I think you understood wrong. It is most likely the heads that are bad on the truck. I have a feeling that the mechanic who looked at it and said it was the radiator cap was trying to let the dealer get out cheap. I picked the tahoe up from that mechanic and dropped it off at another mechanic...
I haven't been driving it. It's been sitting at the mechanic and the I drove it straight to another mechanic and parked it. I'm driving my second vehicle. I plan on doing a complete rebuilt on my motor..I got a quote for $2200 for everything including a cam.
I think there was a miscommunication. I bought the Tahoe from a used car dealer. He told me I could take it to the mechanic that he uses for all of his work. This mechanic is a little hole in the wall mechanic down a dirt road behind a camp ground. I thought it was sketchy when I dropped my...
I went back to the mechanic today.
I asked him if he could do a pressure test to see if it was still losing it or not and he said doing a pressure test would not show if it is losing coolant or not.
I told him nothing adds up because the spark plugs are so corroded and I would definitely see...
Another update...
The mechanic told me he thinks it's just the radiator cap. And also the motor that is in the truck is not the original motor.
This sounds really weird to me. If it was not the original motor and the truck only has 158,000, why would it be smoking at start up? It sounds like...
Today, I went over to the mechanic shop where my Tahoe is. While I was there, we figured out the engine is mis-firing. The mechanic put a gauge in the coolant reservoir and it is losing pressure. There are still no leaks to be found. He will be doing a test tomorrow to see if exhaust is getting...
Well, I contacted the dealer that I bought the Tahoe from in October. He had me drop the truck off at his mechanic this afternoon. He is going to pay most of if not all of the cost to repair whatever is wrong depending on how expensive it is because he didn't realize the truck had the problem...
I am debating on camming my 2004 Tahoe but I don't have the money to do exhaust at the same time. What would the truck sound like cammed with stock exhaust?
I have access to a borescope for free so I will be borrowing it to check out my pistons. So if a piston is clean, coolant is getting in and that means I have a cracked head?
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