DSM_guy

your truck wont look bad with 31's and just a 3" lift. although..if you pair that with 3" or so of sus lift..they start to look wimpy. i need bigger tires now

dont forget the tiny ass pills 1/100,000th the size of your fuel capacity thats supposed to give you drastically better fuel milage. those combined with moth balls (mom and pop brand) are good for about 10-20 ponies depending on what size hair dryer you strap to your intake!

bwahahahah OMFG you have GOT to go back tomorrow with it at least twice as bad. but i wouldent push it more than that..but just have a bit of fun with them at that point. 2 day guarentee on a wash to a pathy owner..thats like giving a fat kid a free pass to the buffet if in the next 2 days he becomes hungry!

eh, thats alot of re-aranging to do on an already stressed stock wiring system plus, the corner lights probably dont have relays for it (neither do the headlights) so i wouldent go that route trying to use that wire for fogs. my suggestion to you is just to wire everything up right and add relays for your second pair of fog/driving (whatever) lights. you can rewire your existing fogs to come on and stay on on both hi beam and low beam by using your running lights as a TRIGGER for the relay..but not as a power source. then you could clip your turn signals and connect them for the corner lights. then you could wire in your other set of lights..using your other corner light (previously) as a trigger for that relay as well. hah sounds confusing so.. youd have one relay that controls your OEM fogs. just disconnect the stock trigger wire which is neatly crimped onto the stock headlight harness (on the passenger side for me) right up there by the bulb (neat huh?). get rid of all that crap as it only allows power at low beam. you already wanna clip your corner running light. take that back and crimp on a female spade..plug that in. then your fogs will work in the "parking light" setting, low beam, and high beam. your fogs will then still be controled by the factory switch. for your driving lights. same thing, except this time you have to wire up your own relay completley. again, use the other corner light wire that you clipped as your trigger, wire in a switch..or you can have them come on every time you switch on your "parking lights", hi's, or lows. if you want to be able to turn these off, just run a section of the trigger wire into the cab and run it through a switch then back out to the relay.

bah..who cares if ya need em. if you have the time, materials, and know how..DO IT! DO IT DO IT!

GO FOR IT MAN!!1!! it will add like...eleventy-billion horsepower!!1!!1! but seriously, no, it wont work

yeah...and somehow midas thought she needed an entire cat back eh? what a rip.

i vote QX

didnt this already happen? the whole picking up and leaving thing? i dont see how anyone has been pissy. all anyone has done is ask you to search or be reasonable. i thought it was obvious..but here is a solution. if you dont want people to tell you to search repeatedly, or get mad...THEN SEARCH. its not that hard. and dont make me page the waaaaaaaaaaaambulance

i really like oxygensensors.com. they are cheap, well made, and reliable. but to answer your question...yeah. "you got hosed tommy, you got hosed..."

changing your driving habbits will help more with fuel economy than you know. i dont jump off the line at a light, i accelerate at a steady pace..and when i can manage it i tend to knock down my speed by about 5mph on teh highway glad you decided to keep her!

for just an every day car they are ok...and if its for a beater pathy..im sure it would be perfect. one of those deals tho...it all in who does it. one macco can do great, another one horribly. its all in the prep work and knowledge of the painter. you could ask for some references in your area to see THEIR work. i also hear they are not reccomended for color changes..so shooting the same (or similar) colors would be best. my uncle had a beater truck painted a few years ago. it looked pretty good but it did have runs and imperfections..not to mention a good deal of orange peel.

eh? :contract:

i always thought you were native russian..is this not the case? *sorry to hijack* truck looks awesome!

WING IT!

like i said above man..your REALLLY putting too much thought into all this. lord, iv experimented with so many diff products and sure your gonna not like things here and there, you just try something diff. its only a vehicle dude..dont worry so much about everything being "perfect" or "screwing something up". the bumper you choose or the lights you buy isnt gonna make or break your ride. its only a truck bro, you act as tho its your life. just lighten up and have a good time, cuz thats what were here for. a nice lookin rig is great...but id take my 245k beater with dents and all over any car on the road today. its sure not perfect, and thats why i like it. think about it..the greatest stories and memories are ALWAYS when things arent perfect. its when things go nuts and your driving some old POS car or this or that dosent happen exactly as planned that ALWAYS gets discussed time and time again. perfect is boring and overrated.. you have a 14 year old car..take it for what it is and live it up. and you KNOW the pictures made you smile as well as stop and think!

im sorry but this just presented the PERFECT opportunity sorry dude but you really need to grow some thicker skin if your gonna ask for opinions on the internet. sorry you dont like the answers given, but people here DO know their stuff and have for a while..they arent saying it to be mean. we all had our first cars and our attachments to them...but there comes a point where you have to be rational. but then again..what do us "old farts" know about anything? :X

there is a rather extensive thread on N4W in the "how to" section

ditto. they either got bent because the motor was off time by quite a few teeth, or you got alot of slack in the t-belt. or something rather large could have made its way into the chamber (or mechanical failure in the valve train) and possibly stuck a valve open and it got smacked with a piston. they dont just "bend" so easily

3 words public-address-speaker nothing says get the hell outta my way like 150db of "get the hell outta the way!" lol but seriously, maybe get a dual horn from an older car (my buick one is loud as piss). these are usually in 2 diff tones. i cant comment on the lil self-contained air horns cuz iv never heard those. i have had people tell me they sound rather corny in comparison to one thats run by a large compressor (like a big rig). if you wanted to install a large compressor, id vote train horn. a buddy of mine had one on his big rig and he could rattle the windows rollin down main.

wait, how does a 97 need a complete new muffler from the cat back? if its the muffler...then just the muffler needs replacing. its rare to need your ENTIRE cat back (which consists of piping and a muffler and a tail pipe all the way back which is about 3/4 of your exhaust system) replaced. i dont buy it..your girl is getting taken for a ride. if the muffler needs replacing..so be it. she can go to autozone, get a generic muffler and have an independent shop cut off and weld on a new one. thats crap. i spent a grand total of $70 to get a muffler, have the old one cut off and new one welded..and a new tail pipe section bent over the axle per oem specs. only reason i wanted a new rear section cuz the tip of my exhaust was lookin kinda chewed up. go somewehre else...you could get a COMPLETE new system with hi-performance parts and bigger pipeing for less than what they want. i have all the rest of my original pipe on my 91, so unless you have horrible salt...their feeding you a line. have her take a guy friend or...any guy..even a teacher or preacher or SOMEONE who is a responsible MALE..and that BS will stop right there. and even if she chooses to get a midas muffler put on...thers no effin way id pay more than $100 labor included. thats ludicrous

lights search yes, 4 pages..you have to weed through a bit, but in those 4 pages there are exactly 40 threads that deal with some sort of aux light. not only are brands covered, but mounting, wiring, etc were all netted. this took me a grand total of 25 sec to find lifts 3 pages of nothing but lift related material. everything from how, when, where, price. body and sus, problems, tricks, how-to's, brands, pros/cons. even includes additional info on lifting/modifying bumpers, exhaust, etc. took another 20 sec grill guards brush guard rust and thats just a handfull of questions youve asked. it took me a grand total of 5 minutes to find everything in its entirety. there is no way you have read all that for "months" and still come asking the questions you do. at least ONE thread in every search i have performed has either compared this to that..given a review, a trick a tip, an idea. and 95% of these searches yeild multiple threads where this has all been answered repeatedly.

ahahahahahahah....bwahahahah! vsicks i think you and i finally come together on something *cue shocking music* seriously, nobody here is trying to be mean. dont you think everyone wants the best they can do? i mean, if you have TRULY done as much research as you say...youd have answered all these questions yourself through searching. the ENTIRE reason we have a search is so you can go back and read what answers we have given others who ask your exact questions. we gave them the exact same answers as we would give you. its fantastic that you want to make your truck as great as possible..but ease up a bit. i mean..your putting WAAAAAY too much thought into this. its just a truck. everyone has their own tastes, and there is a full gamut here all the way from all optioned LE with heated leather seats....to bare bones SAS rock crawlers. find your nitche, search around, and grab some ideas and tweak them to make your own. its YOUR truck. if you want our opinions...wanna know the best way to go about them? look at our rigs. each person does to their own truck what they can or what they feel is best. look through pix, develop your own taste..dont rely on others to pick your tastes for you. then youll end up with a truck that is everyone elses dreams..not your own. lights are lights, lifts are lifts, flooring is flooring..choose what best suits YOUR needs, YOUR tastes, and YOUR budget. i think we have all tried to be as nice as possible but your kinda startin to push alot of peoples buttons. youd be surprised what you can learn when you just sit back, watch what others are doing/have done, as well as research when you dont have your mouth open asking...really.

dont trust that. i had THE EXACT same thing happen. i wasnt so sure it was my starter so i removed, threw it in the back of my roomates truck and we went a few blocks to vatozone and got it checked. hooked it up and everything worked fine. put it back in the truck...dead again. all that jostling around in the truck accomplished teh same thing as a hammer would on the way. if your havin to tap it..its going, just replace it.

that oil pressure sender is just for the idiot light on the dash. i accidently snapped off the lil spade connection and drove it for a few hundred miles with no effects. if you wanna replace it for good measure, go for it. as long as its not leaking and is functioning properly tho..no need to bother. youll find a wide array of stories in removing the starter. iv heard people disconnecting this and that, and lifting here and there..taking hours and hours. as iv shared before, i changed mine out in about 20 minutes in the parking lot at my school at completley stock height (pre BL/SL). the only thing i removed was the skid plate and the starter. no moving the oil filter, CL, none of that. 6" extensions and deep sockets are your friend, as well as little 1/4 ratchets IIRC. BTW that was my first time ever to change it, and i had no manual or previous experience.