What have you done to your square lately??
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Getting her licensed as an antique vehicle this friday 
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Why would someone paint an Avalanche? Arnt they always white 
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love that truck!
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I figured out why my new serpentine belt was squealing. I missed the idler pully! 
Almost twenty years of putting belts on cars and I have never missed a pully. How they hell I have been driving for four days with it like that.
Almost twenty years of putting belts on cars and I have never missed a pully. How they hell I have been driving for four days with it like that.
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Why would someone paint an Avalanche? Arnt they always white
IIRC, that actual color name is Sunburst Orange Metallic. I never did like it on Avalanches, but I've seen a few other trucks that are painted that color and they made it look good.
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Well, yesterday me and the girl got a new car that's suitable for a baby since she's pregnant, a 2010 HHR, nice car, good mileage, no balls, she loves it, so I'm happy. Today I removed the whole front clip, dash pad, and pulled out the motor and tranny so I can tear it down and see what happened and whether we can rebuild this motor for only a little more than the 2 bolt main that we were going to use. Of course as soon as we separated the motor and tranny and got the motor on a stand and ready for disassembly it started raining so that'll have to be disassembled Monday or Tuesday as I work all weekend as usual. Turns out in addition to replacing the fender with one the p.o. gave me when I bought the truck I may also need to replace the radiator support as I had to cut one bolt out of it to get the fender off (heavy corrosion/rot due to battery acid, just below the rotted out battery tray). Of course I already knew I needed a battery tray and inner fender as well, other than that things went rather smooth. I also discovered a body ground that was not properly mounted (wire wrapped around bolt under head, should have had ring terminal crimped on...$.05, 30 seconds of time). And I also found after moving the a/c compressor that my coolant temp sensor wire had been exposed and bare wire was touching the valve cover...that explains a couple things. Cylinders #3 and #4, or maybe it was #5 and #6 had a little bit of moisture in the exhaust ports when we pulled the exhaust manifolds (bolts came out like butter on all). I'll update when I get the motor apart and take pics.
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OOOH, thats purdy.
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Ooops, 
lol, no I tore down my old beater truck.
lol, no I tore down my old beater truck.
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Nice, not the biggest fan of the wheel design, but that stance, color, everything else is perfect!
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That's what I thought for the first couple sentences and thought WTF?!
Good car, great mileage, slow as hell, so we tore the motor down lol
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Installed the new starter. That sucker cranks so fast, it's like nothing is attached to it! Love it. Fires right up.
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