Hello everyone my name is Jose Arciniega. I have owned my 07.5 crew cab Silverado LT for almost two years now, but still I consider myself new to diesels since I haven't worked much on these engines. I used to own a 1980 International Scout II with a stock SD33T diesel engine on it, but working on it was much simpler then working on these new motors.
Well like I mentioned I bought my LMM almost two years ago wiith 248k miles on it. A month after I got it, I did the DPF delete and EGR delete. Programmed it put some 285/75 R16 tires on it and done the regular maintenance on it. I replaced the front hub rotors with some TIMKEN ones just for peace of mind as well as the entire front end suspension. I work as a boiler maker/welding QC Inspector so I travel a lot. I've put over 40k miles on it, I'm very happy with it and enjoying it very much.
Unfortunately, when I bought the truck, I was aware it had had some front end damage but it had been fixed. Well apparently the transmission oil cooler got damaged and instead of replacing it with an original, a smaller one is there and the cooler lines were just hacksawed off and a hose rammed in the tubing (which has no barbs) with a hose clamp, and on to a barbed 1/2 inch fitting on the cooler itself. Four weeks ago the hose slipped off the barbless tubing and I lost about a gallon and a half of my transmission oil. Anyways now I'm trying to find some lines and an original cooler or one that does as good or better job as the original, so I may fix it properly. In the mean time I tried to flare the ends of the tubing and replaced the hose with a longer hose that allows me to double hose clamp the tubing side until I can do a permanent fix. Its just too bad this happened while I'm away from home on a job and need my vehicle to get to work. Anyways thats my story. Hope everyone is doing great.
By the way, my transmission was thrown into limp mode but luckily this happened while I was at idle at the hotel and it protected it self. After topping it off with oil and resetting the limp mode by starting the truck on and off several times, it seems no damage was done to it.
Well like I mentioned I bought my LMM almost two years ago wiith 248k miles on it. A month after I got it, I did the DPF delete and EGR delete. Programmed it put some 285/75 R16 tires on it and done the regular maintenance on it. I replaced the front hub rotors with some TIMKEN ones just for peace of mind as well as the entire front end suspension. I work as a boiler maker/welding QC Inspector so I travel a lot. I've put over 40k miles on it, I'm very happy with it and enjoying it very much.
Unfortunately, when I bought the truck, I was aware it had had some front end damage but it had been fixed. Well apparently the transmission oil cooler got damaged and instead of replacing it with an original, a smaller one is there and the cooler lines were just hacksawed off and a hose rammed in the tubing (which has no barbs) with a hose clamp, and on to a barbed 1/2 inch fitting on the cooler itself. Four weeks ago the hose slipped off the barbless tubing and I lost about a gallon and a half of my transmission oil. Anyways now I'm trying to find some lines and an original cooler or one that does as good or better job as the original, so I may fix it properly. In the mean time I tried to flare the ends of the tubing and replaced the hose with a longer hose that allows me to double hose clamp the tubing side until I can do a permanent fix. Its just too bad this happened while I'm away from home on a job and need my vehicle to get to work. Anyways thats my story. Hope everyone is doing great.
By the way, my transmission was thrown into limp mode but luckily this happened while I was at idle at the hotel and it protected it self. After topping it off with oil and resetting the limp mode by starting the truck on and off several times, it seems no damage was done to it.
