Here's my 2 cents..
If it was the oil pan gasket why are there drops of oil well above the oil pan, near the water pump?
Also here is a picture from my own Tahoe with a suspected oil pan gasket leak, OPs picture looks much different than mine.
I challenge the theory of the oil pan gasket...
The installation instructions mentions that the kicker bar is an optional to the kit, I wonder if they did that on purpose.
How do the kicker bars tie into the center crossmember?
Just crawled under the Tahoe and I do have some sort of oil leak. Thinking either oil pan gasket or front main seal. Oil filter is dry, oil cooler plate is dry, rear main seal area is dry.
Thoughts?
Something else, I don’t think my Tahoe has an oil level sensor. I can see where one would go on the oil pan but there is just a metal plug in it instead. That sound right?
@donjetman I did install the new style a couple years ago when I did my AFM delete. After the AFM delete I had little to no oil loss/consumption… until now.
@Doubeleive Thanks for the reassurance.
@B-train Yes this is from a gmt800 z71 Tahoe. Pulled from a junk yard, scrubbed down with a green scratchy and then used satin rustolium. The satin doesn’t collect dirt like flat paint. I did it about 3 years ago and is holding up perfectly. Much stronger...
@Doubeleive Damn that’s not good. I am going to check my oil more often. Engine runs great I have no concerns really and any damage that was done isn’t worth opening the motor for yet. I’ll drive it till it breaks and then fix it and repeat.
@Marky Dissod i would say that 1/3 of the trip was going uphill, 1/3 was going downhill, and 1/3 was flat ground.
On the way back I just left it in 3rd because I would climb a hill and wanted the acceleration or descend a hill and wanted to engine brake. I did a lot of engine braking on the...
A little disappointed in myself. Went on vacation this weekend 1.5 hours through the mountains to the Humboldt beaches. Tahoe performed amazingly throughout the journey, was on 3rd gear most of the time climbing or descending steep incline hill action at 60mph. Confident in saying I was working...
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