I know of a few Canadians that for $150 will remove your glue streaks!

 

I was thinking that good go towards some 3m eraser wheels and such.

 

Just got the Russell braided steel brake line kit installed and bled... very good. Real nice pedal feel, stopping is definitely more linear to input.

Enjoying the Redhead steering box- I was going to keep my stocker and not return it for the core charge because I thought it was not that terrible to drive with. After a couple hundred miles the Redhead box feels SO MUCH better that I'd never consider putting the stocker back in.

My rear A/C was starting to blow warm (front was fine), so thanks to a quick search on FTE about the symptoms, I got a thermal expansion valve and had my buddy install it; back to arctic conditions on command!

Once again, thanks to the contributors of FTE!

 

Another call to pick up the Ex. Still no Excursion. But the shop said it was ready. The rear doors do not line up or latch correctly. The bumper is all crooked and was a pain to mount. The rear wheel molding is separation from the new body panels. This adds up to me and my brother that the frame is bent. I wonder what Allstate will say now. 30 day and counting of no Ex.

 

I have nothing to do to the Ex, she's running great. Says a lot for the 6.0 forum, bulletproof drive her hard and forget about it.

 

I just went through this with Allstate. They valued my 04 v10 185,000 mi @ $11,500 so they didnt have to total it. It went bak to the shop 5 times in 30 days before they got it right. Dont let up, and if you complain to Allstate they will take over care of you well. They did me anyway, the shop had to pay for my rental for the entire time. Downside is I had to drive a Tahoe. lol felt like a gokart

 

Rancho 9000s, and yes, I did try to warranty them, went through 4Wheel parts, they would only exchange them for what I have, would not exchange for the Bilsteins I wanted, even though the Ranchos were more $$$. The kicker was, they wanted the shocks sent to them and when the received them, then they would send me the replacements!!! Nice customer service. Had a brief conversation with the Rancho rep here and was basically told to return them for replacement, but by that time three of the four had failed, so I was ready to move on to a quality product.

 

Finished really scrubbing the leather seats, came out looking like new! Getting ready to drop it off next week for a couple replacement panels to be sewn into the seats. Hopefully will look much better. Also changed the armrest covers from side to side (now cracks in leather are on bottom!), Thanks to someone here on FTE for that sweet little trick! Wish I could remember who, so I could rep them!

 

My Ex sprouted some extra bits

 

Part number?

I had it saved (or so I thought) from another users post but I can't find it now.

Stewart

 

I have the part # for the 4" lift set, Russell P/N# 696490, not sure if Russell makes a set for stock height.

 

Thanks, Tom.

Bookmarked and saved.

Stewart

 

Driving to Memphis

 

My experience was the exact opposite. The adjusters froze up on my Rancho's and I called Summit (I bought them there) and they sent out new ones while I used the old ones, I boxed up the old ones and mailed them with their tracking label (no cost). All that said, I was happy they replaced them but in the near future I plan to try Bilsteins, I'm not happy with the mid speed damping. In case anyone didn't know, the **** only changes how the shock moves initially and that's for compression and rebound. Once the shock valve/piston moves, the damping is the same regardless of **** setting.

 

Last night (okay, not today) I finished the iPod integration install. The piece behind the radio was already done, I just had to run the iPod cable to the console.

I ran it under the carpet with the other console wiring, then ran it into the console via a 7/8" hole made in the console "liner". A 7/8" plug with slot and hole for the cable to come through finished the job. Now the iPod is completely out of sight.

One bit of perhaps worthless other install info. The piece that went behind the radio needed to be wrapped or secured. I found it fit into one of the foam can koozies they put in goody bags.