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    Anyone else in Kalispell, MT?

    oddly, my square sub came from Kalispell...guy there got it from washington (state) and placed it on ebay and we drove it east.
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    Adding a tach question

    your picture = 1024 words. It appears that the tach-able housing ALSO includes mount points for the lower left gauge (needed) and removes some weird circle. the blue looks an inch or two wider in the pic - its just a perspective issue from the pic right?
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    anyone know anything about parts washers?

    I personally use kero. Until it gets quite black and vile and then I give it to contractor friends who burn out stumps. a caveat for the water based stuff: RTFL (read the ... label) - many of those are corrosive to aluminum and if you do a lot of motorcycle or ATV parts...wellllllll (not to...
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    got a small shop to work out of

    I didnt see a 100watt stereo in there with 3ft tall speakers. You need to fix that.
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    bouncy speedometer

    if you are talking about your 79 square in your 'data' my first idea wont work, but if you have a bad gear in the drive - yea that can cause bounce, BUT, it tends to eat itself on a permanent basis - quickly. Easy to check tho. PM if you want steps. If you had a 'head driven VSS' you can...
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    Adding a tach question

    Actually, I hold my PA inspection license and only the other guys can be pricks! :-) seriously tho, there is nothing in the inspection procedure that names the light OTHER than, if it is on, the vehicle has to have an ABS system that reverts to normal operation. You are clued into this by...
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    Adding a tach question

    thats sad if true...they could have taken a lesson or two from ford.... back to the drawing board edited to add: for $60 lmc sells a new cluster backing housing in the blue greenish plastic for models with the tach. If everything else is the same, save the 'bucket' the tach installs...
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    Adding a tach question

    Ok I didnt fully understand that, my truck (90) has speedo, large fuel, and 3 gauges to the left, with the lower left empty. If I pull the cluster and replace the PC foil with the LMC pc foil, everything would still work, Id have my lights, but now my big fuel gauge would either not work at...
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    Built 200r4 trans

    there is, but I dont have it, there is a set of forums - sadly diminished as these cars vanish - that should have it. If the pro builder replaced essentially all of the guts it could be ok. He would have to have used the proper hard parts and the valve body.
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    Built 200r4 trans

    to use a 200, unless it is profe$$ionally rebuilt, you absolutely need one from the 86-87 GN/GNX. They had different internals and valve bodies than the ones used on the fake GTO and H/O 9 code and the carlo SS. Each of those were 170hp-ish cars, the GN and GNX bested that by quite a bit. do...
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    290hp 350 heads upgrade?

    My answer to this changed greatly after 1996. In the past I would spout off all sort of casting numbers or aftermarket heads, but for a streetable motor that you expect to be drivable, vortec heads. nothing more, nothing less. from the description you are not running much of a cam and the...
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    Adding a tach question

    1990 R2500. No tach, large fuel gauge in its place. I can get a repro tach. It appears I also need to replace the PC foil as well? (and get a small fuel gauge) I found sources for all parts (LMC) but the fuel gauge. So riddle me this, is it true that if you did NOT have the tach...
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    Converting to power brakes

    I have added PB to vehicles without, unfortunately, mostly ford. (ford is way easier to 'franken truck' than chevy) but brakes is brakes. a few things to consider: because the vehicles had to stop in a certain distance with a certain pound force of application, MB (manual brake) vehicles...
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    Brake Pedal Does Not Fully Return

    other than a stuck spool valve inside it, was it perhaps replaced where the actuating rod is a different length?
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    Help me choose a mirror

    ok cool thx, would I be pleased with the quality of the product? we garage the bus in the winter but will they rust thru the chrome quickly on the masts?
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    Help me choose a mirror

    the mirrors from LMC - thin info from them online or in the catalog - is the housing plastic?
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    Gm reman 700r4 has no 2nd or 4th

    Personally Im a bit uncomfy with a reman GM tranny having these problems off the bat. No 2/4 is most likely the 2/4 band not applying. If its a reman, the band should not be wiped clean, perhaps not anchored correctly, dunno...but again the whole 'reman' thing bothers me, gm should stand...
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    Help me choose a mirror

    1990 R2500 with big truck style mirrors (see pic) I would like some sort of flag style (sorry if I am using ford words) I note I have 2 holes in the body by the vent window, I can plug the two door holes with bolt/plugs combos from LMC (.95 each) and seal them internally vs filling in the...
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    16" wheels on 3/4 ton v20 axles?

    I have 16" steel on mine and I want to goto aluminum. I see a possible conflict in that the semi floating axle has a slight hub clearance difference over the full floater. I am finding (for those manufacturers that list such data) a slight variance, about 5mm in hub diameter. Does anyone have...
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    memorabilia

    Ha! I got some old field and stream mags from the early 80s where the ads said they got like 13 city and 28 highway.... oh wait, you didnt want them for comic value....
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    Any way to force ECU into limp mode?

    well an ecm for that is under $100 so dont throw our the baby and bathwater just yet. It has been my experience that when EVERYTHING goes batshit at once, somewhere somehow a ground got futzy. trace em, cleam em
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    air cleaner air intake tube

    I need one too - for my 90. It has the larger ovalized opening and the 5-something tall air cleaner....anyone ever find any source?
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    My 1991 v1500 suburban

    that kinda looks like the AC clutch connector... is it a 90* angle? turn it on its side?
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    What kind of tool box do you have at home??

    This is about what I have as well, except my very bottom drawer is in 3rds. Held up to commercial use for the last 16 years. got it from sams also. It does not fit everything, the shop has cabinets and drawers all over. just my goto tools are in there.
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    TBI issue

    you can borrow 'noid lights from advance nd plug them in and see if you get flash. If not, then suspect wiring from the ECM and if not, suspect the quaddrivers (GM owes me big money) in the ECM. ECMs are cheap. If there is flash then the injectors themselves can be bad (but both at once?) or...

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