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What did you do to your Car today?

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Scottydoggs said:
you should flare the lines, trans lines can slide off, they are under some good pressure, when they do blow off your car can catch fire, and then say bye bye to it.

a friend of mine back in HS, his rad lines twisted when he changed his rad, so he used rubber hose to connect the lines to new lines off the rad, he didn't flair either side and yup, the line blew off, hit the exhaust manifold, 15 minutes later the fire dept was there hosing it down. of course they filled the gas tank with water, then filled the engine with water, over kill, yeah just a bit, but it went to the junk yard after that.

oh, and the hoses were double clamped. didnt help one bit.
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Hmm. Never had an issue with any previous prixs that way. But just for the hell of it i may flare them just so that's out of my mind. Is there a special tool? ill go pick one up

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Detail cleaned the interior last night. Aside from burnt out radio display buttons car looks like new inside. :)
Today I retint all the taillights. Because clearcoat and tint can fade? Well it did.
 
rperry435 said:
Hmm. Never had an issue with any previous prixs that way. But just for the hell of it i may flare them just so that's out of my mind. Is there a special tool? ill go pick one up

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Yup, a double flaring tool.
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had my rear passenger side brake caliper replaced, couple years ago it was the drivers side that went on me, the parking brake was no holding
also replaced the rear trailing arms as the bushings had worn out
 


My new PK3 Pontiac key came today. Still need to get it cut. My new keypad for my FOB came today, FOB looks brand new now.

Header panel, new FOBs, and trans cooler are supposed to be here tomorrow. Lets hope the weather holds out for me.
 
Took it to the transmission shop today for diagnostic........




Nothing wrong with the tranny at all.
He is guessing the maf because of a PO171 code that is stored but not setting light off yet. Bill was right!

Looks like I need to get a new maf.
 
danielle15 said:
Took it to the transmission shop today for diagnostic........




Nothing wrong with the tranny at all.
He is guessing the maf because of a PO171 code that is stored but not setting light off yet. Bill was right!

Looks like I need to get a new maf.
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lol yay for bill lol congrats on a cheap fix
 


Scottydoggs said:
yup pretty much what you said. remove the t stat, put the housing and hose back on, take the upper hose off the rad, push it down to a pail or let it dump. pull the lower hose off the water pump or rad, let that drain out. put that hose back on, put a hose in the rad turn it on, fire up the car run the engine till clear water comes out.

while the hoses are off the rad, you can hold the lower hose closed, then fill the rad, then let it dump out as fast as it will flow out, do this a few times see if it flows out faster or not with each flush.

then take the hose out, run the car till no more water comes out the upper hose, then turn the car off. put the t stat back in, put the upper hose back on. then add one gallon of straight coolant to the rad, not the 50/50 stuff. then top it off with the hose, let it idle till the fans come on, (rad cap off) then bleed the bleeder. top off as needed while waiting for the fans to come on. top off before shutting the cap.

waiting for the fans to come on tells you the t stat is open as the car is hotter then 195. if it burps and sucks coolant while waiting for the fans, the t stat just opened for a few seconds till cold coolant hit it from the rad. this waiting game can take up to 15 minutes sometimes. or longer.
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I was looking for something like this. Thanks for the good explanation Scotty. One question, what about putting in a tee in one of the heater hoses, hooking it to a water hose, and then running till everything is clear? (of course you have to set the interior controls to heat.)
 
danielle15 said:
Took it to the transmission shop today for diagnostic........




Nothing wrong with the tranny at all.
He is guessing the maf because of a PO171 code that is stored but not setting light off yet. Bill was right!

Looks like I need to get a new maf.
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Yes u need a new maf. Buy the original one cz you will see this code again if u get not oem.

I'd change the o2 sensor on bank 1 too
It's the upstream.
 
Kilroy said:
I was looking for something like this. Thanks for the good explanation Scotty. One question, what about putting in a tee in one of the heater hoses, hooking it to a water hose, and then running till everything is clear? (of course you have to set the interior controls to heat.)
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you can do that one if you want, it takes to long for me. and my way is free, other then a new t stat gasket or t stat
if your changing it.

if you do it that way, you dont need to turn the heat on, our heater cores flow freely all the time. theres no on/off valve. both hoses are always hot.
 
danielle15 said:
Took it to the transmission shop today for diagnostic........




Nothing wrong with the tranny at all.
He is guessing the maf because of a PO171 code that is stored but not setting light off yet. Bill was right!

Looks like I need to get a new maf.
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damn you maffy, WHY?????????


better then needing a new car aint it tho?
 


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