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    Rear bumper - corner dent - repair estimate reasonable?

    Hi Georgia, consider removing the bumber on your own, (attach the plate somehow...) and then ask for another price. Tail light removal is two silly screws only but was required for a proper paint job, after the dent was pressed out.Some varnish seems to have come off at the edge, If you could...
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    Inside engine cleaning

    My experience from some decades of motoring (and working in a technical department of lubes industry) is that indeed Diesel is not worse than most chemical wizard stuff they charge you a king's ransom for. However, solid nitrous black sludge is quite tough to solve, it takes nasty chemistry to...
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    Help me understand "auto 4wd" functions

    Hi Guys, But this Auto 4WD feature - does it engage when ABS sensor spot wheelspin on rear wheel and then engeage the 4Hi mode, automatically? Technically no rocket science, all sensors are anyway on board. Unfortunately our winter here is quite mild these days so i tried to test the Auto Hi...
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    AWD

    ..best way probably to trade him in for a 4WD. Even if you had them side and work from one side to the other - anything else is anyway humanly impossible although you may understand that word humanly in a different way. These things turn into nightmares quite quickly or into one of these 6...
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    Actually nor Hoe or Burb but it`s leaking!

    Guys, hope you don`t mind if this was not Tahoe or Suburban but I start getting desperate and need some technical advice. And I know there are very expereiced guys around here. It is about my `73 Oldmobile Custom Cruiser with a leaking power steering unit. My understanding is there is a high...
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    led low beams installed

    Hi Guys, can't imagine that this can work anyhow. Understand you have two very bright lamps when looking into them - if that was the idea - then hey. But a reflector of a headlamp is a result of quite some engineering and it is designed to reflect the light from a very small hot spot in the...
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    Battery Discharge

    will anyway have a check with generator unplugged as you suggested and see if still 1A is floating. Nice Sunday winter job!
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    Battery Discharge

    ....and in case I did not write comprehensively. All these Ampere measurments 1.7; 1.5, 1.0A were measured in "all off" mode- incl. engine! As far as I know Diode issue is kind of brutal and digital. If you have it than it discharges in an instant, chragig lamp should lightup as well even...
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    Battery Discharge

    Hi Raider, changing the battery was the short term solution to this cold cranking issue. The GM Delco battery (Original sparepart) does not look old, preowner changed it soemtime but I do not trust her. I have several batteries around for different cars but that GM pole design hindered me from a...
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    Battery Discharge

    Headlight switch blown? ...and another one which showed up today: All dashboard illumination down, even radio frequency display. When I switch into upper Dome light position -surprise all dash lamps back in full. But this is no real solution driving around like x-mas tree. Still Tahoe...
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    Battery Discharge

    Guys, the voltmeter suggest me millions of charging Volts, display says 16V but it is 14V, actually. Regardless how many buttons I press, all heater fans and stuff it stands like a president at real 14V even on idle. Which makes me think the generator can't be that bad.... Now, if my wife...
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    98 tahoe transmission noise question

    You might check what you find in the pan and cut open the filter searching for some bits and pieces - the filter you sure minimum renewed when you took it from the yard back in April? if not time to do now, anyway. What happened between April and now - you found out that it won't transmit at...
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    Gurgling sound???

    And it all started with a gurgling sound - Man!
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    Crankshaft wont turn

    Right, man. misunderstood that attempt already made. Blame it on me as a non native speaker struggling with some vocabulary and the acronyms;). Still think if something was blocking the timing chain or camshaft he shoul move at least a bit. Curious to hear what came out of this story, hard to...
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