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    Breaking yard etiquette. Discussion debate personal views please

    I hit up Pull-A-Part OKC this morning. For y'all eight-luggers needing parts, there are three in the yard with INTACT SUSPENSIONS AND AXLES! Two SRWs and a dually. I got a fender for Roscoe from one of the eight-luggers. If you nab suspension parts from this one, it's probably a good idea to...
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    '89 Stepside "Way Cool Jr."

    I have probably a thousand miles on the new transmission, and the truck's running great. It's just shy of daily use, and I'm exceptionally glad I swapped the rear springs so it can do truck stuff again. Next weekend my wife and mother-in-law are having a garage sale at my mother-in-law's house...
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    '88 RCLB C3500 "Roscoe P. Coltrane"

    I forgot I took these pics. FYSA, the notch on LMC's bumper brackets for your factory bumper bracket gaskets isn't deep enough. I had to notch mine deeper to get it to fit. I hit up Pull-A-Part today and got a left front fender assembly to replace the one that's crunched. Hopefully that...
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    Haters Gonna Hate, My '06 Mustang

    I was really thinking that a Mustang Cars & Coffee meme would show up earlier than this in the thread. My Mustang doesn't do stupid stuff, but even with a bone stock 4.6 3v it has the power to.
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    3/4 Ton of fun - ‘95 Sierra

    If you don't have an alignment rack, it's labor intensive. The hardest part is thinking through which way to turn the tie rod adjusters to get the adjustment you need. This video just shows you how to set toe. Camber measurement is just a measurement and math. There are tools for reading...
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    Ac issues

    My Suburban had an intermittent blower. The connector on those is right above the passenger's feet, and they get kicked a lot. I finally replaced the connector and made sure the connections were good and tight and it fixed it.
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    Favorite Shop for EV6 Injector Refresh?

    I'm always up for hackery! But I'm also not in search of more work. They'll sit on my shelf for now. I need to find a fender for Roscoe today and order an outer tie rod end for the Chrysler after my wife ski-jumped a speed bump last night.
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    Grill plastic

    Or use your old, broken interior plastics. The baking soda + superglue trick works very well. That stuff gets rock hard.
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    91 K1500 no brake lights help

    Good find.
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    Favorite Shop for EV6 Injector Refresh?

    I'm not sure they need rebuilt other than they have 194k on them. I swapped them for a driveability issue that turned out to be a spark plug that looked beautiful but just wouldn't fire at idle. I just figured I'd get them cleaned up and ready if I ever needed to swap them back in. But if new...
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    Cylinder Compression

    You will get a compression stroke every other rotation of the crankshaft. On the off stroke, the exhaust valve is open and it won't build compression. Did you turn it over more than once? Image from MotoIQ's website. https://motoiq.com/suck-squish-bang-blow-part-1/
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    No compression

    You already have a thread on this where we gave you advice. If you're wigging out, take a breath and calm down. Read what we told you. Stop opening more threads hoping to get different answers.
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    1995 C1500 ECSB

    My guess would be that he didn't mark the driveshaft before pulling it apart and he put it back in rotated. Try rotating the driveshaft on the pumpkin and see if it gets better or worse.
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    Fairly new AC system barely cools truck

    They're guessing. I wouldn't spend $200 on a guess. Is your blend door working?
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    4l60e swap

    Earlier trucks didn't have them, but if I were racing, towing, rockcrawling, or had a Suburban, I'd want them.
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