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What did you do to your Car today?

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yea he sent pics and the tires are low profiles. i wouldnt run low profile tires in the city. which means i would buy tires either way lol.
 
Buy tires now and you won't have to worry about replacing them for some time. It's pretty cheap to get new tires from eBay from places like discounttiredirect etc for way cheaper then you would normally pay in house.

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People wonder why I don't go out driving right now. About 95% of this snow fell today, and there's already enough ice on the snow to walk on it without breaking the ice and leaving a foot print. Nothing is wet, and all the foot prints you see in the picture were from earlier today when the ids were playing in it...
 


Re: What did you do to your Grand Prix today?

Hello All,

New here, just picked up a 2000 GTP 2/Dr with 234K on it. Noticed some coolant below the SC around the injectors (guessing intake manifold gasket) and I am looking for a good thread or step by step to R&R it. Any suggestions would be great! Thanks in advance!

-Vic
 
Re: What did you do to your Grand Prix today?

slimfl08 said:
Hello All,

New here, just picked up a 2000 GTP 2/Dr with 234K on it. Noticed some coolant below the SC around the injectors (guessing intake manifold gasket) and I am looking for a good thread or step by step to R&R it. Any suggestions would be great! Thanks in advance!

-Vic
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thats your upper coolant elbow leaking or the water pump. not the lower intake.
 
Driving the GXP around today I realized I still love this car. Also realized that if I'd never come into owning my GTP or the GXP I probably wouldn't have learned much if anything about cars. Both cars have been quite a learning experience. I wouldn't have it any other way. =]
 
the cars i learned to work on first are not even around no more lol

i remember my first knuckle replacement on a 75 lemans. lost the bearings, ate the spindle and the bearing cups in the rotor.

figured out how to get it all apart at the junk yard where i got all the new parts for like 20 bucks. was living at a girlfriends house at the time and was fixing it in the street in front her house, then had some little kid i never met before sitting over my shoulder for the whole job, question after question, so i made him my tool fetcher lol never saw the kid again lol odd crap we remember.
 


LOL Scotty. I remember as a small child (around 3) grabbing tools from the tool box for my dad while he worked on something. When he was done with that tool I took it from him, wiped it with a rag, and put it back in the tool box.
 
see, you were trained well lol

this just came back to me. at the junk yard, i shot the coil spring into the side of the car next to it.

for those who dont know how old front coil springs worked, you had a upper and lower control arm, the two ball joints held pressure on the spring, if you dont have a spring compressor or a jack under the lower arm, the spring goes flying when the ball joint breaks free.

this junk yard car was in the middle of a three car stack. i was lucky to have the pickle fork to pop the ball joints. being a broke ass kid.
 
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Blower motor and auto headlights keep not working at first. Turn it to 5 and it runs, and headlights come on. They usually stay on after that.
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Yeah most seem to agree on the ignition switch as the issue. Hopefully it lasts a little longer til winter's over with.
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Mine's been doing this for over two years now. Only happens once in a while, and usually starts working after a few minutes; turning to 5 doesn't work for me. I have a new ignition switch sitting here, and I know the old switch might leave me blowerless one hot or cold day. Guess deep down I want to tempt fate. LOL
 


Scottydoggs said:
my first spindle replacement on a 75 lemans.

at the junk yard where i got all the junk parts
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Slippin buddy... too much boosty FWD? lol

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made him my tool fetcher lol
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I was the kid with a big mess in a quiet place taking apart anything I could get permission to. Packing wheel bearings on the Tempest was a rite of passage, a milestone... an honor. With drums its an art to not spin a race. We NEVER used a packer in my fambly, and we made an honest effort to keep our hands out of the gas. Sitting on a Cragar with a four-way doing a re-pack on a warm Saturday morning really sends me down memory lane. Looking forward to that this spring. I reserve sacred elder tools for just that, don't nodoby tell me it ain't theraputic.

Anyway, yep SD- thats how to avoid needing a spindle. Remember when you could set a front hub / drum / wheel ass'y on a bubble balancer with it all together? And how smooth that was even with belted pizza cutters? Oop- showin age!

One year a neigh kid here grew up enough he thought he would stroll over and get involved. Being Mr. Safety I couldn't take much of that so I flat out told him: "If I invite you here, you can come. You are welcome to knock on the door if you need something and I am not outside. If I am working on my car, you cannot be here. Nothing personal, just too dangerous." It took a few moments for all that to sink in but I didn't have any more visitors from that house anyway.

Ball joint separation on the 69GP- works out great if you're me at my house. The jack n stands I have hold it juuust high enough so the control arm tip contacts the floor with only a small amount of spring tension left. I stand a 2x4 up between my legs just in case, throw a hoody around the spring and give it a boot donkey style. Clangs right onto the floor. How it should be.
 
Spewin hot air about old cars made me forget what I did to the GTP today... stepped on my cherry dash (laying in living room floor) that I'll be needing... broke it, cut my toe deep, and scratched left arm on the way down trying not to fall on it. Badass! Just cracked the dash where it doesn't show, glue will do but I might need to rename myself icreatejunk. Glad I didn't come down on right hand, still sore.
 
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