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Message: <blockquote data-quote="someotherguy" data-source="post: 20025" data-attributes="member: 6178">09-08-2015 My dad offered to have his guys do the bodywork, but that means a trip out of state.  I have faith his guys do good quality work, it's just a hassle to get the truck there.  Seriously considering it though, so I start tending to the things the truck needs to make the trip.Transmission had a real harsh 1-2 shift; was hoping it would just be a bad 1-2 accumulator spring or piston.  Took it to my buddy Joe at Premier Transmission in Tomball - top notch guys; have been trusting Joe with my transmissions since literally the late 80's.Turned out the spring wasn't broken but Joe felt it was too small.  Replaced it with a heavier one, but not before pulling down the valve body to find the real problem - a check ball had worn through the separator plate.  He fixed it all up and now I have nice, firm shifts - but no more crazy super hard parts-breaking 1-2.[ATTACH=full]1039[/ATTACH]In the meantime I've been collecting parts for the repair.  Have a brand new OEM GM outer/inner bedside, good used tailgate, OEM GM bed molding and tailgate molding, good used bumper, new tailgate emblems, and a few other items.  I have basically everything on the body shop's parts list - for $1500 (including shipping!), not the $4400 they wanted!09-20-2015 Now on to present day (today!) - new headlights and turn signals; old ones were badly hazed over and the headlight lenses beyond restoration - lots of tiny cracks in them.  I also installed LED's for the other bulbs and 35W 5000K HID headlights.[ATTACH=full]1042[/ATTACH]Installed the used rear bumper for now, and the old broken bedside corner molding, just to kind of hide the damage until the truck is repaired.  Don't really want any nastygrams from the HOA for a "wrecked" truck in the driveway, plus I'm slightly less shamed to drive it around town now. <img src="https://www.chevytalk.org/fusionbb/images/smilies/wink2.gif" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />[ATTACH=full]1043[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]1044[/ATTACH]Spent some time cleaning up the interior and I'm beat!  Done for the day.[ATTACH=full]1045[/ATTACH]Richard</blockquote>