Recent content by zebra

...but it's such a good truck.

so at 187k miles, the leaking steering rack finally got replaced... along with the front output shaft seal of the t-case (which had been slinging fluid everywhere for a few thousand miles). and mid-job, we recognized that the ball joints & passenger-side front diff bushing are shot. got new...

GM was running stock flex fuel systems in a bunch of vehicles years before the H3 came out... that said: in addition to retuning, he'd need bigger injectors, a higher-flow fuel pump, and the sensor that measures ethanol content so the PCM can adjust the A:F mixture appropriately. it'd take a...

that CG video is about as lame & useless as the 22" wheels it depicts. i do appreciate the H1-ish styling cues, though. would've certainly improved the last iteration and needs to be no bigger than a Tahoe.

oh, i almost forgot. so about that power steering cap... i found the dipstick part of it just sitting on top of the transfer case skid plate! not sure how... guessing it bounced back up off the road or something.

after starting to foul the #5 spark plug with oil, i just bit the bullet & converted the PCV to where both lines go into the catch can (adding a breather on top). capped the intake ports, and now they won't suck the crank case at all. it'll result in less air circulation inside the case, but...

rerouted the catch can yesterday... so far, so good. it also just dawned on me after church that it'd been 50k miles since i changed the driveline fluids (not the 30k i was thinking)... so that was my afternoon. Redline GL5 75w90 in the diffs looked great & was still pretty clear. GL4 MT-90...

the closest thing to an OEM video screen was if it had the optional back-up camera (displayed in the rear view mirror). yours was certainly added aftermarket. and our 2009 is a little bit of an oddball: Base model w/ 5speed, tow package, tan two-tone cloth interior w/ non-heated power driver's...

yeah, that's what i thunk... but i've learned to confirm stuff before buying parts if i can. was getting P0305 & P0355 (cylinder 5 misfire & ignition circuit), so i swapped the coil to cyl 3 (hoping the code would follow... & if anything to balance it out better)... cleared the CEL, drove it...

hopefully this cap stays put! and this ain't so much what we did to the truck - but more that the truck scared the crap out of my wife today. she called me on her way home saying out of nowhere, it started stalling/stammering going up the mountain & would barely even do 45 in 3rd gear. this...

if i remember right, he had our computer in & out within a day, too... but that's still a week without a computer, and my wife does home health. GM's Tech 2 scanner definitely changes tire sizes; i'm pretty sure a couple other mechanic's shop scanners do, too - it just seems like they all might...

PCM of NC ain't open on the weekend, but i called yesterday. as mentioned out the gate: he already tuned our truck 4yrs ago, and what he quoted for just changing tire size or even doing a couple minor updates was significantly less than i originally paid... and much less than the dealers here...

PS: This correction doesn't just ensure the speed & mileage shown on the dash are correct. It also affects ABS behavior (and I imagine traction control + stability control + the simulated limited-slip action) to ensure they all function correctly.

Looking around the forums, I can't find anything on folks reprogramming different tire size in the PCM so that the speedometer & odometer read correctly. Are folks not fixing this when changing tire sizes, or are they just not talking about it? I simply want to confirm what methods are...

over the last month, we're still consuming oil... but slightly less of it now. the catch can shows more of the normal yellow condensates in the bottom of the liquid (with oil still on top of that). i'm now thinking it's simply more a factor of climbing a mountain every day at highway speed...