sexyvic1

hello, i am going to do a tune-up on my 5.3L 2001 tahoe. on all my cars before this i always went to the dealership and bought factory parts for the tune-ups.

i was going to do the same for this truck to, but is there something that works better that u guys have tried, or even some brands that didn't work.

please list what u used including the model and how it affected your truck.

thank you.

this will probably be very helpful to many people.

TXsilverado

iTrader: (19)

how many miles are on your tahoe? i try and stick to gm factory parts for the most part. cant go wrong with it in most cases. what parts are you looking for?

sexyvic1

my truck has 26,000 miles on it. i do a tune-up every summer, reguardless of the miles i put on. it is cheap enough u know?

i was always told to use factory parts too. but i hear alot of people use like the platinum plugs and different wires and stuff so i was wondering how those were. and what kind of experiances people had using different parts on ther 5.3's

we used the 4 prong platinum boushe ( spelled it wrong ) plugs on a friend of mines audi a4 and the car would not run. we had to go get dealer plugs.

TXsilverado

iTrader: (19)

if your not running any kind of forced induction, or nitrous i would put in ac delco plugs. thats just me though. wires wont make much difference....you know your factory ac delco plugs are suposed to go 100,000 miles before you have to touch them?? i would run a bottle of seafoam through the tank and call it tuned up

sexyvic1

this may sound dumb but what is seafoam?

1slow01Z71

iTrader: (36)

Cleans the injectors

TXsilverado

iTrader: (19)

its like the chevron with techron gas additive, but its cheaper and works better.