engine hours ??

[Stig / Major Tom]

I've noticed this pop up every so often on my 2006 Silverado - is this something unique to this Chevrolet which is sold as a "Silverado 1500 WT" ....found out the WT stands for "work truck".

It has basic items like manual windows, rubber flooring, bench seat, etc. Does come with very good A/C, intermittent wipers, auto-DRL's, 4 speaker radio.

Anyway - it has 68,370 miles on it.
 691.4 hours divided by 17yrs = just about 41 hours per year.

Not seen an 'engine hours' read-out on a vehicle before.
It does let me know when oil changes are due....not sure it's tied to the engine hours, but maybe.
Stig

[aschrauth]

As a service technician I have seen this feature on almost every new vehicle that comes into the shop. some are even equiped with an idle hour meter Half of the time people never pay attention to it. I might add. For an 06 that is wrather low milage for that year.

[Stig / Major Tom]

As a service technician I have seen this feature on almost every new vehicle that comes into the shop. some are even equiped with an idle hour meter Half of the time people never pay attention to it. I might add. For an 06 that is wrather low milage for that year.

Thanks for your reply!
A question - do the engine hours reset after the battery is changed??
 I did nothing to 'save' the truck's settings when I put in the new battery.

I ask - because, otherwise -  the truck's engine has averaged less than 1 hour per week over it's 17 year life!
I know my FIL did not drive it with his wife aboard - she couldn't get up into the seat - but surely he drove it more than that?

Stig

[Iahawk]

Stig, interesting feature on your truck! Many feel hour meters are more effective than merely miles run for oil changes and other maintenance.

My first thought is that the engine hour meter would maintain its memory but yours obviously hasn't (unless Father in Law was secretly a race truck driver).

The math...68,370 miles divided by hours, 691.4 = 98.8 average miles per hour driven.

I have an app on my phone (for my job) that tracks miles driven and hours and the average always seems to be around 30 miles driven per hour run. So yours has definitely reset at some point.

[JJJoseph]

Hours is a normal variable on airplanes, tractors and buses, for example. Or in your case, a work truck that's part of a fleet.  It's never reset, but is used for maintenance tracking.  Oil changes are done according to hours, say every 50 hours, for example.  Maintenance is recorded by the maintenance crew in a tech log ("Engine Log") and stays with the machine's maintainers for the life of the vehicle.  The FAA doesn't permit the tech logs to fly with the plane, for example, so that they're recoverable in the event of a crash.  When you buy a used farm tractor or airplane, the tech logs will be available for inspection.

The engine hours in a piston-engine airplanes are recorded by a Honeywell "Hobbs meter" which may be set to recorded only flight hours.  Those are the hours that do the wear and tear, as they say. The rest of the hours, idling or taxiing, are irrelevant.

[Stig / Major Tom]

Hours is a normal variable on airplanes, tractors and buses, for example. Or in your case, a work truck that's part of a fleet.  It's never reset, but is used for maintenance tracking.  Oil changes are done according to hours, say every 50 hours, for example.  Maintenance is recorded by the maintenance crew in a tech log ("Engine Log") and stays with the machine's maintainers for the life of the vehicle.  The FAA doesn't permit the tech logs to fly with the plane, for example, so that they're recoverable in the event of a crash.  When you buy a used farm tractor or airplane, the tech logs will be available for inspection.

The engine hours in a piston-engine airplanes are recorded by a Honeywell "Hobbs meter" which may be set to recorded only flight hours.  Those are the hours that do the wear and tear, as they say. The rest of the hours, idling or taxiing, are irrelevant.

Well, no - this truck was not part of a fleet.
This model is a "2006 Chevrolet Silverado 1500 Work Truck"
The 2006 had various models:  "LS, LT1, LT2, LT3 and Work Truck"
8 styles of the Work Truck. Mine is Reg Cab 133.0" WB 2WD Work Truck, 195-horsepower, 4.3-liter V6

Stig

[Stig / Major Tom]

Yeah - something going on that I do not understand , because my LIKE has 778.2 hours on the TinyTach. I put that on the scoot around 2014. It does not reset with battery changes - not wired to the scoot.

Stig

[JJJoseph]

Yeah - something going on that I do not understand , because my LIKE has 778.2 hours on the TinyTach. I put that on the scoot around 2014. It does not reset with battery changes - not wired to the scoot.

I guess you missed where I explained they don't reset?  They clock engine time (or flight time) for the life of the machine.

[aschrauth]

Yeah - something going on that I do not understand , because my LIKE has 778.2 hours on the TinyTach. I put that on the scoot around 2014. It does not reset with battery changes - not wired to the scoot.

Stig

More than likely their is a small button cell battery that is located inside the instrument cluster that keeps track of the engine hours.

[JJJoseph]

More than likely their is a small button cell battery that is located inside the instrument cluster that keeps track of the engine hours.

LOL! Good luck with that! Honeywell (the gas turbine maker) has put 50 years of research into designing Hobbs meters that can't be defeated. Also fleet operators (and airlines) keep tech logs that will show fiddling with the Hobbs time, and someone will have to explain.