2009 Silverado 5.3 oil leak
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2009 Silverado 5.3 oil leak
I have a 2009 silverado with a 5.3 automatic. The entire bell housing and transmission is covered in oil. I checked the bell housing inspection cover and it is dry inside. I looked at the oil sending unit with a mirror and it seems dry. The engine is dry a the fire wall blanket is also dry. Anyone have any ideas?
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CF Monarch
I have a 2009 silverado with a 5.3 automatic. The entire bell housing and transmission is covered in oil. I checked the bell housing inspection cover and it is dry inside. I looked at the oil sending unit with a mirror and it seems dry. The engine is dry a the fire wall blanket is also dry. Anyone have any ideas?
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I have a 2009 silverado with a 5.3 automatic. The entire bell housing and transmission is covered in oil. I checked the bell housing inspection cover and it is dry inside. I looked at the oil sending unit with a mirror and it seems dry. The engine is dry a the fire wall blanket is also dry. Anyone have any ideas?
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CF Monarch
8 of the 11 bolts on the valley cover were not even hand tight. Replaced gasket and torqued and no leaks. Not sure how those bolts go loosened, but they did which also meant the fuel management solenoids were leaking also. There was a lot of oil inside the intake itself.
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factory torque specs are usually given for "dry" bolts
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Yeap.
I was watching all the automation and installation of Chevy light trucks at Fort Wayne, IN, on YouTube and lots of the parts, even body bolts are installed by robotic machines. Don't know if the engine bolts are, as they had fully assembled motors but back in the day that would have been done by humans not robots.
Feet sorry for the workers as I know that as time passes more things will be done by these robots and not human beings who need a paycheck to live. Then again I recall how awful the spot weld, which are now done by robots, were on my brother's old 1975 Dodge power wagon. He had to have the dealer reweld and paint his new pickup truck but that was ages ago.
Nevertheless, Elon Musk is correct about how robots are stealing our jobs, and he is also afraid of a computer becoming a sentient being and how we humans would even know it happened, unless they go "Terminator" on we mortal humans.
I was watching all the automation and installation of Chevy light trucks at Fort Wayne, IN, on YouTube and lots of the parts, even body bolts are installed by robotic machines. Don't know if the engine bolts are, as they had fully assembled motors but back in the day that would have been done by humans not robots.
Feet sorry for the workers as I know that as time passes more things will be done by these robots and not human beings who need a paycheck to live. Then again I recall how awful the spot weld, which are now done by robots, were on my brother's old 1975 Dodge power wagon. He had to have the dealer reweld and paint his new pickup truck but that was ages ago.
Nevertheless, Elon Musk is correct about how robots are stealing our jobs, and he is also afraid of a computer becoming a sentient being and how we humans would even know it happened, unless they go "Terminator" on we mortal humans.
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