Quote Originally Posted by Hex6168 View Post
Hi, I picked up an 04 Grand Prix, N/A with 160k miles. Car was fairly well maintained (no rust, spotless interior, that kind of thing) but with it being that old I'm sure I'll need advice and help doing repairs under the hood. No modifications have been done to it as far as I can tell.

Noted issues:
1) Intermittent stall on ignition, preventable by giving any pressure on the gas pedal at all.
2) Front suspension...right front tie rod and hub for sure, as old as she is, probably more.
3) Valve cover gasket
4) The cover for the engine is missing!

Here she is, as of yet unnamed (I'll give her a name after I do some work on her):
nice car! looks awfully similar to my 2007 GP. This is by far my favorite color that these cars came in and at least in my area they are quite rare in this color.

I am by no means an expert on diagnosing stalling issues but I will recommend you try cleaning your throttle body as it may be your issue. They tend to get all plugged with carbon which restricts the air flow into the engine causing it to run rough at idle or even stall. I can almost guarantee you will find it dirty and it will at least help if not solve the problem. There are tons of youtube vids on how to clean it and i'm sure there's a write-up on here somewhere, its not very hard to do but you do need to be careful with the MAF sensor.

I have a bad control arm bushing and clunky sway bar end link on my front driver side and decided to just go all the way with a Moog front end kit from Rockauto which also comes with the inner and outer tie rod ends. Once the weather warms up I plan on installing the kit and hopefully I don't have anymore front end issues for a long time

Like mentioned above the valve cover gasket will be replaced for free at a dealer because there is a recall out for it. Not sure if they do both or only the front, they are not that hard to do though I changed both before I knew there was a recall.

The engine beauty cover can be found at almost any junkyard, I see them all the time.