03 Silverado

[Dustin N]

03 Silverado plz help!!!

[dsr611]

5 minutes ago, Dustin N said:

03 Silverado plz help!!!

Your flux capacitor is failing, you have a bad muffler bearing, and you're low on blinker fluid.

 

 

Now, care to explain what you're needing help with, or do you want us to keep throwing against the wall hoping something sticks and helps you?

[CamGTP]

[Dustin N]

2 minutes ago, dsr611 said:

Your flux capacitor is failing, you have a bad muffler bearing, and you're low on blinker fluid.

 

 

Now, care to explain what you're needing help with, or do you want us to keep throwing against the wall hoping something sticks and helps you?

Ha new here didnt no if i was in the right place. Truck sputters an backfires looses power an then comes out of it a few miles down the rd done plugs an wires o2 sensor an that seemed to help for a month or so until it did it again last week came out of it ran fine did again tonight an came out of it again truck burns quart of oil an bout court of antifreeze every 70 80 miles has between 250 300 thousand miles cluster went 100 thou ago been burnin out for atleast past 150 thou thanks for the reply 

[davester]

-more fully describe what specific engine you have

-get engine codes.  There can be some, even if the check engine light is off (or your instrument cluster doesn't work)

[Dustin N]

5.3 got a random misfire last week nothing today 

[CamGTP]

It's burning a quart of oil and coolant every 70-80 miles?

 

Don't you think that is part of the problem???

 

Yank the engine and rebuild it at this point.

[Dustin N]

Ya im sure its time but it runs great 90% of the time had a hard life always to the floor so u gata expect to brn some oil would water in the gas make it misfire an sputter im pretty handy but this ones got me stumped

[BlancoSilverado]

Take it to a local shop and have them look at it. 

[Dustin N]

I dont have 60 plus to pay an hour thats why im here

[davester]

Assuming the coolant isn't just leaking out into a puddle under your truck and you haven't noticed, the coolant is either going into the oil or out the exhaust.  And you'd likely notice it when checking the oil, given you need to add a quart every 100 miles, it's going out the exhaust.

 

Find a 5.3 from a wrecked truck and swap it in.  That'll be the cheapest/fastest way to do it.

 

Or pull the engine and rebuild it yourself.

[Dustin N]

Ya its got white smoke comin out the exhaust but that still dosnt explain the sputter an backfire does it

[davester]

Sounds like you've been running it like that for awhile, so yes, all bets are off as to how the engine runs.  If you don't fix problems when they happen, in general they just get worse, cause other problems and get more expensive to fix.

[garagerog]

24 minutes ago, Dustin N said:

Ya its got white smoke comin out the exhaust but that still dosnt explain the sputter an backfire does it

Well, ya, kinda. Anyway, keep running it if you want, once you get to the hydro-lock scenario you'll be forced into doing something. . . .

[Dustin N]

24 minutes ago, davester said:

Sounds like you've been running it like that for awhile, so yes, all bets are off as to how the engine runs.  If you don't fix problems when they happen, in general they just get worse, cause other problems and get more expensive to fix.

Ya been running it for a year like that with no problems just keep adding fluid... so take the 300 thous miles an the the quart every 100 out of the scenario wat would make my perfectly running truck sputter an backfire for a few miles an then run perfect again?