Hello everyone,
I was hoping to get some troubleshooting advice on my 05 Rainier. I wasn't behind the wheel when the Rainier's engine quit so I'm not sure what happened. Here is what I've done so far, I tried to start the Rainer only to hear just a the clunk of the starter hitting the flywheel. I thought "Battery" so put a fresh fully charged battery in only to hear the same thing "clunk" and after couple more tries "clunk", I decided it was a starter problem so took it off and tested it and it's fine. So out came the socket and breaker bar, With the key in I shifted the transmission to neutral and with the socket and breaker bar I tried to turn the bolt on the crankshaft "No way" so took the starter off and moved to the flywheel with a long screwdriver and tried to lever the flywheel by the teeth "Not happening" so I quit to think about things. Today I jumped back on it removing the plugs to see if that would help make things easy to move, I also removed the drive belt so I was only turning the crankshaft still won't move a hair. OK so I decided to pull the valve cover to get a look at the timing chain, yes that pretty much ate up the afternoon but I was able to get it off only to find everything was fine as far as I could tell. It was pretty rough looking but with 242,000 miles I expected it. I forgot to mention earlier I pulled the oil dipstick and found the oil level was at least 1 quart over full? I asked who had put oil in the engine but no one will own up to it! I thinking that due to the overfill of oil in the crankcase there must be damage to bottom end. But maybe someone has a suggestion or advice or anything that might help that I haven't done yet! Just want to make certain that the engine is seized! Thanks in advance for any help at all!
I was hoping to get some troubleshooting advice on my 05 Rainier. I wasn't behind the wheel when the Rainier's engine quit so I'm not sure what happened. Here is what I've done so far, I tried to start the Rainer only to hear just a the clunk of the starter hitting the flywheel. I thought "Battery" so put a fresh fully charged battery in only to hear the same thing "clunk" and after couple more tries "clunk", I decided it was a starter problem so took it off and tested it and it's fine. So out came the socket and breaker bar, With the key in I shifted the transmission to neutral and with the socket and breaker bar I tried to turn the bolt on the crankshaft "No way" so took the starter off and moved to the flywheel with a long screwdriver and tried to lever the flywheel by the teeth "Not happening" so I quit to think about things. Today I jumped back on it removing the plugs to see if that would help make things easy to move, I also removed the drive belt so I was only turning the crankshaft still won't move a hair. OK so I decided to pull the valve cover to get a look at the timing chain, yes that pretty much ate up the afternoon but I was able to get it off only to find everything was fine as far as I could tell. It was pretty rough looking but with 242,000 miles I expected it. I forgot to mention earlier I pulled the oil dipstick and found the oil level was at least 1 quart over full? I asked who had put oil in the engine but no one will own up to it! I thinking that due to the overfill of oil in the crankcase there must be damage to bottom end. But maybe someone has a suggestion or advice or anything that might help that I haven't done yet! Just want to make certain that the engine is seized! Thanks in advance for any help at all!
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