Thread: What did you do to your car today? Vol 2.0

Got everything for my shift kit install.

Those magnets are as close together as they can get before snapping together lol. The small ones were straight but got angled like that from each other


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Originally Posted by 02NavyBlue

Got everything for my shift kit install.

Those magnets are as close together as they can get before snapping together lol. The small ones were straight but got angled like that from each other

I wonder if too much magnet could affect solenoids. Hey a couple of those on or in the gas tank would rock too. You make me jelly, I'm still no shift kit.

Got the stock pulley off, 3.2 is on now. All the whiney noises!

Originally Posted by Fivefingerdeathpunch

So my drivers rear door on my truck (crew cab) has kinda given me fits

Check striker to be sure its tight, sounds like it may have moved. Do you get one click or two? Y'know, like can the other rear door be not shut but latched on the first position? If the striker gets knocked in, you end up closing only on the first click.

Originally Posted by idrivejunk

I wonder if too much magnet could affect solenoids. Hey a couple of those on or in the gas tank would rock too. You make me jelly, I'm still no shift kit.

The solenoids are in a different area, but or anything else right? I'm putting them in gm's specified locations, should be safe from any negative magnetive effects.

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Originally Posted by 02NavyBlue

The solenoids are in a different area, but or anything else right? I'm putting them in gm's specified locations, should be safe from any negative magnetive effects.

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Cool, my stock pan has big and wimpy squares but they work so I left em. I want to know if you get chirpy 2nds with this new rig!

Originally Posted by ericspecullaas

there fixed it cuz gp's are snow plows in winter

Lmfao thanks. This morning the plow came through plowed the whole side in so I said screw it and just drove straight forward and plowed through the drift at the intersection

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Originally Posted by idrivejunk

Check striker to be sure its tight, sounds like it may have moved. Do you get one click or two? Y'know, like can the other rear door be not shut but latched on the first position? If the striker gets knocked in, you end up closing only on the first click.

I can move the latch itself by hand and on the passenger side I can not. I can push it in on the passenger side to click twice and be "locked" but cannot move it back without pulling the handle.

On the drivers side I can push it in all the way and just grab it and pull it right back out. It should not do that at all, thats why it can't latch on the stricker and stay closed.

Originally Posted by idrivejunk

Cool, my stock pan has big and wimpy squares but they work so I left em. I want to know if you get chirpy 2nds with this new rig!

No I definitely should not lol. My up shifts are actually pretty hard in my 06 if you're getting on it. Harder than my 02 with the kit. The downshifts on the 06 are terrible, can't stand it much longer lol. My 02 was the same way.

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Originally Posted by Fivefingerdeathpunch

I can move the latch itself by hand and on the passenger side I can not. I can push it in on the passenger side to click twice and be "locked" but cannot move it back without pulling the handle.

On the drivers side I can push it in all the way and just grab it and pull it right back out. It should not do that at all, thats why it can't latch on the stricker and stay closed.

Another round of "Thanks GM"! Did you ask if GM has a bulletin on that by chance? Doors that swing open are a GIANT liability, yeah.

Originally Posted by 02NavyBlue

No I definitely should not lol. My up shifts are actually pretty hard in my 06 if you're getting on it. Harder than my 02 with the kit. The downshifts on the 06 are terrible, can't stand it much longer lol. My 02 was the same way.

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Like stomp it then mark the calendar and wait...lol

Yeah I was able to change the radio, adjust the heat, and take off a jacket in the time it took lol

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Being that it's out of a any bumper to bumper warranty and not a huge problem as I can see, no I didnt ask.

The bigger issue is always the motor for the lock failing and not allowing it to lock/unlock with the key fob, the whole unit has everything and it's what I need aswell.

Lucky for me I was able to make it latch one last time and lock the door from the inside, so it can't unlatch itself. Now I just wait for the replacement part to fix it and put it back together.

Originally Posted by Fivefingerdeathpunch

Being that it's out of a any bumper to bumper warranty and not a huge problem as I can see, no I didnt ask.

The bigger issue is always the motor for the lock failing and not allowing it to lock/unlock with the key fob, the whole unit has everything and it's what I need aswell.

Lucky for me I was able to make it latch one last time and lock the door from the inside, so it can't unlatch itself. Now I just wait for the replacement part to fix it and put it back together.

The only times I've seen the fail like that is those with the integral actuator. You sure were lucky to get it latched once more. A bungee between armrests might be cheap insurance if the part takes long to get.

what if you got to work at a shop that only worked on pontiacs?

Originally Posted by ericspecullaas

what if you got to work at a shop that only worked on pontiacs?

I would be in heaven! And be pissed every day at some of gm stupid designs lol

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Originally Posted by ericspecullaas

what if you got to work at a shop that only worked on pontiacs?

Run everybody else off.... ALL MINE! If somebody would buy them after and I had a little shop, I know where to get a steady supply of Pontiacs to build.

edit: AND Chevys!

You can do body stuff junk I'll do motors and basic maintenance

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Nothing to my GP, my tpms sensor on my g6 broke, the cap was sitting loosly on the stem, i didn't think anything of it, and pulled..all I heard was air coming out of my tire.

Shop wanted to charge me 120$ to fix it, or 10$ to fix with a regular valve stem. Now I have my tpms light on my dash..just hoping a deer hops in front of me on the highway so I can total the car out..Hard day, car did this on gravel, and my jack fell three times, i had it on a 2x4 and it still got off-balance and fell. Super pissed when that was going on today

Well, if they're Pontiac V8s I'll wrench em myself. It would be great to do metal work on Pontiacs all day though.