Thread: Found a random taped off vacuum line, help please?

Loog loob lol

The fitting in the LIM is 1/4" iirc and the others are 1/8"

been there, minus the driving the parents car, they never let me use their cars, if i wanted to drive a car i had to buy it myself, insure it myself, pay to fix it, gas it up, every damn thing, zero help at all. you want it,,,,you will pay for it yourself i was told, and they meant it. trust me lol

i used a lot of junk yard parts as a kid. you do what you gotta do.


my father pretty much sold me his 77 gmc, ( i was still paying it off) the clutch went bad and it was dead in the water, so i pulled the engine out and changed the clutch. i know trans out seems like the way to go but it was a 4 speed manual and it was heavy and i had no trans jack.

my dad pulls in the drive way as the engine is just coming up and over the rad support, all he does is look at wtf is going on, then says that had best run again lol and walked away. next day it was on the road again.

luck for me this was not my first engine pull at home, so they had seen one come out one go back in and it drive away a few times.

Originally Posted by JayHerlth

Real quick, since you're actively replying and this is a Grand Prix forums. What does that little button on the shift stick do? Have found no info and am too scared to drive around and press it. Lol

push it, its fun lol


its the performance shift button, push the button and a light on the dash or dic will say "perf shift" when its lit up its in that mode, this will make the shifts points a bit further up the rpm range, and make it shift better, faster/firmer.

these engines can take a good beating, just keep up with your oil changes and regular maintenance. not that im saying to beat the tar out of it all day long lol quite reliable most of the time. like any car tho, its got it common issues that pop up.

take the door skins off the inside of the doors, with a test light see if the plug to the motors getting power when the switch is worked.

a bad master switch will make the windows not work. mine the child lock part took a dump and only the master switch could work any of the windows.

you can patch broken wires easy. get yourself a soldering iron, shrink tubes and solder. done deal.

always strip the ends back till you hit clean shinny copper, then solder.

you dont have to replace it all, leave 4 inches off the plus ends, solder to that, or you push the pins out, and then you need to find new pins to crimp and solder on the wires to fit the plugs.

leaving a pig tail is easier.

if you do find a broken wire chances are it will be inside the rubber accordion part door to body.

then theres always the chance all 4 window motors took a crap. if you have some wire you can run a wire from the battery to the motor, you'll need a ground too, then touch the terminals on the motor. it should work if it works. switching the wires around should make it move the opposite way.

if they work with direct power you have a switch or wire problem.

in that case, you can buy a new pig tail, thats a plug and 12 inches of wire off it. one for each window. theres a shop on e bay that will make any GM pig tail you need brand new properly color coded too.

you can pm them during the week, they responded very fast to me. as all they list is ls1 stuff. but can make any thing GM for like 10 bucks a pig tail. http://www.ebay.com/sch/autowiringso..._from=&_ipg=25

or if you have local junk yard cut the plugs off and solder them to your wires. the wires are colored and should be the same. easy to match up.

I'd hit up the JY and get a new door harness. I did this to get some wiring to add into my car. They unplug right in the A pillar of the car and then after you unplug the various parts in the door..it pops out decently.

for the vents to work you need to find the other side of the tapped off line, under the fuse box, or on the fender .