CM870 loosing coolant/possible inflame

[Rawze]

First of all, driving it on 1.4 million miles is asking for trouble. It is a ticking time bomb at this point, ready to send a piston thru the engine block without any warning... then where will you be? -- You got the moneys for an entire replacement long-block?. You should have scheduled an inframe for it at 1.1 or 1.2 million miles and it should have been part of your long term business plan.

-- that said and out of the way ...


Before you go jumping to elaborate conclusions ... and since it has new batteries and new starter on it ... has anyone bothered to remove the engine belts and turn the alternator, engine fan, and air compressor pulleys by hand to see if one of them is not the issue? -- I have seen hard start issues just like you show in your first video due to failed/rusty bearings in alternator (or other pulley) that is hard to turn.

Next would be to .. like mentioned .. turn engine by hand and ensure it is not harder than normal to turn by hand (after all pulleys and belt driven devices are verified to spin easily)>. -- for all you know, and 1.4 million miles on it, you very well may have a broken ring, dragging the piston on a cylinder, or more commonly at this mileage/age, a dropped liner or it has spun a main or rod bearing at this point, it now having destroyed the crank. An additional and completely avoidable $6,000 cost when things are done on a proper schedule ... or even worse, the crank and the block at one of the main bearing locations. -- Again... the ticking time bomb scenario where someone keeps driving it... and thinking they are saving moneys,.. only for it to cost them several thousands $$$ more than they would have saved if they had inframed it when it was due .. before something got destroyed.


Lastly, if it is de%leted, and has delete tuning in it, .. then you also are going to want to pull a copy of the program out of that ecm and e-mail it to me for inspection if it was not done by Mommaburt, Unilevers, or Mr.Hags. - A lot of harmful bad programs out there and everyone swears that their was done right when in fact most of them are beyond quite bad for the engine.


those are my thoughts on it any ways... it should have never been driven as long at is has ... and if it is indeed not a spun bearing or dropped liner (head gasket) and is only something simple like wiring issue, alternator or A/C compressor, etc... then this is your final warning, and at this point you should be scared to drive it much at all beyond taking to get it inframed ... I know that I would be.