HiHoeSilver
Away!
Truck looks and sounds incredible! When you say you've never opened the trans, diffs, etc... Have you changed the fluids ever?
Another gearhead from Texas
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HiHo, LOL Oh yeah the fluids have been changed!
Met Miami-Dade on the big oil forum and that's how I got here.
Fluids are paid attention. Engine oil gets changed every 3K miles. 5.7L L05 gasoline engine gets Mobil 1 10W-30 oil and Mobil 1 M1-201 filter every time. 4L60 transmission gets new fluid and filter at 60K intervals. Other fluids are checked every couple oil changes.
One thing on the engine I did change was to install a 160 degF thermostat when I bought it. Cool transmission fluid and engine oil seems like they would last a long time. Transmission fluid never changes color.
ETA: Engine oil pressure is the same today as when I drove it off the dealer's lot twenty-seven years ago.
This Suburban is my daily driver. It's nice not having a car payment for twenty-four years.
Met Miami-Dade on the big oil forum and that's how I got here.
Fluids are paid attention. Engine oil gets changed every 3K miles. 5.7L L05 gasoline engine gets Mobil 1 10W-30 oil and Mobil 1 M1-201 filter every time. 4L60 transmission gets new fluid and filter at 60K intervals. Other fluids are checked every couple oil changes.
One thing on the engine I did change was to install a 160 degF thermostat when I bought it. Cool transmission fluid and engine oil seems like they would last a long time. Transmission fluid never changes color.
ETA: Engine oil pressure is the same today as when I drove it off the dealer's lot twenty-seven years ago.
This Suburban is my daily driver. It's nice not having a car payment for twenty-four years.
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swathdiver
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It would be cool to decode Big Red's RPO Sheet.
iamdub
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Awesome rig, sir!
HiHoeSilver
Away!
What trans fluid and gear oil do you run in it?
Sam Harris
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That is one awesome rig!
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bottomline2000
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Welcome to the forum. I actually test drove a truck at Steakley before buying my Tahoe down the street in Addison lol.. That's a rare bird you got there. I would love to see pictures of the underside. they literally don't make em like they used to lol..
Nice rig for sure. I just bought an 05 Tahoe Z71 with 258,000 miles that I just need to last for awhile so I’m even more encouraged that it will now that I see another example of these rigs going 400,000 miles or more.
