Gunny 155

Okay the story of my rattle continues. Things were quiet for awhile after finding the various loose screws and tightening them, then things began rattling again. I tried various things to locate the rattle(s) but no luck. After putting up with it for some time I took a trip up to northern WI so I had about 7 hours to listen to it. I realized it was not there all the time. I also realized it was not always in the same location. When I got home I decided I was going to get rid of the rattles or trade the truck it was so annoying. This time I was all in. I removed the center console and the whole dash cover. After removing the dash cover I found two screws on the floor. I then got out an air line and blew compressed air into all the areas I could not see into or reach. I ended up with 4 more screws. So either someone dropped a lot of screws while putting my dash together or threw them in there as a gift because they were PO'd that day. They did not fall out or some location because they were not tight because once I had everything back together I still had 6 extra screws. Bottom line is I am keeping my truck because now it is nice and quiet.

Okay so today I got serious about this whole rattle thing. Like I posted earlier I had found a number of screws on the left side that were loose. I still had one rattle left that sounded like it was in the left door some place in the forward part of the door. Removing the door panel again turned up nothing in the door. So I decided I was going to find it even if I had to remove that whole dash cover. I was close to that by the time I found it. I pulled the left side of the dash apart again and found nothing. Moving to the right side I did find 3 more loose screws though I had no noise on the right side. I went back to the left side and started looking around. I notice when I wiggled the hood release cable it made a noise similar to what I was hearing. The cable was hitting the upper right edge of the wiring junction cover on the fire wall. I re-routed the hood release cable over the wire harness that runs parallel to the knee panel rather than under it and anchored it in place to the wire harness with a cable tie.. That cured it, no more noise.

I have been through this a number of times in the last two years and found loose screws in a half dozen place in the dash. Still looking for one more. ready to pull the whole dash and locktite every thing. I have also had a door rattle in the left front door and have had the door apart 3 times, still cant find that one. I think my truck was built on Friday afternoon. I have had 4 other Silverados and loved them all this one, not so much.