6.5 diesel suburban question ???
Looking at a 97 turbo burb that I can buy for 1500 bucks truck needs a good cleaning and body is not rusty. Owner sent me a video of truck at idle. It seems to be in limp mode as it wont rev over 2000...
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Tom/Barb wrote:
6.5 is a POS, run run away.
6.5 was Chevy's attempt at making a cheap diesel out of a 350CI gas engine, they had head and valve problems on day one and they never got better.
NAA, the 6.5 is by far a much better motor than that Olds 350 diesel.
IIRC the 6.5 was a Detroit Diesel.
Most of the issues with the 6.5 are well documented and pretty easy for the home mechanic to take care of. Just watch that harmonic balancer!!
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