last adjustments
found some lug nut caps for the bottom of ubolts, cheap.
Today I opted to loosen them up, and it was with ease being so fresh installed...
thumped with a mallot the hellwig to aligned. sure enough, it went right in to fill the little gap at the yellow arrow in photo. Still leanring as I go, this truck is heavy enough to need the same nut tightened on the other leaf spring, but on the outside of the hellwig ubolt.
I have never seen this stance on this year of truck. Very sharp looking truck.
Tightening back up got some creaks all the way to front cross sill. This truck was begging for rear spring.
I also got a look at where these crack like candy in half between the bed and cab, this one has the color of the new pavement right up the road from me inside the C rail on passenger side..
This tells me paint chores need to get done. Densifying gentle..great time to feed the thief with a paint.
The middle bed sill is also up against the little rubber feet I gave it, staying dynamical as gm wanted. The weld patch driver side is deeply embedded, it looks like it was needed now, and not just a plate scabbed on.
Very nice ride.
A bit of grumble like a cold tractor trailer around 50mph this morning.. using the brand new road to feel this out. it subsided before thermostat opened, as I tried to repeat it.
Felt like a yoke grumble, distance must be changing between shaft and tranny...pinion angle coming to life.
This is much stronger than the strong it already was.
I am very impressed with how tough this stayed with complete disregard for all the chores underneath. The previous owners really did their part, it inspired me to go this far with steel and extras.
One generation prior is in the junk yard for the same neglect. My first stretch and align was a 1979 chevy that hauled a 2000 pound tractor in the back (suzue diesel with bucket attached, up over the cab). It did survive. That was my first personal lessons on how far the c rail can go. That was a heavy half ton. Coil spring up front and a long wheel base.
this one literally feels and sounds like a tractor trailer in comparison. the same cold grumble this morning.. I almost laughed out loud.
edit:
my mistake..
my first lessons are my dads rigs. We hauled a 60 foot beam once, all steel, with a little wheelbase cabover. Incredible lesson on steel..that one ride. All leaf spring too. Old school heavy duty steel hauling.
steel has a memory like me. I don't forget it.
the first frost is coming though, for this place, it is not a wild stab . Exactly just in time for all the steel maneuvres..now I just sit back.
A very interesting event is the supermoon eclipse this weekend. This truck at 19 years was not even born yet for the last event. these apply changes to everything known to us puny humans that may not even notice them.
I am referring to steel of course. A new event for the memories.
and hellwig does indeed have its own modern website. I must have downloaded outdated instructions from...who knows what century. I thought 9/16ths had to be at 45 foot pounds...glad I ignored that.
I mentioned the need to go beyond 100 foot pounds on the new ubolts, and then check a few days later.Sure enough, it was in the real instructions..modern print.
Going beyond will just find it hovering at 90 to 100 anyway eventually. This type of tighten has a bottom out, very hard.. there is no real torque value but tight being necessary.
found some lug nut caps for the bottom of ubolts, cheap.
Today I opted to loosen them up, and it was with ease being so fresh installed...
thumped with a mallot the hellwig to aligned. sure enough, it went right in to fill the little gap at the yellow arrow in photo. Still leanring as I go, this truck is heavy enough to need the same nut tightened on the other leaf spring, but on the outside of the hellwig ubolt.
I have never seen this stance on this year of truck. Very sharp looking truck.
Tightening back up got some creaks all the way to front cross sill. This truck was begging for rear spring.
I also got a look at where these crack like candy in half between the bed and cab, this one has the color of the new pavement right up the road from me inside the C rail on passenger side..
This tells me paint chores need to get done. Densifying gentle..great time to feed the thief with a paint.
The middle bed sill is also up against the little rubber feet I gave it, staying dynamical as gm wanted. The weld patch driver side is deeply embedded, it looks like it was needed now, and not just a plate scabbed on.
Very nice ride.
A bit of grumble like a cold tractor trailer around 50mph this morning.. using the brand new road to feel this out. it subsided before thermostat opened, as I tried to repeat it.
Felt like a yoke grumble, distance must be changing between shaft and tranny...pinion angle coming to life.
This is much stronger than the strong it already was.
I am very impressed with how tough this stayed with complete disregard for all the chores underneath. The previous owners really did their part, it inspired me to go this far with steel and extras.
One generation prior is in the junk yard for the same neglect. My first stretch and align was a 1979 chevy that hauled a 2000 pound tractor in the back (suzue diesel with bucket attached, up over the cab). It did survive. That was my first personal lessons on how far the c rail can go. That was a heavy half ton. Coil spring up front and a long wheel base.
this one literally feels and sounds like a tractor trailer in comparison. the same cold grumble this morning.. I almost laughed out loud.
edit:
my mistake..
my first lessons are my dads rigs. We hauled a 60 foot beam once, all steel, with a little wheelbase cabover. Incredible lesson on steel..that one ride. All leaf spring too. Old school heavy duty steel hauling.
steel has a memory like me. I don't forget it.
the first frost is coming though, for this place, it is not a wild stab . Exactly just in time for all the steel maneuvres..now I just sit back.
A very interesting event is the supermoon eclipse this weekend. This truck at 19 years was not even born yet for the last event. these apply changes to everything known to us puny humans that may not even notice them.
I am referring to steel of course. A new event for the memories.
and hellwig does indeed have its own modern website. I must have downloaded outdated instructions from...who knows what century. I thought 9/16ths had to be at 45 foot pounds...glad I ignored that.
I mentioned the need to go beyond 100 foot pounds on the new ubolts, and then check a few days later.Sure enough, it was in the real instructions..modern print.
Going beyond will just find it hovering at 90 to 100 anyway eventually. This type of tighten has a bottom out, very hard.. there is no real torque value but tight being necessary.
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