njsteve
11-02-2016, 06:43 PM
I had a set of decals made up for the Suburban, based off the factory "6.5 Diesel Turbo" decals. I got tired of everyone calling it a 6.5 Liter diesel. It's a 396 DAGNABBIT! <<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/grin.gif
http://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/pics/usergals/2016/11/full-1359-51460-img_2706.jpg
http://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/pics/usergals/2016/11/full-1359-51461-img_2718a.jpg
http://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/pics/usergals/2016/11/full-1359-51462-img_2720a.jpg
I've been spending my time working on the 1995 diesel Suburban recently. I bought this truck new back in '95. Still has its factory original blue paint. It's a very rare color: Atlantic Blue. You may remember this baby from the infamous headgasket failure episode while towing the SD455 to the 2013 MCACN show.
I spent the past month underneath cleaning the scale off the frame and painting the rails. I had to pull the fuel tank to repair a rusted part of the frame box in front of the trailer hitch mount where the crud gets trapped and sits. Unless you pull your rear bumper and run a hose into the frame horns you can never clean that area out. The salt sits there and corrodes the rails from the inside out. I found the rust after hammering the scale off the rails. Quite a shock in deed! One good trailer pull with the class IV hitch could have torn the end of the rail right off at the hitch mounting area.
I also upgraded the infamous factory exploding rubber&aluminum oil cooler lines with AN fittings and braided steel hose. And I replaced the harmonic balancer and serpentine pulley - two other major failure points on the 6.5 engines. The balancers are known to lose their rubber and let the outer ring go flying. The distorted harmonics then cause the engine to immediately grenade itself within seconds.
I upgraded the downpipe and exhaust to 4" and got a madrel bent crossover pipe to replaced the double walled factory pipe that tend to collapse internally with age.
And years ago I relocated the fuel injection pump module from the pump to behind the front bumper. This was the other bad design of these engines: the PMD "pump mounted driver" as they call it was mounted to the side of the injection pump in the intake valley. In theory, the cool fuel flowing through the pump reduces the temperature of the controller. Only the engineers didn't bother to think what happens when you shut the engine off on a 95 degree day. Heat soak would destroy the PMD and leave you stranded. GM refused to acknowledge the problem and just replaced the entire pump. They even extended the warranty on the pumps to 100,000 miles in order to avoid a recall. This truck went through three warranteed injection pumps when new, at 15,600, 15,800, and 48,000 miles. The problem only stopped after I relocated the PMD behind the bumper ten years ago.
Anyway, Just thought I'd show off the old girl.
We should start a new section for our haulin' vehicles along with the other mark-specific sections.
http://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/pics/usergals/2016/11/full-1359-51460-img_2706.jpg
http://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/pics/usergals/2016/11/full-1359-51461-img_2718a.jpg
http://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/pics/usergals/2016/11/full-1359-51462-img_2720a.jpg
I've been spending my time working on the 1995 diesel Suburban recently. I bought this truck new back in '95. Still has its factory original blue paint. It's a very rare color: Atlantic Blue. You may remember this baby from the infamous headgasket failure episode while towing the SD455 to the 2013 MCACN show.
I spent the past month underneath cleaning the scale off the frame and painting the rails. I had to pull the fuel tank to repair a rusted part of the frame box in front of the trailer hitch mount where the crud gets trapped and sits. Unless you pull your rear bumper and run a hose into the frame horns you can never clean that area out. The salt sits there and corrodes the rails from the inside out. I found the rust after hammering the scale off the rails. Quite a shock in deed! One good trailer pull with the class IV hitch could have torn the end of the rail right off at the hitch mounting area.
I also upgraded the infamous factory exploding rubber&aluminum oil cooler lines with AN fittings and braided steel hose. And I replaced the harmonic balancer and serpentine pulley - two other major failure points on the 6.5 engines. The balancers are known to lose their rubber and let the outer ring go flying. The distorted harmonics then cause the engine to immediately grenade itself within seconds.
I upgraded the downpipe and exhaust to 4" and got a madrel bent crossover pipe to replaced the double walled factory pipe that tend to collapse internally with age.
And years ago I relocated the fuel injection pump module from the pump to behind the front bumper. This was the other bad design of these engines: the PMD "pump mounted driver" as they call it was mounted to the side of the injection pump in the intake valley. In theory, the cool fuel flowing through the pump reduces the temperature of the controller. Only the engineers didn't bother to think what happens when you shut the engine off on a 95 degree day. Heat soak would destroy the PMD and leave you stranded. GM refused to acknowledge the problem and just replaced the entire pump. They even extended the warranty on the pumps to 100,000 miles in order to avoid a recall. This truck went through three warranteed injection pumps when new, at 15,600, 15,800, and 48,000 miles. The problem only stopped after I relocated the PMD behind the bumper ten years ago.
Anyway, Just thought I'd show off the old girl.
We should start a new section for our haulin' vehicles along with the other mark-specific sections.