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Sure. Love doing the job shop work as side jobs.

It's been a few years since I rebuilt an NP205 but I did some machining for a guy about a year or so ago that was making a doubler and I bored the input out to accept the larger bearing. Let me know if I can help.

Finished up the 2002 LB7 Duramax 2500HD last night. Serviced the transmission, relocated the trailer plug to clean up the rat's nest of wires and horrible mounting and then reinstalled the front tires, torqued to spec., added fluids and road tested. Addressed the horribly mounted trailer...

Nearing getting things wrapped up on the 2002 Silverado 2500HD LB7 that's been in my shop for the past couple of weeks now. FASS system up and running. I removed the original exhaust last night. The original owner had cut the muffler out and straight piped it. The current owner likes the...

Personally, I despise, even loathe, hotels/motels which is why we travel via RV. That being said, long trips like this are awesome as I love seeing them by way of the back roads. Good luck planning the trip. Mike

Also, the FASS and Banks systems arrived so I can get going on them next on this 2002. I was told last week when I ordered the Banks Monster Exhaust that it would be 2-3 weeks due to one component of the kit being on backorder. I was pleasantry surprised yesterday when I received the call...

Continued on last night with the 2002 Silverado 2500 Duramax that's in the shop. After removing the OEM upper control arm and shock I touched up the paint a little before reassembly began. While the paint was drying I removed the OEM keys from the torsion bars. Using a special C-clamp the...

Nice job on the repair Stratton. If you have a TIG welder with advanced features such as pulse and frequency I like to adjust the pulse down low and the frequency to around 50Hz. What this does when welding cast aluminum is actually floats the impurities to the surface where they can be...

Email sent to both representative and senator for my district. I also added about how it would destroy the enthusiast lifestyle with less cars becoming classics. As cars age they should inherently be considered classics and this is a frivolous piece of legislature. I also impressed that...

While I didn't particularly care for some (or most) of Trump's behaviors as far as Twitter and all that crap, I can say I liked his policies and he actually did what he ran on. I think he missed the opportunity to turn some things around by all of his tweets and comments and maybe we would be...

Thank you. He should be very happy with it. He took my son's for a drive after another mechanic told him to just crank up the torsion bars. I explained to him that is not the right way to do it and explained the issues with the upper ball joints and keys and how bad it would ride and wear...

Yeah, they have some inherent weak areas on the front ends but once those are addressed they are damn near bulletproof. I did mine back in 2009 when I bought my 2006 and we did my son's upgrades on his 2002 Duramax about 7 or so years ago when he bought it with 220k miles on the clock. His now...

Not directly related to the January 6th incident but my take on how we got here, some may or may not agree. To be honest, seeing HOW the media and liberal Politicians are touting the Jan. 6th incident yet NOT doing anything about the entire summer of 2020 tells me everything I need to know. We...

Next vehicle rolled in a few nights ago. Client called me last fall inquiring about doing some work on his newly acquired 2002 Silverado 2500 Duramax (LB7). We talked over options and I gave him suggestions on suspension components. Well they were slow to arrive but all of the parts finally...

EXACTLY why I will keep my 100k mile 2006 Duramax and why my son says he will keep his 280k mile 2002 Duramax. I actually have been thinking about driving the truck more lately when the weather is nice to split the miles more between it and the Jeep. Mike

I think the new direct injected GM 6.2 liter is hard to beat. Then couple that with either the 8L90 or 10L90 (8 or 10 speed) transmission and you've got a really great combination. I have an LBZ Duramax that runs like a top and looks great still but I no longer race nor have our large enclosed...

I washed and shined up the Jeep Friday night on the way home from work. The wife and I wanted to go for a drive on Saturday and my son and DIL wanted to go with us. Saturday we headed up Weber Canyon towards Morgan where we stopped for lunch. From Morgan, we headed up towards East...

Thank you. And for the record I think I have too many voices in my head already. :rofl:

First of all, I'm flattered. I try to be as professional and knowledgeable as possible about things I'm working on but there is NO way to have the knowledge for everything out there, although some think they've got it. :rofl: Yes, I've been doing this a long time and have worked on a very...

Prior to installing the valve body I figured I would check the band adjustments. With 164k it couldn't hurt. Both front and rear bands were pretty close. Here is the rear band adjustment. Front band anchor. Front band adjustment on the outside of the case. After the valve body is...