Rickyace09

So I noticed my ambient temp this morning was 32 degrees and I got the ice message warning. I noticed it came all until the afternoon when it was 50 degrees out. I disconnected the battery and purchased an oem one. Installed it and took it for a ride. I noticed the temp when up to 65 degrees but I was a high of 55 outside. I drove it home and it stayed at 61 on the screen. I let the truck sit for about a few hours and took it for a ride. It dropped from 61 to 51 after driving for about an 15 minutes but went up to 55 degrees before parking. At that time it 47 degrees outside. I just checked it after 2 hours and it’s still reading 55. Can this be just a bad sensor? It sealed in a new packaged when I purchased it. Or can a weak battery cause this? Just trying to figure this out.

I purchased oem lower ball joints for my 2016 Silverado and I’m having a tough time finding the Kent Moore ball joint tool to install and crimp the ball joints onto the aluminum control arms. Does anyone know if there’s another tool or method to crimp down the ball joints after install? Oem does not have a clamp method.

I have a 2016 Z71 Silverado with Aluminum upper and lower control arms. I need to replace the lower ball joints and wondering to just replace upper as well but can't find replacement oem ball joints anywhere. Does anyone know of a gm part number? My local dealer gave me a part number of 22855747 for the lower ones to be used on aluminum control arms but had no idea for the option on uppers.

Smh, to get to it I would have to remove the upper pan, differential, water pump and some other stuff. Wouldn’t even make sense to do unless I’m a do a DOD/ AFM delete. GM engineers are from another planet lol.

I noticed a small leak around the sensor next to the cam phaser magnet. Can anyone explain of the timing cover has to come out to replace this? If facing the engine its left of the cam phaser magnet. No oil pressure issues or check engine light. I just noticed it because I recently changed the O ring in the phaser and wanted to keep an eye on it.

Ok I have to head to the dealer after work to pick up the new pan. I was sold the ac-Delco stuff part #88864346

Yup I did all that. I didn’t add oil at all. It’s been sitting since Friday without oil. The oil that’s keeps coming down is small amounts. I put the rtv then waited an hour to torque and the plan was to fill after 24 hours. I attached a pic of the leak. The surface was bone dry when we installed it. From some off reason it doesn’t want to behave.

That’s the thing I didn’t add oil yet. The oil that’s I guess up in the valve train is what keeps running down after a few days.

So my mechanic installed my lower oil pan today on my 2016 Silverado 5.3 and we waited 1hour to torque the bolts down. I also let the truck drain for 4 days prior to install because I broke a bolt that I guess was torqued too many times. The install went well new pan from GM but oil just running after a few hours. When we installed it it was bone dry but after 3 hours I saw a small wet spot near a corner mating surface. I use permetex ultra black will this eventually dry after 24 hours air do I have to do this again? We also didn’t scuff up the pan because the dealer techs said not to.

I have a 2016 Silverado z71 5.3 and I’m going to swap out the lower oil pan because it has a small leak. I purchased the pan from the Chevrolet dealer but they didn’t have the torque specs or tight pattern. I’m sure they did have it but I guess too busy to look it up lol. My truck doesn’t come with the gasket so I also picked up the AC Delco rtv. But I’m having a hard time finding the procedure to install this and allowing it to cure correctly. Can someone help with this? Thx

My 2016 Silverado has a very small leak near where the lower oil pan meets I guess the block. I have been tightening the bolts for two months now but decided to drop the pan and service the leak. My question is can the pan be reused or best to replace? And I believe mine has the rtv which looks like crap from the dealer smh. Is there a process and tight pattern to the rtv? Also should I wait to torque down?

I have noticed the last three times when fueling up my service StabiliTrak warning comes up when starting the truck and instantly goes away. It happened once before but now three fill-ups in a row. Any help on this? Thx.

I hope so but this might be the last straw. Great truck but always fixing quality control issues. I’m usually on the highway with y family on baseball tournament trips. Thx god they were home when it happened and I wasn’t on a major highway I actually just got off it. I checked the dash ground and it looked like it was already done by the dealer. No insulation near the ground.