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Re: 53 Surburban "Family Truckster"
At least you didn't hurt the trans and it was just a seal and oil. Extra cooling won't hurt, do you have a trans temp gauge? The award video had a bunch of nice vehicles, yours looked great rolling through. Congrats again.
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Re: 53 Surburban "Family Truckster"
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oh man trans spills/leaks are the worst. i had a tranny line let go in the driveway, turned out the PO didnt install the clip on the line. took about 40 lbs of floor dry.
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I switched my lines over to flex with -6AN fittings. I did recently noticed they run close to the passenger side exhaust manifold. To keep them from burning thru and gutting myself of trans fluid, I ordered some heat wrap to protect those lines. I will install that before my 2 hr drive to next weekends show. Marc
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Re: 53 Surburban "Family Truckster"
Marc, dont know why/how I never noticed it before... sliding rear side windows ..!!!..
Good deal on the "easy" trans fix..!!!!!
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IDK if I would describe it as "easy" as we were on our backs trying to wrestle the trans back into place...ha ha Marc
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So I had been chasing a host of trans issues since July. I can say it is FINALLY fixed. What was a cut/broken wire in one of the 13 LS ECU wires for the trans caused issues that were hard to pinpoint. It was throwing random open electrical trans codes. I bet I drained the trans fluid a total of 5 times fixing and trouble shooting. I replaced both 1-2 shift solenoids.
This truck, for I don't know how long (probably from day one) was starting off in 2 gear due to the trans being in limp mode. It didn't drive terrible. Also in limp mode it prevents it from going into OD. Once I repaired the wire, the truck was much more responsive starting off in 1st (who knew...ha ha). I can now do burn outs. During a test drive I noticed that once the trans went into OD with the TC locked there was too much timing (at lower speeds) in the tune and you could hear detonation. I took it back to the tuner to tweak the tune and adjust shift points slightly. This last step from the tuner identified that I incorrectly wired in the brake switch to unlock the TC once I hit the brakes. Only an issue now that OD works and the TC engages. THIS THING RIPS NOW....so much more fun to drive. It is louder as it accelerates in 1st and the RMP's come up. Also in OD it is so quiet and smooth. We are hitting up a cars and coffee about 1:25 minutes from home on Saturday. I also plan to attend the C10 Nats in Nashville at the end of this month. Marc
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That's sounds great Marc ...glad you got the bugs out
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Re: 53 Surburban "Family Truckster"
Without video of a burnout
.it never actually happened 😳
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Congrats Marc....!!!!!!!..totm..!!!
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Funny I was just talking with my son about filming that soon. He always rides with me an he noticed a real difference in performance so i had to show him that we can now do burnouts. He was riding shotgun when we did some donuts in the Camaro right before we pulled the drive train for the Suburban. Thanks, much appreciated. Marc
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Well done Marc
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Re: 53 Surburban "Family Truckster"
Marc, glad that took care of your problem. I agree with the burnouts, it is so easy with the LS set-up. Have to watch myself to ease into the gas at stop lights, or it will lite up...Jim
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The Suburban is really working great. So much fun to drive with everything dialed in. We have been squeezing in as many car events and CnC's as we can as we are losing warm weather. Closing in on 6,000 miles. My boys and I will be attending the C-10 Nats in Nashville at the end of the month. Come say HI if you attend that show.
Thank you Marc
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Re: 53 Surburban "Family Truckster"
Glad you are enjoying your build. The season end soon in my area also. Steve
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My 2 boys and I and a couple of buddies from Ohio and Pennsylvania are headed to the C10 NATS in Nashville at the end of the month. Looking forward to taking my boys to a big show in the Suburban.
Who else is going??? Marc
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i wish i could!
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great stuff with the boys, are they interested in the building of your trucks too? my girls wouldnt pee on my projects if they were on fire, although one liked driving the finished trucks to school.
we found it! it was 100 yesterday
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It was great to finally meet you Marc. Your Burb came out great!
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Much like last winter, I started a winter to do check list. I have been picking off the items.
I have always had high crank case pressure with my LS set up. Delmo uses valve cover breathers on the vintage valve covers like mine to help with this. I had on on the passenger side so I added a 2nd one to the driver side. I also swapped out my oil cap/breather with a black AC Delco one that I thought looked better. This cap also looks to provide better venting than that last one due to the bigger holes. Kind of a win/win with the cap. I also had an exhaust hanger break on the passenger side. When fabbing up exhaust we used some 1/2" SS tube I had laying around to make the hangers. This one has broken once before. I decided to remove the exhaust and replace both hangers with 1/2" SS rod. It wont break this time. My Friend Josh (JJH Jimmy on this forum) helped me with the fab work and tig work on the hangers. Josh is one of the many people that I have met in real life from this forum. Everyone I have met in real life have been solid dudes. Josh has a nice lifted K5 Blazer, and he just completed a 4wd long bed lifted square body. He has an AD 5 window next on the list that I look forward to helping him with. Marc
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