Suicidedoors.com gets several calls a week about how hard it is to assemble a super pivot joint. I agree, its a little tough. You want the pivot ball to be tight, not a sloppy loosy loose one. Here's how you can put them together with typical tools, we used to put them together like this but now we have a neat pneumatic ram to compress the bushings.
Back in the late 1970s when everyone was worried about the "gas crunch," Chevy needed some smaller engines in a hurry, so it created a new family of junior-sized V6s by chopping two cylinders off its existing V8s. This enabled GM to shorten the development process dramatically because it was able to adapt a proven design.
Well here is a step by step walk through on how to clean out your valves and make them work good as new. In this article we are working on a SMC brand valve but the steps taken are silmilar for all diaphram style valves on the market.
As you know most people always need some kind of new Xtreme GFX part for their truck whether they dragged there’s off or just want to put the Xtreme kit on their regular S10. A list of part numbers has been complied throughout the years and is being made available to you!
CHART IS FOR S10S/SONOMAS BLAZERS 2WD ONLY HERE
This article will address the installation of one of the easiest door popper kits on the market: the AVS #SDK11. The unit is 100% bolt-on for 94+ S-series trucks and 95+ S-series SUVs. Once the solenoid is mounted, most of the wiring is plug and play, with just the neccessary contacts such as power/ground needing to be spliced into the truck.
This is an explanation of how to tilt your bed with air including pictures.
I recently had a few requests asking how I did this mod. It’s pretty simple if you have some decent type of fabrication skills and patience for measuring. Materials include: 2500 bag or equivalent, air management (valves, line, fittings, etc), steel for fab, and hardware. You can change what I’ve done here to fit your needs, but this seems to work fine for what I’m trying to do. If you have any specific questions, don’t hesitate to pm/email me. I’m sure I’ll forget a few things.
Power compression is a topic that is rarely discussed, but always important. When you hear someone call various theile/small parameters a “small signal parameter”, the implication is that with larger signals (more power), there will be a shift or change in these theile/small parameters. This is what we call power compression, and occurs in 3 potential ways.
It's been a while since I've put anything meaningful together, so it's time for another fun technical article!
Excursion is a large contributor to high output in any driver on the market. Typically, larger excursion (seen visually as how far the cone moves in and out) means more sonic output. However, with excursion come challenges.
First off, all of this information is based off of a 2002 Blazer Xtreme with 56,xxx miles. I have had problems with the outside edge of my tires feathering, and shaking on the freeway despite being in alignment. I am replacing the stock Idler arm with Moog K6187T $37.05 at O’Reillys.
