Pete M

welcome! be sure to add your truck's VIN number to the registry forum so we can find out the build date. being stuck on defrost usually indicates a vacuum leak and based on the photo of the inside of the dash I'd start looking there.

adjusting the caster is something you can do with basic tools and a bubble angle finder.

I assume the alignment shop gave you a printout of the end specs?

I love the swap-ability of chevy stuff. is that coolant hose as kinked as it looks in the pic?

I gotta ask since the knowledge of our old trucks seems to be getting rarer theses days, but does your alignment shop know HOW to adjust the caster? also, there is a thread i the link in my sig that will show you how to measure the ride height and compare to factory.

indeed. we had a similar day installing a ujoint into a junkyard front driveshaft for my buddy's f250 (his original shaft's CV joint was wasted) only to find out at the end of the day (and I mean the end of the day since our comical rust-fightin' hijinks took alllllll... stinkin'... day) that the shaft he bought was an inch too long. (turns out he grabbed one from a coil sprung 250)

noisy in what way? bushings gone bad? isolators worn out?

there's nothing wrong with 3k on the highway.

still rocking my older craftsman USA-made 1/4-3/8" sockets and wrench sets. overall they have been good to me. for 1/2" sockets I have a mix of harbor freight, Cobalt, and... miscellaneous. I super-seriously need to upgrade the 1/2" stuff but until then I just stop by lowes when I break one.

any muffler shop should be able to fab it up and route it wherever you'd like.

you can easily lock the CAD for free using one of a variety of methods. should be a couple of 'em in the link in my sig.

there's a chance I'd be driving "by" on the weekend of the 14-15th on the return trip from colorado.

that question deserves its own post in Tech.

we'll need to start a new thread so we can get a handle on the where/when of all the shows. I'll throw something together in the next few days.

in theory I'll be in the Pueblo area in early September. I was trying to avoid dragging the MJ trailer out that far, but who knows.

what Jeep shows are out there?

watch it in the dark and maybe you can find a stray arc. be sure that your eyes have adjusted or you might miss it. could even be a bad spark plug.

#theMJaddictionisreal what are the plans for this one?

go start that build thread so we can all drool over it!

holy crap! just think if everyone that wanted to be there was able to! maybe next year we get our own section

could it be a wire randomly arcing?

a vacuum leak is a vacuum leak.

is that like the weatherman telling you that it's currently raining on you?

interesting. does the FI system produce any codes?