Recent content by hmath10

My wife drove it to go shopping tonight and I had a P014 code. Looks like I will be pulling the camshaft position actutator solenoid tomorrow night and cleaning and/or replacing it.

I am thinking about making a hydraulic ball joint press. I have a 12”x 16”x 2.5” thick piece of 7075 aluminum left over from a prototype project at work. Thinking I might make a billet press c-frame and then put either a 5 or 10 ton x 10” stroke ram in it. I kind of enjoy making new tools...

Well I finally got it on the road. Daughter drove it to school this morning. This turned into a larger project than I expected! I lost track of the day by info but we I think have rebuilt most everything we have taken off. I have also made myself several new tools. I run a metal fabrication...

Yep.. 3.5L with variable cylinder management- not one of their best designs. The trailblazer has been kicking my butt the last week. Had enough for today but will update the rest of the story soon.

It’s a 40 x 60 pole building. Just gotten good at cramming a lot of stuff in. Just wish it taller sidewalls so I could put a lift in.

Day 1 - My younger son (G) and I rolled the mud truck project (95 Chevy 2500 with 12 inches of lift on 40’s getting a built 6.0 LS swap) out of the shop and rolled the Trailblazer in to start exctracting the knocking engine. Thankfully he is a great helper and at 14 can swing a wrench better...

Newer to the forum but been reading advice on here and the “other” forum for a little long time. Swapping engines in a 2003 Trailblazer EXT. Long story of how I got to this engine swap so here it goes.......... About 3 years ago our 2003 Envoy’s transmission went out after my son got water in...

I am at about the same point you are in the reinstallation process. I spent a while looking for where to reconnect that line too. Working on getting all the AC lines flushed and then putting the rest together.