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glendayle's 99 Buick Regal GS



Did you clear the codes after you fixed the wiring? Been there.. gotta clear that. It's kinda funny. Both of us could goof up the same three wires.
 
BillBoost37 said:
Did you clear the codes after you fixed the wiring? Been there.. gotta clear that. It's kinda funny. Both of us could goof up the same three wires.
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I thought the code popped up after I switched my wires, but I'll reset it and try it again. Any idea how much fluid the power steering takes. I just keep topping off the reservoir and then refill it after driving around the block.
 
Yeah..takes whatever brings the level to the spot of the dipstick. Didn't realize you did ps. Easy way to bleed it is to start it up.. turn the tires left and right a few times.. then check/fill, repeat giving it some running time to get the bubbles out.
 
if you had the lines to the rack emptied out, then installed the pump, it needs to be bled, if you jack the front wheels off the ground, then turn the wheels lock to lock about 10 times, its should burp all the air, top it off and it should be good to go.
 


Scottydoggs said:
if you had the lines to the rack emptied out, then installed the pump, it needs to be bled, if you jack the front wheels off the ground, then turn the wheels lock to lock about 10 times, its should burp all the air, top it off and it should be good to go.
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It seems to be working just by adding a little at a time. When I replaced my rear TAs and removed the hub assemblies, I must not have put my parking brake back on correctly(or it needs adjusting) because the parking brake does not currently work. It works a little, but not enough.
 
Hand polishing is really easy, just a little time consuming. But those exhaust tips would be the perfect project to learn on because there's not much area to cover and they would come out quick. On something that smooth your going to wet sand starting with somewhere around 600 grit until the surface is completely smooth and you get all the deep pits and nicks out. Then wet sand with 1000 grit until all the scratches from the 600 are gone, then with 2000 until all the scratches from the 1000 are gone. Then polish by hand with Mothers aluminum and mag polish until it looks like a mirror. Probably around $15 materials. I got all the sand paper and polish from my local auto parts. Heres a write up, you can skip a few of his steps though you are starting with a decent surface that was already polished before. DIY: Hand polishing aluminum

I've done my wheels, tips, belt wrap kit, etc. it always comes out great.
Took my belt wrap from original satin finish like this
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Thanks Anthony. This is steel so it's sort of slow going. I already had some 600 wed/dry paper around so I messed around for about 30 mins at lunch. Unfortunately I don't have enough time to finish it up since I'm dropping my car off to have the exhaust put on tonight. Maybe I can just drop the rear hangers later and get in there enough to make some more hay. I was surprised that it was starting to look good after not too terribly long.
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All the aluminum polishing techniques seem to work just as well on stainless steel for me. My exhaust tips are whatever is on my magnaflow catback, im sure their just stainless. Ive polished them right on the car without even dropping the catback. Just mask off the bumper around them so you dont scuff it up with the edges of your sand paper and stuff.
 
What a pain in the butt!!! LOL, So my buddy works at a place that has access to trailers after hours so I went and picked up a trailer to haul my car to my exhaust guy. It's about 30 miles. He told me they had a receiver and ball, but when I got there they didn't have any. So 30 minutes later after running to the store to pick one up I'm back and we load up the trailer. Drive it over to my house and go to drive the car up on the trailer and the ramps are too steep so it hits the front bumper. So we finagle the trailer to get the rear as low as possible and I went and removed my bumper. After that we were able to barely drive it up on the trailer(clearance wise) and then we were good to go. I was pleasantly surprised at how well my truck handled that load. I'm equipped with a trailer brake which made a huge difference for braking I could tell. Certainly not the truck I would want to have if I hauled loads like this regularly, but for a once/twice a year she did pretty well.

Should have my car back in a few days and then it'll be time to tune.
 


Well, I've been in MT all week on business. That was a fun trip. Look forward to more.

[FONT=arial, verdana, tahoma, sans-serif]Got the call last night on the car. Exhaust is done. It was ended up being a little more than I expected, but the guy does great work, so I'll pay it. Hopefully I won't need anything exhaust wise for a while. We are headed out of town to Mom's house however, so I won't be picking up my car until Monday. All of my remaining stereo stuff came in today. So I'll install that when I get the car back. Finish clipping the interior together and then see if I can tune this girl. Fingers are crossed, but I'm optimistic that with the dual tuners and the intelligence around this place I can get her figured out. Just need to find a nice secluded place where I can do low throttle pulls to 110 or whatever. I may have to spend a Saturday or two in the boondocks. That is the one problem of living in a decent sized city. Harder to find quiet places that are nearby.[/FONT]
 
I saw your pics over on the Regal site I think it was, they're turning out nice. I did mine last summer and was real happy. But they look like garbage now, especially with no cat
 
Euro said:
I saw your pics over on the Regal site I think it was, they're turning out nice. I did mine last summer and was real happy. But they look like garbage now, especially with no cat
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Yeah, I've heard you have to coat them to keep the rust off, but not sure how you do that with exhaust where it gets hot. I didn't remove my cat though.
 
Picked up the car today. Exhaust sounds great. I drove it home with a code. Was an O2 sensor. I hadn't reset my codes since I didn't have the O2 sensors plugged in. I expect it to be fine now. Drove pretty smooth. There is one little sound I can't put my finger on. Think it might be the O2 sensor hitting the firewall. I didn't really accelerate or anything much, but I did rev it a little while cruising on the freeway. It did seem to have a little extra juice in it. Looking forward to doing some cruising and scanning. Need to decide what to do about this rear KR sensor I need to replace. I'm thinking about not removing any coolant and just trying to shove the replacement in there with coolant going everywhere. I know I'll get soaked, but I feel like I can do it. Even if you drain your coolant, quite a bit comes out of the water jacket anyway. I'll decide on that shortly, but that's what I'm thinking of doing. I feel like I need to do that KR sensor before doing any 75% or WOT pulls though.
 
Alright, had a little change in plans. Ripped everything apart because I decided to go cam. Ordered me up a VS. It arrived today. I tore down the top half of the motor and I'm prepped to pull the timing cover and swap the cam out in the morning. This will allow me to change out my bad knock sensor and I must have done something wrong when I put my motor back together because I have had an oil leak since I put it in. So I'll be replacing my oil pan gasket as well.
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Well, Sat I ran into a snag. Stripped out one of the thrust plate bolts. I'll get a replacement on Friday. In the meantime I sourced one off the crankshaft seal cover. That allowed me to put my timing set back on. The guide I have suggests to spin the crank so that the cam timing sprocket takes two or three revolutions just to double/triple check that the dots indicating TDC are aligned properly. I did not have the energy to do this tonight, so I called it a wrap. The good news is I can have a lot of this buttoned up before Friday, and I should have no problems finishing up Fri night or Sat morning(fingers crossed, knocking on wood).
 
Oil pan done. Timing cover/balancer and most everything back on the motor. Need to put in my new 42# injectors and hook the fuel rails back up. I was having a low voltage issue so I redid my power and ground wires. I also redid the coil pack ground. That badass crimp tool is great. I think I should be able to put in the fluids and start her up tomorrow. I'll need to adjust my tune to account for the larger injectors.


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Finished putting everything together. Started her briefly, but with no coolant so shut her down after about 10 seconds or so. Idled super smooth. Having some issue with removing my O2 so I'll try a little heat. Also haven't loaded my new injector tables, but I'm getting excited. I thought it sounded more tame with the VS cam that it did with the 1.9s. I double checked my FPR and I was at 48 PSI at KOEO.

I also bought some cheap conventional oil instead of the synthetic I usually buy. Only plan on running this for a month or so which will only be a couple hundred miles.
 
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