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[TahoeRestore]

My son just bought a 2001 Tahoe 5.3 with 115K. It's been garage kept for 17 years by a seasonal resident of Florida and great shape cosmetically. We were doing some preventative maintenance and removed the plastic rear belly pan (dog bone shaped?) this was on the top and fell out. Does anyone recognize where it may have come from? He will be joining the forum soon.

 

[viven44]

Old rear main seal ???
Or some other plastic tube sawed off

Sorry no idea.. haven't seen enough of the GMT800 to know what that is..

 

[Doubeleive]

wth is a plastic rear belly pan?

 

[Doubeleive]

if it came out of the inside it could be the remnants of the factory sub woofer if it had one, drivers side rear panel with the "grill holes in the plastic"

 

[OR VietVet]

wth is a plastic rear belly pan?

Lower splash shield? rear skid plate?

Got no clue what that piece is. What is it made of?

 

[TahoeRestore]

Thanks for the input & questions.

The unknown round piece is plastic.

I don't know the correct name of the "belly pan", but it similar to the plastic skid plate that angles up to the front frame. This pan is aft of the front one. May be called a skid shield. The next time the truck is here I'll get a pic of the shield.

The broken round part was laying on top of this shield. It might not be from the truck but bounced up there from the road. I just thought someone may recognize it so we can replace/fix if it's from the truck.