Draq
Junior Member
- Joined
- May 14, 2016
- Posts
- 29
- Reaction score
- 0
- Location
- Kaufman county, Texas
- First Name
- Michael
- Truck Year
- 1987
- Truck Model
- Suburban r20
- Engine Size
- 454
OK guys, so my '87 'burb 454 had a metallic hollow knock/bang one day. Got under it and am 85% sure it was coming from the bell housing, which strongly suggests flex plate. Well driving to work a day or two later (literally about 5miles away) there's a metal breaking sound, and the engine goes from purring, to reminding me of the truck from Beverly hillbillies. I pull over, hop out, and while its still running, look underneath. It was running really rough, and had puked a bit of oil from somewhere(still not sure from where, but it wasn't much, dipstick still says full). So I hopped in and shut it off. This is the second engine its had since I bought it. The first just shut off going down the highway and would never do anything ever again. My mechanic at the time didn't diagnose it, just swapped engines with one I found on eBay ($900) both engines had about 70k miles, the truck is clean and in great shape (except for some paint fading on one side, I'm guessing from sitting under a carport for ever). Now I'm not David frieburger, but I'm also not a total newbie either. But its really weird and incredibly frustrating. Now here in a few weeks the funds will become available to me to get it fixed, but I don't want to have it turn around and break again. I did recently go try and start it. Really slow weak turn over(like if your battery isnt charged) but it did eventually start. Still ran rough, still had same noise, shut it right off.
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