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what exactly is that Torque? for a 2000 Silverado Z71? That makes sense though what you said, I never thought of it that way. And OP here are my Plug Specs... I Heard NGK made the ACDelco plugs, so I just recently installed NGK Laser Double Platinums #3784 for my 2000 Silverado 1500 LS Z71 5.3L and got MSD 8.5mm Super Conductors #32829 for the wires. They work Great! Definitely more power, much cleaner idle, actually it added enough extra power from before that I blew part of my exhaust bracket from the pipes, and wore out my tensioners! Granted i'm sure all of these were on the way out, but it wasn't until I changed my plugs and wires to these that all these New Noises started. Also I don't know how old the plugs and wires were, but they were ACDelco Plugs and Autolites 7mm Wires and the plugs did not have bad damage or anything on them, so i'm sure they couldn't have been that old. I Agree ACDelco is the best for most, but I mean you all have to admit there are definitely certain brands that make better products than ACDelco. They specialize in certain manufacturing while ACDelco makes Every Single Individual Part for Every Single GM Vehicle. A neighbor mechanic said that I should use the ACDelco oil filter because it uses some "special" oil back flow thing I don't know, but like that (and i'm going to try it out next oil change to see) but come on you're telling me ACDelco Oil Filters are better than Mobil 1 the Leading Brand in Oil?!

I was watching a video on this and it is Insane how much I have to drop to do it! Definitely a Daunting job! No oil leakage as of yet so hopefully I’m in the clear! Because dropping the drive shafts and transmission Or pulling the engine is not for me

Any videos for reference? I'm thinking i'll definitely do this, but hoping I can do it next winter instead of now...

Good thinking. But wouldn’t I need to set it down somewhere? Like I said I’d either be doing this in my townhouse complex parking lot out front of my house, Or in the sandy Grass out at my farm house where I don’t have a garage or concrete at all... haha no I’m saying spring and summer are coming for me and I’ve got tons of work to do on the farm and my work gets crazy busy (work in a restaurant in beach town southeastern nc).

Ahhh I got you. The only problem with that is I don’t have a shop or garage, so I couldn’t really put it anywhere, on top I’d need to buy the engine crane... I really appreciate your help Yeah exactly that’s what I was figuring! So I don’t have any leakage so far... though I haven’t been driving it but a couple miles so far. So hopefully I’ll be good until the winter and then I could try and tackle this

Yeah well it’s too late for that! I was just doing a slight tighten not much at all and it just kept spinning... Yeah my experience is very limited I’m sure it would take me even longer. And I definitely don’t have the money to do a swap...

How hard is all that going to be you think!? I was watching a video on the oil pan alone and it seems pretty daunting... any videos you could reference? I really hope I can wait until next winter thought to do all this

So I was trying to solve my slow oil leak problem, and was suggested to tighten them Very Lightly... which I Did, but the two long bolts would just spin. I heard a slight noise when trying to tighten the drivers side, so I stopped and passenger side long Oil pan bolt didn't make any noise. There was tons of old grease build up and so I thought that maybe it was actually tightening and going down into the block... and then POP! The bolt snapped right off! I've got some pictures of it. So my question is... do you think this is going to be a big problem?!? One day hopefully Next winter I will be able to pull the oil pan off and replace the gasket and bolts. But if I have to do this now its going to be a Big Problem, i've got Tons going on until the beginning of winter, there's no way I could dedicate a few days to fixing this problem the right way now -- I mean if I absolutely I have to I guess I will just have to, but I mean. I really hope and pray by JESUS CHRIST'S NAME that First, the leak doesn't get worse, and Second that there is a enough bolt still sticking out of the block that I could get it out easily without tapping it. I wiped down underneath and will be monitoring it continuously, as well as the oil level, hopefully i'll be good.