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    Speed sensor questions

    Thanks for the replies. Just a follow up... the truck had only acted up that once during that short trip out for lunch, after which it had returned to normal. Regardless, I ordered a new sensor off Amazon and swapped it in the next day. I've put about 500 miles on the truck since with no issues...
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    Speed sensor questions

    Thanks very much.
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    Speed sensor questions

    I hope this is in the right location. Truck is a 96 Tahoe 4x4. Today when I got in the truck for lunch, as I was leaving the parking lot I noticed that it wasn't upshifting. The speedometer was also dead on zero. I tried manually shifting to second and third and the transmission held normally...
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    Can't find a source of front suspension noise

    There's one thing I forgot to mention. When I replaced all the control arm bushings and sway bar bushings I used all polyurethane. I just went out running errands at lunchtime, and the roads are soaked from a very heavy rain. In driving in and out of parking lots and around the industrial park...
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    Can't find a source of front suspension noise

    The bars have been out. When we put everything back together, the driver side bar needed quite a bit more cranking than the passenger side to get a level ride (I think it's just sagged after a half million miles). That one's bolt is probably 3/4 the way in, while the passenger side is a little...
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    Can't find a source of front suspension noise

    Body mount is a great thought. I've been in Florida for 15 years with the truck, but the first 12 years of its life were in the worst part of the salt belt in Western NY. I've had to do a lot of rust repair on it, including welding in new rear body mounts where the sheetmetal had given out. I've...
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    Can't find a source of front suspension noise

    Thanks for the replies and thoughts. It's possibly the CV joints, but I'm not sure. The have a couple hundred thousand miles on them, but nearly all of it is under no load in 2WD. I used to use 4WD all the time when the truck was up in the Western NY snowbelt, but since those axles went in...
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    Can't find a source of front suspension noise

    I have a 96 4WD Tahoe with a stock suspension. I get a bumping/light clunking sound these days when in a tight turn and going over a bump, generally at parking lot speed. It's about the same turning left or right. For the life of me I can't find anything loose under there. I just had a mechanic...
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    Throwing ideas around - LS swapped Tahoe, built for mpg

    I'd question the return on investment. My 96 4 door Tahoe, which I've owned since nearly new and put over 500,000 miles on, consistently gets 16 MPG per tank, with an even mix of highway and city. Mine is a 4WD, factory tow package, and has LT 265 tires that I run about 40 PSI. It's the original...
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    What to do if your brakes fail?

    I've had a stuck throttle in the past and a few instances of brake pedal to the floor. Stuck throttle was the easiest to deal with. The moment I realized it was stuck I killed the engine. Then I could just brake normally and stop safely. One time in a manual transmission car I had the master...
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    Solder vs crimps

    Yeah, mother nature wants her metal back!
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    Solder vs crimps

    This is a long thread at 7 pages, and I admit I quit reading at about 4 pages, but for what it's worth... I recently had to completely strip apart and "rebuild" my rear taillight wiring harness not long ago. I found that the way GM originally split and branched wires was solder and heat shrink...
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    Truck stalled, wouldn't restart, then started fine hours later

    This is likely not the case for you, but it's worth looking into. I've had a fuel pump relay go bad that would cut out when it was hot. The truck would die like the fuel pump had just gone bad. A little while later it would start right up and run fine. I tried swapping the fuel pump relay with...
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    Longevity of OEM distributor?

    My 96 distributor is original with 510,000 miles and it's still fine. Just a new cap and rotor every hundred thousand or so. No way I'd take a chance replacing it unless it actually broke something. Most new parts I find are no where near the quality of what was new, especially if it's a...
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    What's your mpg...

    1996 4 door Tahoe, stock Vortec 5.7 and 4L60e, 4WD, LT265/75R-16 tires, and whatever gear ratio comes with the factory tow package. 16.5 mpg long term average (I check it with about every other tank full).
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