire the motor can hang on until i get one built. So gave it fresh oil and a bottle of lucas. The motor runs good, no noises. The oil pressure is getting low sometimes but i bleive its eleteical. sometimes it will idle on 5psi but nothing is making noise.

 

so step two is two get the 4wd working for cheap...this is where it gits greety.

 

I put a new driver side axle in and went to test the 4wd. Made a horrible noise from the front.

20170415_110652_zpsyyrnebtb.jpg

 

Hooray for carnage.

 

i lucked and found a used front diff with same gears and oicked it up for 100 bucks. now i got it installed and well.

 

 

the truck now feels like its in a bind in 4wd. On grave the truck grips weird and will actually come to a stop..give it a little throttle amd it will move bit the tires are fightning each other it seems. when i take it oit if 4wd i get a big shift..like when you come out of 4wd in a big hill or something.

 

so im thinking since the service brake system is on it may have a different rear end under it.

 

I ran out of day light yesterday bit going home tonight and pullinf it back in the shop amd pulling the rear cover off to see if the gears in the reae are different.

 

 

right now is get the 4wd fixed in case i need to use it. build a mild 6.0 while i fix some other small issues, build a trans. get that in. them do a SAS swap.

Buckshot556 Enthusiast

Buckshot556

Posted
Posted

Damn you are one handy guy. I spent the last 10 years working on my own Wrangler and plan on doing the same with my new Sierra, but never got into repairs as extensive as you've got.

 

Good luck with your restoration. May it bring you closer to the memories of your father.

Archaic2021 Enthusiast

Archaic2021

Posted
  • Author
Posted

Damn you are one handy guy. I spent the last 10 years working on my own Wrangler and plan on doing the same with my new Sierra, but never got into repairs as extensive as you've got.

 

Good luck with your restoration. May it bring you closer to the memories of your father.

 

 

I have a lot of trial and error processes lol.

 

 

So the 4wd issue. I pulled the rear cover off the rear end...it has 3.42 gears.

 

so two options...the front end is wrong and the guy lied about knowing the gear ratio or something else is causing the issue...lets begin again.

Archaic2021 Enthusiast

Archaic2021

Posted
  • Author
Posted

So finally found time to work on the truck this week.

 

Pulled the Front diff back out. Turns out it had 3.73 gears. Luckily I was able to use my old gears and got it put back together. Filled it with fluid and put it on the jack and test on the ground via plugging in the wirring harness and making sure it locked. Gonna put it in the truck tomorrow and test drive lol.

  • 3 weeks later...
Archaic2021 Enthusiast

Archaic2021

Posted
  • Author
Posted

So after fixing the 4wd and getting that put back together we are now here.

 

 

20170513_142907_zps1uvihzrz.jpg

 

We pulled the trans back and the oil pan off.

 

The oil pan is leaking, rear main seal is leaking, rear cover is leaking and also i am replaced the oil pickup tube o-ring...This is gonna be my oil pressure problem I hope...it has gotten so brittle that it broke in half when I tried to remove it.

Archived

This topic is now archived and is closed to further replies.

Go to topic listing

  • Recently Browsing   0 members

    • No registered users viewing this page.

  • Forum Statistics

    250.5k
    Total Topics
    2.7m
    Total Posts

  • Member Statistics

    342,972
    Total Members
    8,960
    Most Online
    Whit.the.COB
    Newest Member
    Whit.the.COB
    Joined

  • Who's Online   2 Members, 0 Anonymous, 1,198 Guests (See full list)

  • Latest Articles

  • Posts

    • Grumpy Bear
      Wow I'm in a pickle. (Broke down truck) and a story.

      By Grumpy Bear · Posted

      Atlas, you kill me As aggravating as a project like this can be you have been unable to hide your fascination with learning and using that angst against this beast like a Ninjitsu Master. It amuses you, admit it now.      BTW, love your writing style. 😉       
    • TrueBlue
      Wow I'm in a pickle. (Broke down truck) and a story.

      By TrueBlue · Posted

      I gotta say, I'm enjoying your narration. The troubles you've been having are amusing as you describe them. It's good to see that you're finally getting some satisfaction out the old beast though.
    • Atlas
      Wow I'm in a pickle. (Broke down truck) and a story.

      By Atlas · Posted

      Declaring victory would upset the demons that possess this Blazer, so I won't. But I did make progress today--after it put up a fight. Always a fight.   I had the day off so I spent the morning cleaning up the shop and I thought I'd get ahead of things by filling the cooling system in prep for the final part I needed to arrive: the driver's side knock sensor. Glug, glug, glug....and then the unmistakable sound of liquid hitting the shop floor. It induces the same chagrin when the sonar and targeting laser temporarily malfunction during a late night bladder evacuation over the toilet with the bathroom light off. D'OH!!! That made a mess...   Oh, hey, that knock sensor I removed? It threads into a wet port. Who knew?! Learn something new every day. Put a pin in that chore, I'll fill it the rest of the way later.   The knock sensor arrived at about 1pm. I threaded it in, connected the wire, filled up the coolant, checked for leaks, and... drumroll.... fingers crossed for a perfect start, excellent timing, model fuel trims, and ...no squeaks... Here goes.....   No, it didn't start. At all. I cranked it a few times and it wasn't sounding good. Furthermore, I heard leaking again. Jesus H Tapdancing Christ, stop leaking all over the dang floor. This time I had accidentally overfilled the coolant reservoir and the churn of the water pump via cranking caused a bit to burp out. Ok, just, breathe... Put the flamethrower down. Dang thing wouldn't burn anyway, leaks too much...   Did you know the rotation of a round crank sensor in a round hole, matters? I do now. Took me about half hour to retrace steps and realize what I had done. Then it started right up.   No squeaks. The squeak was the old balancer.   Once it entered closed loop, fuel trims are dead on, hovering right around zero at idle. No more -30%. I'll credit the injector rebuild on that one.   Timing? I think there's an OBD 1.5 translation error with my Actron scanner. It's anywhere from -20 to -30 at idle, sometimes as high as -40 cruising. Sorry, the engine just isn't running that smoothly at -40 degrees ignition advance. It's just not. It's smooth all through the rev range and has decent power. I'm going to have to trust the seat of my pants on this one.   The new exhaust is very quiet. The old catalytic converter? Not melted, but definitely not healthy. Rains glitter when you turn it on its end...all the precious metal is flaking out. Once the new exhaust system burned in/smoked off a bit, the engine's exhaust smell is normal again. Not that I'd recommend going around huffing car exhaust, but, you know what I mean?   One problem to correct. The new exhaust has the opposite problem of the old spliced up exhaust. It wants to hit the floor where the old one wanted to rest on the cross member. Happy medium, please? Still noodling on that one, need to look at how I can adjust some hangers.   I don't know what's next. On one hand I want to run away from this thing as far and as fast as I can -- there have been a lot of NOT fun moments. On the other, now that it kinda drives nice, maybe drive it around for a little bit?   Shhh... it's not currently dripping oil all over the floor. I can see just a little wet at the bottom of the timing cover where it meets the oil pan seal. It's not dripping multiple drops with every ignition cycle, in fact, after some driving this evening it has yet to even form a drop that could drip off yet. But the weekend is young... I fully expect this could turn into Exxon Valdez by Sunday. Because this Blazer hates me. LOL.      
    • Grumpy Bear
      The Peckish Synapse

      By Grumpy Bear · Posted

      About that:   Once upon a time in a land far far away lived a car company that was shy about taking your money and wanted to be sure that they gave you more that you asked for so that you'd come back. No really, not a fairytale. 😱   But after the field got thinned out enough to limit the competition it seemed good enough to give you only what you asked for. Fair enough I say but in such a market you have to give something the others are not or they go to the one who does. Gimmicks or glitz. Oh, fins and chrome. Yea, shinny crow like cars. Yum.    Field narrows a bit more and 'brand loyalty' becomes a thing and the minute it does they start thinking to themselves, "Could we make more money if we gave them less than they expect and they will hang in there for brand and comfort with the known?" They gave it a try and da*n, it worked!!    Well, what if we teach them, groom them into believing that less is "Normal" and cut some more corners. Will that work? Oh heck yea!    🤔 I wonder, can we give then WAY less than they expect and make them mad enough to spit nails and STILL get them to pay up? Sure, if we get everyone else to do the same so that the choice is less or nothing at all. How would be do that? Platform sharing.  What a concept, right?  Steal like there is no tomorrow and it's legal too!    Truth is no one is going to give up driving, not for very long. The Gen Z crowd is fine with it and will be as long as someone not Gen Z will haul them around. At some point we all die.    Economic voting only works if you cast a NO vote now and again and enough of them to get dumb and dumber to wise up. Well, that's how I was taught anyway. And it should have worked. Would have worked. But the Bail out!!   Look, you have another choice if  you take that bag off your head. If the dumb it down to some predetermined expectation of how John Q Public will use it the, that is under design it to failure they you use it to a lower stress mode. D'ho!    A 1950 Royal Enfield Bullet 500 will go anywhere a Suzuki Hayabusa will and for just as long. But you will have to treat it for what it is and not for what you wish it was. 
    • Vu1can
      Bridgestone vs Goodyear tires?

      By Vu1can · Posted

      Maybe I was just too unlucky, but I had nothing but bad luck with Bridgestones. Out of 3 sets, they all started losing a lot of air when they got down to about 1/2 tread life, and at that point also wet traction suffered more than it should have. Also, the only tire I ever had in my 60 years of driving that had a side wall blow out was a Bridgestone.   I'm currently running Goodyear Wrangler Workhorse AT and am very happy with them.   

  • GM-Trucks.com Clubs

  • Popular Contributors

×
×
  • Create New...