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try adding a few quarts of ATF before you fill up next time, the atf will thicken the fuel slightly, if the problem gets better than its a sure sign of a rebuild being in the very near future.
the camshaft in a 6.2 is gear driven off the crank, then a roller chain drives the IP. When you say it wont start off of ether, do you mean it wont fire? or that it wont stay running. The complete lack of fuel at the injectors points to an issue with the IP, you can see the chain if you look...
FYI, I had a wonderfull GOO form in my MC on the m1008 when some dot3 got mixed in, two 2qts of dot5 to flush it all out. I'd advise flushing with alcohol just ot be on the safe side. and you can get gallons of dot5 rather cheap from one of the members on here. like $30 a gallon.
underdog, FYI the factory setup has a chain driving the IP, you can however buy an aftermarket gear-set to replace the chain.
To see the chain you have to pull the front cover off of the engine, you prolly didnt have that off when you removed the water pump, as you would have had to pull the...
it sounds like your shutoff solenoid is bad, or there is a bunch of crap in the ip. depending what you paid for the truck, it may be worth it to just pull the ip and have it checked out.
the 6.2L and 6.5L engines where standard GM engines, designed jointly and produced by Detroit. Later on GM sold the rights to GEP (which still makes the 6.5 for the military).
I would advise anyone adding a switch to use a MOMENTARY ON button, not a toggle switch, that way you cant leave it on accidentily, or more importantly someone esle cant ;)
hmmwv's use the horizontal filter as noted above. you can change the filter base by removing the bolts that hold it to the block and putting the regular filter base in its place.
check the oil level, how long has it been since you did an oil change.
I agree with ace, after you do the above just drive it and see if the noise changes or goes away.
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