how about a Oklahoma,AR,MO,KS,TX,+IA GTG thread?

[hoskvarna]

Foggy here and drizzle
Almost can’t see the barn.

40deg now 35 tonight


Sent from Hoskvarna Hills

 

[WKEND LUMBERJAK]

56 and raining. Actually raining hard.

 

[Workshop]

Raining here, too.
Got a pretty good thunder boom a while ago.

 

[moparnut88]

Well finally got the heads off this junky i mean great Chevy product. Lol. 09 Chevy traverse. 3.6l quad cam engine. Timing chains stretched to the point of valve contact. This one made it longer than most with a little over 115k miles. Some hit as early as 30k miles. Bad part is you really need to drop the whole subframe to be able to see all the timing marks good. Got some more oak dropped up at my friends range. Boy the clay up there thawed what a mess. Slid down a hill backwards in my truck with trailer. That was fun.

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[teacherman]

Well finally got the heads off this junky i mean great Chevy product. Lol. 09 Chevy traverse. 3.6l quad cam engine. Timing chains stretched to the point of valve contact. This one made it longer than most with a little over 115k miles. Some hit as early as 30k miles. Bad part is you really need to drop the whole subframe to be able to see all the timing marks good. Got some more oak dropped up at my friends range. Boy the clay up there thawed what a mess. Slid down a hill backwards in my truck with trailer. That was fun.

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This does not look designed with service in mind. I really liked my old 83 chevy truck, it was the toughest one I'd ever had. Thinking on getting one later this year if there's enough tree work for it to make sense, but I don't want to have to drop the whole bottom out of it to do a timing chain. That looks like a LOT of work!

 

[Dub11]

Well finally got the heads off this junky i mean great Chevy product. Lol. 09 Chevy traverse. 3.6l quad cam engine. Timing chains stretched to the point of valve contact. This one made it longer than most with a little over 115k miles. Some hit as early as 30k miles. Bad part is you really need to drop the whole subframe to be able to see all the timing marks good. Got some more oak dropped up at my friends range. Boy the clay up there thawed what a mess. Slid down a hill backwards in my truck with trailer. That was fun.

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I'd be looking for an engineer to throat punch. That's a bunch a crap. I like my Chevys but they should of let them go bankrupt for passing this crap off to people.

 

[moparnut88]

This does not look designed with service in mind. I really liked my old 83 chevy truck, it was the toughest one I'd ever had. Thinking on getting one later this year if there's enough tree work for it to make sense, but I don't want to have to drop the whole bottom out of it to do a timing chain. That looks like a LOT of work!

Yes it's way more work than should have been necessary. Most dealers around here just a timing chain job is over $3k on these engines. Absolutely ridiculous.

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[moparnut88]

I'd be looking for an engineer to throat punch. That's a bunch a crap. I like my Chevys but they should of let them go bankrupt for passing this crap off to people.

Yep! The more newer stuff I work on the more that seems like a good idea! I guess they've got engineers that are book smart with no real world experience putting these together. Or they don't care one.

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[Hedgerow]

I replaced an alternator on the power stroke diesel a couple weeks ago..
Man, what a pain!!
Ruined 15 minutes of my life, just looking for a 14mm socket.. Then couldn't find a half inch breaker bar.. All in all took 20 min..
Lol.

 

[Hedgerow]

Well finally got the heads off this junky i mean great Chevy product. Lol. 09 Chevy traverse. 3.6l quad cam engine. Timing chains stretched to the point of valve contact. This one made it longer than most with a little over 115k miles. Some hit as early as 30k miles. Bad part is you really need to drop the whole subframe to be able to see all the timing marks good. Got some more oak dropped up at my friends range. Boy the clay up there thawed what a mess. Slid down a hill backwards in my truck with trailer. That was fun.

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So what yer sayin, is, don't buy one of those?

Duly noted..

3.6l cheby = bad ju-ju.

6.0l Chevy =good ju-ju. But bad gas mileage.

 

[Hedgerow]

I am thankful I do not have to work on vehicles for a living..
I lack the patience..

 

[67L36Driver]

I am thankful I do not have to work on vehicles for a living..
I lack the patience..

I gave that crap up years ago when I discovered chainsaws. You don’t have to crawl under them. [emoji6]

Morning midlanders!

Need more parts for ‘Rancid Rita’. The MS361 crack hoe.

This ‘quick flip’ started well before Christmas. [emoji37]

 

[Fishnuts2]

Well finally got the heads off this junky i mean great Chevy product. Lol. 09 Chevy traverse. 3.6l quad cam engine. Timing chains stretched to the point of valve contact. This one made it longer than most with a little over 115k miles. Some hit as early as 30k miles. Bad part is you really need to drop the whole subframe to be able to see all the timing marks good. Got some more oak dropped up at my friends range. Boy the clay up there thawed what a mess. Slid down a hill backwards in my truck with trailer. That was fun.

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The shops like this kind of stuff because the techs can make a lot by flat rate doing these repairs in their sleep. A lot of these GM engines are built in china and were probably designed there as well. Three weeks ago there were 6 GM motors in the shop because the PCV system froze up in the extended cold. Blew out the rear main seals and all the oil from the pressure. Whole lot of field testing went into that design I'll bet!

 

[MG2186]

Being a mechanic all my life it didn’t take long to figure out that the mechanic is the last guy the engineer is thinking of when they design something!!

 

[Workshop]

Morning everybody.

 

[Dub11]

Howdy guys.

 

[teacherman]

Good morning!
We were concerned last night because Emerson fell asleep on the way home from dinner, before 7 PM. normally he only sleeps 8-9 hours, if that, so I said I'd get up with him so Nancy could sleep. But the Primate slept straight through, except for a bathroom break. Wish we could get him to go to sleep by 8 each night, but normally it's a big negotiating snafu to get him in bed before ten. Nancy says the norm for his age is 12-14 hours a night, so yesterday was the first time in memory that he got the normal amount.

I'm going to go out and look for a GM product with that infamous 3.8 liter engine, so I can pull out what little hair I have left...

Starting to actually consider a blue oval product after Kyle's post. Yeesh.

Have a good day!

 

[sawnami]

Well finally got the heads off this junky i mean great Chevy product. Lol. 09 Chevy traverse. 3.6l quad cam engine. Timing chains stretched to the point of valve contact. This one made it longer than most with a little over 115k miles. Some hit as early as 30k miles. Bad part is you really need to drop the whole subframe to be able to see all the timing marks good. Got some more oak dropped up at my friends range. Boy the clay up there thawed what a mess. Slid down a hill backwards in my truck with trailer. That was fun.

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Good luck. That's a bad year to deal with. Hopefully the front stuts don't lock up from not having the weight of the vehicle on them.
Nothing to this repair anymore in our shop.
To remove the engine on a Corvette, the first thing that you do is remove the rear fascia and work your way through the drivetrain to the front.

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[Hinerman]

Good morning!
We were concerned last night because Emerson fell asleep on the way home from dinner, before 7 PM. normally he only sleeps 8-9 hours, if that, so I said I'd get up with him so Nancy could sleep. But the Primate slept straight through, except for a bathroom break. Wish we could get him to go to sleep by 8 each night, but normally it's a big negotiating snafu to get him in bed before ten. Nancy says the norm for his age is 12-14 hours a night, so yesterday was the first time in memory that he got the normal amount.

I'm going to go out and look for a GM product with that infamous 3.8 liter engine, so I can pull out what little hair I have left...

Starting to actually consider a blue oval product after Kyle's post. Yeesh.

Have a good day!

Don't worry about falling asleep early. Normal is 10+ hrs. He may be going through a growth spurt or the lack of 10+ finally caught up to him. Some kids just sleep less than others.

I had a Buick Park Ave. with the bullet proof 3.8. The engine blew at about 165K this summer. No warning at all. Oil changes every 5K, normal maintenance always.

 

[Hinerman]

Diesel drivers. Ever buy any diesel fuel and notice your truck immediately runs better? Better acceleration, more power, etc... It doesn't happen very often, maybe once or twice/yr. What in the quality of the fuel causes this? Reminds me of going from 87 to 93 octane in a gasser.