They recommend, but, don’t require. The knock and fuel sensors will take a read and pull timing out, if needed. The 3.6L in the Colorado sure shifts a lot. It didn’t annoy me and is probably something one just has to get used to, in new vehicles.
Yes. Been that way for 20 years. Some say it's so the steering wheel/shaft will go to the side of a person on a bad front impact. I only noticed it in mine if I look for it. It's off by an inch or 2.
Never has bothered me, it isn’t like it is a race seat and you are stuck in one place... It never even occurred to me to center my ass in the seat and fuss about where the steering wheel is. LOL
“Some” would be incorrect. It’s because the steering shaft is angled outward, away from the engine, for clearance. As it is, the whole engine assembly sits toward the passenger side, to clear the steering shaft and front driveshaft. Chevy owners who’ve experienced oiling issues know this.
Amazing. Now I'm beginning to wonder where the driver's pedals are in relation to the seat and wheel. No matter, I already asked the only question whose answer dictates whether a GM truck gets a nod of consideration from me for the last time...and it doesn't, still, after all these years of watching and waiting to see what GM's gonna do about it. Apparently, nothing...their customers are blind.
I would imagine some kind of flash box or programmer could take care of that. It did on my gas motorhome... now I can lug up hills as low as 1600 rpms in 6th gear. Also allowed the trans to shift into OD much earlier (~43mph) at part throttle.
I am glad nobody pointed that shit out to me when I had one. I never noticed it. Maybe because the only trucks ive ever owned were all GM (Escalade, Avalanche, Duramax). Ive never even sat in any other trucks to have anything to compare it to, so I never noticed it. It would have drove me batshit and I would have gotten rid of it.
TFLnow (youtube channel) has a very good vid of the 7.3 gasser with the Ford engineer that designed it.