What did you do to your GMT today?

[boog2006]

Yesterday I started stripping plastidip from hood....SUCKS. comes off in lil bits like an old sticker.

Means you didn't apply enough plasti-dip...how thick did you put it on?

[HARDTRAILZ]

Think 3 cans

[ErikSS]

How long had it been on your hood? I'm thinking time applied has a lot to do with ease of removal.

[HARDTRAILZ]

10 months

[ErikSS]

Hm. Good to know! I always wondered how well that stuff came off. Had you used it before?

[mikekey]

Comes off real easy in big sheets when applied not in spray can form.

[ErikSS]

Comes off real easy in big sheets when applied not in spray can form.

I didn't know it came in any way except spray can. So enlighten me! lol How else would you apply it?

[Moots1288]

With a spray gun.. They sell gallon cans

[v7guy]

yeah, a lot of guys seem to be using that dipyourcar website for materials. Lots of happy folks.

[mikekey]

HPLV is how I did it. Did the hood and fender to test.

[ErikSS]

Do you recall what millimeter tip you used to spray it? I have one geared for primer (bigger tip) and one geared for finish/clear coat (smaller tip).

[v7guy]

Finally got around to swappin out the power steering pump. Dropped it after I got it out and broke the reservoir. Thought there was a slim chance in hell epoxy would hold it together, it didn't. Got the new one swapped out too. No more power steering squeal, yay.





Also been chasing a whine for awhile, broke out the ole stethoscope and I thought I had it narrowed down to the tensioner pulley, but after I replaced it I still had the whine. Bummer.






Erik, I want to say it uses an abnormally large tip for the HVLP, but I don't remember for sure.

[ErikSS]

v7guy, I've had good luck taking the belt off, and spinning each pulley separately. Sometimes I hear the sound, sometimes I feel a difference. Sometimes you can actually feel play in the pulley.

[ErikSS]

Erik, I want to say it uses an abnormally large tip for the HVLP, but I don't remember for sure.

I was thinking that, maybe my primer tip would work.

[Moots1288]

Erik, I want to say it uses an abnormally large tip for the HVLP, but I don't remember for sure.

I was thinking that, maybe my primer tip would work.

hahah you said primer tip

[v7guy]

Yeah, I'm gonna pop it off tomorrow and check em out. I never have changed the infamous idler pulley. It just occurred to me to turn the a.c. on... I never use it. When I did the sound went away so I assume it's the a.c. clutch bearing.

[Moots1288]

Yeah, I'm gonna pop it off tomorrow and check em out. I never have changed the infamous idler pulley. It just occurred to me to turn the a.c. on... I never use it. When I did the sound went away so I assume it's the a.c. clutch bearing.

better change it before your whole truck burns.

[Blazintrails03]

So technically nothing was done to my TB but I got my title in the mail today. Didn't even realize I paid it off and in the same stack of mail was a check from the bank saying I paid too much.

[ErikSS]

So technically nothing was done to my TB but I got my title in the mail today. Didn't even realize I paid it off and in the same stack of mail was a check from the bank saying I paid too much.

Wow! I wish we could all have that kind of luck!

[mikekey]

People are still paying on these trucks? They where last made in 2008 right.