Truck in sig, 06, auto 4x4 6.0
Last night on my way home, truck developed a vibration out of no where. I was just driving down the highway at about 60mph, not beating on it, nothing out of the ordinary. Vibration starts, feels like a really out of round tire or something along those lines. I couldn't tell if an injector died on me or what, so I roll into it a little bit and the engine seems to be running just fine. Then it was like the transmission was completely disconnected from the engine, rpm's slammed up to redline out of no where so I let off. I give it a little throttle again and it just revs up. It's like having a clutch pedal pushed in (except this is a 5R110). I pull over and put it in park. Park holds the truck fine. Reverse and 1,2,3,D don't work at all. Sitting in park, truck idling I can hear all sorts of funny noises coming out of the trans area, and the truck is still shaking pretty good. Neutral seemed to clear up some of the shaking a bit, but not completely. I then shut the truck off, and went to reprogram back to stock to see if there was any change. I shut it down, reprogram and go to restart it, now the starter just spins like it's connected to nothing. WTF. Wont even engage the engine to turn it over. So I call AAA and have it towed to the local dealer by me.
They just called me and asked if there was a trick to starting the truck. I explain the situation and say no, that's what happened last night. He tells me it needs a starter at $470 or whatever before they can even diagnose it. This doesn't sound right to me... does anyone else think the starter just randomly failed like this? Could it be a flex plate maybe? Any thoughts/opinions? I don't exactly have a lot of money to be throwing at this thing right now, so I don't want to spend $500 on a starter I don't even need...
Thoughts? I'm just not buying that it needs a starter. The service writer tells me "well our master technician is out looking at it" oh.. ok... I feel so much better about it!
Last night on my way home, truck developed a vibration out of no where. I was just driving down the highway at about 60mph, not beating on it, nothing out of the ordinary. Vibration starts, feels like a really out of round tire or something along those lines. I couldn't tell if an injector died on me or what, so I roll into it a little bit and the engine seems to be running just fine. Then it was like the transmission was completely disconnected from the engine, rpm's slammed up to redline out of no where so I let off. I give it a little throttle again and it just revs up. It's like having a clutch pedal pushed in (except this is a 5R110). I pull over and put it in park. Park holds the truck fine. Reverse and 1,2,3,D don't work at all. Sitting in park, truck idling I can hear all sorts of funny noises coming out of the trans area, and the truck is still shaking pretty good. Neutral seemed to clear up some of the shaking a bit, but not completely. I then shut the truck off, and went to reprogram back to stock to see if there was any change. I shut it down, reprogram and go to restart it, now the starter just spins like it's connected to nothing. WTF. Wont even engage the engine to turn it over. So I call AAA and have it towed to the local dealer by me.
They just called me and asked if there was a trick to starting the truck. I explain the situation and say no, that's what happened last night. He tells me it needs a starter at $470 or whatever before they can even diagnose it. This doesn't sound right to me... does anyone else think the starter just randomly failed like this? Could it be a flex plate maybe? Any thoughts/opinions? I don't exactly have a lot of money to be throwing at this thing right now, so I don't want to spend $500 on a starter I don't even need...
Thoughts? I'm just not buying that it needs a starter. The service writer tells me "well our master technician is out looking at it" oh.. ok... I feel so much better about it!
