Recent content by Skinny

No doubt, keep me in mind!

Nick where in NH are you? I'm right on the Portsmouth/Kittery line.

I'm so glad this thread lives on! I ended up building a Suburban using the guts of this truck. The box still sits in a field gutted. Fast forward the Suburban built looks like a loose clone of the truck from the movie Dante's Peak that I loved as a kid. I've owned this Suburban for almost 10...

37s will get you to 65mph with more comfort but will be miserable to drive with. There is no way around it, the TH400 sucks in everything but strength and simplicity. 4L80 is an easy swap, will make the underpowered 6.2 accelerate better, and getting your cruise RPM down. I had 37s for years...

No problem, glad I could help! Keep those M1031s alive.

It's a Generac XD5000 I pull it by hand using the decomp lever and I can't pull it through once it hits TDC when the lever kicks. Now I'm not a big guy but you'd think I could at least pull it through. That's when it pops and smokes through the intake like it almost combusted but since it...

I got this engine as a big question mark. I cannot verify if it's been apart but it doesn't look like it has been. That is my next guess is time to come apart and verify timing of everything. The pump appears to have shims under it so I don't think it has been messed with. One of my concerns...

Hey guys I have an L100 engine I'm trying to get running. It's in a gen with a 1000 hours. The symptom is it will crank, come up to the compression stroke, then stop. Sometimes it will kick back and blow grayish smoke from the intake like it backfired. So far: -Put some new 6 gauge battery...

I think I actually threw in some fabricated hoses with the valves I sent you. I remember using blue poly fuel line for like small engine or power sport stuff. Fit perfect.

I think the hose diameter is smaller then the nipples in the valve. I remember doing something like using a short piece of a poly tubing the sleeve it. Could be wrong but I remember it wouldn't directly slide on.

That's pretty good. Imagining going over 55mph stock is funny because of the difference in gearing. I felt like the engine was going to explode with the 4.56s. Not a problem! Hope it all works out. Don't push the back too far.

I will say two things really dial back the handling. Stock height and age springs. The clapped out reverse arch front springs at the age they are at suck. The other huge one is stock push pull steering. I had it on my M1031 in stock form and lifted 4". It was God awful either way. If the truck...

The fancy controllers will have better control of the glow but you could use the wait to start function of the glow controller to delay the engine start timer in the gen controller. Just have to figure out if that's a switched ground or power and what input on the gen controller can be modified...

What is antiquated in stock form? My old K5 would do 75/80 no prob. Now lifted sure, the steering is squirrelly when you hit the brakes up or a bump but that's all fixable with money. Both of my trucks even heavily modified will hammer down the left lane as fast as you want to burn the fuel...