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Delta Tango

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Delta Tango last won the day on August 23 2023

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    Dale T.
  • Location
    Calgary Alberta Canada
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  • Interests
    Camping, photography, driving "my fleet", cooking (meat and potatos), die cast collection, aviation.
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    2021 Sierra 1500 SLE, 2015 Camaro 1SS, 1969 GTO non-Judge

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  1. I have a few ideas to replace that OEM switch if nothing is invented from The General by the summer! I might buy that "jobber" plastic housing I mentioned earlier and just start "play fitting" with a few weather proof water-tight small toggle switches out there. Looks like it's tight fitting in there where that housing sits?
  2. Thanx for the intel. I've been to Turin, and it is really an automotive engineering capital!
  3. This 3.0 liter diesel is an Opel engine out of Germany, not Japanese like the larger Duramax marketed diesels. For your FYI.
  4. Up in western Canada we have to deal with rains, snow, salt (on the roads), moisture, massive temperature changes and guys like me.....who wash their ride at least 3 times a week to try to keep things spiffy! Plenty of contaminates are experienced here in Canada where engineers who design NORTH AMERICAN vehicles are familiar with and yes, this switch failing is a complete surprise to me.
  5. Anybody who follows Detroit Diesel products closely will find this way smaller 3.0 liter engine is still a basic same design as the DD13/DD15 series. Thinking from Germany, can't get over the shape of the cylinder head, over head cam design even pump locations are very much the same.
  6. Watched a You Tube video today with a talented/comical tech tear down a 3.0 liter Duramax with 146,000 miles on it. It indeed had packed it in and the carnage was not evident till the head was lifted. The outcome was an engine starved for oil. Tensioners for the overhead cam chains did not work with little to no oil pressure. Things internally went into a tail spin from there I assume? What was impressive was the rubber/kevlar oil pump drive belt and it's condition after 146,000 miles! Who knew....
  7. "Duct" tape did OK except at freeway speed. Therefore "duct" tape has been cancelled. i removed the inner tailgate panel and disconnected the bogus switches' connector within the tailgate. Not a difficult job to isolate. A quick call to my local GM dealer parts concluded no release date yet for the upgraded switch. Put the panel back on the tail gate. Back to the freeway, without "duct" tape. Party on.
  8. Chances are I'm going to have to duck tape this tailgate shut? Good times.....
  9. Hopefully that up-graded tail gate switch is soon to be released!? Now when I approach the truck with fob, that tailgate latch locks and unlocks like mad! No doubt the next issue will be a tail gate lock system mechanical failure due to being worn out!
  10. My 2021 tailgate power switch within the rear "handle" has indeed failed. No opening of tailgate except by dash switch or remote now. Separate actual trips to two GM dealer's parts counters has found no replacement electric tail gate switch available and zero NOS switches available any where in Canada. Inquiring minds not giving up, a call to a "jobber" parts outlet concludes the black plastic handle/housing is available for $70 but no electrical giblets are sold through them, including any kind of electrical latch switch.
  11. Took the base unit for a test drive today. Incredible is the ride and really, the 3.0 is indeed a quiet runner. On the way back I got my sales guy to drive and I sat in the back. As crazy as it may be, I said a couple of times "no wonder the cops like these things". There's nothing wrong with "base", if one is into that.
  12. So I'm showing interest in a 2024 "LS" Tahoe. While it is equipped with a trailer towing receiver and 7 pin lighting/control plug, the unit does not have the optional trailering "max" package. Therefore it does not sport the factory installed integrated on-dash trailering controls. I've had great luck with the aftermarket "Tekonsha" line of aftermarket trailer towing control devises. To use something like "P3" dash mounted controller, past positive experience on older (2014 and up) GM pick up truck line has found the need for the GM supplied adapter harness P/N 23184088. Anybody out there have intel on this aftermarket configuration on the Tahoe line, and particularly the 2024 model year?
  13. You see I got a problem just thinking about a rubber belt that operates in an engine oil splash environment. I worked on Detroit Diesels for 15 years and beyond. When Benz took them over I saw them do some crazy changes.....but never a rubber belt, an important one, run where there's engine oil splash!
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