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Sounds like the power wire to the tail lights from the brake switch is powering up the BCM or cluster somehow. Or it could be a bad ground to the BCM that's finding ground through the brake pedal switch when it's closed. Electricity can do some strange stuff ...

Same stuff the dealer uses to do the decarboning procedure on the GDI engines. Stuff actually works, unlike autoparts store crap.

Range works great - I've got one in mine. As for the dealership, I'd advise against that. Your warranty expired - no need to go there. The prices are high, and I have yet to see a dealership with top-notch workmanship. Everything is rushed, and billed at top dollar. Find a reputable local garage and go there. You'll thank me later.

I can guarantee we won't be seeing numbers like that for the next couple months up here in MA ...

Waiting for the next free plow truck. They don't show up very often. Thing only has barely over 100k miles on it. Thought I'd get at least ONE season out of the damn thing. I've owned several s10's from pickups to Blazers - you'd think I'd have learned by now ...

Electronic balancer. Made in china. I'm on #2 in 12 years, due to board failures. This current one is sold by Greg Smith Equipment. They actually stock parts for them, so a board failure won't be an issue next time. Much better than paying $8,000 for a name brand one, that's for sure ... and no more waiting for strangers to strip my hub studs and lug nuts out, or over torque them ... or forget to tighten them altogether, all while overcharging me ...

This is why I say GM should just build gliders from here on out. Let US, the consumer, buy a driveline from someone who remembers how they're SUPPOSED to be built, and doesn't cut corners.

Went out to clean up from the additional 3" we got last night, in addition to the foot we got Thursday. Another foot coming tomorrow, so decided to shovel the barn roof. Over 1k sq.ft. total. Thankfully the snow was powder, but it's still a ball-busting job. Took a little over an hour to get that done. After I got off the roof, I jump in the '94 S10 plow truck, push in the clutch, turn the key - nothing. WTF. Try again ... still nothing ... except now I feel pressure bleeding off the clutch. F*@$!!! 2 days ago the thing started and ran perfect! WTF!!! Of course the truck is parked right next to a wooden stake I spray painted fluorescent orange to locate where the driveway ends, so I don't tear up the grass with the plow - it's right in the friggin way. Had to shovel a foot of snow out from around it, then drag my jack through all the snow I just shoveled off the GD roof. Rolled out my grease carpet and got to work. Whacked starter with a pipe and hammer a few times, then turned engine over using the alternator nut - fired right up. One problem down. Starter probably on it's way out from repeated abuse cranking in gear, thanks to the constant clutch problems. Checked the compression fitting on the clutch line - was leaking. I cranked down on it so tight I thought I'd bust it, but it worked. Took twice as long this time to get pedal. I jammed it in gear and just about drove right across the street into the woods. Took a good half hour of pumping to finally be able to drive the POS. GRRR!!!! Always friggin something around here!!

Yeah, that sucks. I'm only 10k under you, and I've been feeling the trans. slip going into 2nd for a while now. Just a matter of time, I figure ...

How many miles on her? Was just talking with a guy yesterday that dumped his '14 Silverado. Had 130k miles - transmission grenaded, and prior to that, one of the front springs broke and carved up his front tire, nearly sending him into the trees. Down the poor-quality wormhole we go ...

I did a stepper motor on a '05 V6 Mustang. No pinout though - was just cave-man work, lucky for me.

Yeah I hear those things work pretty good. They were always used in truck tires when I was driving TT and straight jobs. The guys there told me they had been running those beads for years. I figure if they can balance a tire that weighs 100 lbs. + , they should have no problem doing anything smaller.

Used the tailgate as a workbench, as usual. Got a 20 year old McCulloch chain saw running again. Cleaned the carb, flushed the tank, and had it running in less than 40 minutes ... but by doing that it opened a can of worms. Was trying to do the job cheap for the guy, but there was just no way these 20 year old rubber lines were going to hold up - hard as a brick and brittle as hell. Didn't help that it never got above 29° the whole time I was out there. 4 hours later, I had it finished. Had to disassemble the entire saw down to just the engine. The line to the oil tank was busted, so the chain was bone dry. Fished a new Tygothane line in there and that was done. The 2 fuel lines weren't as easy. Had to pull the flywheel, then extract 3 Torx bolts held in with red Loctite. By the time I got them out, they were pretty knackered - I used them on more easily accessible parts of the saw, Replaced the 2 lines with the same clear Tygothane, and buttoned it back up. Saw is in real nice shape for it's age. Very low hours. Could still clearly see a rough crosshatch on the cylinder walls, like it was just rebuilt. Compression is excellent. I think the owner got it free, so good score for him, even with my big labor bill I'll be handing him. Never took a pic of the finished product. Was concentrating on keeping my circulation in my feet and hands. Was 26° by the time I was done. Neighbor stopped by with beer right out of the fridge - felt WARM to me!! I never wanted to get inside as bad as I did today ...

Been pretty mild the last few weeks. Got up to 37° a few times. Hit 12° a couple nights back. Better than -14° to -17° (depending on which thermometer I looked at) on Valentine's Day, 2016 I guess ...

Nice of them to "thank" you for your service ... Pretty sure if you remove the cluster from my truck (2007), it'll start once ... then won't again, so you'd better have a good destination in mind ...

Most places in MA are like that too. Too many people with too much time on their hands, I guess. The neighborhood I'm in now is about as rural as you can get in this part of the state - it's like taking a trip back in time 40 years. Everyone looks out for one another. We barter goods and services, and borrow equipment, tools, etc., help haul deer in, etc.. I really am blessed to have found this place. Not very many places in MA like this left. As for the rest of the state, everyone has to have their nose in everyone else's business. Pisses me off!

That sucks - those code enforcements are encroaching communism. Some places I hear you can't even change the color of your house without going to the board for "approval". How did anything like this get a foothold in AMERICA??? It's crazy. What ever happened to MYOF'nB?

Been a long time since I've seen a Canadian $100. Haven't been up there since 9/11 happened - I've never had a passport. About the only electronics repairs I've done are a couple stepper motors, 2 super-caps in my Davis weather station, and a relay, jumper, and capacitor in my Amtrol Boilermate indirect hot water heater. That one saved me $200 for a new unit! There was a relay inside that switched depending on whether 24v or 120v was fed to it. Figures on 120 it was energized - thing started buzzing like crazy one day out of the blue, and kept kicking the display off - circulator wouldn't run, and the water went cold. Was about to buy a board for $200 when I read in the comments section of some board this huge post by an electronics guy - if I could buy him a keg of beer I would have! Followed his instructions and it worked great! Yesterday I replaced the 3 month old KYB shock in that '88 Trooper I freshened up for a neighbor. Thanks to the company cheaping out and not including a dust shield, the chrome got chipped, and it wiped out the seal. Nice job KYB! What a friggin joke! JERKS ... Went out back and cut a dust shield off an old shock, and fabricated it to the new replacement KYB. Should have a chance in hell of passing 3k miles this time. I had to grind down the rubber bushing before I could get the nut to thread on - that dust shield and the washer I put under it took up alot of real estate. Spray bombed the shield black so it won't rust out in 3 weeks ... She ain't pretty, but will do the job nicely. My second project for the day was for a feral cat that was dumped off in our neighborhood recently. She came to me the other day starving. Gave her some food & water. Poor little guy was overjoyed. Last night it hit 12° - I saw her on the security cameras at 4am shaking her paws as she walked across the driveway - must've been getting frostbite out there. So today, I took a plastic 55 gallon drum, cut a hole in the front, taped a trash bag over it, laid down a heated ice-dam preventer strip and put the drum on top of it. Then I took a fleece blanket the wife had stuffed upstairs, and sprinkled it with catnip, and threw a bowl of food in there too. Just went out there in the snow a few minutes ago and saw paw prints. Pulled out my flashlight and saw a little nose poking out the bottom. Glad the little guy has a place to go now.

I miss that place ... especially this time of year.

I think MA has 2 places ... and there's a list of rules and regs a mile long. Each place has about 7 miles TOTAL. Not even worth the trouble. They demand we register ALL off road vehicles, even if you NEVER leave you OWN PROPERTY, then give us no place to ride them. But, if you're a hippy hiker, locations abound. You can go anywhere you want. All the trails my dad and I cut 35 years ago have been commandeered by the state via Wildlife Management land - no motorized vehicles allowed. Par for the course up here ...

Vehicles, like wives, follow the same principle: always CHEAPER to KEEP HER.

I just found out about that place last year too. Now I've got to check that out, along with Hatfield-McCoy - been wanting to hit that place for years. Some day. Did a full brake job in the neighbor's '06 Impala yesterday - rotors and pads. 92k miles, AUTOMATIC transmission - NEVER been done!! That's a record - never seen anyone even come close to that kind of brake life. 35k is my personal best. The aluminum wheels, and the rotors were both seized on there pretty good. Took me 7 hours! Did that one in the barn with the waste oil burner running. Was pretty cramped in there, so tripping over things and squeezing past other things added to the time too.

Bottom left.

Depends on how long the OEM one lasted - if your truck is a '13, you might want to try aftermarket. If it's a '00 with lots of city driving, then the Delco one would probably be fine. I'd steer clear of anything used for anything in the braking system - just my opinion.

Sounds right to me - an internal short will do that. GM really hit it out of the park with the location of the pump unit ... This vid should help: