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    how to replace rear output shaft seal (slip yoke seal) 4wd?

    I pulled my rear driveshaft out and took it to have it balanced and new u joints put in last week. Now I'm leaking fluid out from where it plugs in to the transfer case. I've never done one of these before and it's probably real simple and I'm over thinking it but alldata/service manual simply...
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    remove intake silencer "vortec" box?

    Just wondering what's the best way to get rid of this thing, what to block off the hole with? I don't think it'd make any performance improvement but it is ugly, in the way, and it's called a silencer. 3 strikes, sounds like it needs to go to me. The LT1 caprice/roadmaster people had a huge...
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    Variable steering stuck at max looseness. help!

    I'm just wondering if this might be the evo sensor everyone talks about, my problems not jerking steering like what most people are describing for evo sensor. I left this morning and my steering is just very light even on the highway just a tiny touch will move the wheel a LOT and it sucks...
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    vibration between 25-50 and 70-85 any ideas?

    99 4wd. It just started doing this. When you are on the gas accelerating or maintaining speed between 25-50 there's a vibration that gets stronger as you go faster but disappears at about 50mph. I tired 4hi to see what happens, same thing. If you let off the gas it instantly goes away. If...
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    Any Z71 or fender-flare people?

    My tahoe has fender flares on it and I've never seen another that does that weren't aftermarket looking. Mine look factory or someone did a real good job. And was this part of Z71? What else does Z71 have? I have LT interior, Z71 stickers, but the shocks that came off were skinny blue...
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    turn signal clicker keeps clicking.

    So I signalled for a lane change on the highway and now the turn signal clicker keeps clicking and wont stop. the green turn signal arrows on the dash aren't doing anything and I pulled over and looked and the outside lights weren't doing anything even though it was clicking. The outside lights...
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    99 4wd replace pitman and idler arms?

    I need to replace my pitman and idler arms and I'm getting some conflicting information on how to do it. 2 friends of mine are telling me I can do it without removing the steering gear. I don't see how with the steering gear in place I could get a wrench back there much less a pitman puller...
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    pump (abs?) coming on when wheels slip from acceleration?

    I noticed this a couple weeks ago when there was ice on the road, it seemed like if I was in 2hi and the wheels slipped I'd hear something under the hood that sounded exactly like the abs pump. it didn't seem to happen in 4wd. Then just yesterday I was playing around in a mud-hole in 4hi and...
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    California emissions?

    I'm in Oklahoma, my 99 tahoe is from Arizona I've looked up all my rpo codes once and kept seeing california emissions related stuff like "test for california emissions" "bypass california emissions" does any of that mean I have it? I do have a wicked complicated setup of tubes pumps and wires...
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    traction control and variable effort steering?

    One more question thread from me, just got 99 z71 and with some snow and ice we had a few days ago I noticed if it was in 2hi and the rear wheels slipped I could hear some kind of pump come on, sounds exactly like the abs pump. I don't feel anything that feels like traction control nor does it...
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    HID Kit?

    I always thought HID conversions were hundreds of dollars, my brother just bought a $70 kit from ebay for his wrx that the ballast plugs into the headlight harness then there's another wire coming off the ballast that the hid bulb connects to and then the bulb just clicks into your composite...
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    Oh no just screwed up! oh wait no I didn't, what's that?

    Ever since I got my tahoe a month ago there's been a clear plastic bag all twisted up in the little quarter inch gap between where the passenger side half-shaft meets the axle tube. Tonight I was down below already, putting on a splash-shield I forgot to put back on when I changed my radiator a...
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    headlights dim, hvac blower slows randomly??

    Ok I bought a 99 z71 a month ago and have been fixing a few things on it. One thing that's got me kind of worried is this: If I'm driving at night with the headlights on or during the day with the hvac blower on high every once in a while I'll notice the lights go a tiny bit dim or hear the...
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    what's the rubber tube with a plug in it attached to shroud?

    I replaced my radiator a few nights ago with one from radiatorbarn.com ($145 delivered and it seems fine so far) and saw a 3/8 rubber tube with a little plastic plug in the end. clipped to the driver side of the top fan shroud. with all the huge mess of evap junk right there I couldn't really...
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    can someone explain the vortec fuel injection to me?

    I've never owned any sort of truck until a few weeks ago (99 Z71 Tahoe! it's awesome!) all my friends have always had chevy trucks since I was a teenager and I always thought the reason I never saw injectors on their motors was because it was throttle body injection. I see now that some of the...
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    99 z71 replace front wheel hub?

    I have wheel hub making noise and am wanting to replace it. How do I do it? Someone told me to do this you: take off caliper take off rotor undo 36mm nut that holds the cv shaft in the hub??? is that right? undo bolts on back of hub hub comes out I just signed up for alldata.com today and...
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    loose steering, what to look for?

    bought a 99 4wd tahoe 2 weeks ago and was told it needed outer tie-rods and all 4 ball joints. I replaced the outer tie rods and then had a shop replace the ball joints and align it. After I got it back it still pulls a bit to the right, you have to have the wheel pointed 10-15deg to the...
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    brake light switch bad?

    I just got a 99 tahoe monday and just noticed my brake lights arent coming on when they're supposed to. I tried in my garage and they only come on when you push the brake really hard. I tried in a parking lot where there was a window of a store behind me to see the reflection, same thing...
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    remove steprails, doorlock probs, keyless entry, f.i. cleaner?

    Hi all, I just got a 99 Tahoe, my first suv/truck ever and I love it. (swore I would never own one!) Few things I'm wondering about: 1. It has step-rail tubes on it, one of them is rusted and cracked on the bottom and is sagging from the previous owner stepping on it. I want to take them off...
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