Our CCfan family!!!!

I am a diesel mechanic by day (correct craft repairmen by nite) and it sounds to me like your mechanic is headed in the right direction. While I haven't worked on the 6.5s for awhile it seems like he must know what his doing. All the steps are the sme ones I would have taken. We live about 20 miles from GL and still didn't get there this year. On fri. I was actually by Big Green and meet some of the ccs headed there that was a tough one as I was on a work trip that I couldn't get away from. Hope you burb is running better.

Tom,
Thanks for the words of encouragement. Yes, I do believe my diesel guy has been around the block several times with the 6.5's!!! I actually think he's developed a close relationship with the people at Stanadyne!!

Make sure you plan ahead next year for GL. We'd love to have you join us.

Eric,
Sounds like you're going into economy mode big time. What's up with the head?

as always Pete, if i buy new....its domestic..
I never could pass a good deal on a car, I paid 500 for the golf from a cracker...I guess I prey on ones misery

I read some of the thread here to know of your Suburban problem. My dad has a 96 GMC Suburban that would occasionally die on him, then usually start right up and go for miles without a problem. When he took it in for an emmisions test it failed even though there was no check engine light illuminated. After thinking it was the ignition switch harness, computer, plugs etc. I finally figured out the problem. Turns out it was corrosion between the two positive battery cables at the battery. One cable runs to the starter and the other to the power distribution center, a build up of corrosion between them would give an intermittent voltage drop, it would also erase the test codes from the computers memory which then caused it to fail the emmission test. Pretty strange problem as you could not see any corrosion, check your cables and maybe that will be the problem. Good Luck -
Fibersport aka Greg

The F word. LOL

Pete, did you get your diesel fixed? I hope so, becasue car issues are nothing fun. My farming cousins and uncles all used to swear by GM's. Then they got the 6.whateverl v8 GM diesel bug and those trucks always let them down. One cousin that is into the tractor pull deal ended up getting a PSD ford.

Isuzu finally fixed GM's issues of not being able to make a good diesel by throwing an isuzu in the GM' trucks and calling it "duramax".

Some red white and blue die hards still are not aware that the duramax is a jap crap motor. LOL

I like my yota's too. Nothing toy like on them at all. We have 92k of totally trouble free towing and other abuse on our 04 4.7 v8 4runner.

Heck, in the 80's, their axles and transfer cases were built better than many full size domestic HD trucks were. And these parts were on compact pick ups.

horkn wrote: Pete, did you get your diesel fixed?

Tom,
It's all spelled out on what's going on in this thread.

596, you spelled that wrong.....nopower