had to move the Envoy yesterday for street cleaning. I hadn't started it in a couple weeks and the batter was dead. I jumped it from my Lincoln, drove it around for a while and ran it through the car wash so it doesn't look abandoned.
A good friend of my girlfriend has offered to give us her 2002 Avalanche with ~107k miles on it if I fix up her Chinese 3 wheel leaning scooter thing. I had it started and running for her last year (man is it weird to drive, I just couldn't get used to it).
The truck hasn't been running great and a mechanic told her it has a cracked cylinder and needs an engine. Personally I think that is complete nonsense. This is a 2nd vehicle for her, but she has been driving it while waiting to bring her Audi convertible back to Chicago from Florida where she stores it over the winter. There is no way the engine in the Avalanche has a cracked cylinder and yet remains driveable.
So I am going to haul the scooter down to my better workshop at my sister's in a couple weeks and give it a complete service. If the engine in the Avalanche is bad, well the 5.3 in the Envoy will fit right in, as would the transmission that I have been rebuilding, with a lot less work than replacing the bad frame on the Envoy.