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    Gas spilling when filling up

    Any chance at all that the return line and vapor/vent line on the sending unit have been mixed up? This could explain why it's only happening when it's being filled up. Maybe the return line on the sending unit is filling with fuel and dumping out the vent line. This would only happen when it's...
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    Rear Brakes Locking Up

    Before getting all crazy and reconfiguring things and cutting into stuff, have you tried jacking up the front end and with the help of an enlisted friend, try and spin the front wheels while they hold the brakes? This will tell you if you're building any pressure in the front brakes. Also are...
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    Rear Brakes Locking Up

    That's right, rear of the master feeds the front brakes and front of the master feeds the rears. Check to make sure your proportioning valve is centered.
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    Rear Brakes Locking Up

    Sounds like either the proportioning valve, or you got your lines crossed somewhere between the master cylinder and proportioning valve. Most of your stopping power comes from the front brakes. With the rears locking up and the fronts not engaging makes me think that's your problem.
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    Wheel center caps for 3.75" bore

    So I installed the Turbines but absolutely not a fan of the rather large center bore in these babies. Mic'd them out to a 3.75" center bore and now I'm looking at center caps to make it a bit more appealing. Found a set on the Lug Nut Guys website here that will fit, but have a chrome finish...
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    Saginaw shifter ID?

    Nice little 4 spd Saginaw there. Not sure how well it would fit, I've got a 3 spd Saginaw that the PO moved the 3 on the tree to a floor shifter using a vintage Daytona shifter. They removed the bench and put some older buckets out of God only knows what into it. I've since gotten another bench...
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    Lost Two Gen 3 LS Engines in my 1986 C10 2WD

    Don't think DOD/AFM/VVT was available on the gen IV's until 05 iirc on the 5.3, 6.0 or 6.2L. By 07 think they were pretty much in everything, cars and trucks. Buddy of mine is rebuilding an 03 LS 4.8L for his track car and pulled the motor apart first before dropping in into his car. Save...
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    Body repair panels

    Premium with some sites are a heavier gauge, close to what was offered in an OEM application. I've gotten some aftermarket repops and some oem sheet metal, both of which had to be worked into the vehicle. The right way of doing it is loosening all the bolts as mentioned previously. To get all...
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    Old school Pioneer head unit, should I or should I not???

    Unfortunately dash was already cut by one of the previous owners. So I've got a full face unit there already that has bluetooth capability. Just not old school am/fm/cassette cool.
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    Old school Pioneer head unit, should I or should I not???

    Already tested all 4 channels, LF/LR RF/RR and they all work connected individually and tested with the fader and balance controls. Didn't have them all connected at once, just had the one speaker. All for speakers use a common ground, no RCA connectors and worse part of it all, no battery lead...
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    Old school Pioneer head unit, should I or should I not???

    Ok so rummaging through the stuff I've got downstairs I ended up finding a Pioneer head unit from the years before I met my wife as well as some of my old cassettes. Wasn't fully sure if it worked like it did at one time. So me being me, I hooked it up to a spare battery I had floating around...
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    Kick panel Speaker Mounts

    Speaker quality does have an impact on audio quality, just sayin... Do you have other speakers wired in for your fronts as well as the kick panels or just those? Also be sure to check the positive and negatives are wired correctly, you'd be shocked how many people do this thinking one side was...
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    speaker placement 6x9z rear cab corners ?

    The panels that fit in the corners work like garbage. First make sure your belt retractors aren't bolted to the area. If they're low at the sides of the seats then you'll be good. My '77 had the retractors higher up and I had to custom make mine. They were good for a while until the bass started...
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    HIT THE IGN. KEY AND NOTHING

    Like fast 99 mentioned, enlist the help of a friend and do some diagnostic work beginning with the starter. Have somebody bump the key and make sure you're getting signal at the start signal on the solenoid. No light = bad remote signal, good light = starter issue. If you have a remote start...
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    Thornbird or Super Swampers?

    My 91 K5 Blazer with a 4" suspension had some 37" TSL Radials on them. Was a daily driver and got decent life out of them before going to a set of 36" Dick Cepek Fun Country II's (FC-II) after having the original Fun Country tires with a much more aggressive tread pattern. Yeah the TSL's were...
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