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At the end of the day I’m in search for is the GM service manuals that covers top to bottom specific a 95 to 99 suburban with the 95 new interior style from engine down to the damn bumper bolts lol.. don’t care what else is included and what other pickup trucks are covered just want what covers the 99” year suburban . Last year they made the suburban as an Obs body style.

So as I was stating I feel like these manuals are awesome I downloaded all 4 volumes for the 98’ CK trucks .
There was nothing for a 99’ model even tho we all know it exists.. Hoping to find a manual that covers this SUV past just the drivetrain/ engine electrical / trans / and vacuum diagrams .
Suv is not a truck body so it’s not showing bolts, nuts, solenoids different parts that are mid way - to through the back end of a suburban? There are plenty of differences in look design and parts from the suburban to 1500 Silverado. That’s where the confusion sets in on what I was looking for

Hello A97obs,

The '99 FSM manuals that I downloaded were in reply #77. (LINK to '99 FSM downloading)

Looks to be an individual contribution to the list, courtesy of @PM18S4.
(Tip of the hat to this member - he's made my quality of GMT400 life much improved. :)

For what it's worth, these files are well-tested and the search function is better than most.
 

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Be careful buying from the eBay Manual Mafia
I often see manual set asking prices near twice the price of a brand new in the shrink wrap manual set price from Helm Inc.
Helm publishes factory shop manuals for a lot of different manufacturers. Including General Motors.
Helm Inc homepage

My 2000 C2500 GMT400 factory shop manuals are indeed some kind of light blue.

Not sure what color the first gen T800 manuals are. I think you're right.... it's some kind of light tan
I have a full set of factory shop manuals for my 2005 K2500 GMT800. Eleven heavy volumes if I didn't miscount. Kind of a medium to dark purple covers.
 

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The only constant in FSM cover colors is only 2 or 3 consecutive years will be the same color. The other is every year there are more and more pages. :Big Laugh:
 

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Does anyone have the manual for the 2000 k2500?
This one claims to have the factory shop books on CD for the 2000 GMT400 light trucks. If it's a decent set of PDF scans it's a really good price.

There are a bunch of incomplete manual sets. Don't fall for that. Make sure all four volumes are there and they are the correct four volumes for your truck.

The 2000 GMT400 service books are GMT/00-CK-1, GMT/00-CK-2, GMT/00-CK-3, GMT/00-CK-4

The four 2000 GMT800 service books are GMT/00-CK8-1 ... GMT/00-CK8-4. The last # after the dash is the volume number.
 
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Over the years I have collected a bunch of GM service literature.
Links to PDF Scans of service and STG manuals and a links to the Parts manuals. You'll need the FREE Adobe Acrobat reader to open these files. Get it directly from Adobe here {http://get.adobe.com/reader/}
If you're not interested in Adobe products there are several lightweight alternatives. wikipedia.org List_of_PDF_software
TechRepublic Review of five-lightweight-and-free-pdf-viewers/ an important fact they left out is... Foxit is Ad supported so factor that in.

Please Save these files on your local machine. Do not open in your web browser. The Mediafire PDF reader is not compatible with the Searchable PDF document type. The OCR text is visible along with the page image in the same space.

If you're good at loosing files Google "Void Tools Everything" and download direct from the developer. I've used this file search tool for years. It will find any misplaced file... :D

It looks like Mediafire has begun compressing PDF files as .gz GZIP archives. You can un-compress it with a universal file archive tool.
I use 7-ZIP because it opens darn near all archive formats, it's lightweight & fast, it's free, and so far it comes with no spyware or adware. http://www.7-zip.org.

These scans make a nice electronically searchable reference. But. I highly recommend buying used or even new paper copies. There's nothing like holding the book in your hands...

1988-2000 GMT400 CK Light Truck Service, "Unit Repair" or Overhaul, Wiring Manuals ETC.


GM STG (Service Training Group) Textbooks and References

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Brakes

Cruise Control Systems

Diesel

Electrical

Fuel Systems


Transmission / Transfer Case


Radios

Useful Docs and Spreadsheets

What follows is an Excel 97 spreadsheet I put together several years ago to calculate the Speedo gears and engine RPM at various highway speeds. I was doing a "What-If" on transmissions, tires, and axle gear-sets and wanted to get transmission/transfer-case speedo gears as close to correct as possible. My 76 reads 1-2mph higher than actual speed. If my speedo reads 35 the local police dept's "Your speed is this" sign will read 33 or 34.

For the RPM tables you'll need to edit the transmission and Transfer case gear ratios as well. There are tables of ratios found in common trannys and transfer cases in the RH pane.

The Free Apache Open Office Suite https://www.openoffice.org/ and Free Libre Office Suite http://www.libreoffice.org/ "Calc" Spreadsheet applet in 4.x and newer versions. Libre Office and Open Office 4.x & 5.x will open and edit spreadsheets in Excel 97(XLS) & 2007 and newer (XLSX) formats but the formatting is better in their native ODS version. I lean toward Libre Office because the dev cycle for bugfixes and new features is shorter. Google Docs should open either the ods or xls file on the web as well.
.XLS files sometimes have visual formatting issues in Libre Office and .ODS files have formatting issues in some versions of Excel. They will both open in either office package but I included both for more appealing visual layout in the office package of your chioce.

There are no Macros or VB Scripts. It's just a spreadsheet with some fairly complex formulas and color formatting.
MAC OSX and Windows Operating Systems since Windows XP have been able to open ZIP files without extra software if the functionality is not disabled by system policies. If you want a Free Open Source Archive tool get the 7-Zip tool http://www.7-zip.org/ 7-ZIP is a GUI under windows but not under Linux as of this writing. If you don't like using 7-Zip from the command line in Linux there's a GUI called PeaZip

Have a good one. :smoke:
I have recovered pdf files (but not link) of the following two manuals published by GM Powertrain:
1) a comprehensive engine parts list w/ pro drawings-illustrations --- for L30, L31, L05
2) a comprehensive engine service manual w/ pro drawings-illustrations --- for Vortec V8 L30 & L31

If you want them to include in your public library, I can email them as pdf attachments; just ask.
 

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I have recovered pdf files (but not link) of the following two manuals published by GM Powertrain:
1) a comprehensive engine parts list w/ pro drawings-illustrations --- for L30, L31, L05
2) a comprehensive engine service manual w/ pro drawings-illustrations --- for Vortec V8 L30 & L31

If you want them to include in your public library, I can email them as pdf attachments; just ask.
UPDATE:
I've received several questions / PMs about distribution of the above.

Per request of member hatzie --- I Did email hatzie the files of the above.

I cannot answer for hatzie

I am not openly distributing files (aka emailing) to this or that individual, nor to Tom, Dick & Harry; I'm Not doing that. I ain't game for that bother!
That is Exactly why I've attempted to provide them to hatzie; so that he can host them and freely distribute them as he sees fit.

I do, repeat Do want you and others to have free access to files mentioned above. But, again, I ain't doing any distribution.
Please, please Do direct any questions about this matter to member hatzie (not to me).
 

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