De-Redneckification of Mr Pate's 03 Duramax
- Thread starter James Pate
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Yes I have a drop hitch with weight distribution. Hitch could probably be a little bigger but it tows it fine.
From this past weekend. 2wd sucks but until I get the axle swapped and matching gears I'll just live with getting stuck and throwing mud everywhere lol
Lol yea I think I know him. Right now we are building the site. We also need to order more hats and shirts lol
lol hopefully itll be up soon.
Truck is down again, took the tie rod bar, tow hooks, and sway bar end links to get chromed.
Also how does chrome hold up when done to the leafs? Thinking of doing every other chrome and teal.
Truck is down again, took the tie rod bar, tow hooks, and sway bar end links to get chromed.
Also how does chrome hold up when done to the leafs? Thinking of doing every other chrome and teal.
I've seen it done, but never seen any comments on the durability. I'd ask the place that does your chrome what they think.
Yea might have to. The quality is good from the place I go to so I would assume it holds up.
That and they might know what kind of stress you can put it through before experiencing blemishes and whatnot.
Well here's how I look at it James, people powder and chrome coil springs all the time, and it stays on for a while, but it will eventually start to crack and flake because chrome is a hard coating. In a leaf spring application it looks stellar, but I would not do it because it's impossible to clean between the leafs and after some time it starts to look shitty. I have seen all sorts of combo's, some will always look good, and some only look good for a short time after it's put together because of the inability to be cleaned and properly maintained.
That is what I am told that the cleaning part will be the part that will ruin it. It'll either be chrome and teal or white and teal
Since you are still running the af's I assume you did this.
Did you just plug weld the holes in the hubs and rotors and then drill them out?
I may have missed this but did a rear SD axle ever end up under your truck?
Never did redrill the hubs just ended up using spacers/adapters. Also super duty rear axle isn't under it yet either.
But got sway bar end links, tow hook, and tie rod bar back from chrome and they look awesome.
Put it all back together and realized somehow the bushings on the axle where the link arms mount worked their way out. So put them back in and went for a drive and somehow the truck has death wobble again. Not really sure how this is possible since the only thing I did was get some chrome done. So truck isn't driving again and not sure what the cause of it is this time. But here are pics
But got sway bar end links, tow hook, and tie rod bar back from chrome and they look awesome.
Put it all back together and realized somehow the bushings on the axle where the link arms mount worked their way out. So put them back in and went for a drive and somehow the truck has death wobble again. Not really sure how this is possible since the only thing I did was get some chrome done. So truck isn't driving again and not sure what the cause of it is this time. But here are pics