{"id":16596,"date":"2012-06-01T11:11:45","date_gmt":"2012-06-01T16:11:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/?p=16596"},"modified":"2012-06-01T11:11:45","modified_gmt":"2012-06-01T16:11:45","slug":"2005-chevy-avalanche-will-spin-but-not-crank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/2012\/06\/2005-chevy-avalanche-will-spin-but-not-crank","title":{"rendered":"2005 Chevy Avalanche will spin but not crank"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I have a 2005 chevy avalanche that I just bought this past tuesday.\u00a0 When I test drove it it cranked fine.\u00a0 After I signed the paperwork to purchase it and got ready to leave the gas light was on due to low fuel.\u00a0 It acted a little hesitant about starting and i figured it was because of low fuel.\u00a0 went straight to the gas station and put $30 gas in it.\u00a0 when i got ready to leave the gas station it still acted hesitant about cranking.\u00a0 it would spin over but acted like it didn&#8217;t want to crank.\u00a0 on my way to another town to pay a bill the check engine light came on.\u00a0 took it by auto zone and the computer said it was a knock sensor.\u00a0 got ready to leave and it spun and spun and spun and finally turned over.\u00a0 went back to the dealer i had just bought it from. they put it on their computer and got the same reading (a knock sensor) they replaced the sensor.\u00a0 got in the vehicle and drove it home.\u00a0 went to leave home and same problem vehicle would spin, spin, spin and not want to crank.\u00a0 you could turn the key off and on several times in a row trying to crank it and it would finally crank.\u00a0 every time you drive it it takes longer and longer for it to finally crank..\u00a0 Any suggestions.\u00a0 I&#8217;m so frustrated&#8230;..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 I have a 2005 chevy avalanche that I just bought this past tuesday.\u00a0 When I test drove it it cranked fine.\u00a0 After I signed the paperwork to purchase it and got ready to leave the gas light was on due to low fuel.\u00a0 It acted a little hesitant about starting and i figured it&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/2012\/06\/2005-chevy-avalanche-will-spin-but-not-crank\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">2005 Chevy Avalanche will spin but not crank<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8381,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1,3],"tags":[8625,13],"class_list":["post-16596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-auto-repair-questions","category-chevy","tag-avalanche","tag-no-start"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8381"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16596\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}