What Did You Do To Your Truck Today? v2.0

[Black02Silverado]

I had the upper control arms and all 4 ball joints replaced. I just had this done 3 years ago, but the boots split on both lower joints allowing whatever to get inside and wear the joint down.

Were they greaseable? If they are I usually hit them with a pump or two when I do my oil changes. The Suburban only has 2 places on lower tierods to grease. Most new vehicles no long have any place to grease.

 

[OldCracker29]

Were they greaseable? If they are I usually hit them with a pump or two when I do my oil changes. The Suburban only has 2 places on lower tierods to grease. Most new vehicles no long have any place to grease.

They're greaseable. I usually grease them every other oil change but got lazy and pulled into a quick lube and had them grease them. They just made me realize why I usually always do it myself.

 

[Black02Silverado]

They're greaseable. I usually grease them every other oil change but got lazy and pulled into a quick lube and had them grease them. They just made me realize why I usually always do it myself.

Yeah, they usually blow the boots by over greasing. Sad.

 

[OldCracker29]

Changed the spark plugs and wires with ACDELCO 41-162 iridium plugs and ACDELCO wires. Good for another 100K if she gets that far. The pig is almost at 298K on the clock.

 

[OldCracker29]

The pig's getting new shoes this morning.

 

[Black02Silverado]

The pig's getting new shoes this morning.

What ya getting?

 

[OldCracker29]

What ya getting?

I got the Falken Wildpeak AT4W. They look good and are surprisingly quiet. I was running Falken Wildpeak AT3W and got 50K out of them. The reviews I read on the 4W's were all thumbs up. They have a 60K tread life warranty. I'll try to get some pics of them and maybe start a thread.

 

[Black02Silverado]

I got the Falken Wildpeak AT4W. They look good and are surprisingly quiet. I was running Falken Wildpeak AT3W and got 50K out of them. The reviews I read on the 4W's were all thumbs up. They have a 60K tread life warranty. I'll try to get some pics of them and maybe start a thread.

I was looking at them but went with the Toyo Open Country ATIII, louder than BFG All Terrains and stink in rain. But great in snow.

 

[OldCracker29]

I cleaned the throttle body and MAF sensor. I'm also putting on new breather hoses for the pcv "orifice" bullshit. I replaced the dirty air hose, but had to order another clean air from RA due to the fact I had no idea where the one I had went. I also ordered a couple of Wix oil filters and an AC Delco air filter from RA.

 

[Jesse S]

Installed a motor oil cooler ...



Took a long while to find a cooler that would fit in the spot I had in mind of mounting it ..

Already nailed down a og GM sandwich adapter ...
Was going to use AN-8 hose, but the cooler came with AN-10 fittings welded on ..



A bit of backing up on parts to make this happen was needed ..



After plumbing the cooler with the new lines and fittings seen a problem with not having enough room for the cooler to fit between the frame rails ...



Different hose fittings helped the cause ..



Since the cooler will be dropping the oil temp wanted to know what the temperature was ...

Found a small gauge that I hid in the glove box ...





That's about the latest work I did on the old truck ..

Next on the table to do is the trans cooler ..



Will piggyback it with retaining the radiator's cooler ...