Considering buying this 2000 Suburban to use as a reliable daily driver for my family of 7. This is the only full sized vehicle with 3rd row seating in my area that I can afford...seller is asking $1500. Clean inside and out.
Before contacting the seller, the sale description indicated the truck wasn't running because of water pump failure. Said the transmission was rebuilt and motor swapped by the previous owner. Has had some new parts installed.
After contacting the seller, I was sent a video of the motor running. The seller said they think the engine has a knock, but the sound didn't sound like a knock, it sounds as if something is just loose.
Here is the video they sent me..
Got the price dropped to $1,000 saving me some money for self repair and parts. I'll drive it to my grandparents 15 miles away, buy a hoist and get to turning wrenches.
If I have to remove and replace the motor, I have a 5.3 to rebuild, carburate, and throw into my GBody MC SS.
Anywho...
I just don't understand how a running vehicle parked for some small time because of a bad water pump can somehow develop an engine knock...
I need to figure out what the noise is and the route I'm going to have to take to get this truck reliably on the road again.
If I have a knock or broken internal parts and have to replace the engine as a whole, that's fine, I just need told how to R&R with this vehicle, and any reprogramming.
I also see a failed/failing knock sensor can cause an engine knock...how can I troubleshoot that to know if it's a faulty knock sensor or the knock is internal parts causing the knock ?
Before contacting the seller, the sale description indicated the truck wasn't running because of water pump failure. Said the transmission was rebuilt and motor swapped by the previous owner. Has had some new parts installed.
After contacting the seller, I was sent a video of the motor running. The seller said they think the engine has a knock, but the sound didn't sound like a knock, it sounds as if something is just loose.
Here is the video they sent me..
Got the price dropped to $1,000 saving me some money for self repair and parts. I'll drive it to my grandparents 15 miles away, buy a hoist and get to turning wrenches.
If I have to remove and replace the motor, I have a 5.3 to rebuild, carburate, and throw into my GBody MC SS.
Anywho...
I just don't understand how a running vehicle parked for some small time because of a bad water pump can somehow develop an engine knock...
I need to figure out what the noise is and the route I'm going to have to take to get this truck reliably on the road again.
If I have a knock or broken internal parts and have to replace the engine as a whole, that's fine, I just need told how to R&R with this vehicle, and any reprogramming.
I also see a failed/failing knock sensor can cause an engine knock...how can I troubleshoot that to know if it's a faulty knock sensor or the knock is internal parts causing the knock ?