🔧 BUILD CMNT's thing is bigger than yours v. cubic inch displacement

[CMNTMXR57]

If you take apart your cluster, look at the backing on the overlay. It may be blue to begin with. With the kelvin rating of the stock bulbs, and that blue translucent backing, it was the normal white. With these cubes, they had a higher kelvin rating, to that combined with the blue backing, it will become blue'ish.

 

[CMNTMXR57]

Here, for example is what I am talking about. This is the backside of the cluster, that blue on the speedo and tach are what I mean by the blue translucent backing.

 

[CMNTMXR57]

So yesterday, I finished the truck side of the plow setup (I had to wire in the electrics). Mounted the plow, hooked the electric up, grabbed my controller and happily lifted the plow.

Go to the front of the truck, only to find this...

What you're looking at, is that bottom little skid plate for the angling rams (one on each side), is about an inch from the ground. I lost my shit!!! The whole point of getting a 3/4 ton truck was to better support the weight of the plow. The old 'Burb, with it's torsion bars also turned up, I would have about 5" of clearance.

Just slowly going down the alley and around the block at no more than 20 mph, it of course scraped several times.... Grrr...

So last night I ordered buyers bump stops for the front. They're the same as the Timbren's at half the price. Hopefully those should be here by this weekend to install.

However, in the interim, I went on a plow site. Asked this question for other GMT800 owners. and one posted about a pivot plate on the plow itself that needs to be reconfigured... Well, motherfucker, I compare the illustrations in the manual for the pivot plate, to a pic I had of the plow where I could see the pivot plate, sure as shit, it's in configuration 3/4 for taller trucks... I need to flip the plates around and use configuration 1.

 

[Bob Kazamakis]

well shit.

 

[CMNTMXR57]

My pivot plates (yellow circles)

I need to flip them over (moving them from side to side appropriately...

Funny thing is, that manual I'm looking at, calls for a "stacking stop" be mounted to the A-frame for config 3/4 to keep the plow itself from smacking the lift bar when stacking snow high. I've never had an issue and I've had that thing scaling piled up mountains of snow...

 

[Gav'sPurpleZ]

so where do you usually plow ?

 

[CMNTMXR57]

My court in Elgin and the driveway/alley at the WeGo house. Then S-I-L's driveway and sometimes my M-I-L's.

 

[CMNTMXR57]

Mother of gawd, these bolts are rusted... Heat, the impact gun, still couldn't bust them loose. I finally ended up snapping 3 of the 4 rear carriage bolts with a 4ft breaker bar. The 4th is just spinning, meaning I rounded the carriage head on the bolt or rounded the hole in the plate (or both). So that fucker is gonna have to be cut/split now.

To get to the forward pivot plate bolts, I gotta take off the stand-feet, which I gaurantee will also be a bolt breaking bonanza.

 

[Outlaw]

Sorry I’ve been missing this thread!

1) Congrats on the truck. Very jealous.

2) Any more plow questions, especially UltraMount shit just tag me lol.

 

[CMNTMXR57]

Will do, I couldn't remember who here it was that had experience with them.

 

[Yaj Yak]

fuck this

don't hurt your minty yukon with this silliness and sell the plow and buy a decent snowblower for the 2-3 driveways you do 1-3 times per year since it never snows here anymore

 

[CMNTMXR57]

I have snow blowers covered. They'd do the job, but I'd be out there for an hour at the one house chopping up what the city dumps in the driveway as he turns on the T of the alley.

3 swipes in the the truck and I'm done.

 

[Outlaw]

Fluid film the whole truck and concentrate on the front frame area and you’ll be fine. Plowing without having a salter in back is really no worse than just driving something in the winter IMO.

8 seasons of casual plowing and there wasn’t any crazy rust on my old truck.

 

[Yaj Yak]

Fluid film the whole truck and concentrate on the front frame area and you’ll be fine. Plowing without having a salter in back is really no worse than just driving something in the winter IMO.

8 seasons of casual plowing and there wasn’t any crazy rust on my old truck.

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I never mentioned rust.

That truck has twice the payload capacity and torque of the considered truck. Plowing is the hardest thing you can do to a vehicle... You know it too lol

 

[Yaj Yak]

Inb4transandfrontendwork

 

[Outlaw]

Meh, we have 15+ seasons on some of the GMT800 2500HD’s. They plow and salt all winter and do concrete work all summer. Most of them being put out to pasture are due to rust and are still running strong. Been buying high mile ones out of Texas and swapping the truck side stuff over.

That’s a pro plow, they’re not super heavy. The unimount I had on my tahoe weighed as much as that. That truck is more than capable. Only thing he may experience with the trans is the reverse solenoid pin wearing down, and that’s a 3 hour tops $30 fix. And that’ll come after years of abuse.

 

[Outlaw]

Plowing is hard on a truck, a lot of it comes down to the driver. If he goes and does his route and takes the plow off next day it’ll be fine. I would always put my plow on the night before a storm and usually take it off a day or two after just because of touch ups if needed.

 

[Outlaw]

Also... whatcha doing with your ‘99 ‘Burb??

 

[Yaj Yak]

Meh, we have 15+ seasons on some of the GMT800 2500HD’s. They plow and salt all winter and do concrete work all summer. Most of them being put out to pasture are due to rust and are still running strong. Been buying high mile ones out of Texas and swapping the truck side stuff over.

That’s a pro plow, they’re not super heavy. The unimount I had on my tahoe weighed as much as that. That truck is more than capable. Only thing he may experience with the trans is the reverse solenoid pin wearing down, and that’s a 3 hour tops $30 fix. And that’ll come after years of abuse.

I doubt you guys are plowing with 496 4L80 combos lol

 

[Outlaw]

I doubt you guys are plowing with 496 4L80 combos lol

There’s one. Rest are 6.0 80e’s

 

[Yaj Yak]

There’s one. Rest are 6.0 80e’s

That's random, you guys are plowing with a burb or Yukon?


Still though. I really don't see the point of putting this truck through this plow shit for 1-3 driveways 1-3 times a year
Legit makes no sense to me logically but hey. That's why there's chocolate and vanilla.

 

[Outlaw]

No they’re pickup trucks. But a 3/4 ton burb’s front suspension is no different than a 3/4 ton pickup. They’re all reg cab 8’ bed 2500’s, about half and half are HD’s.

 

[Yaj Yak]

No they’re pickup trucks. But a 3/4 ton burb’s front suspension is no different than a 3/4 ton pickup. They’re all reg cab 8’ bed 2500’s, about half and half are HD’s.

Sounds like it has an Allison then.

 

[Outlaw]

I had an 8’ unimount on my Tahoe, truck was awesome, just had to put sand bags in the back because of the weight with such a short wheelbase.

Between the plow itself, the 70# conversion bracket to the Ultramount truck side (way cleaner mounts) it was heavy up front but it did OK

You can barely see the mounts in the pic

 

[Outlaw]

Sounds like it has an Allison then.

The one pickup im not sure. It’s a pre cat eye Chevy (2000-2002) so I can’t remember if they got the Allison’s in them yet. the rest are 80e’s.