going crazy!

[gwcoomer72]

I have a 98 chevy silverado 4x4. Thought the starter was bad because there was some grinding going on. Put new starter on and it did the samething. Flywheel is ok. It ran fine the last time i drove it. Then it sit for week and all this started. The power steering pump was acting up the last time i drove. Could this be going bad and cause the grinding I'm hereing. When I try to start It will turn overgood a little bit then start acting like someting is binding, keeping the truck from starting. I am getting good fire at the plugs and it has a new fuel pump. I know it sounds like i'm mumbling, but i'm lost on this one.

I tried that yesterday, and it started. Put belt back on and it started, After about 4 or 5 times of starting it would drag again but it would start. The motor has picked up a miss. It had a small backfire. Now i'm starting to wonder if it is the dist. or timing chain. It is a 5.7L not sure about the tranny it has overdrive, the truck is a Z71. One other thing , about a wk. before i stopped driving it we had 27" of snow. A friend got his truck stuck and I pulled it out. While I was doing this, it hit the rev limiter a couple of times? The truck has 160,000 mi. on it, but the motor still ran great until now.

[Chevy-SS]

What exactly is the problem? It sounds like you are describing a myriad of issues. I think you need to simplify your question, so that someone can understand it, and thus answer it.

Just my $.02

[gwcoomer72]

The truck is now fixed. It got mositure in the dist. cap and shorted it out. Never had that happen before, to where it acted that way.

[Cadillakin'98]

Moist dist. cap = grinding noise????? Thats a new one