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Pontiac Racer

Pontiac Racer

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Was looking at my engine and noticed some pooling of a fluid and thiught i found where my intake mani was leaking. So i took a flashlight and discovered its oil. Now BOTH of my valve cover gaskets are shot as well as the intake mani. Also found a random bolt sitting next to a fuel injector. F*ck the last person to work on my car. Seriously, die.
 


Dude if only you knew how common this is.. Every 3800 will need it's lim and vc cover done as some point.


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Consider it damned. Careful what you wish for! Seriously, you're just having the normal GP experience. Embrace it.
 
Post a pic of the random bolt and we'll tell you where it goes. And you think your PO is bad, I have a '98 SE with 230k on it, guy must have never changed the vc gaskets, oil all over the damned place, engine, trans, subframe, everything. Pulled the motor a couple days ago, gonna take me longer to clean up under the hood than pulling and reinstalling the engine. All over $15 gaskets and an hour of work, cheap/lazy bastard.

I mean I got it for $600, but ****, take care of basic stuff for chrissakes. I don't know how people can not give a **** about stuff like that, I'm always cleaning under the hood/under the car, most of the time it's cleaner than the exterior of the car.
 
Seems pretty low mileage for this to happen. 122k? Seems quite low to me... And i was just getting the uim replaced. Shod i get the lower one too? I was getting the entire uim replaced not just the gasket but should i tell them to do the lim gasket too? I dont want to keep spending money
 


If you're not doing it yourself, it's not gonna be cheap. Never had any work done at a shop, but i've seen others saying $5-800 for LIM gaskets. I did the ones on my '99 GT at like 80k and they were bad, the dexcool softens the plastic and causes them to go bad a lot faster than normal coolant. Did my '98 GS's lim gaskets a couple weeks ago, they were completely destroyed at 166k, to the point the car wasn't running right. www.dex-cool.net if you want to read about it.
 
dude I got my GP from hadn't changed the oil or S/C oil in god knows how long, VC gaskets were leaking, only got about 10% boost from my supercharger as the tensioner pulley was shot, only 1 of my idler pulleys was there, (the other was long gone) all the tires where different. 1 window worked, and a metric crap load of other **** that im still fixing. consider yourself lucky lol. but hope you find where that bolt goes lol.
 
you won at all 4 tires being different lol all 4 of my wheels only leaked air......not as bad as all 4 tires being different. car must have drove odd for sure..
 


seriously, find someone local to you that has done it (a lot of us) and pay them in beer to come help you.

it's an afternoon project.
 
McQueen99GTP said:
dude I got my GP from hadn't changed the oil or S/C oil in god knows how long, VC gaskets were leaking, only got about 10% boost from my supercharger as the tensioner pulley was shot, only 1 of my idler pulleys was there, (the other was long gone) all the tires where different. 1 window worked, and a metric crap load of other **** that im still fixing. consider yourself lucky lol. but hope you find where that bolt goes lol.
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Sounds like mine when I got it. I'm very thankful for this forum and the local Pull-a-part! Seriously, I went from only ever doing oil changes (nope, not even brakes) to swapping the trans on my brothers car, and all kinds of other maintenance in between in a time span of less than 9 months.
To the OP: Start with the small stuff. Build your knowledge and confidence. These cars are pretty forgiving.
 
I dont understand why shops charge so much to do this. Sure a head gasket but a lim gasket no less. I myself could probably do it but i dont trust myself. Plus i dont have the time. But once everything gets replaced i wont have to ever worry again, hopefully.
 
its a 3 hour job and about a 100 bucks in fluids and gaskets. once the fuel rail and wire harness is all taken off theres nothing but bolts holding stuff on thats all clearly seen now.

go watch a youtube vid or two. its really easy.
 


Shop rate is higher because they have to pay:
employee
employee benefits
shop electric
shop insurance
and so many other things that we don't even think about.
 
whats so scary about this?

limjob3.jpg
 
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