<tap tap tap> is this thing on? Seems pretty quiet. You would almost thing PC is doing something.
Ill give something.
So Im kinda in a position again. lol. I found a 1999 fully loaded suburban. Sounds good condition. CHEAP CHEAP. After a number of emails with the owner, he has invited me to come look at it.
Problems:
It has a pooched engine. I dont know much about these engines, and all the places I call for a used engine dont have any.. they have sold them out. Does this mean they have problems with this era of engine?
I dont know what is wrong with the engine yet for certain. It seems that the engine is seized though. I would have to remove it, take it apart and see for certain if anything is salvagable.
since it is newer than 95 it is OBDII, which means it falls under the airscare plug and play diagnostic. If I get another engine, everything has to match and work correctly or it throws engine codes/ faults and it wont pass airscare.
As I hadnt seen it run, I can only hope the guy isnt lying when he says that everything ran great, with no problems before this. He doesnt have a clue about trucks or engines, which I cant fault him on. It just makes it harder until I get elbows deep into oil on this engine to find out whats wrong.
I have called autowreckers and nobody has this engine type I need for this. I know Im kinda jumping the gun when I dont know what went wrong wiht the engine but I kinda wanna have ideas and a ballpark figure if I have to go that route. Im waiting on a call back from a buddy at a machine shop to see what he says, he deals with all type of engines all day long, I trust him as far as I can throw him in politics though. At least the engine is complete, so all the electronics and super expensive electronics are all there where they are supposed to be.
Summary: Russ is thinking about getting another big gas guzzler, because it is cheap, but is worried cause if it has other problems it is going to get expensive real fast.
