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Re: Bought a new (to us) car yesterday.

im guessing you will need a fuel pump in a year and your gonna eat brakes. boom!!! gm sucks all lick my balls :y

Re: Bought a new (to us) car yesterday.

main reason fuel pumps go is because people run on ------- e all the time. the fuel pump keeps cool by having it full all the time. but yea chevy pumps like to go. im on my 3rd.

Re: Bought a new (to us) car yesterday.

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Originally Posted by Darkelvis

wrong...i'm a tech, i work on ---- like this for a living....common problems...alternator, intake gaskets, water pump, fuel pump, and fuel pressure regulator.....the have all already been done :)

Since when is a intake gaskets a common problem on one of those ???

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Originally Posted by Darkelvis

wrong...i'm a tech, i work on ---- like this for a living....common problems...alternator, intake gaskets, water pump, fuel pump, and fuel pressure regulator.....the have all already been done :)

i wasnt talking common problems, you work on them but you dont drive them as your daily driver. my friend had one and it was a piece of ---- low quality typical GM product. squeeks, rattles, noises etc. basically they slowly fall apart, as per GM owners manual spec.

Re: Bought a new (to us) car yesterday.

if you paid anything over 14k for that tahoe, you got raped

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Originally Posted by 89shithatch

main reason fuel pumps go is because people run on ------- e all the time. the fuel pump keeps cool by having it full all the time. but yea chevy pumps like to go. im on my 3rd.

Add on to that the fact that no one ever changes the fuel filter and when they finally do then they will be putting in a pump within a week.

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Originally Posted by 88dx

Since when is a intake gaskets a common problem on one of those ???

Intake gaskets are a common problem on almost all gm engines.

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Originally Posted by raiden571

im guessing you will need a fuel pump in a year and your gonna eat brakes. boom!!! gm sucks all lick my balls :y

I'm going to drop the tank in the next couple days and check out the pump that is in there and maybe put one in as insurance. :)
And brakes for these are cheap as hell, what do I care?

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Originally Posted by c0mpl3x

if you paid anything over 14k for that tahoe, you got raped

Not even close. :)

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Originally Posted by Darkelvis

Intake gaskets are a common problem on almost all gm engines.

Not on a Dry intake like the 5.3/6.0L. Only reason ud need to take that intake off is to replace the knock sensors

Re: Bought a new (to us) car yesterday.

nice rig, those are good powerful motors and get good mileage compared to others

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Originally Posted by 88dx

Not on a Dry intake like the 5.3/6.0L. Only reason ud need to take that intake off is to replace the knock sensors

The o-rings fail and cause a lean condition on one bank. I just did a set on an 03 sierra 5.3 today that came in w/ 1,3,5,7 random misfire and b1s1 lean. Sprayed some carb clean along the edge of the intake and she bucked like ------ crazy. Took the intake off and sure as ---- the gaskets had failed. :)

Re: Bought a new (to us) car yesterday.

weird ive worked at a GM dealership for the last 4 years and have never seen that, Leave it to GM to ---- everything up :1