What did you do to your NNBS GMT900 Tahoe/Yukon Today?

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Battery is taking a lot of charge since it got cold out. I don’t know how old it is except that it was installed when this truck was over seas. What yall say? Replace it?

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if you have my luck the dam thing will just die when it's freezing raining and windy on a Sunday evening when everything just closed, if you do not know how old it is I would be safe rather than sorry. Costco has decent prices on the interstate agm
 

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Battery is taking a lot of charge since it got cold out. I don’t know how old it is except that it was installed when this truck was over seas. What yall say? Replace it?

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Should be a round sticker on the side of the battery somewhere with a born on date on it.
 

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Battery is taking a lot of charge since it got cold out. I don’t know how old it is except that it was installed when this truck was over seas. What yall say? Replace it?

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The adaptive charging on these 900's has the voltage meter all over the place as stated by CaptainA . Its difficult to figure out if you have a bad battery on these models. Check your battery cables at the battery and the ground to the frame.
 

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The adaptive charging on these 900's has the voltage meter all over the place as stated by CaptainA . Its difficult to figure out if you have a bad battery on these models. Check your battery cables at the battery and the ground to the frame.


I've never seen a voltmeter on these go that high quite honestly.
 

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usually (not always) when the battery gets weak you start seeing the voltmeter move around more, with a fresh healthy battery it should stick closer to 14. just my experience with both the nbs and nnbs. I think @kbuskill or somebody just put a new battery? you see any difference in the meter movement
 

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I've never seen a voltmeter on these go that high quite honestly.

usually (not always) when the battery gets weak you start seeing the voltmeter move around more, with a fresh healthy battery it should stick closer to 14. just my experience with both the nbs and nnbs. I think @kbuskill or somebody just put a new battery? you see any difference in the meter movement

Mine reads 14 or slightly more or a few volts less, never that high.

I have owned it almost a year now and never seen it that high either. I measured 14.5 and some change the other day with my meter when doing some other troubleshooting. I know the terminals are clean and tight. I may try throwing the charger at it but I am not in the mood to take chances with an unknown battery either and may just toss a new one in it. I was just wondering if maybe the alternator has decided to overcharge for some reason.
 

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when I put my new battery's in a few months ago I noticed a difference right away, even now the meter is almost always sitting on 14v it moves sometimes but not a lot and not very often.
 

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got the cam out, i see copper on the front cam bearing.

guess i'm yanking the engine for cam bearings? :(
 

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I have owned it almost a year now and never seen it that high either. I measured 14.5 and some change the other day with my meter when doing some other troubleshooting. I know the terminals are clean and tight. I may try throwing the charger at it but I am not in the mood to take chances with an unknown battery either and may just toss a new one in it. I was just wondering if maybe the alternator has decided to overcharge for some reason.
Seemed to behave better on the way home. Maybe I can do some tests with my Tech2. Gonna look for a date code and maybe have it load tested. If it fails or is questionable I will replace it.
 

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I sorta would like new rings anyways...
Second look and it's not too bad, but still.
I do have that melling hp hv pump... lol


If I spend too much more on this 5.3, i would rather just try and source a 6.0 or 6.2.
decisions decisions. :nolol:
 
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