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Re: What has left you stranded on the side of the road [message #197507 is a reply to message #197434] Tue, 05 February 2013 20:36 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
JohnL455 is currently offline  JohnL455   United States
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Registered: October 2006
Location: Woodstock, IL
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1. Dead on side of road 20 mins after buying coach. Gauges and seller said 1/2 full. Seller and gauge were wrong.
2. Rod knock on 1 after a WOT passing of a truck on way home from Cinnabar. It was a PO Jasper or equivalent sloppy rebuild AND there was a bunch of sludge in the pan from PO neglect. Sludge caused momentary oil starvation. Actually I could have kept driving it but didn't want to risk that corridor by Gary so I waited in rest area and since still in Mi., Cinnabar came with the flatbed and took it to Sandusky. I jumped out in Flint and got a rental car at the airport. The Cinnabar rebuilt 455 has been trouble free. I saw the junk they scooped out of the old pan and there was a lot of sludge glop. I had even changed the oil and filter 2x already since buying the GMC, but sludge was thick in the pan.


John Lebetski
Woodstock, IL
77 Eleganza II
 
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