This 2003 Chevy Silverado is pretty rough. It’s also been jacked up figuratively and literally. It has a soft brake pedal, poor brakes, and pulls hard to the lef. We need to redo some DIY repairs and make this thing a little safer.
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Those front suspensions aren't great factory and don't have much travel but yeah most lifts make them worse.. The binding of the cv at full droop isn't necessarily that big of deal, unless he's taking the truck to Baja that condition won't be found during normal operation.
Don't ever ever mention the worst YT mechanic name ever it's like waking the beast! Thank you and more please
Doorman sells replacement slider pins with a large hex head for those gm calipers.
The original torx sliders are awful, here in Canada I refuse to reuse them unless absolutely necessary.
Didn’t read the other comments I’m just gonna throw this out there I’ve had an 02 suburban and an 02 avalanche both of them the rear inner brake shoe on the disc brakes in the back obviously exited rear they tend to wear out quicker because we’re going around corners the axle shaft does move in and out a bit which seems to be an issue I tried to fix the problem on my suburban and it made matters worse
That hydraulic flaring tool is pretty nifty. I have the Eastwood one with the big long lever, but it's not useful for if I need to flare under the vehicle.
And this is the second time you've educated me about brake rust and lubrication(Now with brake line fittings), and I should've been able to realize this myself. Need to actually go regrease some fairly new calipers I did and put it BEHIND the stainless clips…. Makes even more sense when you realize there's dissimilar metal corrosion there.
EDIT: Re: parking brake. You're right, I live in a rust belt state too, most people with automatics don't use parking brakes, and of course when I drive my manual cars, I want it to work (I don't like just leaving it in gear, or having to, or having to hold the brake if I want to sit and idle on a slope for whatever reason).
That said, in spite of how flat it is around here, sometimes there's a hill and I just don't like how the transmission park tab feels when you release the brakes on a slope as it bounces up and down. Thinking of verifying all my parking brakes work on the rest of my vehicles.
I am soooo happy the roads in Orlando are not salted.
I think the pick up truck considering the amount rust on the thing is long past a permanent stay in the scrap yard.
Dude you are a very good mechanic you would be a very good vocational instructor thanks for your time making a great videos keep it up
Lift kits. No.
Man, that was a painful video to watch, Wes. All that rust and corrosion, the DIY screwups, the jacked-up dislocation. God bless you for taking on jobs like this, a lot of shops would turn them away. Plus, in spite of the trucks’s condition, you maintain top standards. Respect for that!