I was driving my 89 gmc sierra 2500 last night when all of the sudden it sounded like i was in the wrong gear. So i down shifted and tried everything and it would not accelerate. Now it wont start up. The engine turns over but thats about it. I left it parked in 1st gear and that seams to still be strong as I was not able to push it while in 1st gear.
Sounds like you may have broken your timing chain. Try doing a compression test. You should get pressures no less than 90-100 psi. If you find extremely low pressures,you probably lost the chain. This could have caused valve train problems. Good luck
If you need to have a shop look at the compression, it should cost about 1 hour shop time. Ask for an estimate always.
Your belt should not be affected at all.
If they agreed with me why would you give me a bad score when all I did was to help, Hope you can have this problem repaired as you like. Moe
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have no idea how to do a compression test. if this is it how much do you think this will cost me?
i looked and the belt i have is still there...its kinda tight but its still there
it ended up being the distributer. but at first they agreed with you until they tested it
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