My neighbor has a 2005 GMC Canyon pickup truck that has sat idle for a year. I've been helping him try to get it running again to diagnose the problem it has.
He charged up his battery and tried to start it and it just had a brief groan. Later I hooked up the good battery from my truck and you can hear the starter solenoid click but the engine doesn't turn, even the slightest. I suspect the engine is seized.
To see if I could unstick the engine I tried cranking on the alternator with a socket and a breaker bar but the pulley just slipped on the belt. The front of the engine is so tight that it's impossible to access the crank pulley or any of the other pulleys to try to turn the engine.
One of his friends suggested towing the truck. With an automatic transmission, if you put the transmission in drive and towed it, would the engine turn?
This would just be a brief tow to try to unstick the engine so we can fire it up to do the main diagnostics. Thanks.
He charged up his battery and tried to start it and it just had a brief groan. Later I hooked up the good battery from my truck and you can hear the starter solenoid click but the engine doesn't turn, even the slightest. I suspect the engine is seized.
To see if I could unstick the engine I tried cranking on the alternator with a socket and a breaker bar but the pulley just slipped on the belt. The front of the engine is so tight that it's impossible to access the crank pulley or any of the other pulleys to try to turn the engine.
One of his friends suggested towing the truck. With an automatic transmission, if you put the transmission in drive and towed it, would the engine turn?
This would just be a brief tow to try to unstick the engine so we can fire it up to do the main diagnostics. Thanks.