What did you do to your non-G body project today? [2022]

[bruisedbanana79]

Started the sound deadening on my 06 duramax.


Laid down some 80mil sound deadener and topped it with 157mil closed cell foam.

In progress photo


Removed the headliner before dinner and did the same process on the roof. Pressure washed the carpet and will let dry till tomorrow evening followed by a deep shampoo on the seats. Tomorrow will include a new fabric for the headliner.

I hope all of this work in the heat will pay off

 

[CopperNick]

Nice work. Whose brand name did you use? Asking because the writing on the sections is mostly deformed by the material being shaped to fit into the various crevices and pockets and consequently becoming hard to read.



Nick

 

[bruisedbanana79]

Nice work. Whose brand name did you use? Asking because the writing on the sections is mostly deformed by the material being shaped to fit into the various crevices and pockets and consequently becoming hard to read.



Nick

It’s Siless for both the deadener and foam. Had decent reviews and didn’t cost a ton of money. The deadener is pretty trick, it has small little “pillows” in the foil and when you roll it properly they flatten out. I used a nice coin edge metal roller, it sure beat the wood roller I used on the el Camino.

 

[Ugly1]

Well I'd like to have it back just a little bit of slack LoL no wonder Duramax wire harnesses have chafing problems there stretched over under and threw the engine compartment.

Chaffing?

 

[Built6spdMCSS]

For me, the only qualifiers of importance as they relate to a truck, any truck, is that it have a truck box that can accept a 4x8 sheet of plywood or wall board, that i can get into it without having to have a crane, or elevator, or some kind of rising/falling side rail, added to it as an accessory, and that it get mpg in the 20 miles/gallon department. Filling a truck tank right now is a 200 dollar per fill bite in the wallet and diesel is no longer cheaper. This is a forum and board that embraces all aspects of both the best and worst of the G-Body genre, but, at the same time, iis also broad minded enough to allow thought and comment on a wide range of automotive and not so automotive subjects. I'd hate to see Non G-body threads become anathema; declared politically taboo and cast out of heaven as untouchable.

This is a forum, and which you would think you would have people coming in understanding of aspects of vehicles and doing work in real life applications.

I have no problem standing behind the truck I have because it has done everything I've needed it to do for what I use it for and I don't have the small pp issues others have. I was unaware of the competition that others have in their minds so if someone can come in and tell me where I need to step up to their "standard".. well I have the money so tell me. I live frugal but can strut the bank.

I bought this truck in May of 2011 after a tornado wiped out the truck I had at the time so since it happened on an Air Force Base they helped.

2001 GMC Sierra 2500HD 6.0l, I put a Cam in it and a few other mods. Gas burner, after my tuning gets like 11.5mpg, that's what they do. It out pulls my buddy's 12v Cummins so there's that. 12v is old stuff. If I needed a diesel truck I'd have one.

 

[Ugly1]

YUP. Some bean counter in audit did a cost/benefit analysis that concluded that all those unused millimeters could be added together to create another cable and save some money; more product from the same amount of raw materials. As for the notion of raising the price a penny or two to compensate, those pennies would not have shown on the spread sheet as profit, they would have been an expense and decreased the msrp out the door to the vendor; all of which means less profit per unit and less money to stuff into the pockets of the stockholders. Ain't life wunnerful??



Nick

Just had that happen at my job. Told plant manager what ever they say will work, get it bigger and heavier duty. Bean counters want to save money. After constant weekly failures for a year. Then the machine had a catastrophic failure it took the plant down for almost two weeks. Almost $2 million dollar machine and lost almost $1million in time and production because we could save $100,000.
But I’m just a dumb button pusher what do I know.

 

[Built6spdMCSS]

Just had that happen at my job. Told plant manager what ever they say will work, get it bigger and heavier duty. Bean counters want to save money. After constant weekly failures for a year. Then the machine had a catastrophic failure it took the plant down for almost two weeks. Almost $2 million dollar machine and lost almost $1million in time and production because we could save $100,000.
But I’m just a dumb button pusher what do I know.

I worked at a job where I was the manufacturing engineer and popped in my advice on what I saw literally on the ground to managment of what should happen. That company is now out of business. Bean counters who have no idea did it.

 

[Clone TIE Pilot]

Replaced the electrical switchs for the pool light and the booster pump for the vacuum pool cleaner today. Both swiitches are in the same switch box. Opened it up and found lots on ants. Had to spray them first before getting to work. Installed the big green 30 amp switches to replace the old ones as the booster pump pulls a lot of amps.

 

[joesregalproject]

This is a forum, and which you would think you would have people coming in understanding of aspects of vehicles and doing work in real life applications.

I have no problem standing behind the truck I have because it has done everything I've needed it to do for what I use it for and I don't have the small pp issues others have. I was unaware of the competition that others have in their minds so if someone can come in and tell me where I need to step up to their "standard".. well I have the money so tell me. I live frugal but can strut the bank.

I bought this truck in May of 2011 after a tornado wiped out the truck I had at the time so since it happened on an Air Force Base they helped.

2001 GMC Sierra 2500HD 6.0l, I put a Cam in it and a few other mods. Gas burner, after my tuning gets like 11.5mpg, that's what they do. It out pulls my buddy's 12v Cummins so there's that. 12v is old stuff. If I needed a diesel truck I'd have one.

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FWIW I like the GMT800s.

 

[Clutch]

Started the sound deadening on my 06 duramax.

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Laid down some 80mil sound deadener and topped it with 157mil closed cell foam.

In progress photo
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Removed the headliner before dinner and did the same process on the roof. Pressure washed the carpet and will let dry till tomorrow evening followed by a deep shampoo on the seats. Tomorrow will include a new fabric for the headliner.

I hope all of this work in the heat will pay off

Lbz?