Consumer Complaints
| Fail date | miles | occurences | Purchase date |
|---|---|---|---|
| ENGINE | |||
| 09/15/2008 | 78500 | ||
| I was driving my ~ chevy dually diesel truck ~ on a freeway pulling a trailer with my antique car in it when the truck kind of hesitated / spruttered and died ! i lost power brakes - but was able to get pulled over to side and after a period of time the truck restarted ... numerous times after this i had the truck die and hesitate - i took to a chevrolet dealer once - they questioned the passlock security system and bad ignition switch - wanted a rediculos price to fix .... the truck only had 73,000 miles when i bought it , and i have not driven it much only 81,000 miles presently - and i have not driven it in over a year because of failures to start. i had bought a kit and pmd / fsd modules and finally got around to swapping in another one - and wow now the truck is running ----------------- it was a bad stanadyne pmd ! i have read on the internet now the troubles these have had due to heat and where part has been mounted in the engine area. i was an electronic instructor in the technical college systems and as i now look at / evaluate this part made by stanadyne ==== to me its design / construction looks as if its built to hold the heat it develops inside of the plastic insulated case - thereby not releasing heat to the outside causing its ulttimate failure due to internal heat buildup . | |||