Recent content by Mike Mead

We do have a lemon law, but it was an as-is buy as far as I know. I spoke to the dealer and the best offer he could make was to have his guys make the repair and pass on the cost. I'm checking with the DOT though, and will file a complaint against the dealer (its a big dealer).

No, not yet I figured it was a head gasket just based on the symptoms. I've owned this truck for 10 days and already had the PMD fail, a head gasket go (presumably), I have a clunk in the front suspension and now I have low oil pressure to boot. Wow. Any idea what I'm looking at for cost on a...

I had this same problem this morning. Its -26 up here in North Central Wisconsin this morning and my "check gauges" light comes on when I get off the highway and close to work. I looked at the oil pressure gauge after reading this thread yesterday and sure enough its in the same place Jeff's...

As easily as this truck starts I'm really starting to have problems. It was -26 this morning and it started on the first cycle. However, once it was going it smoked like crazy and has been going through a lot of coolant. Once its warmed up the smoking almost goes away, although its hard to...

Is the manual glow plug thing something that you put in? Mine does that automatically on cold starts, it will cycle the gp's on and off a few times for the first few seconds once I have it running. Mike

Well, to top that it started on the first glow plug cycle this morning and its -21F here today (no wind chill). I am having another issue though, the truck is losing coolant. I filled it last Saturday and its already back down again. I'm hoping to god that its not a head gasket, hopefully...

I'm going to bring it in to have the front end looked at. Its too cold to be jacking up the car and laying on my back for any length of time!

Thanks to everyone for the advice on my Suburban. After the new PMD it runs great and the stalling issue is gone. Its pretty cold up here today, -11F when I went to start the Sub this morning and it fired right up! I was happy to let my buddies know who were giving me a hard time about...

In Wausau - North Central Wisconsin

Can I relocate the DSG unit into the front bumper?

121,000 miles, but the dealer paid for it anyway since I bought the truck just days before.

Well, I went out to start the Sub this morning and it wouldn't fire. It was -1F, but was plugged in all night, so I called that local diesel shop (K&S Fuel Injection) and they actually drove out to my house with diagnostic tools and a new PMD just in case. It turns out that the PMD was bad, so...

Thanks for the input Jeff, awesome news about Kennedy I'll check them out. I've read that there are people using the Bosch marine injectors as a replacement which should help with the smoke and also help with performance a bit. I may buy a set of those. I've never installed diesel injectors...

Do those symptoms seem like a PMD issue? If so I'll spend the $300, but I hate to just throw money at fixes until I'm pretty sure. Thanks again!

Wow, well I just learned a lesson. Its 4 degrees here right now and I just got stranded in Sub on the highway with the family in the truck. I went to start it in my driveway and let it idle to warm up (it quit a minute later), started it again (it quit less than 3 minutes later). The third...