Curse of the 6.5 Turbo Diesel Suburban

[Alice]

Dammit, took 15 years replaced that whole gawd dam truck piece by piece. And the reason it has not been replaced.... I'm sealed to it like a Morman marrige. I have no explaination to why Iam still driving it, perhaps it is because it owes me. $100 000 later, and that cant be that far off... my diesel mechanic is holding off retirement as long as I own that suburban. What now? What has caused me the road rage resulting in being stopped by the police. And told 40 km over the speed limit is surely to result in death of someone else with this size of vehicle (3/4 ton), if I dont hit a semi first? It stalled! Like a clean shut off... and I'm here to double check my diagnoisis. Please do tell me if I sound right.

It's an injector pump, AGAIN (been 4 years - I konw lucky) and I will be surprised if I am wrong. From unfortunate experiences of the past 15 years: I know that it will run without a working lift pump. Just wont be able to drain the water from the seperator. And if it was the PMD module, it would have choked and stuttered on hills first. Then eventually would stall and start again, only to stall again after putting it in gear. I would say I've been through 5 or 6 of them PMDs. Oh this feels like that pump again alright, so clean, so "off" all of a sudden. And no check engine light. It was some gawd awful amount too to replace.

Sigh, I feel some what better. Can call my mechanic now that they are open, yeah me again with truckzilla. I'll drop it off right after I pay that $180 ticket. It doesnt even matter that the ice cream cake I was picking up made it to the waiting kids and birthday party I was in the middle off. That truck needs a new pump and it's finished! I have no faith left in it, could go outside and hurl a rock at it right now. Next post I will let you know.

[danielsatur]

Cut the relationship off with your diesel mechanic not your truck.
Test's are used to isolate bad parts, if it works don't fix it.

[mishalah]

Oh, thank you, thank you, THANK YOU!

I was thinking about buying one of these.

Like cold water in the face.

[Alice]

A $30 part. PDM?? I think it's called or one of those pieces that go with it since it's been relocated a few years ago. This part used to be $50, I dont know how many I've replaced. They tell me they've come down in price, I think they got a pile of em. This diesel shop used to have a few 6.5s of their own, now I'm their last living 6.5 customer. But that isnt all thats wrong with it, gawd only knows what's next. Here actually to post a note about a new noise that is making me very nervous.