5.3 litter engine has a horrible tapping noise problems starting help

Asked by Guru93D1VG Mar 15, 2023 at 02:27 AM about the 2004 Cadillac Escalade 4WD

Question type: Maintenance & Repair

i have a 2004 cadillac esacalade and it started to have a horrible tapping
noise and sense this problem started also been giving me problems starting
and from what i could tell it looks like the starter is good and everything else
except for when i try to turn the vehicle on the fly wheel seems to not go all
the way around its like its jamming or something and when i finially do get it
to start it taps really bad its almost got me thinking the oil pressure idk?

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Ed92626 answered about a year ago

So, you're going through all this and your idea is to ask random people online for advice, rather than taking the car to a mechanic, who can actually see and diagnose the car, to have it fixed. Maybe you're afraid of the obvious impending bad news, but really?

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