What did you do to your GMT today?

by **Sugar16** » Sat May 25, 2013 10:07 am

Finally got my front end put back together last night. This morning I'm going to get lugnuts :facepalm:

throw the wheels on the front and drop it. Then the rear gets wheels on it. Put my new springs in and cut my sway bar out. Then I'm off to an alignment

by **v7guy** » Sat May 25, 2013 11:01 am

take pics of cutting out your swaybar, we like that stuff lol

by **Sugar16** » Sat May 25, 2013 3:21 pm

The hardest part of finishing my envoy is sitting and waiting for my alignment :wallbash:

Jason - we didn't end up cutting out the sway bar. They came off surprisingly easy and all we had to do was drop a lower control arm to slide it out

by **Moots1288** » Sat May 25, 2013 4:39 pm

Installed fox shocks

by **Skidder** » Sun May 26, 2013 11:54 am

Pulled off the original bumper setup, found out it hit something in a previous life, and put on Mike's bumper and armor. But first, finally got around to working the swaybar issues.

by **Skidder** » Sun May 26, 2013 11:55 am

Oh, and I highly recommend the use of a 15 year old, highly motivated, assistant. They are narrower than the old guy model, and that helps. Ha.

MY Youtube Channel · by **TBYODA** » Sun May 26, 2013 12:35 pm

Moots1288 wrote:
Installed fox shocks

Hey looks nice but don't you have spacer on the wrong side of the spring?

by **The Roadie** » Sun May 26, 2013 3:19 pm

TBYODA wrote:Hey looks nice but don't you have spacer on the wrong side of the spring?

I used to have a spacer on EACH side of my OEM springs. SMAXX on the bottom and BDS on the top. They are functionally identical.

I was about to post up about leaving in the now-useless spare tire heat shield. :poke:

by **Moots1288** » Sun May 26, 2013 4:58 pm

The Roadie wrote:
TBYODA wrote:Hey looks nice but don't you have spacer on the wrong side of the spring?
I used to have a spacer on EACH side of my OEM springs. SMAXX on the bottom and BDS on the top. They are functionally identical.

I was about to post up about leaving in the now-useless spare tire heat shield.

Haha it's funny that you say that. Been wanting to take that down but every time I go to do it.. I do something else and forget about it

by **Conner299** » Mon May 27, 2013 5:08 pm

Spent three hours washing and waxing "Bertha". Had a hard day of pavement pounding planned, so I wanted her to look good while mall crawling. You know... Stare creepily at girls in Victoria's Secret, and try not to get caught by the wife... Check out the odd ball stuff at Spencer's... And top it all off with an almond pretzel and caramel dip at Auntie Anne's. All joking aside, she needed a good wash. Water wasn't beading up on the paint, and a couple spots needed buffed out. I know most will scoff at this, but there's nothing wrong with an offroad capable vehicle that also looks good.

by **NC_IslandRunner** » Mon May 27, 2013 7:15 pm

I found a can of plasti dip!

MY Youtube Channel · by **TBYODA** » Mon May 27, 2013 8:00 pm

NC_IslandRunner wrote:I found a can of plasti dip!

Very Nice!!

by **Conner299** » Mon May 27, 2013 8:02 pm

NC_IslandRunner wrote:I found a can of plasti dip

Since you went that high, you should've done the side moldings.

by **The Roadie** » Mon May 27, 2013 8:05 pm

Conner299 wrote:...there's nothing wrong with an offroad capable vehicle that also looks good...

It's not the clean part that jumps out at us as much as the continued presence of the air dam under your front bumper cover. :poke:

That, and the white tire lettering that's still intact. :angry whip:

by **Conner299** » Mon May 27, 2013 8:12 pm

The Roadie wrote:It's not the clean part that jumps out at us as much as the continued presence of the air dam under your front bumper cover.

That, and the white tire lettering that's still intact.

LOL. I know. The white lettering, which I love, will get messed up in its own due time. I'm hoping the air dam will get ripped off on my first trail ride. That way I can have my first "Look what got broke" pic. Till then, it ain't hurtin nuttin.

by **dvanbramer88** » Tue May 28, 2013 1:31 pm

new power steering pressure line today.

Tomorrow she gets 8 new spark plugs and an EGR line.

Sending out for my PCM tune next monday.

by **v7guy** » Sun Jun 02, 2013 4:23 am

Spent the vast majority of the evening fixing james02s disconnect. Pretty much everything in the outer half of the housing was completely FUBARd. The plan was just to pop it apart and grease it up. While removing the CV from the spindle we noticed the tripot wiggled at least an inch in every direction. I figured the outer housing was toast. But as it turns out it may be salvageable. All the bearings are complete garbage though and the grease was non existent. Fortunately I had a spare. Now his 4WD works.

A pic so we can all laugh at the destruction after 71k miles.

It's a bit odd, some things on his envoy are replaced and kept up with... like the sway bar end links and the lower ball joint. Others are horribly neglected, like the disconnect, a leaking CV, and the upper A arm that moves a good half inch fore and aft. I'm astonished some things have been replaced and then equally amazed that other things have been ignored.

by **The Roadie** » Sun Jun 02, 2013 10:30 am

Conner299 wrote:I'm hoping the air dam will get ripped off on my first trail ride. That way I can have my first "Look what got broke" pic. Till then, it ain't hurtin nuttin.

Hey, who am I to talk? When I was noobish and learning, I tried to retain the air dam even after I put on the first ever Curt 31055 front receiver. Sigh....

MY Youtube Channel · by **TBYODA** » Sun Jun 02, 2013 7:20 pm

Earlier today I installed some front tow hooks I pulled off a 02 or 03 TB in local bone yard.
I followed the article at to remove the cover. Found a how to add the hooks but did not really needed it after removing from donor.
http://gmtnation.com/f93/how-remove-rei ... over-2577/
http://gmtnation.com/content/installing ... lazer-157/

Tow Hooks

Before installed I did clean these up on a wire wheel and give them few coats rustoleum but forgot to take picture.

Cover removed

Can't remove main bolt. Got to remove lights :hissyfit:

Lights removed

Bumper off

Pre nut removal

All back together :excited:

Going to pick a two strap to go between when I need a tow out jam via the front end as so not break them off

by **Moots1288** » Fri Jun 07, 2013 6:37 pm

Got new tires. Very disappointed with treadwright tires, glad I have rid my life of them.

Offroad Trailblazers and Envoys