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Well i did some looking around a lil more and found it was leaking out from the rear driverside head so i went ahead and took em off and had em checked cause i know i did run the engine hot once . So i had them pressure checked and they turned out good and the machinist just took off like.005 of...

lock up that torque converter lock up usually kicks in when your at a constant speed trans has to understand your not going faster or slower then it will kick in to lower RPMs about 500 or so.

intake This man makes sense obviously if you ever changed out a intake in a cast iron block the intake has the water neck on it vise on these iron blocks or LS blocks the intake is just that air intake your in and out water outlet for circulation through the radiator is from the bottom neck...

5.3 Ok so where do i start parts: painless performance 6017 wire harness and comp complete 5.3 or at least as much as possible NOT: remember if your egine drop out comes with a return line and or is elec or mech throttle body the 4l80E flexplate from the dealer cause it comes with all...

5.3 here i needed to move the trans up foward to mate with the engine so i ended up taking all the salck i could from loosen the trans mount bolts and even having to drill new holes in the frame for the cross member to be moved up so over all about 2in foward in the next pic is the fuel lines...

5.3 here you see the ls motor mounts then the orginal clam shell motor mounts bolted to the ls plates then the flexplate you have to use a 4l60E flexplate get new from the dealer and it will come with the longer bolts and spacer needed for the job

5.3 ok here you see my horrible weld job for my brakcet to hold in the new comp. then i had to cut my exhaust cause the original flange was smaller then the one on the ls exhaust manifolds so i had that done by the pros for obvious reasons.

5.3 these pics of course are just diff angels

here it is ok check it out i for some reason can not uplaod the pics so I'm just going to add them on my CAR Domain webpage http://www.cardomain.com/ride/3183532 it will also have my other project on there just go to the last page nvm it showed up ok in these pics were just a few wires i...

Ok well i've been working on this truck for 3 weekends straight but if it aint one thing its another i didn't get to much done this weekend cause i broke a rocker arm stud in my 78 monte but today i got as far as i could get and then filled up the fluids and what happens my battery was dead so...

Well I'm doing this slowly but surely at my shop and of course by my self hopefully I'll have it running by friday its the lil stuff that has been kicking me in the but but when i get it all done and running I'll take pics of verything i had to special order and everything i could use from a...

Ok fellas here it is starting tommorrow I'm going to do my engine swap from a 04 tahoe 5.3 into my 97 tahoe 4x4. hopefully I'll have plenty of pics to put up here by SAT or at least have it done ..

Ah now that i think about it i think it is my remote starter that caused it to wear out like that ,i know there has been a few times where i have tried to start the truck and it would take a while to crank up cause my fuel pump was giving me problems, and one or two occasions where it just...

Ok can anyone help tell me the difference between the 4l60E 4x4 and 4x2. I was under the assumption that the only difference was an adapter or something to be able to bolt up to the transfer case but other than that i was thinking they had the same gears and ratios in the two?? anyone know...

hey fellas just trying to see if anyone has any ides about a flexplate going out mine went out on me at 136K with the original starter still inside. i thought it was the starter at first but it looked good then i took a look at the flex plate and it was a mess, now i'm having to replace it...

got it well i went ahead and did it went back to old thermal switch i bought @ Kragen(oriely) for 60 bucks i saw the motor type with the 5 pins it but i needed that thing in a flash i took the tahoe out on a hiking trail with a f350 on 38 M/T' s diesel leading the way. It was my first...

??? dunno i was just browsing through the forums and saw this wandering if anyone knew any trails in socal san diego area

so cal whats up fellas

yep You see i was thinking the same thing but hoping you might not be . oh well i'll take a look further into that motor actuator for sure though..

5.3 that 5.3 conversion sounds pretty good as long as you got a lil time and a extra set of hands here and there you shoudl be ok plug and play I'm gonna have to do that when i get back