Not conclusive but gather what you will from this experience.
After all these years and some health conditions I decided to fork over the money and let someone else help. Rack was leaking. I was getting new lower ball joints, brake rotors and pads since I have 100,000 on them.
Local place close by are real home town folks and agreed to help me get the bead locks started to mount new tires. I came home with those in my truck and OCD assembled them with o rings and torque wrench.
Picked up the H3 and first thing stab service comes on. I had politely mentioned tying off the steering wheel, several times. They had a device that looked like it should work they use on other cars.
Hours later I asked to see their scanner. left was digital or analog not sure at that time there was both, 0 but right was 262 or something crazy. They could reset the warning but it just came back. Ok I said something has happened to the physical sensor. No replies. They took it to the nearby GM dealer that said they could clear it with their custom scanner.
Their answer after looking at it was, "oh it needs one new sensor" my place said well we can do that. But, they physically adjusted the one that was way off and cleared the code. Seems to be working.
So there is more to it than just resetting code. Turning the steering wheel to get proper readings while watching a scanner did not work because it was so far out.
Not sure how the sensor got moved, but "it wasn't me!"
I only had the first rack on my 06 give me a problem. I did not know to tie off the wheel. When I disconnected the shaft the wheel rotated right then to the heavy side I guess. I had a dealer fix that just in a few minutes.
I have however done it several more times without issue with all my brackets and suspension mods. Guess I was lucky.
Anyway I'm still wheeling and exploring..............................
After all these years and some health conditions I decided to fork over the money and let someone else help. Rack was leaking. I was getting new lower ball joints, brake rotors and pads since I have 100,000 on them.
Local place close by are real home town folks and agreed to help me get the bead locks started to mount new tires. I came home with those in my truck and OCD assembled them with o rings and torque wrench.
Picked up the H3 and first thing stab service comes on. I had politely mentioned tying off the steering wheel, several times. They had a device that looked like it should work they use on other cars.
Hours later I asked to see their scanner. left was digital or analog not sure at that time there was both, 0 but right was 262 or something crazy. They could reset the warning but it just came back. Ok I said something has happened to the physical sensor. No replies. They took it to the nearby GM dealer that said they could clear it with their custom scanner.
Their answer after looking at it was, "oh it needs one new sensor" my place said well we can do that. But, they physically adjusted the one that was way off and cleared the code. Seems to be working.
So there is more to it than just resetting code. Turning the steering wheel to get proper readings while watching a scanner did not work because it was so far out.
Not sure how the sensor got moved, but "it wasn't me!"
I only had the first rack on my 06 give me a problem. I did not know to tie off the wheel. When I disconnected the shaft the wheel rotated right then to the heavy side I guess. I had a dealer fix that just in a few minutes.
I have however done it several more times without issue with all my brackets and suspension mods. Guess I was lucky.
Anyway I'm still wheeling and exploring..............................
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