Huck's daily - 2005 Z71 crewcab

[TotalyHucked]

Truck looks good, nice work. Thanks for taking the time to document your journey. Lots of good information here.

Thanks! I try to document as best I can, but I get so focused/buried in the work that I don't end up taking enough detailed pictures for write-ups/how-tos.

 

[Turbo4whl]

Best investment I've made in a while. Not because it works, but because I haven't needed it yet.

This is so true!

Welp. Very little progress tonight. Galled up the threads trying to reinstall the balancer. So a tap and a proper installer has been ordered. Guess my luck ran out. I've done several of these just sucking them back on with the crank pulley. Should've known better. Oh well.

Little late now, but if you want to pull on a balancer without a special tool, here is how. Use a stud, not a bolt. Thread the stud all the way in. Then flat washers and a nut on the stud, and pull it on. If you run out of threads on the stud, remove it and replace with a shorter stud or add more flat washers. This way you have all the crank threads holding the stud and not relying those threads to pull on the balancer.