Hello everyone,
I've browsed this forum some time, and it's helped me repair quite a few issues on my first 6.5l vehicle ('95 suburban k2500), and since I liked the first one so much, I decided to pick up another that I could use as a beater (it was insanely cheap for a running truck at only $800, and I figured it could be a fun project). It ran great at the time. Started on a dime in the cold, and had no problems I could notice, other than a beat to hell interior. The previous owner had recently had the turbo rebuilt, and put on new injectors as well.
The day I bought the car, my wife and I decided to let her sister use it for a little while, so we dropped it off for her, and headed home. Well, the next day, her boyfriend poured ATF into the fuel filter housing, thinking it would refill the transmission, which was a little low at the time. After that, they left it idling to warm up inside, and it died after about 15 minutes of that. It wouldn't start up again, and was leaking fuel from somewhere behind the engine when it got cranked. I didn't want to work on it out front of their house, so I towed it home.
That was about a year ago, and I've been too busy to work on the truck until now, so yesterday I had some spare time, and thought maybe I'd try to get it running. I replaced the batteries, tightened up the fuel filter (which did quite a bit to rectify the fuel leak, but didn't fix it entirely) and replaced the glow plug relay (the 'wait to start' light wasn't coming on). Unfortunately, I still really doesn't want to start.
After doing all those things, I tried plugging in the block heater (even though it was 80f today), and spaying a little starting fluid in the air intake. Well I finally got it to start for a second after that, but it spewed white/bluish smoke, stuttered quite a bit, and then died. I've since tried starting it a few times since. It starts about one in 10-15 times, and when it does start, it smokes like a mother, stutters, and dies after 10 seconds.
It cranks just as quickly as my running truck, but it just doesn't want to start. It's throwing codes 57 and 62, neither of which seems like it should prevent the car from starting, but what I'm no mechanic.
Here's a summary for anyone who didn't want to read that all:
-bought 94 suburban k1500 with rebuilt turbo and new injectors
-lent it to sister in law
-her boyfriend filled the fuel filter housing with ATF, trying to fill the transmission.
- They let it idle for 15 minutes after that, and then it died, and refused to start again.
-Large fuel leak from behind engine when cranking
-The truck sat for a year while I was too busy to work on it
-Today, I started working, and replaced the glow plug relay, batteries, and tightened the fuel filter down. Fuel leak reduced, but still no start.
-block heater and used starting fluid caused it too start, but it spewed white/blue smoke, stuttered, and died after 10 seconds, even with my foto on the accelerator.
-Starts maybe 1 in 10 times now, but never runs more than 10 seconds (poorly).
-Throwing codes 57 and 62
Any help is appreciated folks. I've got a '95 suburban k2500 that I use as my winter vehicle, so I can switch parts back and forth between the 2 trucks, if anyone has any ideas what parts I should try switching.
I've browsed this forum some time, and it's helped me repair quite a few issues on my first 6.5l vehicle ('95 suburban k2500), and since I liked the first one so much, I decided to pick up another that I could use as a beater (it was insanely cheap for a running truck at only $800, and I figured it could be a fun project). It ran great at the time. Started on a dime in the cold, and had no problems I could notice, other than a beat to hell interior. The previous owner had recently had the turbo rebuilt, and put on new injectors as well.
The day I bought the car, my wife and I decided to let her sister use it for a little while, so we dropped it off for her, and headed home. Well, the next day, her boyfriend poured ATF into the fuel filter housing, thinking it would refill the transmission, which was a little low at the time. After that, they left it idling to warm up inside, and it died after about 15 minutes of that. It wouldn't start up again, and was leaking fuel from somewhere behind the engine when it got cranked. I didn't want to work on it out front of their house, so I towed it home.
That was about a year ago, and I've been too busy to work on the truck until now, so yesterday I had some spare time, and thought maybe I'd try to get it running. I replaced the batteries, tightened up the fuel filter (which did quite a bit to rectify the fuel leak, but didn't fix it entirely) and replaced the glow plug relay (the 'wait to start' light wasn't coming on). Unfortunately, I still really doesn't want to start.
After doing all those things, I tried plugging in the block heater (even though it was 80f today), and spaying a little starting fluid in the air intake. Well I finally got it to start for a second after that, but it spewed white/bluish smoke, stuttered quite a bit, and then died. I've since tried starting it a few times since. It starts about one in 10-15 times, and when it does start, it smokes like a mother, stutters, and dies after 10 seconds.
It cranks just as quickly as my running truck, but it just doesn't want to start. It's throwing codes 57 and 62, neither of which seems like it should prevent the car from starting, but what I'm no mechanic.
Here's a summary for anyone who didn't want to read that all:
-bought 94 suburban k1500 with rebuilt turbo and new injectors
-lent it to sister in law
-her boyfriend filled the fuel filter housing with ATF, trying to fill the transmission.
- They let it idle for 15 minutes after that, and then it died, and refused to start again.
-Large fuel leak from behind engine when cranking
-The truck sat for a year while I was too busy to work on it
-Today, I started working, and replaced the glow plug relay, batteries, and tightened the fuel filter down. Fuel leak reduced, but still no start.
-block heater and used starting fluid caused it too start, but it spewed white/blue smoke, stuttered, and died after 10 seconds, even with my foto on the accelerator.
-Starts maybe 1 in 10 times now, but never runs more than 10 seconds (poorly).
-Throwing codes 57 and 62
Any help is appreciated folks. I've got a '95 suburban k2500 that I use as my winter vehicle, so I can switch parts back and forth between the 2 trucks, if anyone has any ideas what parts I should try switching.