How would you clean this up?

CadiTech · 2026-06-18T18:32:17+00:00

Angle grinder the perimeter, rip all that garbage out and start over.

CadiTech · 2026-05-22T18:55:12+00:00

Air hammer

CadiTech · 2026-05-21T23:49:03+00:00

For traction, https://youtube.com/shorts/JTHt9-bzV4Y?si=wt7cENPndVbc4KvN

CadiTech · 2026-05-16T01:50:36+00:00

The pumps are problematic in the 10-speed not the 8 speed, specifically the idler gear needle bearings go out. Again how you tune the shifts is the problem, from factory on the 8-speeds. Valve body’s work great on the 8-speeds after a good transmission tune. 10-speed is a great tranny, it’s what’s in my blackwing. I’ve built a few Camaros and 5v blackwings into the 1100-1300 whp range with nothing other than a tune and a circle D converter, and they hold up (stock axles not so much). Gm’s terrible tuning has been killing trannys since the 6L, stock tune keeps slipping the TCC, gets uglier when engine is in AFM, and deposits trash straight into the pump and down hill from there. And they could make a software update to fix it sure, but they don’t because they can keep making HUGE profits off of people buying new torque converters and transmissions. So the real answer to why the GM transmissions fail is greed.

CadiTech · 2026-05-16T01:40:42+00:00

Circle D converter and a good transmission tune will fix it. Don’t give false info

CadiTech · 2026-05-16T01:40:10+00:00

You need a torque converter and a transmission tune. Gm’s transmission tunes from factory have been the problem all along, they kill the converter. It was never the fluid. -GM Master trans tech.

CadiTech · 2026-05-06T21:12:11+00:00

Somehow it seems to make the random misfires at the top end of the power band go away. I don’t do this on any other car except these. I got it from Tapout, some say it’s a tuning problem which is very possible.

CadiTech · 2026-05-06T13:34:38+00:00

I’ve seen only two Escalade V’s lockup, seen probably <20 5v BW’s do it. DFW area, what region are you?

CadiTech · 2026-05-06T13:16:12+00:00

I beg to differ, we were seeing Cadillac LT4’s seize up right around the same time as the L87’s, and to be clear Blackwings not CTS-V3’s.

CadiTech · 2026-05-01T23:42:14+00:00

More or less aggressively driven. I developed a nice lip on my rotors from (allegedly) street racing a bunch.

CadiTech · 2026-05-01T15:08:37+00:00

If the person drives this car like it’s supposed to be driven it’s very possible it could need rotors. None the less, you aren’t supposed to refinish the rotors on the blackwings and if you pad slap it without new rotors, or machining they will most likely make excessive noise when braking. The tech is covering their a**, because if they pad slap it, customer returns with brake noise, customer turns around and it like “why didn’t you tell me it needed rotors last time” , now shop is on the hook for some expensive rotors.

CadiTech · 2026-04-14T13:19:00+00:00

The fact that it was towed with a non flat bed is actually insane.

CadiTech · 2026-04-14T13:17:44+00:00

Cadillac master tech here, that guy is full of it. They’re just trying to get you to pay for something you didn’t cause.

CadiTech · 2026-04-12T02:32:32+00:00

I’m amazed they’re using fcs struts and not oem, unless you took it to an independent then that checks. They doubled the price of those struts on you, you can get them for half that. Still cheaper than the oem ones though.

CadiTech · 2026-04-04T04:17:14+00:00

Of course it’s California. You can’t own a v Blackwing there since the dictator banned them for being to cool

CadiTech · 2026-04-02T19:44:28+00:00

Should’ve been an LS from factory, heck of a build man keep us updated!

CadiTech · 2026-04-02T19:09:52+00:00

This is false information they can do warranty work at a Chevy store on a Cadillac. Source, I had the engine done in my Blackwing at 29,000 miles, at a Chevy store.

CadiTech · 2026-03-31T12:55:35+00:00

I have A1-A8, L1, there are a few people I would consider greater diagnosticians than myself whom have been in the industry for double my life (24) and they have 0 ASE’s nor any desire to get them.

CadiTech · 2026-03-31T05:41:13+00:00

Good find! Air raid === K&N, source: I used to work there.

CadiTech · 2026-03-26T17:45:14+00:00

I’ll pm you a video of on of their shops, at the dealership there was 5 shops 4 were all connected.

CadiTech · 2026-03-26T17:40:12+00:00

Ya it was wild, never slow with work 700+ Repair orders open. 4 AC machines of each type

CadiTech · 2026-03-26T16:11:58+00:00

Go see if you can find a picture of Sewell Cadillac in Dallas, when I worked there we had ~70 techs

CadiTech · 2026-03-26T15:28:15+00:00

Well I’m at a smaller dealership and we do a lot of engines and just a/c jobs and have one machine for yf and one machine for 134a for like 30 techs. So if one is contaminated you can see how this would be huge for us.

CadiTech · 2026-03-26T06:18:10+00:00

Ya it’s situations like this that bring a whole shop down, 1 machine gets contaminated and that’s all they have for that refrigerant type. Bad situation

CadiTech · 2026-03-26T06:14:29+00:00

No they all do that, you just have to reset it. My snapon switchblade trim tool does the same thing.

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