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Thats easier said than done. They have a legal department, what does the Average Joe have?

From my toolbox: I wouldve gotten the button from my father. My father was a draftsman there from before it opened in 1965 and retired in 1986. I spent 2 stints in the plant as a tool & die maker from 1985 to 1988. I saw the last 2 years of C/K assembly & the changeover to the GMT400. Then back in '97 to '08 for the GMT800 & GMT900 models.

Then there was the switch from to 400 Pontiac motor to the 6.6 L (403 CI) Olds motors in Firebirds which disappointed enthusiasts.

Late replying on this 1, but I know in the US there is the Magnusson Moss Warranty Act that forbids OEMs from forcing you to use 'their' proprietary oil. This comes up a lot in the snowmobile forums where Cat, Polaris or BRP would say 'You have to use our oil.' Im sure members from the US can expand on this.

How much has the rebranding cost? I see all the parts packaging is the new 'gm' look. Imagine the reaction if Ford got rid of the blue oval & script logo?

From their website:

Out for a grouse hunt today

I think it was Castrol. TBH I dont recall many oil commercials here over the years.

Just looking @ 2 cans of 10W30 from back in the late 70s/early 80s that have been kicking around our garage for like forever. The Gulf (disappeared after purchased by Petro Canada) can has an API rating of SF/CC. The other branded William Penn/BP (another long gone brand here) has an SE rating. Obviously those oils were from the era of 3000 mile/5000 km OICs. Then as someone surmised, once synthetics became more common, the OEMs found the 5W30 was suitable. As I said earlier, there was no mention of whether to use conventional or synthetic. I figured if I was going to follow the OLS, I'd best use synthetic. Flame away, but w/ the mileage I was putting on my '95 K1500, it was nice to not have to spend so much time & money changing oil...

I dont recall what I was using in my trucks in the 80s & 90s, but would it be safe to say that 10W30 was the recommended oil for the old school small block Chevy motors back then? I think in 2000 when I got my 1st truck w/ the 'LS' motor, 5W30 was the recommended grade. I'm pretty sure conventional or synthetic wasn't specified @ the time.

I see Looking @ my manual, I saw this: I dont recall seeing this concerning past trucks. It may have been in the manuals, but I ignored it since it didnt apply to me. I wonder if this recommendation is more for trucks that aren't able to utilize a block heater which comes on @ -18* C/ 0* F?

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Not to mention her compensation....

Did they say in what part of Canada they lived in? I've lived in Southern Ontario all my life. In the 40+ years of truck ownership, I've never heard of switching viscosity for the winter (or vice versa). Until 2011, I lived about 70 miles N of Buffalo, so it's not like I lived on the edge of the tundra. Now I'm about 2 hours NE of the GTA. I do recall maybe in the 90s(?) Petro-Canada introducing a 0W30 grade oil for the colder parts of Canada. My trucks have always had a block heater & that has worked when needed for me. If you've done any travel in northern Ontario (& I imagine other provinces), company parking lots provide plug in for block heaters.

She was all fire & brimstone after the Cobalt ignition switch fiasco...

Someone said they had the same end markings as the OEM bars. Also I think you meant 'voila' rather than wala...

Possible. Does anyone know if Cognito paints them a different colour or applies their own decal to them?

I dont ever recall where the torsion bars were coming from back in the day. It's interesting to read that the GM & Cognito bars are the 'same'. If GM is sourcing the parts from a vendor, you would think there would be an agreement that the vendor couldn't sell the parts themselves. I know over the years that there are examples of GM owning the tooling, but the vendor uses it in their facilities.

You should be able to rotate the 'face/bezel' to zero the calipers when it's closed. One of the locking screws locks the caliper, the other is for the face. (Retired toolie who has a Mitutoyo brand dial caliper)

Scroll to the 2nd page. Need to drill & tap the 2 rear holes. https://www.gm-trucks.com/forums/topic/268473-2024-on-its-way/

My previous truck a 2017 Silverado 2500HD gasser. On day 3 of a road trip from Indianapolis to British Columbia in Sept' 2023.

W/ this issue, is it always a case of 1 particular side being taller? Or can it be either? Im wondering if it varies, the error, may be like the weight screws on the previous generation of cars that NASCAR raced. Crank 1 side on the rear the affect change on the opposite side in the front. In this situation cranking the torsion adjuster too much on 1 side affects the opposite rear corner.

That all being said, I wonder if there is anyone after all these years from Oshawa or Ft Wayne that would know of the fixture Im talking about. Pontiac would've been using it as well. The tools came in from 'Central Office' & were junk. Our tooling department reworked them & the revisions were adopted across the board.

You are correct, the torsion bars (@ least back in the GMT400 days) were set a about 15 or 20 minutes before gas fill. We were building 60 jobs per hour, so each operator has a minute to do their job on each truck. That being said, I think it would be possible to fill a truck off line & then adjust the bars so that tge truck was level. Take what was found and apply it to the specs for adjustment. From my memory and we're going back to 1988, the adjustment fixture was symmetrical from side to side. As Ive said elsewhere, I dont recall seeing a similar fixture being used on 'the flat top' conveyor during the GMT800 or GMT900 model runs. Maybe it was adjusted in the Chassis Area after the front suspension is fully assembled? I didnt have much to do w/ that area, so I cant say anything certain about the later assembly procedures.

Ive never heard of the Chevy lean but recall reading PV4 magazine (the old timers here may remember it) about the Toyota Land Cruisers having a lean to them.