ANY QUESTIONS for dave40 aka CHEVY LOVER

moudry1 · October 1999

Thanx, i think i will give em a try. Any preffered bug guard?

dave40 · October 1999

What Truck do you have ?

tk_tx · October 1999

Dave,
I will soon purchase a 2000 Silverado Z-71 Ext Cab in November. I have seen 1999-2000 Silverados with larger tires 305/65R16 Goodyear Wrangler ATS tires on them with stock wheels. The modifications made to the truck to squeeze in the tires were to crank up the torsion bars to lift the front end about 2-3 inches and for the back they added a leaf or took and existing leaf and had them re-bent to adjust the height 2-3 inches.
My question is for the front end adjustment. Is this modification going to void the warranty and is it safe to do?

dave40 · October 1999

(I'm not sure on the warranty question, but beleive it probably would void your warranty. Cranking up the torsion bars is hard on the front end components, will wear out your tires quick, and make your pickup ride like a dump truck. Trail Master makes a 4" kit that sells for around $1350.00. This kit would allow for 33" tires with no fender modifications and would keep your factory ride w/out voiding your warranty (if installed by authorized dealer). If your going to raise the truck, do it right with a suspension lift and not a torsion bar lift.)

quadrunner500 · October 1999

Raising the ride height with the torsion bars is going to give you more positive camber, causing more wear towards the outside of the tread. But I'm not sure they would provide the range of adjustment on the bars that they do, if it was not safe to do so. I don't think you can change the ride height by too much with them.

moudry1 · October 1999

The truck I have is a 00'2500,LT,4x4,ext.cab,short box.

polaris1 · October 1999

I have a 99 extended cab Chevy Silverado. I'm interested in installing dual exhaust. Anybody have any suggestions. I was considering either the Gibson or Flowmaster 70 series. Looking for the most power gain with least amount of cab noise. Any advice would be appreciated.

dave40 · October 1999

Go Gibson less cab noise

vetzs · October 1999

Dave, can you help me, I tried to purchase a helm's factory service manual but they apparently are not available as yet. I'd like to know the following......
1. I have a 00 reg. cab with an overhead
console....how do I get to the inside of
this console to be able to wire in a radar
detector?
2. I also need to know how to remove the
inside trim around the windshield and
post to be able to run wires for remote
sensors for this same radar detector.
3. Next, I would like to remove the front of
the dash to install a LED for an after-
market alarm.
Any help would be appreciated.
Later ~~~~~ vetzs

26andrew1 · October 1999

Start pulling, the center console has about three screws(at least in the past it did) two are hidden in the dome light pop the lens and there thy are, the other is in the front you will see a indent were it is.

The dash pulls off like the c/k trucks did, carefull not to pull to far and rip wires.

the post trim piece also pulls off like c/k did. Trust me this one is a [non-permissible content removed] to get back in again without cracking something, be patient and try different methods of putting it back. comes out easy.

vince4 · October 1999

I don't know if there is enough room but you could try one of those flexible grabber tools with the button on one end that makes 4 fingers extend out the other end. I bought one from the cheap tool store for retrieving dropped bolts and such. Another approach is put something sticky on the end of a flexible shaft and try to work the pencil up.

vince4 · October 1999

For the LED, you don't need to pull the whole dash front. You can pull the area around the air bag shutoff switch independent of the dash.

dave40 · October 1999

Did you ever find your pencil ?

buzzb · October 1999

Any of you Chevy/GM fans out there with experience on a 6.5 deisel? Milage, life expextancy, quirks, when they started oil cooling the cylinders, how it tows would be appreciated.

26andrew1 · October 1999

I work in a GM shop, the diesel is good when it runs. But there is a problem with the injector pumps. They like to die at any given moment. Some go for hundreds of thousands of miles with not a problem others are taking a dump at every 50k or less. You never know.

A few things about diesels. There seems to be a diesel fad going on. Unless you are driving a million miles every day or are hauling HEAVY loads every day a diesel is not the way to go. They are very spendy to fix. The price of diesel is not cheap like it used to be either. At least not in the west.

If you still want a diesel GM will have a new one coming out in late 2000-2001. Duramx diesel built by Isuzu. Looks very good on paper will have to see what it really does

dave40 · October 1999

45lbs all the way around ?

powerisfun · October 1999

After I ordered and received the headers for my truck, someone told me he heard that headers require a lot of extra maintenance. I've read quite a bit on them, but never anything bad about maintenance. Any clue whether that statement is true? If so, what exactly is the extra maintenance.
-powerisfun

dave40 · October 1999

Cheap headers require bolts to be torqued down after a few thousand miles. You should have no problem with JBA headers is that what you have ?

powerisfun · October 1999

...TFX PaceSetter. The installation instructions
say to check the bolts after a few thousand miles
after installation, but no mention of regular checking or anything. Anyway, if that's the only thing, that sounds rather minor. Thanks for the quick answer.
-powerisfun

P.S. I made a new topic called "Headers in late model trucks" if you'd like to contribute to it. I'd appreciate it and I'm sure many others would too.

tuckyboy1 · October 1999

Dave40 (and anyone else),

I was out waxing my 5 week old 2K Silverado yesterday and noticed rust on the factory hitch. Is this normal? Are all of the trucks doing it?

- tuckyboy

dave40 · October 1999

I hope you are Y2K Compliant. Everyman should check his truck and girlfriend for the same compliance. They should both be able to start and run well at fast idle for an extended period of time. Not to mention "gettin' it on" no matter what road you're on or off of.

gwvinson · October 1999

same

tparkinson · October 1999

I was wondering what any one could tell me about the vortec v-6 I have in my 1996 chevy 4x4. I just purchessed it yesterday. I love the accelleration but I was wondering about any inherent motor problems, and after market performance upgrades

Thanks , Park

cr3 · November 1999

its good stuff! you shouldnt have any problems with this motor.intake and exaust goodies should help out.more flow,more umpa pa.change you oil alot, its worth it. good luck.

powerisfun · November 1999

I finally put a set of shorty headers (Pacesetter brand) on my '98 GMC Sierra (5.7L engine), and my truck now makes a very unhealthy sound inside the truck cab but not outside. The noise volume corresponds with the acceleration. I couldn't see any exhaust leaks anywhere including at the heads or at the head pipes. It almost sounds like the truck is missing but it seems that there is no power loss. The truck ran perfectly, without sounds, before. Do you have any idea what could be the problem? Or is this racket normal?

dave40 · November 1999

Some say headers are noisy or have a ticking sound.

dave40 · November 1999

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powerisfun · November 1999

Yeah, I guess the noise I'm talking about could be described as a ticking, but there's also like a gurgling sound. I guess that could be the sound
of hot gases rushing through the primary tubes. Anyway, I'm going to take them back off and send them back to JCWhitney. Not because I mind the sound, but because I'm totally unsatisfied with the quality of the PaceSetter headers. The welds are sloppy, the bolt holes aren't aligned well, I had to put one of the headpipe bolts in backwards because the bolt wouldn't go in the correct way, the EGR tube is not properly threaded so I'm not getting a good seal there (I had to tape it with a [non-permissible content removed]-load of exhaust tape just to make sure it was sealed). The paint job is absolutely horrid. It looks like they painted them and then immediately packed them off to ship. One of the headers still had a sticker of some sort on it... and it was painted over. Whatever you do, DO NOT buy anything from TFX-PaceSetter. They have a terrible quality control problem.
I'm going to try a set of Summit Racing brand shorty headers. I know they're not as high quality as Gibson or JBA, but they're quite a bit less expensive (by a factor of two or more). I'll let y'all know how they are.
-powerisfun

powerisfun · November 1999

I forgot to mention that,...there was definitely more torque when you step on the pedal (2500 rpm or higher) even with these crappy headers. That's the only positive thing I can say about them, which is enough to make me go through all the trouble of installing a new set. The Summit Racing brand are tuned for torque increases in the 1500-3500 rpm range (they claim anyway). I trust the Summit name. I hope they don't prove me wrong.
I don't know why I didn't just order the Summits in the first place. I saw ads for TFX-PaceSetter in many of my truck magazines, so I figured they may be a decent name, but not at all.
One thing great about JCWhitney is that if the product is defective (I think the badly threaded EGR tube and the non-fitting header-pipe bolt qualifies as defective), they'll reimburse you for your shipping to send it back. I still had to pay for the shipping to get it here, but that was minimal since I ordered a few other things as well.
-powerisfun

vince4 · November 1999

Dave, my 2000 6.0L doesn't idle very smoothly. I can feel it jumping around a little, not like it's missing or anything that bad but a very noticeable non-uniform vibration. It seems like a new design with computer control should be smoother. It runs great at all other times.

I've asked this question on other topics and everyone that responded had a similar situation. Do you know why the 6.0 does this? (I hear the 4.8L isn't any better.)

powerisfun · November 1999

There's a topic dedicated to the rough idle of the 5.3L (#1047). I think this is a "problem" with all the vortec's (including my 5.7L). It's a shame because they're so smooth when moving.
-powerisfun

quadrunner500 · November 1999

1999 5.3L, 15,900 miles.

moudry1 · November 1999

My 6.0 liter is very smooth at idle.

vince4 · November 1999

Good news, that means there is hope for me and many others. I'm guessing they are running the mixture as lean as possible for emissions reasons.

scrambol · November 1999

Is this necessary for a 4-wheel model? What does it gain for me?

Thanks,

Rob

meredith · November 1999

These discussion are continued in Topic 1273....

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