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Nvm good call u kept it

It normally runs about 110-130 depending on ambient temps, towing a 20ft ski boat, it goes up to about 160, in roughly 105-115 ambient temp outside, thanks for asking!

Not necessarily however the body lines won’t match up between the non HD good and the HD grill, look a little funny in my opinion

Thanks! You can follow me on instagram too for more info and behind the scenes stuff. The kings are great, an update review video is in the works so keep an eye out for that this summer! 🤙🏻

Followed you on insta my man! Greetings from Texas!

One last question. I’ve noticed the kings with adjusters are about 300$ more. Are you doing just fine without them? Or do you wish you would have gotten them? I feel like I personally won’t use them ever but who knows haha

@@edddddddddddddd no worries man, always feel free to ask as much as you need. So I had the same thought but to be honest, I’ve never really thought I need to soften the front end. I don’t mob it that hard to need to change the settings. If you plan on going hard with your truck, you can either do the softer tune from Accutune or whatever off-road shop you get yours from or do the adjusters, either one would work, just depends on what you want to do and how hard you want to send it with your rig 👍🏻

Well said thanks my man! Very helpful

No problem. Yeah I have the 5.3 but I would think the 4.3 would have the same set up for the radiator and thus could install the cooler the same

@@TheBeardedTortilla for anyone else out there with the 4.3, American Trucks sells a Mishimoto univerals kit for ours...the 5.3 one does not bolt up the same. Just got off the phone with them...thanks again for the video!

Nice! Thanks for the info! I stand corrected then, my bad haha

I’m so sorry I can’t recall for sure, it’s been a while since I made this video. I think it is the top line that carries the hot fluid, bottom line is the cooled fluid. I’d say I’m about 75% sure 😬

Good eye, yes, my Dad’s work truck does in fact have a leaking hydroboost system, looking to get that fixed soon as well. And for question 2, yes he has had zero clunks or steering play since we rebuilt the front end, it’s holding up great. He is a pool man so he does a ton of city driving and up and down changing road surfaces, holding up great still. My experience would recommend the Moog, for sure.

I agree! I pulled that valence off the first week I had the truck, but eventually wanted to cut mine straight across to be different from everyone else lol

why pull the valance off??? just for looks or becuase it scraps on everything

@@suspiciousninja1220 I’d say both. It’s all preference though. I know I never like those plastic valences under the bumpers, they are very ugly to me and yeah when my truck was stock height it scraped on almost every drive way and or curb in a parking space so it was just time to throw it away.

Thank you, yeah I love making my own stuff over just buying simple bolt ons. To answer your question, I went with the white over the amber because I wanted to have the ability to see out further, being that these are a spot light beam and not a combo beam. However if I change my mind and want all amber, the great thing about Baja Designs is I can just change out the lens and not an entire new light.

Hmmm I’ll be honest I’m not too sure. I would double check your connections to the head unit to verify everything to plugged in or wired to the right spots. After that I would maybe consider some new speakers. This truck is still in the family and the radio is still working great, I hope you’re is an easy fix and good luck!

Actually they are really old jack stands that I’m not honestly sure the brand, maybe Stanley 🤣 they haven’t given out yet! Hahaha

Unfortunately I haven’t! I was in the same boat, the rear end on these trucks can go pretty hard into a can of worms I didn’t want to open. I was thinking of just doing some deaver springs and dirt king shackles, nothing too insane. If you want to match your mid travel in the front, I might suggest a dirt king bed cage with some bypass shocks and deavers for the springs still.

@@TheBeardedTortilla waiting to hear back from shop. They recommend the Cambridge kit. Come with coil overs for front and back. I’ll try to keep in touch and let you know what I think. Slick rado to my man!

No worries, I appreciate the input but frankly it’s been trucking along great for the last year and a half, it still warms up to about 150 on a warm day, about 130 on a cool day. If I lived in a snowy area I would have left it but where I live it’s usually 80+ with that Transmission temp upwards of almost 200, all my experience has said hot fluid kills transmissions, I’ll make a follow up video if it ever dies due to too cool of fluid.

@@TheBeardedTortilla sorry for all caps. I am climbing walls trying to find a tutorial on putting in the trans thermostat 😳 everybody is throwing them away. Not sure what trans fluid you are using. 150F would be bottom of operating range for dextron VI if memory serves me right. In hindsight I discovered factory does an awesome job of operating around the nominal of 175f... factory does suck if you get into some heavy duty stuff though... like offroad in summer temps with 4wd. And or if you do a high stall converter / fiddle with TCC tune. I did all the above. That was issue I ran into and wanted to swap coolers for. My setup is now running sub 100f... to 120f... way too cold. I think Derale sells a good thermal bypass I will try. Has been lots of fineggaling. Right now I have to put a box over the cooler. You are awesome at making videos BTW. Your channel will do well! Thanks for making this video.

@@exploringgodscountry no worries at all, I appreciate it! I’m a mechanics by trade but am still always open to learning and listening to others peoples inputs 🤙🏻

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Sorry for the late reply back! So no, there was some confusion back in the day that the 05-07 hood was the “HD” hood, however it’s the same hood from 05-07 on all three trucks, the 1500, 2500hd and 3500hd, same grill as well. The 03-04 is the lower style hood with the beam grill, what I took off in this video. Hope that helps!

If I recall correctly, the large blue square on the harness is an adaptor block front crutchfield, the company who made the harness, it has the interface for the new door chime as well as the connector for the steering wheel controls, which my truck didn’t have at the time this it not being shown in the video.

@@TheBeardedTortilla don’t want to ask to much but did your truck have two connectors going into your stock stereo? Do you know what that is for? I got an 02 suburban 2500

@@TheBeardedTortilla it’s cause most harnesses I’ve seen only have that big oem connector but not a thin flat connector i have

No worries. If I recall I know mine for sure had a large connector and I do remember a flat connector going into it as well. I may have a shot of it on another video, down from this one titles sound up, radio install on my buddies duramax. His was similar but different, we may have gotten a better view in that video, I apologize as it was a few years ago, I can’t remember exactly

@@TheBeardedTortilla all good appreciate it, will check that other video out👍

Thanks! I appreciate that!

So sorry for the lag in response, they bolt on top of the factory shock tower, I believe using the shock bolts them selves.

They weren’t difficult per say, it was more that it was holding my alignment way beyond what I had originally had. Now obviously the alignment was going to change either way but at the time I felt more comfortable keeping the stock cams in it due to the fact that I wasn’t going to be mobing the truck that hard in dirt or woops, just worked out better for me to fit my needs of a daily/light trail runner. If you plan on going hard on your truck in dirt and often, I highly recommend the dirt king alignment cams 👍🏻

Ummm actually I think if I recall correctly that’s correct, this cooler loops itself into the output from the radiator I think and then goes back to the transmission. I believe I learned that after I made the video haha either way, this cooler works great! I highly recommend it!

Right now I am on 285/70R17s with 17x8.5 rims. I feel it’s a perfect size for a mostly highway driven truck with the 5.3 engine.

I believe if you get the clock spring and steering wheel, it should be all plug and play. I had an idea of getting a whole steering column assembly from a junkyard unit so I could get any other harnesses or parts I may need

Thanks! That’s actually what I ended up going with later on but unfortunately didn’t make a video at the time of it

So on my battery, I actually had an open terminal on that distribution board on top, it was just an open lug in between the other ones, I took the cover off and found it unused so I wired it directly to that, works great! Hope that helps.

@@TheBeardedTortilla this is exactly what I needed to know thanks man!!!

what dash panel kit? I see the bag in the video but can’t tell which company makes it.

Hi! Unfortunately I believe mine came with the kit when I bought it from crutchfield back then. I’m not sure if it still is available but I definitely recommend checking out their website to see if you can still get one.

@@TheBeardedTortilla appreciate the reply so quickly. I think I found a Scosche brand that should fill that gap. It was on amazon

Nice! It was a great radio when I had the truck, loved it and it never missed a beat! 👍🏻

Yeah, that’s what I thought too but I ran separate powers so that they would be turned on at different times. Worked out perfect 🤙🏻

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I believe the 8 speed also has the thermostat, yes.

@@TheBeardedTortilla ty for the response

Nice, I think I run the lower option as well but honestly don’t remember. So far I haven’t had any issues with the tail light, it’s been awesome!

That would have been really cool, I agree. Unfortunately I learned about those air bags after I sold the truck to my dad

Good to know, thank you!

Honestly I think they are both great, they do the job as they need to of cooling the transmission temp better than stock. Depends on how much work you want to do I guess. I have the Mishimoto in my 2015 Silverado and it runs great, was a really nice kit for a clean install. On the older truck, the Tru Cool worked great for me to make my own brackets and such. I think it’s just preference.

Hi, it makes perfect sense and sorry for the late response. So the video I posted right before this one is talking about making the wiring harnesses, I did run 2 harnesses, 1 for each light. I did that for both safety of the circuit, as to not over power or over heat the wires and also slow me to have the lights on at different times separate from each other. Hope that helps and good luck with making your harness!

Hi, so sorry for the lag in response but I used the regular power wire, not the dimmer wire, if I recall correctly.

No sir. When I removed the light, I just traced the harness into the light to see what light was run by which wire on the truck side connector.

@@TheBeardedTortilla thanks I had same light brand with 3 s2 pros and my wiring is different from yours hope I can find some type of diagram to wire it up

Yes, unfortunately I did run out of time in that video but I have a full update video coming up very soon! Thanks for watching and keep an eye out for that update video

Thanks for asking! That truck is still in my family and I can tell you, the cooler runs perfect. I’m the hot AF summers, the transmission runs approx 100-120 degrees cruising down the road with 100+ ambient temps. Towing up hill, with about a 5000lbs boat, AC on, I’ve never seen the transmission pass 160. I hope that helps.

No worries at all. Nope, the top bracket has never really caused an cooling issues. The truck is still in my family and still runs right at 208 engine coolant temp and around 100-120 on transmission temp in the hot CA/AZ summers.

@FountainFox Unlimited awesome to hear! I've an 05 4.8l that came with no tran cooler at all. I don't tow ever, but I just hit the 100k miles mark and I'm considering the 40k cooler to extend the life of the transmission as much as possible. Your vid was very helpful, thank you!

I’m not actually familiar with what a dual stage air bag connector is but these air bags are just one connector on them. Definitely make sure to disconnect the vehicles battery and let the voltage leave the system before messing with any air bags

Yes! As a matter of fact the GMT 800 body styles are all mostly the same. If you notice, the caddie, H2 hummer and all GM SUVs of that era are the same exact steering wheel style, all that changes is color and the emblem on the air bag. These trucks and suvs are like adult legos, it’s great!