2016DenaliGuy

They body shop that did the work ordered them all through a local GMC dealer. All in it was not cheap. I'm not sure how the OP got it all for $800. Hood and all the parts and 3 stage paint and everything was around $2k. I got lucky on it b/c the hood was damaged anyway so I just paid the difference of replacing the stock hood with the HD.

I know this is an older post, but I had both replaced. The reason I came back to this is because I got a letter in the mail from GMC about being reimbursed for this repair. Luckily I kept my dealer receipt on this and I have mailed it in for the reimbursement. The total price I paid for the labor and parts was just under $400. I'll update again if/when they send me a check. It was a pleasant surprise actually. I guess I'll see if they follow through.

I do not know the weight difference. I believe the HD is steel and the 1500 is aluminum so I'm sure there is a difference. I can tell you that I had the stronger springs from the 2500 installed and the hood pops up very easily.

I did this swap as well. Before After

This is a before shot.

Powder coated the tow hooks and did an HD hood.

Someone smashed into my truck so it's been down a while. Took the opportunity to do a few mods while it was repaired.

Not having rear air vents sucks, but I've found that if you turn the center vents inward and level the air diverters that when you crank the a/c fan speed up you can get that air on the face feeling in the back seats if the passengers (my two kids) lean toward the middle. The problem is that after a while, my wife is usually freezing in the front. I've seen that 3D printed piece for under the seat too, but always figured it was more of a gimmick.

The brushed aluminum matches the trim in the dash. That would be the direction I'd want to go too.

I like that. Where'd you pick that up from?

That looks clean. Can you get us a shot of it with the screen on and displaying something?

Thanks. If I put the truck in tow/haul mode it swaps out the battery/charging gauge for the trans temp gage on the screen in the dash. I got the harness replaced today that had the sensor in it. Temps were reading 150ish on the way home. Definitely higher than it was before. My friend is the tech at the dealer I took it too. He confirmed the old sensor was done.

Looks like I'll be scheduling some service on mine today. Got some codes over the weekend for P0700 and P0711. The transmission temp sensor is causing it. The temps seem to either read 0° most of the time or if it registers it's only up to about 120°. What do your trans temp readouts look like in normal driving? Seems to be that it should be in the high 100's to low 200's as that is the center of the gauge.

I've got the P0711 code on mine now too. Search led me to this thread. My truck is a 16 model with 63k miles on it. I've recently had the 18 NA 355 trans flush done and now this is popping up on it. I did find this video on Youtube that goes through it.

Seems this is in the wrong forum too. Can a mod move it over to troubleshooting? Thanks, Adam