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November 22 ,2010: Ordered new bumpers front and rear to replace the bent/dented ones with rubber strips.  No more rubber strips.  They arrived Tuesday November 30, 2010.

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Friday, Dec 10th, 2010:Ordered some Boss 335's, should be here Monday or Tuesday.  They will either go to the Burb or the Blazer.
On the way home heard a squealing noise coming from the engine, pulled over and didn't see anything. Drove on home.

Saturday, Dec 11th, 2010: Drove it to my brothers to help him on his 6.0L and when I drove off I heard what sounded like the belt beating around the fan.  Pulled over and found the Idler pulley was GONE!  I had 3/8" of belt still around the serpentine and the other wrapped around the fan.  Pulled it all off and found the belt was riding perfectly on the pulley, risked it and made it home.  Went to the parts store and picked up an Idler pulley and a new belt

Sunday, Dec 12th, 2010:Installed a the new Idler pulley and belt on the truck.  Drove it around the block to see if I get the motor warm to check why I wasn't getting any heat.  Got home and found the upper radiator hose was cold.  Suspected the thermostat was stuck.  On the way out with the family dropped off at the parts store and picked up a thermostat and gasket.

Monday, Dec 13th, 2010:Attempted to drive my Crew Cab to work only to stop at the pump to fill up and apparently the fuel pump it going out.  Yippie.  After multiple attempts at starting it, playing with the switch, ignition and pounding on the tank it finally cranked.  Drove it home swapped to the Burb and drove in with no heat and 22 degree temps.  That evening drove home and hooked the scan tool to it and when I left it said 89 degrees, when I got home 40 minutes later, 115 degrees.
Spent an evening in the cold changing out the thermostat, which there wasn't one!  Now it gets up to temp and I can stand being in it.

Tuesday, Dec 14th, 2010:Ordered some 275/40/20's for the Boss Wheels that came in.  Hope to pick them up this week.

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Thursday, Dec 16th, 2010:Picked up the wheels and tires.


These will probably end up on the Wifes K5 when it is ready though...

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Sunday, Jul 10th, 2011:   Charged the AC as this heat was killing me driving this thing in 100 degree temp.  Only had half the amount so ..

Saturday, Jul 16th, 2011:   Finished up charging the AC.  Rear fan is grinding on something so I only use the front AC for now, but the rear cools, just noisy.

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Saturday, Nov 19th, 2011: Had an issue with a loose connection on the starter solenoid and when I went to fix it I found the Knock sensor wire was rolled up around the transmission lines from the Previous Owner.  I haven't ever been under this thing to "inspect" thoroughly it but the connector was broken/melted and the sensor is toast.  Plans to splice a new connector one if it stops raining here...

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Monday, May 14th, 2012:  This got a little love today.  A while back a large limb fell on the roof and caved it in.  I tweaked it a bit so it wouldn't be so obvious.

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Monday, October 8th, 2012: Haven't been driving this as much, but recently took it for a drive and had the power die, crawled under to see what was wrong and the power wire was loose.  As I was tightening it I noticed a wire twisted around the transmission lines.  I found that it was the Knock sensor.  It has always been throwing codes and the SES worked intermittantly.  I finally got to repairing it after getting a new connector. 

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Thursday, October 11th, 2012: Took it for a drive and it started missing/backfiring after driving it for about 20 miles.  Made it to where I was going and looked and didn't see anything obvious.  Took it slow getting back home, SES is still acting funny.  Got it home and put the Tech 1 on it and it was complaining about an 02. 

Saturday, October 13th, 2012: Hopefully fixed the loose SES bulb/socket.  Looked around underhood and found that #8 plug wire wasn't on.  Squeezed the connector (it wasn't "clicking") and zip tied the boot.  Miss is gone, but I still have the O2 issue.  I am thinking it is either the ECM or wiring is bad...

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Tuesday, October 16th, 2012: Ran some tests on the Burb about 10 times, but it keep indicating I either have a bad ECM, ECM connection or wiring.  So I decided to get my spare ECM and try.

Wednesday, October 17th, 2012: Back in 2007 when I was trying to diagnose this thing not staying running I bought a new ECM and never returned the factory one, so I got it, and the one out of my 87, swapped chips and ran the tests with both.  So far I don't see the issue, but I wasn't able to drive it long enough to day to find out.  Right now it has the original ECM in it...

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Monday, October 22nd 2012: After driving it with the orginal ECM back in it, so far no codes and about 100 miles..

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Saturday, April 27th 2013: Removed the bend up rear bumper and put one on there that was in a little better shape.  Then proceeded to pulled all of the side molding off.

Sunday, April 28th 2013: picked up an eraser to remove the residue from the side molding removal got started but didn't get far.

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Wednesday, May 1st 2013: Started back on removing all the glue from the side got all done but a littel before it got too late

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Saturday, May 4th,  2013: Finished the Drivers side removal, started  on removing all the glue from passenger side.

Sunday, May 5th,  2013: Finished the passenger side. and pulled the rear door panel on the cargo door to fix the hit or miss lock mechanism for the rear doors.

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Monday June 3rd, 2013: After a couple years and not driving it as much the AC finally ran out of cool.  Added about a 1lb of 134A to it and it is working much better.  Also during a stint in some routine maintenance during the winter I found that the Vacuum hose for the AC was missing and the source capped off.  This ended the mystery on why the AC was not working and blowing everything down to the floor.

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Sunday, June 16th, 2013: Got all the vacuum hoses sorted out and now the AC is blowing on both upper and lower levels and is blowing around 60 degrees.  You can see where it tees in the below pic.