WTF is gm thinking.. Buddy of mines 05 tahoe started not to shift into 3-4 gear. So after some picking, some of you all answering my ?? came to the conclusion to it being the shifting solenoids.. No bigge to change right, drop the exhaust, then the pan, voila, done.. WRONG As always, last bolt on each exhaust mani, decides to be a ***** and round off on us.. I used a huge breaker bar, after my impact that hits pretty damn hard wouldn't budge them, cracked, yes cracked a snap on socket.. Lets just say after 2 hours of F^&*(kn with them, I finally got the pan off. All that to swap out to tiny things that take 5 mins to do.. WOW, rant over..But it is bullshit the pipes need to be droped down to get that pan off.. Iam so freaking gald we did my Y pipe like this

 

that sucks man. at least you got it fixed.

 

Ohh thats the thing, need to get the noids tom, from the steelership, don't even know if this is the problem, as i do not have a scanner..

 

having a tec2 is nice, even if it's old as dirt . from the pic you posted, it looks like dropping the exhaust was unnecessary.

 

Thats because thats is mine, not the tahoe . I did that just for that reason, when I did my exhasut. LOL

 

Yeah that is a pain in the ***** having to drop the y...I don't know why GM didn't just extend it back like you did yours.

 

I have dropped hundreds of Tahoe/Suburban 4L60E pans and never drop the exhaust. When all the bolts are out of the pan use a large pry bar o move the exhaust down. It only needs to come down about 1/8 inch. The pan will fall right out.

 

Then this is the truck from hell. Man I pry'd on this thing with everything other then a fuggn digging bar, it didn't move no where near enough for the pan to fall.

 

Mangled03gmc-looks like i will be building my next exhaust like your truck. great idea. sucks the tahoe was such a biotch to drop.

 

I havent tried it but have read on here that if you take the tranny mount bolt out and jack or lift the back of the trans up the pan slides out pretty easy..