Recent content by Colesdad

Your oil pressure sending unit has probably gone bad. It's located behind the intake manifold, if your facing the engine it would be on your right hand side at the very back. It's hard to reach and you won't be able to see it. After seeing a picture of where it is and what it looks like, I...

Does it read 0 before the engine is running? Or, does it read 80 at all times and never move?

I have never disassembled a differential before, had a rear end in a jeep rebuilt once. But that is the limit of my experience on those. I can tell you that changing that seal is much more involved than changing the output shaft seal on a transmission to which I gave you instruction...

yes rockenthebowtie is exactly right, where were you two days ago, I wouldn't look like such an idiot right now. I have been studying that pic for the last 2.5 hours trying to figure out what transmission he had, then it finally hit me that it wasn't the ass end of a tranny i was even looking at.

Please provide all information about this vehicle that you can. I glanced at your picture and told you how to fix a leak on the output shaft of a transmission. Your words "transmission leak" lead me believe I was looking at a transmission. Dude, this is not even a picture of a transmission...

What part of Jersey?, I lived out on the beach back in about 98. I don't remember the name of the town but hit the boulevard and head south a few miles. I remember a bar named "Joe Pop's" that I hung out at quite a bit. I was only there for about 3 months. Down here in Texas, all I hear is...

The shop I was dealing with here(not a dealer) wanted $5000 for them to supply a Jasper Rebuilt engine and install. I politely said I would have to save up some money and call them back, rather than the route of telling them to "GET BENT" which is what I wanted to tell them but my wife has been...

What's the price you have found on a crate engine? Rebuilt or new? Who's installing it? Here in Houston, Tx with the 4.8l. I could not find a good deal. $2099 for a rebuilt crate engine plus core was the best I could find. Then I still had to get it installed myself. I located a salvage...

I retract all the info that I provided.

your not getting a check engine light? how bad has your gas mileage fallen off? and is it only running rough at idle?

read this just one page and it explains an issue some of these engines have. Definitely need to check for glycol in the oil. Compression test is a standard. Definitely spend the cash for a carfax report. Is the one your looking at 4wd? I thought all z71's came with 4wd, apparently some are...

To tell you the truth, this 2006 Tahoe has been my favorite family vehicle. It is GREAT to load up the kids, pack up things and go places.

the worst thing I can think of other than obvious rod through the block, engine smoking, or rod knocking, is the bad lifter worn cam issue some of the people who own the vortecs experience. I had never heard of this before until my wife's 4.8l 144k mile engine began making a chirping/ticking...

If your willing to invest a few bucks into the deal to make sure the odds are in your favor. Take it to a good mechanic and have him check it out. That is the best advice I can give you. I know you hate to spend the cash and find out it's on it's last leg. But wouldn't you rather spend...

This is going to sound weird but during my engine swap, somehow or another I knocked a very minute hole in my tranny pan. I was trying to replace it and ran across the same question, whether I had the deep or shallow pan. Even with my tranny pan in hand they could not tell me which I needed...