Working on flushing the cooling system on my 97 k1500 and can only get about 3.5 gallons to squeeze in. drained from heater core and lower radiator hose and filled with bleeder cracked until a steady stream, then closed to finish filling.
Tried last night, gave up and drained today only to...
Spent most of today chasing bad grounds...oh joy...haha.
Turns out the broken main strap had been "replaced" on the #6 runner to the frame with an 8 gauge wire. I swapped it out for a 4 gauge and hope that should work a bit better.
Poking around yesterday I've found two broken ground straps in the engine bay. Looks like one is just for the underhood light, the other comes off the back side of the right head, just have to figure where it goes. Trying to find diagrams/pictures of the ground locations
Just picked up a 1997 GMC Z71 with a 6.5. New to the world of medium diesels (last was a 2003 Jetta TDI) and still very green on diesel to begin with. Truck has 189k miles and runs alright. Have some odd flutters and intermittnet issues to figure out. Vac line broken from pump, waste gate...