service requirements

[package deal]

is the service every 3 months and the 12 service mandatory? i know it must be to maintain the warranty, but i have a 1999 and wanted to know if anyone has any knowledge if this is necessary for vehicle service and life or is this another way for the dealer to drain your pocketbook

[package deal]

is the service every 3 months and the 12 service mandatory? i know it must be to maintain the warranty, but i have a 1999 and wanted to know if anyone has any knowledge if this is necessary for vehicle service and life or is this another way for the dealer to drain your pocketbook

[RIC-H0]

As long as you maintain documentation that the required maintenance has been done, it shouldn't matter where it's done. It's probably safer for warranty reasons to take it to the dealer, but it shouldn't be a requirement!

Ric-H2

[Beastmaster]

Actually, the service intervals are based upon mileage and use rather than per month.

The service requirements are split between A, B, and C intervals.

In addition, if you off road your vehicle often (which you should - it's a Hummer!), you'll need to perform chassis lubes before and after each run. (Since I've gone to the severe duty cycle, my suspension component cost over 30k miles and 2 years has only been 80 bucks - for a lower ball joint. And I off road my vehicle pretty hard.)

This link shows a list of the A, B, and C intervals.
http://www.flashoffroad.com/Maintenance/Scheduled/scheduledMaint.htm

Doing the service yourself is easy. I do all of my A, B, and C service myself, unless I can find a quickie lube place to do the oil change part cheaper than my costs...which I'm able to quite often.

Hope this helps,
Steve

[oma]

Can you share where you were able to get your oil and lub done? Guess I assumed the small shops would not want to touch a H1.

[IeZeR]

oil and lube should not take you more than 30 -45 minutes once you get the hang of it. It's really easy and you will learn alot abot your truck by crawling under it and looking around. Check your owners manual for lube points there are a bunch of them.

[Beastmaster]

In Arizona, there is a chain of car wash joints called "Danny's Family Car Wash". They all have service bays.

One of their oil/lube/filter specials is $29.99 for a diesel (using Shell Rotella T), with 2 gallons of oil, plus filter and grease.

As for knowing the vehicle - I agree it's worth knowing where all the points are and how to do an oil change. I recommend doing it at least once. However, the cost involved in the oil change isn't worth it for me in the long run.

For my cost, it's 16 bucks for the oil (2 gallons), an average of 10 bucks for a filter, and 3 bucks for synthetic grease for the grease gun. Add the time to go back to a parts store to recycle the oil, and I'm out money.

As for grease points - the owners manual kinda sucks when giving good locations on the actual zerk placement.

To help list them, they are:
4 Upper Ball Joints (top of A-Arm)
4 Lower Ball Joints (Found behind a CTIS dust shield - You need to jack the truck up to ensure grease gets in the ball joint - the weight of the truck will not allow grease to get into the bottom of the ball joint cup)
4 Front Tie Rod Ends
2 Idler Arm
1 Pitman Arm
3 Steering Shaft joints (2 U joints, 1 slip)
5 front drive shaft (3 U joints, 2 slip)
2 rear drive shaft (2 U joints)
2 Radius rod ends

If you have a tire carrier, fuel can carrier, and/or the pintle hook tow attachment, each of those also has a grease gun point.

I grease each of these points before and after an off road run to ensure that the parts in question don't wear too much.

So - for $29.99 and a printout of the above, you can have some quickie lube do all the labor for you. Admittedly, the grease points takes me all of 15 minutes to hit every one of them....so it's not too time intensive at all.

-Steve