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Just wanted to give a big thanks to P.gamboa, and tinker fox for the videos on this upgrade of the heated wheel install. And a huge thanks to p.gamboa for all his help with Harness’s for these upgrades on my truck (16 CCSB LT), such as the DL3 mirrors, Auto dimming mirrors, and of course this Heated Steering wheel. Thanks to this forum & it’s info, I can now enjoy my truck a lot better, thanks folks.

Hello everyone, im creating this post because there was little information about this lift kit when i was looking around. I have a 2018 Chevy Silverado 1500 Z71 and i wanted to lift it , but i didnt want to go that high. I eneded up deciding to go with the Rough Country 3.5 in Knuckle Lift kit with the N2.0 Front Shocks SKU :12132. The kit is around 600$ and its a 5-6 hour installation time. I know some guys dont like RC , and the other chevy kits didnt have many happy customers. This kit was relatively new and it came with knuckles which is suppose to fix the suspension angles that a level kit would ruin , and it did. I had a 2.5 Moto Fab level kit and the truck ran really hard and i didnt like the ball joint angles. Well I can say that im happy i went with this kit . The truck rides really good and looks great. I was able to fit Nitto RidgeGrapples 33x12.50 and XD series Buck 25 20x10 wheels. It rubs a little at full crank at the lower rear plastic trim. I’ll post pictures so you guys can see. If anyone has any questions feel free to ask i’ll answer them as soon as i can , i hope this post helps anyone decide what route to go with when deciding a lift kit.

Like many of you, I was affected by the faulty high pressure a/c hose design on my 2014 Silverado. Fortunately for me it was only February in Texas and I barely needed it. Even more fortunately though, I still had 80 miles left on my CPO warranty so I didn't have to haggle with the dealer about repair costs. We'll see how long my condenser cooperates as I figure it's next to go on the A/C system. While my truck was in the shop the dealer loaned me a fully-loaded (of course) 2018 Sierra with a 5.3 for a day. Once I got over the Sierra having just about every bell and whistle my rig didn't have, I noticed just how good the acceleration was compared to my truck. So much so that I was convinced that GM had bumped the horsepower/torque ratings between 2014 and 2018. Once I verified that they hadn't, I went on a fact finding mission to figure out why this truck drove like a beast on acceleration while mine felt like a 4 cylinder. I had researched buying a pedal controller to see if that would help my lousy tip-in on acceleration but simply could not justify the cost. I did know that I was tired of the lackluster get-up-and-go of the first 1/3 of the pedal travel of my truck--especially after my experience with this peppy loaner. The first modification I made to my truck after buying it was to shim under the lower portion of the metal assembly that the accelerator pedal attaches to as I had been following this forum and knew it had been identified as a problem. I opted for using half of a clothespin which took 99% of the flex out of the pedal assembly, so I knew that was not my problem. Instead, I crawled under my loaner 2018 Sierra's dash and took a picture of the part number on the gas pedal assembly--it was GM# 23362231. Once I got my truck back, I peeked at the number on its pedal assembly and it was GM# 20972082. After some research I could not determine when this older number got superseded, but I knew if the price was right I'd buy the new part number and see if it helped my truck. I picked one up off a well known auction site for about $54 and installed it the day I got it. I waited almost two months to share this because I wanted to verify that it improved my acceleration for real and not just in my imagination. I can definitively say, for my truck, that the initial acceleration has improved noticeably. I will even go so far as to say that the low-speed transmission shifts that seemed to startle the truck into what I would call "panicked shifting" garbage-truck-style have improved about 80%. Once I get a my valves cleaned by a shop that has the BG cleaner I think it will accelerate like the 2018 I was loaned. The swap of the pedals is pretty simple. Two 10mm bolts on the lower left and upper right as shown in the attached picture. A 1/4 inch deep well socket with a small extension did the trick. The upper right bolt is a bit of a stretch but not too bad.I unplugged the old one and plugged in the new one and put the bolts back in. I did not do a side-by-side multi-meter test of these pedals to verify the voltages with pedal travel because I did not have an electrical diagram of the several contacts in the wiring harness connector on the pedals. I started to try and it was simply futile. So I just installed the new part and took it for a test drive. To repeat, the new GM Part Number is 23362231 and it worked for my 2014 Silverado with the 5.3. I hope that these results can be duplicated (and enjoyed) by you folks in the forum. I like my truck a lot better now since this "upgrade." If anyone else tries this, please report your results!

its a 305 and yea it definitely drowns out the annoying guy and his jeep XJ at work that feels the need to rev the piss out of his jeep nonstop every break.

the paint was peeling on the rockers of the drivers side door on my 2014 sierra, there was a TSB for it, and was repaired 1 day before the warranty expired. i was washing with a garden hose, not even a sprayer attachment and the paint literally fell right off. this is not a pressure washer issue!!! it is a paint adhering to the primer issue, bad prep work from the factory. the TSB called for sticking masking tape to the rockers, and pulling it off, if the paint came off with the tape they will peel and respray the door.

Yea, I'm from Greenwood born and raised, live in Florida now. Grew up on a farm in Schlater.

Installed DL3 mirrors in replacement of DL8. A small but cool mod.

Congrats man enjoy your ride ??

JSDirt, living in the south will help some of the tire wearing out problems as long as you stay off the freeways!!!! I shoot for 40-50,000 out of a set of tires. Still have all oem brake pads, rotors and all have never even pulled them off, did change out brake fluid a few months ago and it was pretty nasty stuff. My 99 truck had 186,000 on it when I traded it and had never had any brake work done on it, so I may just be easy on brakes???? And yes I do use my truck to haul and pull with a little over 40,000 of those miles I've had some type of trailer behind me it may only be a 8 foot utility trailer or it might be my 32 foot van but I've pulled the wheels off of it!!!!

In case you ever think you might want fender flares on a daily... Sent from my SM-G955U using Tapatalk

the cherry bombs fell off the 86 and made it hilarious today

Coming from a "pro offroader" as its supposedly called I think your truck is absolutely perfect!

I'd say it's a money grab as well Doesnt help steep tie rod angles any Only rough country lift that'll keep your factory angles is the 5" bracket lift

Maybe not Richard, but the team at Welderup garage (Vegas Rat Rods) could make my dream truck from this beauty!

Also noted that I didn't see a transmission dip stick. Hope I just missed it and there is one.

I’m running Mobile 1 0-20 synthetic and don’t ever use a quart between oil changes. I go 8-9000 miles usually.

hell id dig it up and make it a yard ornament

looking to put these on my 2017 silverado rc2.5" lift. wanting 18x9 moto metal rims with general grabber x3's 275/70r18 and hoping for no rubbing. does anyone else run these tires? noise or wear issues?