20 Most Recent 2006 GMC Canyon - Page 5 Questions & Answers

brakes typically only last about mas 30k miles. might be the brake lining warning shims letting you know its low or that plus glazed rotors/ drums needing to be replaced and or cut.

RE: check engine light, stop by any good parts store and have an OBII scan (fault scan). That will pull codes that will identify what triggered light. RE: Brake lights, check wiring in and around tail lights (especially if you have trailer wiring)

Sounds like starter relay or starter solenoid

is there any codes in the vehicle? possible the spark plugs have some build up and not getting sufficient heat or ignition coil also gets build up and not fire enough to burn the fuel in combustion chamber.i would check those probable causes and have it scan if needed.

The mass air flow sensor is one of the sensors used by the engine to determine th air to fuel ratio. so if you smell fuel and your engine is running rough this could be the problem.

Possible fault in the fuel pump. Make sure there is fuel in the tank, there is no clogging of the fuel filter and finally the fuel pump calibration must be in order.
Hope that the truck had gone through the routine scheduled service maintenance , if not please do the work recommended for the mileage clocked.

i belive it is in the tank sorry , can never be easy..

Sounds like a bad blower resistor.

Your jumper cables are most likely red and black. Locate the positive and negative terminals on your battery, they are marked ( + ) or pos.,that's the red one, and ( - ) or neg. that's the black one. Conect one end of your cables to your battery (doesn't matter which one you do first) make sure you are connecting the other end to the same terminal on the dead battery (that is to say positive to possitive) now do the same with the other cable. There may be a little bit of a spark that's normal when you make the final connection. The danger is in taking them off, do it in the same order that you put them on, if you take both cables off at the dead battery and they touch you are going to be having a bad hair day. the thing that most people don't get is you have to have a good clean convention. If you don't try wiggling the clamp on both batteries to make them dig into the terminals. Also there is a huge difference between someone who left the lights on in parking lot and someone with a dead battery on the side of the interstate. The guy in the parking lot has a dead battery, the guy on the side of the road has a dead battery and a dead alternator, he needs a tow truck, not a jump.

What it sounds like is that your pilot bearing has gone out, and that could be causing the high pitch grinding noise and when the gears are hard to shift that is a tale tale sign of a bad/weak pressure plate and or master cylinder. I would recommend changing out the clutch, pilot bearing, pressure plate, slave cylinder and having the flywheel resurfaced.

i have mine at the dealer for the same problem, it turns out that the 5th cyclinder is misfiring. the dealer is paying for the repair as there is a service bulletin out on it. all i have to pay for is the oil change and new sparkplugs

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the owners manual has the service intervals, but I would do it every 30K miles.

FILL FUEL TANK UP WITH FUEL POUR A CAN OF SEAFOAM IN GAS TANK OR FUEL TANK IT WILL FLUSH OUT FUEL INJECTORS. SEE IF YOUR FUEL INJECTORS DIRTY THAT WILL CAUSE THEM TO STICK OPEN AND FLOOD OUT THE ENGINE.

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recheck all plug wire connections. sometimes they dont snap down all the way.

Try starting in neutral. Maybe the safety switch is going. If not that, I think your car also has a separate starting relay that may be going out.

Please see my tip at http://www.fixya.com/cars/r6222268-engine_doesnt_crank_turn_over . These are generic instructions. If you get stuck, please get back to me.