Our 13 year old SSE is sitting at 232,000. I wonder if it will make 300?

I used the black gasket when the APN was installed new. It had the black gasket in place for 50,000 and I replaced it with the orange felpro about 2 weeks ago when I cleaned the TB. That is when I noticed the warped surface on the APN.

After reading your post, I will replace the orange felpro with ...

Thanks Bill,

I do plan to visit with a tech rep at APN and get their thoughts. I do appreciate hearing from other users about their experiences with the APN part and how many miles they are getting out of them.

I don't want anyone to think I am "bad mouthing" APN as I think it is still probably ...

http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i296/3miles/UIMgap.jpg

Sorry it took so long to get back with a pic. We have been trying to keep the combines going on corn harvest and we have another rain delay today.

I'm away from the shop and I don't have any high tech measuring equipment at the house so I ...

Working on my '96 SSE L36 with 232,000 miles. At 180,000 I replace LIM gaskets with GM aluminum and installed APN UIM. 50,000 miles later I have a coolant leak at the throttle body gasket. I removed and cleaned the TB, installed a new orange felpro TB gasket and replaced. The mating surface on the ...

All other steering wheel controls work. The volume button (both up and down volume) is the only thing not working.

Thanks for the offers on the used stereos. Since mine is the 12 disc changer I would probably look for a direct replacement rather than trying to dis-mantle mine and replace the volume ...

I have a 2002 Park Avenue Ultra with 12 disc changer and steering wheel controls. The volume control on the steering wheel is not working. This is the motorized control that actually turns the knob on the head unit when the steering wheel button is pushed. I suspect that the drive motor in the head ...