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viven44 reacted to Miami-Dade's post in the thread Thinking of selling my new 6.2L Denali... with
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viven44 replied to the thread Buying 6.2 engine vs 5.3.We test drove both the 6.2L and 5.3L and also the Ford 3.5 Ecoboost. Both the GMs were undoubtedly better than the Ford V6 in the...
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viven44 replied to the thread Thinking of selling my new 6.2L Denali....It has been a while since I have bought a truck, but if I was buying one, in this day and age I would go for a 3/4 ton as they have the...
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@viven44 You can have fuel dilution that does not add oil. You can have fuel dilution that causes enough oil consumption/flash off to...
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viven44 replied to the thread Thinking of selling my new 6.2L Denali....@jfoj the honda DI oil dilution problem is a well known one and the engines are able to handle it and just move along. Yes I agree its...
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viven44 replied to the thread Thinking of selling my new 6.2L Denali....Man you seem like the person I could have a friendly chat / argument so maybe I'll argue some with a different perspective. Everything I...
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viven44 replied to the thread Thinking of selling my new 6.2L Denali....@Antonm has a lot of truths in there however I must admit "not all techs" are probably that way. It would be very depressing if so, I...
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viven44 replied to the thread 6.2 or Diesel?.This... GM has problems with the 6.2L... Wouldn't even go near it with all the failures reported in the forum and reddit until the NHTSA...
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viven44 reacted to jfoj's post in the thread NHTSA opens preliminary probe into more than 870,000 GM vehicles with Like.
@viven44, The TCM is all about Torque Managment these days. The 5.3l is a different beast that has less Torque than the 6.2l and will...
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viven44 reacted to Jay P Wy's post in the thread NHTSA opens preliminary probe into more than 870,000 GM vehicles with Like.
The two I had had didn't and the owners manual says it's recommended but if you run 87 oct you will loose performance. It's even worse...
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viven44 replied to the thread NHTSA opens preliminary probe into more than 870,000 GM vehicles.Oh I have no doubts there is some contribution from low octane fuel. Pinging / Rod bearing taking a beating ? All of that makes sense...
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viven44 replied to the thread NHTSA opens preliminary probe into more than 870,000 GM vehicles.I can as well with my high level bidirectional scanner. If you’d like I can monitor gear vs speed and chart it. I’m fairly confident we...
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viven44 replied to the thread NHTSA opens preliminary probe into more than 870,000 GM vehicles.No it isn’t. I’ve been driving automatic transmissions, all the way from 3 speeds to 10 speeds and I can tell what gear it is in based...
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viven44 replied to the thread fuel mileage.Pulled 8200 lbs recently, got 12.4mpg, you can see it here...
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viven44 replied to the thread NHTSA opens preliminary probe into more than 870,000 GM vehicles.10L80's final drive ratio (0.636) is honestly only slightly lower than even the 4L80s (0.696) and on our 2024, we are honestly never in...
