Parking Pawl Rating

[kennaj]

I have a 1997 Yukon with a M30 or 4L6E transmission, I'm trying to find the parking pawl rating on it in pounds. The local dealer looked at me like I had two heads. I was hoping someone here could help me out. Last eight of the VIN are VJ751140. Thank you.

~kennaj

[GM-Tech]

How much does your truck weigh? That's the rating.

 

Really though, I would venture to say that not one human being that is working in a GM service department now or within the last 100 years would know that answer. Why would we need to?

 

Perhaps some propeller head somewhere deep in the bowels of GM engineering could give you that answer. Good luck finding him.

[holstbnet]

Parking pawl is designed to hold the vehicle's weight only - if you have a trailer or payload, and to be honest even just parking on a grade you really should use the emergency brake to take the stress off the pawl.

 

I do not like to use the pawl to hold my vehicles.. I normally shift into neutral, apply the e-brake, and then shift into park.

[SteveCZ]

But what happens when (and this is probably most of the NBS Truck owners out there) your parking brake doesn't hold the truck?

 

Even after you go through the adjustment stuff and jump through all the hoops, the darn thing still won't hold the truck....

[facn8me]

While watching a assembly plant video, I noticed that while doing thier random vehicle quality check. The inspector would TEST the park prawl by throwing the trans into park at 6mph both forwards and in reverse. It's stronger than you think but will break if abused.

[MrQuadrasteer]

While watching a assembly plant video, I noticed that while doing thier random vehicle quality check. The inspector would TEST the park prawl by throwing the trans into park at 6mph both forwards and in reverse. It's stronger than you think but will break if abused.

 

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Dang... hope none of us got that one !!!

[facn8me]

I thought the same thing. FSC has it in their video's