Guipo
Member
A sad tale of woe, hopefully will have a happy ending. I was changing the oil in my old reliable beast of a truck, a 2001 Chevrolet Suburban 2500 with a 8.1L in it. During the oil change, I found a needle bearing stuck to the oil plug magnet.
After doing my research, I found that most likely this was a lifter starting to fail. We have a 3500 miles trip towing our 7500lb trailer coming this summer, and so my options were, replace the lifter and hope a bunch of metal isn't all over the engine, rebuilt the whole engine, or replace the rig.
My wife and I decided that the suburban was just too worn out to justify putting 8000 in to the engine, so we decided to shop around. When it comes to towing, my options were a more modern 2500 suburban, which go for 30k for a 2012, or a 2017 Expedition EL. So thats where we landed, and we're very happy!
We are doing a first tow with it next week to see how she does in the Sierras! I'm hoping that its not too different than my 3/4 ton Chevy! I'd love to hear your opinions on what differences I'll see!
Thanks for having a cool board!
Guipo
After doing my research, I found that most likely this was a lifter starting to fail. We have a 3500 miles trip towing our 7500lb trailer coming this summer, and so my options were, replace the lifter and hope a bunch of metal isn't all over the engine, rebuilt the whole engine, or replace the rig.
My wife and I decided that the suburban was just too worn out to justify putting 8000 in to the engine, so we decided to shop around. When it comes to towing, my options were a more modern 2500 suburban, which go for 30k for a 2012, or a 2017 Expedition EL. So thats where we landed, and we're very happy!
We are doing a first tow with it next week to see how she does in the Sierras! I'm hoping that its not too different than my 3/4 ton Chevy! I'd love to hear your opinions on what differences I'll see!
Thanks for having a cool board!
Guipo