Parking on an incline

[ScottyBoy]

Yesterday I was picking my son up from school and the line of cars was really long for some reason. So I parked alongside a ditch across the street (several other cars were lined up there as well). Anyways, I left the engine running and the AC on, and after a few minutes, a warning light came on saying Low Coolant. I shut the engine off, but then I thought it might have done that because I was parked on the side of the ditch and my truck was leaning pretty bad. I used an app on my phone to measure the incline, and my truck was leaning about 68 degrees. I am guessing that was why the light came on, because it never did come back on after I started driving again.
Any thoughts on this?

 

[mfennema]

Coolant level sensor has a time limit built into it so it doesn't give you false readings for slosh. After the coolant level sensor doesn't detect coolant for a certain period of time it will turn on the warning. I would say that you are probably right that the truck being angled just left the sensor exposed out of coolant and that is why the light came on.

 

[PenguinLTZ]

How is your coolant level?

 

[ScottyBoy]

How is your coolant level?

Reservoir is full. Unless there is air somewhere in the radiator, I assume that's full too. I am still confused as to why the GMT800s do not have a radiator cap.

 

[daddy]

68* and it wasn't rolling down the hill?

 

[ScottyBoy]

68* and it wasn't rolling down the hill?

Nope. It was leaning pretty damn bad though. It didn't look that steep before I pulled up right there. Drivers side was probably at least 12-15 inches or higher than the passenger side was. I was sliding out of my seat onto the center console.

 

[Black02Silverado]

I would say that was the cause, not to mention all of your axle fluid was up against that far wheel in the ditch.

 

[daddy]

68* and it wasn't rolling down the hill?

Nope. It was leaning pretty damn bad though. It didn't look that steep before I pulled up right there. Drivers side was probably at least 12-15 inches or higher than the passenger side was. I was sliding out of my seat onto the center console.

That's not 68*, that's not even 30*. You might want a new app.

68* is two-thirds the way to sitting on it's side.

 

[The_Chupacabra]

68* and it wasn't rolling down the hill?

Nope. It was leaning pretty damn bad though. It didn't look that steep before I pulled up right there. Drivers side was probably at least 12-15 inches or higher than the passenger side was. I was sliding out of my seat onto the center console.

That's not 68*, that's not even 30*. You might want a new app.

68* is two-thirds the way to sitting on it's side.

The App might have been measuring the vertical angle from 90 so he was only 22* from level.

Its all perspective.

 

[daddy]

68* and it wasn't rolling down the hill?

Nope. It was leaning pretty damn bad though. It didn't look that steep before I pulled up right there. Drivers side was probably at least 12-15 inches or higher than the passenger side was. I was sliding out of my seat onto the center console.

That's not 68*, that's not even 30*. You might want a new app.

68* is two-thirds the way to sitting on it's side.

The App might have been measuring the vertical angle from 90 so he was only 22* from level.

Its all perspective.

Yes, 22* is more likely, I'm just not sure how the app got 68*. I can't imagine step one of using the app is "Turn the phone on it's side to 90* so we can start."