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any place that has the rims as well now or are they all taken up?

they're pretty **** heavy.... With brakes, wheels and tires you are looking at probably close to 300lbs. Jack can be solved by lifting from the front or rear landing legs, or the middle of the axle. You can put use cinder blocks to give the jack stands some extra lift, or if you have a buddy...

do it yourself? If you get everything ordered properly it should just bolt right in... A floor jack and 4 jack stands and you're golden.

ahh, sorry I thought that the Tahoes had 6 lug for some reason. Maybe that was the Expeditions... Not a bowtie guy, so don't keep track of them. If you're going to bother switching, then switch to what was done above. That being said, I can't imagine a ball being safer than the pintle...

Superbee, I'm trying to figure out the swap. I was thinking the Jeep 4.0 would be good, but I think I'm going to try to find a 7.3 IDI to swap into it which would certainly be unique.

Why are you not getting 6 luck hubs? The axle companies are able to put whatever hub you want on there and by going with the same bolt pattern as the tahoe you avoid having to carry an extra spare. To each his own. I would also keep the existing lunette on there and just get a pintle hook for...

glad everything is relatively alright. That would be cause for me to go straight to an electric fan... At least if one of those blades lets go it doesn't have quite the oomph that the 4bladers do.

they are all pretty much gone unfortunately, they were around a few years ago but all got gobbled up. You're stuck with making your own or paying up. They're going for closer to $1k now with the price of copper

yeah, definitely stick the gauge in there first because it may be something as simple as there is not good flow to the pump and freeing up the flow with that kit I linked you may help at least for the interim. Ok I guess the 8.3 doesn't have the vp44 which is a good thing. I think it's a P7100...

I could have humoured you, but where's the fun in that :-) I'm not too familiar with the 8.3 so not sure which injection pump is on there, but if it's a VP44 it is prone to doing that exact sort of thing on its way out. You want the gauge to be as close to the VP as possible, so tapped at...

sounds like an injection pump... Do you have a fuel pressure gauge? If not you need one.

good luck turning the driveshaft lol... if you have a buddy with you to turn the other front tire that should work too. I honestly doubt you'd be able to turn that driveshaft by hand. almost a 7x1 reduction in the gears combined with the weight of the wheel/tire/brake combo that'd never...

front shaft should always be turning due to locked hubs. You could also remove the rear drive shaft, lift the front end and engage first gear to test. Again, not the easiest thing, but shouldn't take too terribly long.

go to http://www.g741.org/PHPBB/ tons of thread about repowers. 4 cylinder diesels are common, the sixes won't fit without surgery, but most any smaller block v8 will fit and the smaller inline 6's will fit without major engineering. We have the advantage of a divorced transfer case so you can...

ahh, forgot those had CTIS, that's convenient. Manual says 25psi for sand/snow, and 12psi for emergency which is nifty Manual also indicates that the front axle should lock up automatically when shifted into low which you indicated, but I don't think there is really any way to know 100% that...

Not having one of these trucks, but being familiar with sand, the key is to keep your tires aired as low as possible to maximize flotation and minimize ground pressure. This is obviously a colossal pain in a truck that big, but with narrow tires and a lot of weight, you may have trouble in loose...

have you done a compression check? Could be low compression and needs the extra kick to get it running.

if your output voltage is >24v the wattage output won't matter just means they'll trickle really slowly. Assuming the batteries hold a good charge on their own, 1.5w should be enough to keep them topped off. If you don't have a master disconnect that may be a good addition as well

timing is pretty simple. Just youtube a couple of videos. If you have an induction timing gun it makes it a bit easier since it just clips over the #1 wire, then just aim at the harmonic balancer/crank pulley. You should see a welded tab that comes off the block and you'll see a mark on the...

agreed on timing. Sounds like you're too far advanced. Your distributor may have slipped or skipped a tooth in the timing chain and caused some detonation problems which can wreak havoc on the valves. I'd put a timing light on it and check the advance. Should be in the 14*btdc range, +- 2*. If...