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    Seat belts

    Hey All! I am waiting to get my Burb back from the paint shop and I have been trying to get all the interior pieces done up so they are ready to install. I am looking at the seat belts and have seen some great restorations on this an another site. One post showed a tutorial and what I think...
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    Emblem clean up

    Hey All, I found some stuff from Chemical Guys I have been using on just about every plastic/rubber part I have put my hands on in the Burb and this stuff is as advertised..It's called VRP and I used it along with some spray wax and 0000 steel wool to clean up my fender emblems and I was...
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    GMC Grille Resto 1981

    Hey all, It looked like the 1981 GMC grille is a one off for that year and I didn't have much success finding a new/repro one so I decided to clean up what I had. I had some missing fins so I laminated a few sheets of fiberglass to the correct thickness, cut/sanded them to size dimension and...
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    Headliner questions

    Hey all! I have a couple of headliner questions..so the entire headliner was sloughing off so I pulled it all down and cleaned it up. I took a sample to the fabric store to match it as best as possible, which turned out I found a pretty decent match. Now that I have taken the board down and...
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    Door panel resto- backyard style

    SirRobyn0 inspired me to try my hand at restoring my door panels as I was stripping the interior to send it to the paint shop. As he said in his thread, are they concourse restoration- no. Do they look 1000% better than what I had-yes. I didn't pay the gouge fee for Chinese plastic parts and I...
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    Speaker pods/General stereo questions

    Hey all! I'd like to upgrade the sound system and will probably try a 7.1 setup with (2) 3.5 and center 4x10 (or adapter to 2x3.5" + tweeter?) in the dash, (2) kick panel speakers, (2) 4x10 in stock rear location (or I think I saw some 6x9 adapters?) and a subwoofer...or should I just omit the...
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    Turn signal not working left side

    Hey all, I replaced my turn signal column switch today and hoped it would solve all my problems, but hope is not a good strategy... I'm still haunted house with my left signal not blinking... However when I turn on the hazards it blinks, somewhat dimmer than the passenger side though. I've...
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    TH350c- Double-Double Feed

    Hey All, I posed the question on my other thread too but I guess I should start another as my tranny isn't slipping, it only has 3rd gear! It also has reverse. Someone said to check the governor which I will do but I was also thinking that when I rebuilt it, it did the dual feed mods (plug...
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    th350 short shaft to 4x4

    So I'm having some trans trouble and I was going to try to swap it out with a "known good" unit to keep the truck operational and tear down the other... From what I can gather, in a 1981 4x4 with an np208 I can use a 2wd short shaft trans and cut 3/4" off of the output shaft? Seems to good to...
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    White smoke troubleshooting

    The hits keep on comin'! Quick history is that the engine was rebuilt by someone I don't have a lot of faith in...I have basically broke in the cam and put about 5-10 miles on the truck and started having all kinds of other issues (the truck sat for 5 years)... One issue from the beginning...
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    TH350c Slipping

    Hey all, I was finally able to get everything put back together in my 1981 Suburban and my hope was to take it down to get a smog check and registered...however on my way back from getting gas (a painful $5.79 per gal btw) the trans was slipping something fierce. It's a fresh rebuild, I did the...
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    Horns

    I've read most of the threads on the horns but had a couple questions?! So when I press the horn button-nothing. No click at the relay, nada I pulled the relay and I have power at the orange wires (I have 3 contacts at the plug- 2 orange wires, 1 black, 1 green) I tried to jumper the orange...
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    Emissions after MSD Ignition/EFI

    Hopefully someone can take a look at this and let me know if it makes sense as I know very little about this stuff! So I'm using an Atomic EFI system, MSD 6AL box and MSD 85551 distributor. All of the items have a CARB exemption so in theory I should be able to pass smog check with all the...
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    New engine startup

    Hey All! Tonight I finally got to a point to where I was able to make an attempt at starting the engine in my 1981 Suburban. Quick history, new engine and I'm using an MSD Atomic EFI system. It's a new engine so I was hoping to get it up to 2000-2500 rpm to break in the camshaft however Murphy...
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    Tuff Country 12711K lift kit for sale- best offer

    Hey All, During my project somehow I ended up with 2 of the same lift kits for my 1981 Suburban..unless I pick up another Suburban project anytime soon I should probably sell one off I wanted to give it a decent stance but trying to keep everything as stock as possible so it's a 2" lift kit...
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    1981 K10 Suburban ECM questions

    Hey All, Trying to get everything hooked up to fire this thing up and break it in but trying to figure out what exactly needs to be hooked up since I ditched the carb and installed an MSD Atomic EFI, also the 6AL box, distributor and coil which are all CARB approved... In the process of doing...
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    TH350 to NP208 install questions

    Hey All, I'm going to use the long weekend to finally put this thing back together! I'm dropping then the engine in with the TH350 connected to it which was a bit of a game of Tetris for sure but I finally got it sitting right where it should in the engine bay. I have the cherry picker just...
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    Smog Pump

    Ok...ok...I know I'm going to have a limited audience on this...but I'm in California and I don't have the luxury of just omitting the smog pump... When I got the truck (1981 K1500 Suburban) the smog pump was removed and things cut/capped...however it looks like the engine side bracket for the...
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    Firewall Rust

    Hey All! So I've rebuilt the engine, trans and transfer case in my 1981 GMC K1500 Suburban and getting ready to install. I was going to flat black the engine compartment and was cleaning it up a bit and noticed an area of rust on the firewall. I have never had the truck running/driving so I...
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    NP208 Blind Bearing Not Comin Out

    I have dove into rebuilding my NP208 and I have it torn down with the exception of the two blind bearings, one in the case and the other in the shaft. I don't have a pilot bearing puller or blind bearing puller (I did ordered one off Amazon but it got lost apparently) The case has been given...
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    Wheel choices for 4x4

    Wheel choices seems to be all over the board with Squares but the 4x4 hubs in particular pose a problem for a lot of wheels it seems? It also seems the spec'd centerbore is way larger than he actual hub? My thought was a late model take off wheel from an HD truck to clear the hubs and use...
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    Driveshaft question

    So I went to go replace the ujoints in my rear driveshaft and after making a mess and flinging needle bearing all over the garage I finally had them out. I bought new joints on Rockauto per the make/model/year and it looks like I may have, shock and awe, a non stock driveshaft. The transfer...
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    Front drive shaft- lost orientation marks!!

    Hey All, I replied on another front driveshaft rebuild thread but I thought I should probably post my own as no to hijack! So I pulled the front driveshaft (along with the engine, transmission, transfer case haha) and going through the process of replacing the ujoints and center joint...well...
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    TH350 Rebuild Questions

    Hey All! I'm going to take the plunge and rebuild my TH350 that's in the truck...and while I have that out might as well do the transfer case...and while that's out might as well replace all the u-joints, haha.. I've rebuilt a transfer case before but never a transmission and it looks...
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    Cleaning differential

    Hey All, I went to go change the oil in my differentials today. the front one looked ok except the fluid seemed pretty dark and there was some sludge on the bottom of the pumpkin I scraped out...the rear one actually started draining what looked like normal fluid then it became a thick almost...

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