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My cars lived outside for 20 winters in Anchorage and I drove them forever without letting them idle excessively. Even using a block heater for an hour or two, you're just warming up the engine a bit; idling does little for the transmission or anything else. Better just to get in and drive off (slowly) for the first mile. But enough of why I don't like them and back to your original question. :) It is curious that GM's website shows a "Remote vehicle starter system" standard on the Yukon Denali. You'd think that if dropping this feature was documented, an easy to change webpage would be the first place to start. Ordinarily I'd say follow the money, but why decontent the higher trim level first? It's curious.
I strongly suspect the belt was never replaced. The car had 108,000 on it when I bought it from a friend, and it has 146,000 on it now. Of course, I should have replaced it along with all the other basic maintenance stuff I did to it (along with other repair stuff like replacing the ball joints). Unfortunately, I just didn't think about it. From what I can tell, the maintenance schedule recommends "inspection" of the belt at 120,000 miles. Inspection? Hah - no, just replace it! That thing was so worn out; I'm really thankful that it broke when it did rather than half way to Anchorage, or in the middle of winter, etc. As it was, it picked a convenient area on a beautiful, warm (for Fairbanks in early April) day. Colin - It certainly could have received some water contact, as the bottom portion of the belt is not sealed to the outside and the engine sits low in the car (which sits low itself!).
Hello Everyone, What would be a reasonable time estimate to replace the flywheel on a 2000 Buick Lesabre with a 3.8L V6 and an auto tranny. The car is very well maintained and other than the damaged flywheel is in excellent condition. I am recovering from a significant back surgery to repair 3 crushed vertebrae and simply can not do this myself right now. I feel that it would take me about two days to do this myself, but I know I'm not as efficient as professional mechanic so I'm not sure what to expect as an estimate. Does anyone have access to a shop manual that would offer a "standard time estimate" to do this work??? Also, I live in Anchorage, Alaska and if anyone could recommend a good shop up here I would really appreciate it. Thank you all, Alaska_Paul
He did the opposite of me - I thought about buying one years ago (when in Anchorage), but decided it was WAY cheaper to rent, no headaches, nothing but pick it up and drop it off. Why don't you ask him about the 'cash flow' on his RVs? Or maybe you want to keep him as a friend :P
I had two good indys' in Anchorage. One shut down because he could never take off work, even though he paced his customers. The other guy just bailed to Seattle. There's two small shops with good reputations near me now; one solo, and the other guy has a helper/gofer and maybe another mechanic. Haven't asked but he does advertise that he works on trucks so he may do diesel (yeah, he actually has a sign on his shop. :) ) Last time I was at a dealer was around 1991.
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