01 Silverado book manual? 4wd enguagement?

Hello, my 01 silverado doesnt have a instruction book that just came with it used. Does anyone know of a place online that has a downloadable pdf format one or something similar???? How is the 4x4 enguaged or disenguaged? I have the buttons for on the fly 4wd and it has the z71 offroad package. I think you need to stop, put it in reverse and then back in drive to come out of 4x4 mode correct? First 4wd vehicle, other truck is a 91 ford f150 2wd, still in great condition but no 4wd. Thanks :grinno:

Most of the 99-newer 4x4s that I rode in would just come out of 4 wheel drive by hitting the switch. I know some of my friends that race their Z71s launch out of the hole in fourwheel drive(traction) and knock it out after they take off. I think they finally fixed the problem of having to stop and back up with newer four wheel drives.

Most of the 99-newer 4x4s that I rode in would just come out of 4 wheel drive by hitting the switch. I know some of my friends that race their Z71s launch out of the hole in fourwheel drive(traction) and knock it out after they take off. I think they finally fixed the problem of having to stop and back up with newer four wheel drives.

why don't they use the auto button?

Well, I said Z71, but I was also including the base 4x4s owners. The Z owners use the auto, but some guys have a base model with the handle on the floor. Auto is a great thing to have, but some of them decided to go base model to cut cost(they were gonna change the rims, take off the molding, stereo upgrades, etc.) They could get these trucks super cheap this way, and with the money they saved, fix them up like they like.

I bought a truck with the manual floor shifter. Just one less thing to break. But I do know how your Push Button works. If you are under 45 MPH, you can press the 4 Hi Button. and Back to 2 Hi. I have found if you do this while you are coasting, then tap the gas, it disengages the 4x4 immediatly. The only time you have to stop and put it in nuetral is for going in and out of 4 Lo. but no need to put the truck in reverse. Just a tap of the gas is snough to release the transfer case.

Well, I said Z71, but I was also including the base 4x4s owners. The Z owners use the auto, but some guys have a base model with the handle on the floor. Auto is a great thing to have, but some of them decided to go base model to cut cost(they were gonna change the rims, take off the molding, stereo upgrades, etc.) They could get these trucks super cheap this way, and with the money they saved, fix them up like they like.

a little of the subject of the forum, sorry. but you have buddies that are running 4x4's do you know what their times are and what they have done. becuase i haven't seen to many people with 4x4 that go for speed, so im not sure how fast they can get them. i seen the site you sent me of the guy that ran a 11.9. wow, that has totaly got me back into wanting to do stuff to my truck and pushed me away from the 4-wheeler.

Most of the 4x4 guys with all the main boltons go low 14s and some high 13s. The 11.9 Z71 dropped in a 6.0L, whipple supercharger, yank stall, 100 shot of nitrous, and some badass tuning. The diesel guys are really impressing me. About $600-800 in mods and they're easily in the high 13s. Your truck is a 2000, so you already have an advantage over the 99 Z71s. I would say that high 13s could be easily achieveable with all the boltons and a good custom tune. That's really rolling for an extended cab 4x4. I'm gunning for a low to mid 13 with my little 4.8L. Can't wait to see what i can do when I hit the track with the stall/shift kit and some good drag radials.
4x4s are no longer just used for the mud and towing. These bad boys are getting out on the track and showing some smaller cars and trucks what it's all about. Then they finish the night up with a little mud riding. :iceslolan

what kinds of mod do they have the ones that run low 14 and high 13. thats what i am looking for. i dont really want to buy a supercharger if i don't have to to run 14's

Most of the low 14, high 13 runs are with basically the same mods as you. The only difference is most of them are running a custom tune instead of a over the counter programmer. They also have the tailgate off, spare tire out, and the front passenger headlight out. We all run with the headlight out. It's easy to take in and out, and it feeds the open air filter with a good bit more air.Weight reduction helps out a ton in these trucks. Have you ever been to the track? I would say with your mods, you should be in the mid to low 14s. .

what kind of custom tune are they using? do you think a new pcm by nelson would help me get there. plus all the weight reductions?

Absolutely, I'll almost guarantee that you will think this is the best money you have spent on performance so far. I have never heard of someone not getting a huge seat of the pants gain from a custom tune. It is definately worth every penny. I see you have the Hypertech. You could do like I'm gonna do and reprogram your computer back to stock, sell your previous programmer, and use that money to help pay for the custom tune. Nelson will always upgrade the tune for any mods you do for free. You just can't beat the performance of a custom tune over a handheld unit. It's just not comparable.

do you think i should go with nelson tune or ls1 edit? because i have a labtop that never gets used.

Most of the low 14, high 13 runs are with basically the same mods as you. The only difference is most of them are running a custom tune instead of a over the counter programmer. They also have the tailgate off, spare tire out, and the front passenger headlight out. We all run with the headlight out. It's easy to take in and out, and it feeds the open air filter with a good bit more air.Weight reduction helps out a ton in these trucks. Have you ever been to the track? I would say with your mods, you should be in the mid to low 14s. .

i have never been to the track before. but i plan on going this spring. i have been waiting for my friends to get their 97 gtp and 03 eclipse done up a little. both are supose to run around 15 stock. and the gtp kills me off the line. but if you are saying that i should be running low 14's with a custom tune i am going to get it in the spring along with a shift kit and servo. my buddies with their car will shit when i come blowing by them. so then i might start spending more money on my truck. that will be after my buddy gets his P.O.R.N. business going (Performance Off-Road Necessities. he said that he will give a great deal on stuff. oh and how does that guy that runs a 11.92 launch off the line so fast? is it because if his stall? ow and i was wondering what he runs 0-60 in? thanks Lance

Yeah, his launches are due to the stall, auto 4x4, and a nice 100 shot out of the hole. His 60ft was a 1.694 :eek: His 8th was a 7.524, and his 1/4 was an [email protected]. He had some serious money in this truck, but that thing would just all out haul. He sold this truck and now has a brand new single cab 4x4 that he has already put a 6.0L, 4L80E tranny, and a 100 shot of nitrous. Can't wait to see what kind of numbers he puts down with this monster. You should be able to blow those guys off the road when you get that custom tune and if you get the tranny work done you will really kill them. Good luck.

Yeah, his launches are due to the stall, auto 4x4, and a nice 100 shot out of the hole. His 60ft was a 1.694 :eek: His 8th was a 7.524, and his 1/4 was an [email protected]. He had some serious money in this truck, but that thing would just all out haul. He sold this truck and now has a brand new single cab 4x4 that he has already put a 6.0L, 4L80E tranny, and a 100 shot of nitrous. Can't wait to see what kind of numbers he puts down with this monster. You should be able to blow those guys off the road when you get that custom tune and if you get the tranny work done you will really kill them. Good luck.

i was looking at this site http://www.kdsperformance.com/supser700r44.html and they have a servo that has 35% more surface then the corvette servo. do you think i should upgrade the servo to that. because i plan on eliminating some of my torque management with the nelson tuning. or do you think the corvette servo plus the shift kit would do fine.

You can get that one, but I know that the vette servo would serve your purpose well. It's gotta hold up pretty well to put up with the power the vette puts down to the ground.

thanks i dont really have the money for that servo anyways. i got another question. i took my truck out yesterday because it was a nice winter day in michigan, and i could spin my tires off the line. i was thining maybe it was just salt dust on the road making it easyier but there wasn't any. i have 3:73 gears in my truck and a fiberglass bed cover and i have never in my two years of owning this truck even in past winters been able to spin the tires going straight from a dead stop!(dry pavment) the temp out side was about 26 degrees that might play a good part. but what about the past winters. my truck is running SO good, i dont know what it is.

Looks like your mods are giving you traction issues now. Those 3.73s don't help much on the traction side either. The cold weather will definately make your tires hard and spin. I hate traction problems. I'm gonna get some caltrac traction bars and some mickey thompson street slicks. I don't think I'll have to worry about traction anymore. Right now if I stall up and take off, I spin through 1st and 2nd easily. If I feather it off the line, I still get a little spin, but I yank second pretty hard. If you get a stall and the custom tune, be ready to spin so much more off the line unless you launch in auto 4x4. I only take off hard now when I'm trying to show off alittle bit. It's fun to be able to light them up at will, and when it chirps second on a 1/4 run, I love it.

it is wierd traction just started giving me problems. it was nice before i could sorta launch off the line with out any spin at all. it would get up and move a little. with your stall do you have an idle speed? like when you let off the Break does it creap forward at all? i was wondering if it is good to launch off the line in auto or 4Hi. or do i not have enough power to break anything in there yet? i just dont want to be breaking my TC. and those Z06 cam and Ls6 springs you were talking about. could you tell me a little more info on them (price, how to install, hp increcse, where to find them). i might be interested down the road. my buddy in a 92 eclipse GS Non turbo is right next to me no matter what speed were at. he is talking about getting lighten fly-wheel, dual friction clutch, cams, and all the good stuff that goes with the head work. i dont really want a 2.0 non turbo to be passing me. you know any other things that might keep me ahead of him that isn't to hard to do. or cost that much? anything would help. thanks again!!!

When I just take off normally, my rpms will rise a good bit before my truck actually moves. It sounds like I have a standard tranny and I'm giving it gas and letting out on the clutch slowly. When I race, I can stall the motor up to about 2300 before my tires start to spin, where with the stock converter I could only stall up to about 1500 rpms before I started spinning. You'll be ok launching in auto, since it kicks out of 4x4 when it gets going. I just wouldn't do it all the time, only when I thought I needed to beat my opponent out of the hole. The Z06 cam will give you alot more mid and high range. The ls6 springs are needed to go with this cam. I would leave a cam install to the professionals. It's not a very hard process, and the engine doesn't have to come out, but its a pretty difficult process if you aren't to familiar with doing it. If you went with the cam, you would tell whoever you get to do the tuning, and they could adjust your shifts points higher to what that cam revs up to.(It's well above 6000). You should also pick up anywhere from 20-30hp. They are usually around $100-150 for the cam and not sure on the springs(I'll check and let you know). With a small stall, this cam would be perfect to wake up the mid and high range of your truck. The cam, springs, converter, and tuning will you so far ahead of him, he won't even be able to see your taillights. But if you really want to add insult to injury, port and polish the heads and put a small 100 shot on it. Then you'll be pullin 12s all day. We have guys here all the time spraying these trucks into the 12s and low 13s.

so when you floor it it only acually stalls to 2300 before you start moving. if i am understanding this right then why do they call it a 3000 stall. and what would a 2600- 2800 stall, stall at? how much is a port and polish? and does any of this stuff reduce reliability? how much do you think it would cost to get cams and springs installed. would i need different rockers? thanks once again.

i dont really paln on getting any N2O any time soon. i think the only time i would use it would be at the track and i dont think i would go there enough to get my moneys worth.

I think the reason they call it a 3000 stall is because the actual stall really depends on what motor its behind. See these stalls are for all model vehicles with the 4l60e transmission, which include the 4.8, 5.3, and the 5.7 LS1. I'm sure that it would probably stall to 3000 behind the ls1. My friends that have the stall in their 5.3L can stall up a little higher than me, so I'm assuming that's why. The head porting and polishing will cost a pretty penny, most likely around a grand or so, and it would only help the motor, not hurt it. Depending on what the mechanic charges an hour, it should probably not take longer than 5 hours or so to get them all installed. So, it really depends on what the mechanic charges an hour, and how much experience the mechanic has doing it. I've seen mechanics do it in much less time than that, but I was just giving a slight estimate. If it were me, I would go ahead and get some upgraded rockers if I were already going in there. As for if you have to, I don't think you do, but it would probably be better to go ahead and do it. Nitrous is really only fun when you're at the track or you're beside somebody you know you can't beat otherwise. Then you see the look on there face when you blow by them. I have a friend that hid a kit in an extended cab silverado. He had all the wires either hidden or covered with wire loom, and the nozzle was scewed into the underside of the intake tube and covered with wire loom. He had the bottle hidden under his back seat on the drivers side. He used to let people look under his hood, then race them and spray the crap out of them. It was hidden so freakin good, you really couldn't see any of it.

im starting my wish list for my truck on things i want to get before summer ends.
1. shift kit w/servo $100 (before april 3 track opener
2. nelson tune $375 (after april 3 to see what i run with hypertech
3. stall $650
4. cam / springs/ rockers $????
thats all i really have for now. ahouldn't be to hard then i will probably go for some looks. port and polish if i happen to rob a bank this summer. ( if i do i will for sure send you that 6.0 block and some cash to build it with for all your help) LOL!!
here are the cars i want to beat by the end of the summer
1. 03 eclipse (catback exhaust, aem air intake)
2. 97 GTP 3.4 pulley, intake, catback exhaust, ubend removed
3. 03 mustang gt (k&n intake, flowmaster exhaust).
i dont think the first two should be that hard it what your telling me is true with just a custom tune and shift kit low 14's. hope your right.

You'll be there easily with your mods, a tune, and the shift kit. And don't worry about that mustang. If you're low 14s, you should be right beside that mustang, if not in front of it. Stall will put you by him no problem, unless you can't hook the truck anymore after all of that. I have already beat a new eclipse with mods similar to what you described. I haven't been to the track since the stall was put in, but I estimate that I'm in the mid to low 14s right now. Now if I could just get my street slicks, I would do some serious damage. I hate having to feather it out of the hole! I'm in the process of saving up for my exhaust work until I graduate college in May. I've already started my job training for my job when I graduate, so that 6.0L will be the first big mod of the summer. I can't wait to get that thing in and ring some poor saps in there sports cars. :iceslolan You have a great list of stuff to do this summer. You're gonna be surprising everybody at the track that still thinks trucks are slow.

By the way, when I said you should be in the mid to low 14s, I'm basing it off of my friends current setup. He has basically your truck with electric fans, ls1edit tune, K&N intake, 3.73 gears, and underdrive pullies. He doesn't have any exhaust work done like you and he barely has any torque management removed, and the pullies usually give about a .1-.2 improvement. He also doesn't have a stall or a shift kit, just the vette servos. He's running a 14.8, so I assume you would be as fast(most likely faster) with the exhaust work, a stall, and the shift kit/servo combo. With a stall and the auto 4x4, your truck will launch out of the hole like a freakin monster. You're gonna love it when you come out that hard and yank second gear.

i was thinking about a pulley kit too. you just reminded me. do you know what kind of a kit he has i was thinking about this one. http://www.tbyrnemotorsports.com/truckcatalog.html
they are the asp pulleys
what kind of job are you training for?
the kid with the 03 eclipse is the main person i want to beat, he says that he isn't even treatened by my truck. if i had to guess on what i was running i would say i am running mid 15's. but thats with michigan air i don't know if the air preasure matters.

Yeah, ASP makes the best pullies. I would strongly recommend getting the entire kit. Some people don't get the alt. pulley. If you have the electric fans, or a sound system, or any aftermarket lighting, you have to get the alt pulley in order to make the voltage stay up. I have had great experience with tbyrne in the past. You might want to check out thunderracing.com as well. They have great customer service and great deals on products for our trucks. I'm training to take over the head management role of a local business. I've been so used to physical labor jobs in the past, its gonna be great to be able to tell others what to do for a change. :biggrin: The air pressure makes a huge difference. Anyone in the higher air pressure locations will have slower times than places like where I live in MS. You will own the eclipse with no problem. He'll either have to spray you or get a nice fat blower on there to beat you by the end of the summer.

i planned on getting the whole kit i need somthing to keep those fans running strong. they like kill my volts when they turn on at stop lights. i probably need a battery. seeing how it hasn't been replaced in the two years i have owned the truck. but it is hard to spend my money on somthing that i dont want to get. i would rather put it into some performance stuff. but it will be replaced before spring. good luck with your job. hope it works out. i do what you got out of a physical labor, that is for now im on my second year for Vehicle Design Technology. which basically means i will probably be designing cars or anything that has to do with them. which i think i will enjoy. cars, trucks, making things fast have become a new big hobby in my life.i sorta have bad luck with wrenching, o i decided to go with designing. my girlfriend gets pissed because when i hang out with my friends and she is around i am always talking about cars, trucks, or how to make things faster. she is slowly starting to learn. its about time we have been together for over a year now. i even spent some money on her car (98 saturn SL2 5 speed) to make it some what faster. (kumho tires , short throw shifter) i laugh whenever she brings up the races she gets into.
oh i have been thinking bout that 100 shot and hiding it like you friend. could you tell me what kit he had and how hard it was to make things hidden? thanks for your help. hey if i am ever going to be in Mississippi. i will let you know and maybe we can line them up..

i was looking for ls6 springs and new rockers i came across this package http://www.tbyrnemotorsports.com/truckcatalog.html it is the SLP rocker arm package, LS1/LS6 w/LS6 springs, keepers. do you think it is what i need for the zo6 cam. or can you think of a better deal/package? i am just trying to get prices for each mod. so i know how much i have to save. do you know a site where i can get the zo6 cam?

That package would work great with the z06 cam. The zo6 cam is just a stock cam out of the ls6 motor. I recently contacted tbyrn and ask them for some cam ideas. They recommend several lunati cams to me, giving me several options on wether or not I wanted more low, middle, or high end power. They are very helpful and can give you some specs and what kind of gains you'll get out of any of the cams they offer. Just shoot them an email and tell them what you have and what you are wanting to do. They know their stuff there and they have great service. If you just want a stock ls6 cam, you can always find one on ebay or you can get your local chevrolet dealer to hook you up with a brand new one. I wish I would have majored in what you did. That would be the best job ever. I know exactly what you're talking about with the girlfriends. My girlfriend always wants to go out riding, but we always end of finding some of my friends, sit there for hours on end talking about trucks and cars, or go out to our spot and line them up. Yeah, man, let me know if you ever come anywhere near MS. I know alot of racers all over MS and some in TN. I always know where to go here for some good action.

yeah i might be going to houston texas i think sometime in the spring for one of my dads highschool buddies daughters wedding. i told him i want to drive down if i have the money to spare. i wish we had a good spot around her to line cars/trucks up. i normally do it on our main roads. but there not a accurate race. thanks for for the tip. if i am becomeing a pain in the ass with all my questions you can let me know? i can handle it. you just know so much and have helped so much. no one by me is into making trucks go fast. well i will keep you up dated on how the new mod are going.

Don't worry about bothering me. I love to see guys interested in making their trucks fast. Just holla anytime you have a question, and if I can't answer it, I know guys who can. I'm glad I can help. Yeah, Keep me updated, and I'll let you know every time I mod up. This is going to be a great summer! :iceslolan