GeorgeB’s 2002 Envoy “Belle”

[TollKeeper]

I think the reason they say to replace the entire wheel bearing with sensor is just in case the tone ring has a broken tooth.

I know there was at least 1 person on GMTNation that just pulled the sensor out, cleaned off the debris on the end, and it was good.

The GMT360 is just known to eating wheel bearings. I am on my 4th set in 140k miles.

 

[George B]

I think the reason they say to replace the entire wheel bearing with sensor is just in case the tone ring has a broken tooth.

I know there was at least 1 person on GMTNation that just pulled the sensor out, cleaned off the debris on the end, and it was good.

The GMT360 is just known to eating wheel bearings. I am on my 4th set in 140k miles.

I agree it is a crap shoot. When test driving I couldn’t get it to drop that sensor with hard parking lot turns in either direction. I was thinking that if the bearing was bad I would have seen the sensor drop out. There is maybe 60k on that bearing so I am gonna try the $15.00 repair first.

 

[George B]

Well that escalated quickly! New hub required. Sensor bolt broke and the sensor broke. Not messing with all that! New hub on and all done.

 

[George B]

Went after the front diff seal today. Missed with my bar and ripped the boot on the CV off and broke the clamp. It came apart and the needles all came out. Fuggg! Went and got a new shaft, installed the seal and gave it an oil change. So far no more leaking diff. Cost me 3X what I figured tho. Now I remember why I wanted to send it down the road.

 

[89Suburban]

You did good work here man hat's off to you!

 

[George B]

You did good work here man hat's off to you!

Thanks, just tryin to get every last mile out of this thing. 261,475 miles on it. 100k of those are ours in the last 11 years. That’s on a truck I paid $4,200.00 for.

 

[TollKeeper]

The drivers side CV is always the hardest to get out, never figured out why...

 

[George B]

The drivers side CV is always the hardest to get out, never figured out why...

The differential floats in the mounts. so it moves when you hit it. I had to push as hard as I could on the bar and then smack it. Too bad I messed up the shaft. It seems to be good to go now tho.

 

[George B]

Anyone ever add a remote start to one of these?

 

[George B]

Welcome to the rust belt!

 

[89Suburban]

Welcome to the rust belt!
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At least you got the bolt out!

 

[George B]

At least you got the bolt out!

That was the make or break point. I figured if I could get the bolt out I could make a repair.

 

[89Suburban]

That was the make or break point. I figured if I could get the bolt out I could make a repair.

LOL good job man!

 

[Rocket Man]

Once again makes me happy they don’t salt the roads here. Good job man.

 

[TollKeeper]

There is a guy on the GMTNation site that sells that ear mount. Cut old out, weld new in, done. I cant find the post for it thou..

Its extremely common for these to do that in the Rust Belt. Also be cautious of those rear control arms themselves. They love to rust/break.

 

[George B]

There is a guy on the GMTNation site that sells that ear mount. Cut old out, weld new in, done. I cant find the post for it thou..

Its extremely common for these to do that in the Rust Belt. Also be cautious of those rear control arms themselves. They love to rust/break.

I thought about replacing the whole mount but 260K mile $4,000 truck so, nope. Just gonna rock this for now. Besides, there isn't much room to work right there.

 

[George B]

Needing some support struts for the lift gate. Some strongarm units on the way from Rockauto

 

[George B]

Getting an intermittent misfire and a pending P0300 code. Must have a coil going bad but can’t seem to catch it with my scan tool connected.

 

[TollKeeper]

Could be a coil, or a bad plug. THe 4.2 is really bad about burning up on the coil on #5 and #6 cylinder because of how water comes in from the cowl.

Just a matter of driving it come more, and waiting for the P0300 to mature into a actual cylinder.

 

[George B]

Could be a coil, or a bad plug. THe 4.2 is really bad about burning up on the coil on #5 and #6 cylinder because of how water comes in from the cowl.

Just a matter of driving it come more, and waiting for the P0300 to mature into a actual cylinder.

Right on! Playing the wait game. I think I have replaced all the coils at one time or another over the last 12 years we have owned this one.