Thread: What did you do to your Car today?

Changed my oil and picked up parts for my aunts van that i'll be fixing tomorrow

Originally Posted by ericspecullaas

i will run you off the road then beat you just for making this poor car have to suffer this humiliation and even with tape my god
















Kidding

To be fair, the tape is from when I killed thumper.

Well yesterday I washed it, waxed it, and got the inside leather conditioned and cleaned up. Then today in the last half hour of my shift (where nothing happened so I could have gone home) there was a completely random downpour of rain, which I might add was not in the weather report. So now I have to wash it again before I can put it in the storage unit.

Deer in the trunk this is how we do it

Put new valve cover gaskets in. I wish GM would have made the alternator bracket so that it doesn't need to be removed for VC removal

Deer in the trunk this is how we do it


grand prix...... best truck i ever had! done that before glad im not the only one, but i used a gun haha!

Originally Posted by WhiteLightningGTP

Put new valve cover gaskets in. I wish GM would have made the alternator bracket so that it doesn't need to be removed for VC removal

It doesn't. You can wiggle it past

Originally Posted by dsmuts

It doesn't. You can wiggle it past

Theres no way I could have. Even to the point the elbows were almost out, not enough clearance.

I've done it a few times. Its very possible

Originally Posted by WhiteLightningGTP

Theres no way I could have. Even to the point the elbows were almost out, not enough clearance.

yes you can, you loosen up the 3 bolts that hold the alt bracket in place, the vc slides right past it.

97-98 the rear valve cover comes right the f off, no messing with the alt bracket.

I go to replace my axle seal and guess what, the area around it shows no signs of leaks anymore. There was fluid coming out of it last week...I'll just leave it be for now.

Flushed the dexcool out of a friend's '03 Monte. Complained a few times about how much I hated General Motors. The usual.

Originally Posted by WhiteLightningGTP

Theres no way I could have. Even to the point the elbows were almost out, not enough clearance.

I removed the top bolt and loosened the bottom two, so technically it didn't have to come off, but it broke my elbows so it had to come off later anyway

Originally Posted by hensleya1

Flushed the dexcool out of a friend's '03 Monte. Complained a few times about how much I hated General Motors. The usual.

Let me guess, the 3.4? I've done that a few times, I hate dealing with the t-stat housing where it is. The first time it slid out with some convincing, the second it WOULD NOT so I had to remove the crossover heat shield.

Originally Posted by 02NavyBlue

Let me guess, the 3.4? I've done that a few times, I hate dealing with the t-stat housing where it is. The first time it slid out with some convincing, the second it WOULD NOT so I had to remove the crossover heat shield.

Yep... Gave up trying to pull the tstat as a bad job after about 20 minutes and instead ran the car up to operating temperature so the coolant would flow freely, and then let it cool. Got impatient and popped the radiator cap with a towel, and repeated. There's two cans of Prestone flush and cleaner in there right now, I'll finish the job on Tuesday.

Originally Posted by hensleya1

Yep... Gave up trying to pull the tstat as a bad job after about 20 minutes and instead ran the car up to operating temperature so the coolant would flow freely, and then let it cool. Got impatient and popped the radiator cap with a towel, and repeated. There's two cans of Prestone flush and cleaner in there right now, I'll finish the job on Tuesday.

Well remember the heat shield comes off with 4 bolts. It took me about an extra 15 minutes to get it off due to how crammed it is where the back two are. But it was worth it because the t-stat was part of the job.

Emailed Will @ Overkill Performance. Asked he long it would take to get my PCM back if I shippedbmine to him. He said 12 days. I went ahead and said ohkay I'll go ahead & do that. I can ship Monday. Never heard back from him.

Originally Posted by primem

I was wondering if you removed the one alt bracket bolt over the valve cover if it work wiggle out....no??

Nope.
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It's just threaded in on 1 or 2 threads, not sticking out the bottom. The bracket had to be loosened and moved about an inch or two.