{"id":12602,"date":"2020-02-13T14:45:38","date_gmt":"2020-02-13T19:45:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/techlink.mynetworkcontent.com\/?p=12602"},"modified":"2020-02-13T17:17:56","modified_gmt":"2020-02-13T22:17:56","slug":"upgrade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gm-techlink.com\/?p=12602","title":{"rendered":"Cold Weather Power Steering Hose Upgrade Kit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>2015-2020 Silverado 2500HD\/3500HD and Sierra 2500HD\/3500HD trucks driven regularly in extreme cold climates may require use of upgraded power steering hoses. Extreme cold may affect the pliability of the power steering hoses, leading to a possible power steering fluid leak.<\/p>\n<p>If the power steering hoses need to be replaced due to extreme cold weather operation, a Cold Weather Power Steering Hose Upgrade Kit is available from the GM Accessory Group. (Fig. 18) The power steering hose upgrade replacement is a customer pay option.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12640\" src=\"https:\/\/techlink.mynetworkcontent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/F18-steering-hose-image-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"740\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gm-techlink.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/F18-steering-hose-image-1.png 740w, https:\/\/gm-techlink.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/F18-steering-hose-image-1-300x195.png 300w, https:\/\/gm-techlink.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/F18-steering-hose-image-1-85x55.png 85w, https:\/\/gm-techlink.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/F18-steering-hose-image-1-200x130.png 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 740px) 100vw, 740px\" \/><strong>Fig. 18<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The upgrade kit provides enhanced protection against power steering system leaks under cold start conditions, with extensive testing and validation at temperatures of -40\u02daF (-40\u02daC). The kit contains both booster inlet and gear inlet hoses.<\/p>\n<p>For more information on the available Cold Weather Power Steering Hose Upgrade Kit, access the Accessory Information Center through GlobalConect, go to https:\/\/aic.gm.com\/cms\/home\/tools\/accessory-portfolio-search.html (U.S.) or https:\/\/ca-aic.autopartners.net\/cms\/home.html (Canada), or refer to Bulletin #20-NA-006.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8211; Thanks to Bob Hartman<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2015-2020 Silverado 2500HD\/3500HD and Sierra 2500HD\/3500HD trucks driven regularly in extreme cold climates may require use of upgraded power steering hoses. Extreme cold may affect the pliability of the power [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gm-techlink.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gm-techlink.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gm-techlink.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gm-techlink.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gm-techlink.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12602"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/gm-techlink.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12602\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12669,"href":"https:\/\/gm-techlink.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12602\/revisions\/12669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gm-techlink.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gm-techlink.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gm-techlink.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}