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Help Fixing Drilled Ignition - Attempted Theft

Someone broke into my ‘99 Suburban the other night to try to steal it, they drilled from the top of the Ignition lock housing through the ignition lock cylinder. I managed to get the broken cylinder out, and tried starting the truck using an old chisel in the ignition housing hole. The engine...
- Char
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- Mar 26, 2022
- ignition lock cylinder ignition lock housing ignition switch
- Replies: 10
- Forum: The Garage
Broken Exhaust Manifold Bolt

The front drivers side exhaust bolt snapped on my suburban. It is snapped well into the cylinder head, nothing to grab onto. I had a mechanic try to extract it, no success. His plan is to take the cylinder head off and bring to a machine shop who would drill it out. Also, the manifold is...
- Char
- Thread
- May 28, 2021
- Replies: 6
- Forum: The Garage
K1500 Suburban Coolant Flushing

I recently bought this 1999 Suburban with a 5.7L Vortek, I have been stalking the forum learning lots from you all. I am not too experienced with auto work, trying to learn I’m working on changing the fluids, first of all the coolant, which was low (reservoir empty), and lots of sludge in...
- Char
- Thread
- May 22, 2021
- coolant
- Replies: 12
- Forum: The Garage