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What did you do to your GMT today?

Trailblazer and Envoy related, but not off-road related...

by HARDTRAILZ » Fri Jan 31, 2014 11:34 pm

Seen a few Nitro gear failures in Jeeps recently. My buddy had his rear explode in his TJ, swears they just broke, but he is known to be rough on stuff. A couple JK guys reported on FB that they had broken teeth recently as well.
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by v7guy » Sat Feb 01, 2014 3:30 am

Yeah, I saw a few nitro gears setups fail too, a couple motive, a bunch of Richmond back a year ago or so, I think just about all the different brands of gears have had a rough spot at some point and obviously if you get all crazy I reckon you can break just about everything.
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by Wahugg » Sat Feb 01, 2014 1:28 pm

Went ahead and got my kmart special today :finger:

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by The Roadie » Sat Feb 01, 2014 1:31 pm

Say, that's that ring lug doing unconnected to the right? It's going to leak out all the charge from that battery if you don't hook it up. :slap:
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by Wahugg » Sat Feb 01, 2014 1:54 pm

Letting the computer/ modules reset. I'm hoping the -3 degree weather was the reason why my battery died, but there is a chance a module wasn't going to sleep. There was about a 1-2 week time period between both times my battery died. It would start fine the same day, but the next weekend it would be almost flat again. I'm hoping a full 'reset' might make the computer or module behave correctly if that is the case. But what do I know, your the EE here!

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by mikekey » Sat Feb 01, 2014 2:58 pm

Wahugg wrote:Went ahead and got my kmart special today :finger:

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Man! Look at all that money you wasted. You must be rich. Don't you know all you need is like an Autocraft or Everstart battery. If you needed more, GM would of included it from the factory. They never short cut anything. :facepalm:
















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by Aries » Sat Feb 01, 2014 6:01 pm

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by djthumper » Sat Feb 01, 2014 6:19 pm

And this is what you did to your GMT today? :?:
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by Moots1288 » Sat Feb 01, 2014 6:39 pm

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by mikekey » Sat Feb 01, 2014 7:21 pm

Aries I think you meant to post that in the GMT Official Post Whore thread. :poke:

Well, it took a lot of work to make the bracket, and trial and error, but they are mounted. :zombie:
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by Moots1288 » Sat Feb 01, 2014 7:48 pm

What the brembos or the 5 lug wheel hub :P
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by dvanbramer88 » Sat Feb 01, 2014 7:58 pm

perhaps it's for his Corvette?

Or he's just trolling. Probably just trolling..
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by DirtyBacon04 » Sat Feb 01, 2014 8:02 pm

or his GXT thing
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by mikekey » Sat Feb 01, 2014 8:12 pm

Trolling, I should of tried GMT, you guys are too smart to notice the 5 lugs.
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by DirtyBacon04 » Sat Feb 01, 2014 8:22 pm

Aries wrote:Ukrainian Army off duty


Here we go!!

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by Aries » Sat Feb 01, 2014 9:55 pm

mikekey wrote:Aries I think you meant to post that in the GMT Official Post Whore thread. :poke:

Just my way of adding to off topic :raspberry:
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by djthumper » Sat Feb 01, 2014 11:38 pm

Aries wrote:
mikekey wrote:Aries I think you meant to post that in the GMT Official Post Whore thread. :poke:

Just my way of adding to off topic :raspberry:

I think you forgot which forums you were in...
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by mikekey » Tue Feb 04, 2014 6:31 pm

Installed a new belt, old one has been on the rig since we bought it.
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GRRR! :wallbash: 2 months later and Summit finally mails me the parts I order on Dec 3rd.

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So now I guess I have to decide if I want to go through the trouble of installing these after putting most of the front end back together. Well..... I might as well. Guess I'll have to redo my alignment and break out the chalk and string again.
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by KE7WOX » Tue Feb 04, 2014 9:41 pm

At least the bushings come pre-installed. Which finally solved my decades old question.
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by mikekey » Thu Feb 06, 2014 5:29 pm

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