i have a 98 tahoe 2 door sport. thinking about getting a 6" suspension lift for it and adding 35" wheels. your car looks sweet. any tips for me on what specifics kits i shold look at and tires????
your gonna want to get a solid axle swap in the front, which means the original wheels gotta go, also a rear locker, and 2.5 inch suspension lift isn't going to get you anywhere easily on 33 inch tires. the body lift is only necessary if you plan on moving all your undercarriage components higher and adding shielding to the bottom, otherwise don't bother with the body lift its useless. Hopefully your car is 4 wheel drive already, I'm not trying to be insulting I'm just making sure.
I've got a 97 Suburban (I know you're already thinking "Oh God", but bear with me) and I really wanted to make it an actual off-road vehicle, something I can go almost everywhere with, but still be used as a daily driver. I'm going for a 2.5" suspension lift and then a 1" body lift, along with some 33" tires and keeping the original wheels. Not to mention the front and rear end replacement. Any suggestions?
@Green95Hoe That's always fun... i haven't owned my jeep long enough to mud it yet... 3' of snow in all the trails. I do look forward to heading down to the local mud playgrounds and watching the stock pickups get stuck. The guys that think because they're ranger has the off road package it can drive through knee deep black mud... of course i watched them last summer too... only difference was i was going through the small holes in a cavalier lol.
@Green95Hoe Alright, sounds like a nice setup. I've got a grand cherokee, nowhere near as nice as this thing but at the moment it does the job. I've just got a Spartan Lunchbox locker in the stock rear Dana 35 and the open stock Dana 30 in the front. Not exactly the toughest setup in the world. Very nice Tahoe man, i was looking into them when i bought my Grand.. if i had seen yours i might have looked more into them lol.
where did you get the bar for the fog lights on top? I am thinking about getting a tahoe for my daily driver and want a stock tahoe with bigger tires, a cab visor and stock grille, fog lights, and even possibly remove the running boards. I need something reasonable as I drive a chevy k10 with a 350 bored .30 with a heavy cam and forged flat tops, lol.
i own a 78 bronco i wish i taped all the fun i have ahd with her...Ripnmy door off wasnt fun, but i need 2 start tapen my stuff, so when my truck sits n the yard my kids will kno what she did :).. nice truck tho glad to see you usen it..stick shift is the way 2 go....auto is for pussys
I have a 96 tahoe that i am trying to lift 4 to 6 inches. awesome video i have a few of some easy stuff just messing around with shitty road tires they are under tunatickler and i lost the password and dont have that email address anymore so...
i just finished a sas on my 93gmc it has 10inches of lift and 37inch goodyear mtrs and i want an nv4500 for it what year truck did u get ur trans from and did u have to do any thing to the computer to make it work right
No Way you pulled a semi out with a 350. That is quite amazing. But that just goes to show how amazing Chevy is. I don't think anyone sees the potential of these old Hoes, i wouldn't trade mine for a rock crawler any day.
Dude! thats badass, i love my 99 LT but it makes a very bad noise when its in 4wheel drive, i cant figure out whats wrong with it tho, and iv taken it to 4 mechanics and none of them know either :(
Just finished putting a 4" lift on my jeep... now i need tires, more money.. damn. lol. Endless expenses when it comes to off road, but it's worth it :)
Dude, great Tahoe!! Sorry, can you help? After repair of engine - on the small rpm under load - shouting off(( Compression is good, light is good, fuel is good(( whats the problem? Sorry for my bad English...((
Hey i have a 97 tahoe as well im wondering where did you get that lund visor...the visor above the windwshield im looking for one and cant find one.! please respond with a link
Sure did. Its a fairly common problem with them as they age. The original units were of a thermal design that would fail to expand enough to engage the gear. Newer units are of a screw drive type. I think the old thermal style is still available, but you are better off spending the extra couple bucks for the screw type. It engages almost instantly and eliminates the lag that you are probably used to now.
Its all in what you build man, your Jeep could be far more capable that my beast not to mention it will fit in alot more places. Mine started as a beach rig and went from there. It actually looks alot different today than in this video. Most of the stuff have been cleaned off and color matched. Its just a clean lifted truck now but every once in a while I get the itch to run down to the local mud hole and show up the kids that think their stock pickups are "Mud Trucks"
It is not in the video. Thats just a clip I snuck in from another truck. I am however almost complete with the conversion though. As for why I did it? Well I like to be different. As for whats better? Its a matter of preference and what I use the truck for. Its not my daily driver and I feel I have more control, the grany gear will be amazing when trying to move the boat. I put 4 built autos in my truck before deciding to change over. Its really about being different though
Thanks. If your hearing a noise only in 4wd then it has to be either the transfer case, front driveshaft or front differential. If the U-joints are ok on the shaft than you can rule that out. Also check the CV axles for play. They can make noise when turning. If its a hum then id dig into the front diff. You should be able to single out wether the sound is coming from the front of the truck or under your feet.
There were 4 different sets of tires on that truck througout the video. As the truck got higher, the tires got bigger. First set was 36" Mickey Thompson Baja Belted, second set was 37" Super Swamper SSR Radials, then went back to Mickey Thompson 37" Claws and currently have 38.5x15.5x18 Mickey Thompson MTZ. The best offroad tires I had were the Claws and the best street tires ive had are the MTZ's
The black one was I think a Westin perhaps? I bought it at Pep Boys back in the early 2000's. Then around 2005, I changed to a stainless job that found for cheap on fleebay. It didnt have a brand name but it was real stainless and still looks the same after all these years. The black one started rusting within the first year that I had it.
gotta start somewhere. I recall back in high school, my buddy had a Chevette and he would try to take it in the woods with us. We ultimately would hook chains and drag it through the bog with the trucks spinnin tire just to cover the car in mud and then he would drive it to school and park it next to our muddy trucks. Ahhh the good ol days.
I just used a wire wheel bit on a handheld grinding wheel and went over the whole thing. After that I brushed on a couple coats of Rust-o-leum Black Hammer finish paint that I bought at wal-mart. I liked the color and look of the hammer finish that I did the entire truck frame a suspension a year later.
Awesome. Thats gonna look nice. The semifloater should go right in. You will need to get the lower shackles from the dealer though as the 14 bolt has a larger diameter axle tube. Also the U-joint you will need is Precision/Napa 447. Save the e-brake cables from the 10 bolt too. The 14 bolt cables surely wont adapt to a Tahoe.
I went with the semi floater to cut back on weight. As for the front, she is regeared to 4.88 but in the stock case. The roof rack was purchased long ago and I actually took it off nearly 6 years ago. There was a local speed shop in town thats long since gone. Its made by Carr though so im sure a google search will find it.
Glad your happy. Mine have been on my truck for almost 8 years now. I didnt make it to the show last year but if your talking about Falmouth I was there last year. I took the truck off the road for the winter so I could swap a manual transmission into it among some other upgades. Hopefully ill be there this year.
Probably round out around 1200 when its complete. I got a deal on a used NV4500 though that was already in a chevy so the bellhousing and t-case coupler were included. All in all a rebuild on the auto would have still cost more. Considering ive put 4 autos in this truck, doing this the first time around would have been a much better idea.
The stick is in a Ford. The dash is completely different... BUT........ as of today I am actually past the half way point of completing the conversion in my Tahoe with an NV4500 5 speed. Ill post video once its complete. Should be one of the only Tahoes in the country to have it since GM never did this to a four door body style.
Mine is up 12" from stock but ive modified both my suspension and body lifts to get it that high. The best lift for OBS Chevy IMO is the Dick Cepek. Its a 6.5" and its quite beefy compared to others. I had a Pro Comp and a Trailmaster suspension in my truck and hated them both. If you look up Dick Cepek online you will see that the majority of OBS owners prefer it.
Actually No, thats my work truck that I stuck in there. I didnt realize everyone would think I did the conversion... Although..... I am in the process of collecting all the necessary items to do the NV4500 conversion. Should be completed in the spring. Cant really work on the truck in the winter. Doesnt fit in the garage. lol
Thanks man, there aint nothin wrong with a 4" lift. There are many many times when I wish mine was less drastic and sporting a smaller lift. The bigger you go, the more you have to upgrade everything else. It gets to be a real money pit after a while. Especially when you abuse it like I did.
Mine came out of a 93 but there are 2 different versions of the NV4500 so you will need to research the transmissions specs before you choose. As for the ECM, I sent the chip to TBIChips.com and had them reflash it for the manual. This will be necessary after the swap.
I would recommend it. Check ebay for some good affordable upgrades. I would step up to a new one before the old one fails. That way you can keep the old one as a spare. Nothing worse than having an alternator crap out and not be able to find a replacement right away.
Not really that much actually. I got my clutch pedal in and have pretty much every part I will need to complete the swap. Unfortunately the weather hasnt been co-operating enough to crawl under and start pulling the old auto out. But you can bet the first warm day im under that pig with a wrench.
Um, No! You are incorrect. Read my post above. It just looks like there are no lights because I have clear lenses on them. How do I know for sure you ask? Because Ive sold over two thousand sets of those clear lenses on ebay for said moonvisors since I started making them.
Thanks. That was def a challenge. Im pretty sure it wouldnt have happened if I didnt have a locker in the back. Whats even more impressive is that the transfer case popped out of 4low and into 2low. When the camera goes back the second time you can see me pulling him out with only the rear tires.
It was back in 98 or so. I think I just went to my local auto zone. Today its far easier to find them. Start with Ebay. They should be all over the place. If you find one, I also make clear lenses and sell those on ebay as well.
Never needed the beaded setup actually. I think maybe once in a decade did the tire ever come off and that was because I rolled it off while on the beach. Also I was aired down to about 3PSI at the time. Never had an issue again after that
That kit was something I built from scratch off instructions from a website. It was nearly 10 years ago that I did it and probably 8 years since I removed the kit due to constant problems. Im sure if you google it you can find some info.
Thanks. Today she is running Hooker Long Tubes with true dual 2-1/2" pipe. There is a 12" resonator on each side and a single chamber stainless steel muffler with 4" tips out the back. There were other configurations throughout the video.
Easy. but whats easy for me can be very difficult for someone else. I did the swap for less money than it would have cost to replace the auto tranny, but again this was because I had access to hard to find parts for cheap.
Thanks. Yeah I prefer the old body style of the new anyday. Im currently running 39x15.5x18 Mickey Thompson MTZ's but I only had 36" Mickey Thompson Claws in most of the clips in this video. The total lift height is 12"
I run the Baja Claws in the winter. They are my favorite tires out of all the ones ive run. Not only do they sound awesome on the road, but they just plow through the mud. They also do pretty good on the beach when aired down.
Eaton Electric Locker in the Rear of the 14 Bolt. Front is stock open diff. gearing is 4.88. Someday when ive got the time I might go SFA since the IFS up front is the only weak link left in this thing.
Nice Tahoe. My familys got 2 of them(1997 and 2004) i still like the 1997 one so much better. Its got over 150k and its still going. What size and kind of tires do you have? What size lift?
Do it up man. Thanks for the comment. Ive always wanted an old K5. Non-emission carbed 350, solid axle and removable top. The perfect simple and highly modify-able wheelin truck. Cheers
Thats what you want. My additional height is achieved through custom fab and a modified body lift. If you want to find a bolt on kit that huge look into Fullthrottle or Cognito lifts.
The lightbar is manufactured by Carr Industries. They are pretty universal. The mounting brackets are vehicle specific. That bar has been on my truck over a decade now.
The manual truck in the video is not the Tahoe, however the Tahoe has been converted to a manual NV4500. I have another video uploaded of that going through a couple gears.
Its made by Carr. I forget where I got it because it was so long ago but I think I bought one for a pickup since the rooflines are the same above the door on the SUV's
Thanks. That light bar is made by Carr and it has 5 KC Daylighters in it now. I should be posting up a new video clip soon as I just completed a 5 speed conversion.
I dont think it will be that expensive. If I score a donor truck then I have basically all the parts I need. Aside from some new gaskets and fluid and such.
