What have you done to your square lately??

Put off work on my truck and helped a coworker lift his 17 Silverado. Put a 2” leveling kit on it. It’s a lower strut mount lift block. It was a simple install and the videos and instructions make you do way more than you need to, I had both sides done in less than an hour.


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KilgoreTrout said:

I was going to recommend "nature's miracle" pet stain and odor eliminator. My sister bought some for a cat mess and it was ******* amazing, but when I looked on Amazon, the first 10 reviews are all 1 star saying they changed the formula and now it sucks after 20yrs of being awesome. Lol..
I have some of the old **** she gave me. It took blueberry stains off a tan couch.
I'm sure there's some type of new eliminator that will kick it's ass. Maybe just fabreze.

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I picked up some stuff a couple years ago from a local hardware. It kills all the enzymes in the animal urine, and actually seemed to work really well. I can't recall the name atm, but it smelled like eucalyptus.

I pressed in the outer sleeves for my new energy bushing in my lower control arms last night. I didn't go as far as to put the bushing or cross bolt in there but it is something. lol

Nothing, still sitting. Oh I did cut the tree that was growing through the engine compartment.

Nothing picture worthy but I have started the very beginning stages of body work on the dually. It's going to be a really long process due to lack of time, size of truck and all that fun stuff but my goal is to have most of the bodywork done by the end of fall and then paint her in the spring. I'm basically using these next 5 months to accomplish several rounds of priming and sanding as there are no big dents or rust holes to repair. I should be able to attack the roof here in the next couple of weeks. I'll take pics of that because I'm sure that'll be a drastic different with the surface rust up there.

Old77 said:

Nothing picture worthy but I have started the very beginning stages of body work on the dually. It's going to be a really long process due to lack of time, size of truck and all that fun stuff but my goal is to have most of the bodywork done by the end of fall and then paint her in the spring. I'm basically using these next 5 months to accomplish several rounds of priming and sanding as there are no big dents or rust holes to repair. I should be able to attack the roof here in the next couple of weeks. I'll take pics of that because I'm sure that'll be a drastic different with the surface rust up there.

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Did you take your headliner out yet?

Big Chip said:

Did you take your headliner out yet?

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Not yet. That's the highest on my priority list but I'm waiting until I'm guaranteed at least two days of dry weather from Friday to Saturday or Saturday to Sunday just in case the process takes longer than I have planned since I'm going out through the back window. If things take longer than a day that means that rear window will be out and I don't want to have to worry about rain getting in since my truck sits outside and I have no way of parking it inside unless I do this job at my parent's house who have a deeper garage than i do.

So, in the meantime I'm just picking away at other stuff while I bide my time so that I'm still making progress on stuff that needs to be tackled.

Old77 said:

Not yet. That's the highest on my priority list but I'm waiting until I'm guaranteed at least two days of dry weather from Friday to Saturday or Saturday to Sunday just in case the process takes longer than I have planned since I'm going out through the back window. If things take longer than a day that means that rear window will be out and I don't want to have to worry about rain getting in since my truck sits outside and I have no way of parking it inside unless I do this job at my parent's house who have a deeper garage than i do.

So, in the meantime I'm just picking away at other stuff while I bide my time so that I'm still making progress on stuff that needs to be tackled.

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You should be able to go through the pass. front door without creasing the headliner. 2nd set of hands will help. I've seen this done when I worked at a chevy dealer. Front seat doesn't need to be removed but would help.

Old77 said:

Not yet. That's the highest on my priority list but I'm waiting until I'm guaranteed at least two days of dry weather from Friday to Saturday or Saturday to Sunday just in case the process takes longer than I have planned since I'm going out through the back window. If things take longer than a day that means that rear window will be out and I don't want to have to worry about rain getting in since my truck sits outside and I have no way of parking it inside unless I do this job at my parent's house who have a deeper garage than i do.

So, in the meantime I'm just picking away at other stuff while I bide my time so that I'm still making progress on stuff that needs to be tackled.

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I need to do mine too but but I’m not sure at what point I want to do it. I at least have the luxury of working on it at the airport if it drags on. I have some holes to weld up on the roof where the 80’s cholo lights were and I need to kind of coordinate with that. I’m going with a solid rear window at that time too. The slider leaked the whole way back from Oregon.

And to add to this thread, I put insurance on my heap and I’m going to renew the plates today.

Big Chip said:

I need to do mine too but but I’m not sure at what point I want to do it. I at least have the luxury of working on it at the airport if it drags on. I have some holes to weld up on the roof where the 80’s cholo lights were and I need to kind of coordinate with that. I’m going with a solid rear window at that time too. The slider leaked the whole way back from Oregon.

And to add to this thread, I put insurance on my heap and I’m going to renew the plates today.

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I hear ya, man. Some of the "larger" projects certainly take some coordination to a certain degree unless you have a spot where you can dismantle and just leave it there until you can get back to it later on. I've got everything I need for the headliner job. It's just a timing thing at this point. If my original plan doesn't pan out within the next couple of weeks I'll go with the method that @dvdswan mentioned just so that I can get it done. I would like to replace the rear window seal at some point anyway because I have a new seal hanging in my garage anyway from when I bought the truck so doing the job via my original plan will take care of that at the same time and kill two birds with one stone. So we'll see. It'll definitely be done soon and I'll post pics before, during and after.

@Old77 Honestly, I would wait on the back window seal until after you paint the truck. Sometimes it can be tricky popping out the back and front windows and end up cracking the windows if the seals are stubborn/old. A good tarp and bungie cords will help keep the rain out. A 5x7 or 6x8 would be big enough to keep light in the cab so critters don't hide, but long enough to make a tentlike cover for runoff of rain.

Bought some pieces to make a catch can for the 6.5 it used a sprayer strainer from tsc, found the idea on another forum


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Bought a transmission filter with the brass filter media, not the dacron style filter. Will see if that quiets down the pump. I think the ATP filter that Carquest is selling is a tad too restrictive.

DoubleDingo said:

Bought a transmission filter with the brass filter media, not the dacron style filter. Will see if that quiets down the pump. I think the ATP filter that Carquest is selling is a tad too restrictive.

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What type of noise does it make? Mine started making a whining noise last year and still does although it is not too terribly bad. An auto tech told me it was the pump. Going to wait to see if it does finally bite the dust, then will need a rebuild.

Charlie said:

What type of noise does it make? Mine started making a whining noise last year and still does although it is not too terribly bad. An auto tech told me it was the pump. Going to wait to see if it does finally bite the dust, then will need a rebuild.

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It sounds like a buzzing sound, but it is the pump being starved of fluid, and it'll do it upon start-up for about a minute, then it goes away. It'll also do it if I start off in 1 and manually shift it to 2 after the revs get high enough. It began whining after I did the first fluid/filter change this year, which was shortly after the transmission started shuddering in reverse and neutral. Since I have an account with a local parts store I went with the filter kit they had in stock which an ATP filter kit. It has the dacron filter media, whereas the P220 is the brass filter. When I bought the truck in 2012 I did a fluid change and replaced the filter with a Purolator P220 and the pump never did whine with that filter in there. Well, good luck finding the P220 anymore. I contacted Purolator and actually had an email conversation with an actual person, it was refreshing, but they are not producing as many transmission filters anymore. Luckily the local transmission parts vendor I found can get the filter with the brass. The filter in there now is the second dacron one in a couple months. It was about one month after replacing the filter with the ATP dacron filter that I noticed the pump whining. Thinking it may be the o-ring on the pickup tube, I dropped the pan again to replace the original o-ring with two new o-rings, and installed another new filter while I was in there. Upon starting it up after the second filter change, there was no whine from the pump and it was two quarts low because I didn't pay attention to how much fluid it needed a couple months ago. 8 quarts for a fluid drain and fill on this unit. I haven't been driving the truck because the whine came back when I start the truck. Now I can do another drain & fill and install this brass filter, and hope that stops the pump whine. The whine is only bad upon startup, or when I rev it up in 1 before shifting into 2. But again, it didn't whine at all until I installed the dacron filters. I'll report back in the TH400 Acting Oddly thread when I do the next drain and fill. I tried not to jump all around on the subject, but I also wanted to cover all that was done thus far.