2001 Chevrolet Silverado 2500: engine failure

Filed Oct 30, 2025 · Engine · OH

I was driving down the road and I heard a clunk. I lost all power and coasted into a farmers field. The dash board said lost power, nothing else. I had no warning. Oil pressure was where it should be until is quit. Keller Chevrolet contacted us and told us the engine blew. The connecting rod broke and the piston come apart. I had service done on my truck 4 days prior. I always service my vehicle every 3,000 miles or 3 months which ever comes first. I have about 121,000 miles on my 2001 pickup. It has always been serviced at either Bob Schmidt Chevrolet or Keller Chevrolet. We are in the process of getting a new engine from GM and having it installed at Keller Chevrolet. You can contact them for more information.

Filed Mar 17, 2017 · Engine · 36,041 miles · CA

Crankshaft position failed completely.. The vehicle stalled while driving down a mountain pass, would not re-start until after it cooled down. No power steering or power brakes were available during this time due to engine failure. Same issue as your recall campaign #07v521000 and the gm recall campaign #06083

Filed Jul 14, 2015 · Engine, Steering · 65,000 miles · CA

Tl* the contact owns a 2001 chevrolet 2500 hd. While driving at 40 MPH, the vehicle stalled and the steering wheel seized. The vehicle was taken to a dealer where it was diagnosed that the crank shaft position sensor needed to be replaced. The vehicle was not repaired. The manufacturer was notified of the failure. The approximate failure mileage was 65,000.

Filed Oct 29, 2014 · Electrical, Engine · 80,000 miles · KS

While driving at any speed, engine will suddenly shut off, requiring me to pull off the road (without the use of the power steering) and to wait a few minutes to restart the engine. Had one close call, as someone behind me had not noticed my truck slowing suddenly. They had to make a quick adjustment to avoid me. This engine failure has happened about 10 or twelve times. Doing research has found the problem to almost certainly be the crankshaft positioning sensor. Chevrolet tells me that my VIN number is not on the recall list. As this is a safety problem, why would only a certain number of trucks be recalled to be fixed?

Filed Jun 25, 2012 · Engine · 75,000 miles · OR

While driving the engine died. It took several attempts to restart. While driving, the engine died two or three more times. Restarted and ran trouble free for a few days. A week or two later it took several attempts to start the engine. It finally started and ran trouble free for a week or so. This cycle has repeated over the past month or so. I looked up the issue on your web sight and noted a recall for this very problem. I contacted the local dealer and was told there were no recalls for my vehicle. I contacted gm and was told the same thing.

Filed Sep 27, 2009 · Engine · 52,590 miles · OH

The events leading up to the failure, this failure mode has happened five times, twice while pulling a 12,000 lbs. Camper and three times during normal driving. The failure, the 8.1 l engine suddenly looses engine power and stalls and will not immediately restart. After a minute or two the engine has restarted and normal travel resumed. How often it occurs, since july 24th 2009 this failure has occurred on five occasions. . Its consequences, there have been no crashes but several near misses have been associated with the failures. The day of september 17th 2009 had two failures. The first occurred while traveling along divided state route at 65 MPH when the engine suddenly stalled but I was able to pull out of traffic and restart the engine after the cool down period. There were no ses indicators being shown. The second engine failure occurred on my way home. I was a traveling along state route 35 which is a divided highway but has a great deal of traffic on it. This highway also has several stop lights in the area of beavercreek ohio. I had stopped at a red light and when I started to accelerate the engine suddenly died. Traffic behind me had started to accelerate but suddenly had to take evasive action to avoid hitting my stalled vehicle. The group of traffic that was behind me was able to get around me leaving me sitting dead in the middle of the highway with my 4-way flashers on. Further traffic was not paying attention and almost rear ended me while I was stalled. I pushed this 6,700 lbs. 4x4 truck off the highway myself to the shoulder and was nearly hit a couple of time during the process. After a very long cool down period, the engine finally restarted. This time there was an ses indicator and I proceeded to drive to autozone where they said it was the 'crankshaft position sensor' failure. What was done to correct the failure; at this time nothing has been done to correct the failure and the truck is not.

Filed Mar 29, 2007 · Engine · 77,900 miles · UT

Starting early march 2007, my 2001 chevrolet 2500hd, 8.1l truck began to stall in many and different circumstances. I was first stopped at a light on a business trip then began to go and shortly after the engine died and various lights illuminated on the dash and system warning box. From that point it has continued to stall at different speeds and different times for no apparent reason. It has restarted each time, sometimes after just a minute and sometimes up to 5 or so minutes. To date it has not been determined the cause and no one can tell me how to fix it. This is deeply troubling due to the fact that my wife drives it a lot and carries my three children with her and it has continued to stop on major roads, rural roads, and just anywhere it decides. This needs to be addressed thoroughly!!!