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Re: My 52 GMC Build
Nice upgrades. The chrome is just enough to draw the eye to that big 'ole coal belcher lol. Gotta love it! One thing I have to say about your rig is that it's certainly unique...and that's a really good thing. My favorite build thread, no doubt.
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Chrome on the wheels looks good. 14 PSI = new tires every ?????...Jim
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Looks good but I think you need some aluminum rims if you can find them
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Nice work on the head liner. 14psi....... You like pushing that envelope don't ya?
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Sure why not lol When my china boost controller messed up in the fall it was giving me 13psi
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At that point are you pushing the integrity of the motor?
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Today I got the door panels on turned out great. So nice to hide the linkage finally.
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Nice job on the interior panels. Do you notice a difference in the noise while driving
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Mainly the wrist pins and bushings. Those IDI's do not like above 12psi. But maybe at his truck's weight, it'll take it and live. Good luck my friend.
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I used the original press board panels that I took off of the doors.
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Right on. I was curious because I will need to redo the ones in my 40 some time. On the truck, yeah, it may live a long life at 14psi. (not my luck haha) But those turbos on them, stock or aftermarket, didn't even flow the air of the HX35.
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Re: My 52 GMC Build
Trucks looking good.
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Looks great!
I'm curios about the noise difference too. Does your tire sponsor send tires to the Netherlands?? I want some.... ![]() ![]()
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Ok so today I took the truck to get the side windows tinted omg it looks amazing!!!!!!!
As for the noise reduction YES YES it made a huge difference. At 60 mph with the windows up my on phone decibel reader said 73 dBA you can have a conversation easily. So with the interior it dropped about 10 dBA so from a chart I found that is a 90% reduction. My stock '87 Jimmy is about the same on the highway. I still want to do the carpet and I have the inner door seals to put on.
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Lower, great on the sound reduction, glass looks great...Jim
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Are you going to keep those front wheels or eventual find something that matches the rear more?
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Awesome work.
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Pretty cool...looks even more sinister with the tint.
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Very nice! I've actually been trying to get some one to tint the side windows on my 72 with no luck.
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Lower50's, sorry to pull you back to the subject of LED headlights but i will be wiring my '55.2 fairly soon and I'm interested in having BRIGHT modern headlights like your results.
Can you show us what the head lights look like from the front when they're not on? Does it look VERY different than stock? - sorry, i have no clue. Also, did you post detailed photos of what you did to install these? I apologize if I missed it in your thread.
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Thanks Jim, I'm trying to get all the little things done to finish it off.
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This is the LED headlight swap thread I have started.
http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/s...d.php?t=737431
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So over the weekend I swapped out my front air bags to new ones. All I had to do was take the tires off and let the suspension extend and I was able to get them out and in. Got both done in about 4 hrs. Also while I was under there I checked over stuff since I just put it away for the winter after our 2100mi trip in the fall. All looks good!
1st This is the old and new. 2nd not sure if this is normal but a slit in between bellows, didn't leak but I didn't like it. 3rd This is my coolant over flow can I made out of some 2.5" stainless exhaust pipe and a stainless bracket I found. It is 12" long and will hold about 1.5L or .3 gal. Coolant will go in from rad at bottom, so it can suck it back to rad when it cools.
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nice overflow. weird the bag did that. airlift? is that why you swapped them?
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