Monday, 17 April 2006
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| 90 Grand Prix - Change Column to Console Shift Kamevil 12:50:21 |
| | Wondering if anybody out there has any knowledge about changing a 1990 Grand
Prix from column to console shift. Mainly considering this because want to
change from 60/40 seat to buckets and add console. Thanks.
Kamevil
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| Re: Service Engine Soon Geoff Welsh 12:25:38 |
| | T CHAPPELL wrote:
Hello All,> I have a '91 Grand Prix with the 3.1. Occasionally on a cold start my> "service engine soon" light will come on but goes right back out after> about a minute or two. I know that when this happens I need to have a> code from the computer translated however since the light goes right> back out again is this a real reason for concern? I recently had the> emissions test done and everything passed fine.> Also, Does the light have to be on at the time of the code reading or> does the computer retain that information?> Any information and advice would be greatly appreciated.> On vehicles that old it may or may not store the code if the light is
not constant. It's free to find out, assuming you can borrow a paper
clip. see http://www.troublecodes.net/GM/
GW
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| Any online/downloadable wiring schematic for 2005 Bonneville? Terry 11:28:58 |
| | I've found a site with all the Ford e-shop manuals for free but have as yet
been unable to locate possible outlets for Pontiac/GM (2005 Bonneville in
particular). ...'tis a shame I don't own a Ford. 
Any pointers would be much appreciated.
Cheers,
Terry
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| Re: all bolts accessible for oil pan in Montana? DonW 07:42:36 |
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"D" <boxgrover@GgMmAaIiLl.com> wrote in message
news:lnV_f.3114$fo1.131246@news20.bellglobal.com...>I noticed that the oil pan on my 2000 Montana is sweating oil. Of course I> cant tell if it is the gasket  or hopefully instead the bolts may have> come loose over time coupled with the seasonal changes of temperature. *I*> cant tell if *all* the relevant bolts can be seen to be retorqued. And so > I> wonder if tightening only those that can be got to might make matters > worse.> Does anyone know off hand if all the oil pan bolts can be got to?> --
I don't have first-hand knowledge however browsing through the manual it
looks like there's a lot of items that must be removed in order to remove
the oil pan. While you are asking about just tightening the bolts, I'd
assume many of these items would have to be moved just to have access to all
the pan bolts.
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Sunday, 16 April 2006
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| 91 sunbird timing belt Jack Zwanenburg 19:54:31 |
| | 2.0 L engine .If the timing belt breaks while driving , is there enough
piston to valve clearance or do the pistons hit the valves ?
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| Montana harmonic balancer DonW 04:32:43 |
| | The OE harmonic balancer failed at 100K miles on the 98 Montana. By failed
I mean the outer pulley had moved outward causing belt misalignment. It
still drove the various assecessories OK. I replaced it with a Dorman unit
that lasted 3 weeks and 2200 miles. It completely failed with the outer
pulley completely uncoupled from the inner hub. There's no apparent
misalignment in the drive pulleys or does there appear to be excessive drag
when the a/c compressor engages. Anyone have multiple harmonic balancer
failures? or stated another way...... any experience with "made in China"
aftermarket units and their failure rates?
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Friday, 14 April 2006
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| Re: 1997 Sunfire Starter Wiring Silver Surfer 06:44:13 |
| | I looked at the '96, '97, and '98 Sunfire wiring diagrams. They all show
the exact same wiring scheme. The grey/red fusible link goes to the large
battery terminal on the solenoid. There is a small purple wire on the
solenoid's "S" terminal. No black wire or small red wire show up. Could
your "black" wire actually be a purple one? Perhaps you could clean it
further back along its length to make sure.
I'm at a loss to explain your small red wire. Does it have a small ring
terminal on its end or some other type?
"Gary" <garywilliamson@comcast.net> wrote in message
news:e5WdneYOq9io5aPZRVn-vQ@comcast.com...> After cleaning up the wires..> We have a small red wire, a small red/grey fusible link, and a small black > wire that we need to connect.>
"Silver Surfer" <h.mcguffinspamouflage@comcast.net> wrote in message > news:yeqdnd6gnYBoJKDZnZ2dneKdnZydnZ2d@comcast.com...>> The little purple wire should go to the "S" terminal on the solenoid.>> Is the red one a big heavy wire? If so it goes to the big "battery" >> terminal on the solenoid.>> Not sure about a black wire, but you should have a gray fusible link that >> also connects to the big terminal on the solenoid.>> "Gary Williamson" <garywilliamson@comcast.net> wrote in message >> news:ZtednaWck4V996DZRVn-gA@comcast.com...>>>I know it's a dumb mistake but...>>> When we removed the starter and replaced it on our Sunfire, I lost the >>> paper I had that told me where the three wires connect to the starter >>> and solenoid.>>> Where do these three wires connect? (purple, red, black)>>> 1997 Pontiac Sunfire>>> 2.4L 4 Cylinder>>> Automatic Trans.>>>
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Wednesday, 12 April 2006
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| 92 Grand Prix stalls in idle and in high rpm. Tonico 00:57:52 |
| | I've replaced plugs, wires, coils, EGR, Idle controller, air temp sensor,
Map sensor and O2 sensor, and the fuel presure is constant between 38 to
41 psi and Computer has no code for error. Can anyone help!!!!!
Feels like back firing or choking!!!
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Tuesday, 11 April 2006
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98 GRAN PRIX GT OIL PRESSURE SWITCH  bplfel 03:57:20 |
| | I need to Know where the oil pressure switch goes on a 98 Grand Prix GT. And if anybody why it would just die at any time? It does not matter were going 50 mph or at a stop sign. |
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Monday, 10 April 2006
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| 2004 Pontiac Grand Prix Cooling System question Guest 02:17:20 |
| | I recently flushed and filled the cooling system of my 2004 Grand Prix per the service manual instructions. The coolant level is full but I hear a 'sloshing' sound when I start and stop the car - it makes me think there's an air gap in there somewhere. When filling the coolant, the manual said to open the bleeder screws (plural). I could only find one (on the thermostat housing) so I think I messed up the procedure. Does anyone know how I can get rid of the 'sloshing' sound? |
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Sunday, 9 April 2006
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| 2001 Grand Prix Wheel speed sensor Marlene 19:19:35 |
| | Abs light is on and trac light, have changed wheel hub assembly 3x and still have light and noise from abs pump
when brakes applied at low speed. Also have gotten 2 wheel bearing assembly 's that had bad sensors out of box. Could there possibly be something else giving the bad sensor code? |
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Monday, 3 April 2006
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| 94 pontiac grand am Guest 21:41:08 |
| | Hey ohkay my car when i drive it and it only happens when iam about too come too a stop! The sterring wheel and the inside start too shake like shimmy i guess and then my car just shuts down, yeah then i will try6 too restart it and it will start and go or sometimes it takes a little while too get it going again, so i took it tooa mechanic and he said he doesnt NO why it does it, so...about a month later it did it too times in the same day so..i called a mechainc and talk too him and he said it sounds like COIL IN THE ENGINE does anybody no what they think it is or what is Coil????? |
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| The Key, It Won't Come Out.... Raddion 20:44:58 |
| | Hi everybody, I have a question....
My sister has a 2000 Grand Prix, and the ignition key won't come out, the
ignition won't turn all the way to the "off" position even in park. I guess
it's probably a shift interlock system problem, so first I'd like to try and
see if something's wrong with the adjustment. Does anyone know if the
interlock cable on this vehicle is adjusted at the shifter, or is it
adjusted at the steering column? It looks like a bit of a bummer to try and
penetrate the center console, so I sort of hope it's adjusted at the column!
(But I doubt it)
thanks in advance
Raddion
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Sunday, 2 April 2006
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| brake lights won't work [fuse is good and light bulbs are good! david bulf 23:00:03 |
| | i've a problem with the brake lights on a 89 bonneville! fuses looks good!
what else could be wrong! rear window brake light won't light up but bulb still good!!
thanks david |
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| oil pressure sending unit paulie 02:18:10 |
| | we have a 1979 trans am 403 that needs the oil pressure sending unit replaced does anyone know where this is located? |
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Tuesday, 21 March 2006
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| Pontiac Sunfire Anti lock brakes Guest 22:34:35 |
| | When I replaced the battery on my 1999 2.2 Sunfire the anti lock brakes stopped working and the warning light came on. Is there any way to reset them without going on a computer?
Arthur |
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| Pontic Sunfire SE 1993 Chris Cross 05:12:35 |
| | I am having problems with the fuel pump. I changed the pump and fuse and when the car will start, it dies out like it is out of gas. Does anyone have any suggestions? |
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Wednesday, 15 March 2006
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| 1997 pontiac sunfire starts and stalls David Parrillo 07:17:13 |
| | Any ideas? Once running is ok, no codes.
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| REAR AXEL ID NUMBERS Galorde@Aol.Com 06:23:34 |
| | INFO REQUESTED:
If someone can help ID the numbers that I found on the rear axel of my
1969 GTO it would greatly help me. I cannot find the (two) letter code
on the rear axel but I did find a number on the axel of 9795082 can
someone tell me about this number, code, ratio gears, and maybe build
date of this axel.
Thanks
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| 2.4l 98 Grand Am Sounding Like a Diesel for a few seconds to Minutes Jeffrae 05:41:57 |
| | When I first start up the car it sounds like a diesel until I give it a
little gas..
At first I thought maybe the lifters or something were starting to get
noisy, but it isn't temperature related.. IT can be cold as hell and
not do it one day but do it the next..
IT can be warm and do it or not..
It goes away as soon as I give it a nice amount of gas...
It seams like it take more gas recently to make the sound go away...
Once it goes away it sounds normal..
Any Ideas?
Jeff
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| Heat Issues Pontiac Grand prix awilliams 04:34:24 |
| | when the car is idling or stop and go, my temperature guage is out of whack and goes way up past 210, w/cold air coming out, while I drive (highway) the temp guage goes back down to just above 160 and I get some warm air, but not hot like it should be, any suggestions? |
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| 1997 pontiac grand am ignition Guest 04:31:12 |
| | my 1997 pontiac grand am ignition switch does not release the key sometimes. Does the switch need replacing or is there another problem |
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| 95 Grand Prix overdrive behaves like neutral GrandPrixNewbie 03:49:25 |
| | My GP is mint with only 85,000Km. It's powered by a 3100 and geared via
4T60-E.
When running in overdrive (D) the RPMs stay around 3000 at 100Km per
hour. The transaxle never shifts to overdrive.
When forcing it out of 3rd, by easing off the accelerator going down a
hill, the transaxle behaves as if it's in neutral. ie: the RPMs drop to
idle rate and you can rev the engine, watching the tach needle go up
and down.
Dropping it manually into 3rd causes the RPMs to immediately jump up to
meet the rate of travel.
My t-fluid is clean and at the right level.
I'm suspecting computer/electrical troubles because there's another
issue: the cruise fuse under the hood was missing when I purchased this
car just days ago, and replacing it causes the "lights on" chime to
activate when turning off the car and exiting. The lights are actually
on very dimly too.
I had to pull the fuse again to avoid this. I can live without cruise,
but would love to have my overdrive.
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| The 17th problem! Travis King 00:16:13 |
| | 1988 Pontiac 6000 2.5L. 124,313 miles.
You're probably getting tired of me whining about my car, but I can't help
myself. (Or the car can't help itself.) Heck, you probably get some laughs
out of these posts... So anyway, here we go again...
My car has its 17th problem now. (Yes, that would be 17 things that are
wrong with the car right now.) This probably won't be enough to give you
the information you'll need, but it's worth a shot. It's yet another leak.
(I've probably had ten leaks alone with that car.) This fluid kind of has a
brownish-transparent color. It's slick. I would say oil except my oil is
pretty black right now since it needs changed. It left a nice size stream
(Probably at least a foot long stream about an inch and a half wide) of this
fluid in the driveway today when I moved it before we went to the store. It
didn't seem to me that this fluid had a smell, but then again, maybe that's
because I only got a small sampling on my finger. I looked under the car
and saw where the fluid was leaking down at, but I don't know for sure where
it's coming from. That means I have three fluid leaks right now. The
antifreeze, the transmission, and this leak. Maybe it is oil, but it at
least is pretty dark on the dipstick and if it is the oil, this will have
been the third time it's leaked since I've had the car. (Not quite two
years - although it's been in the family for almost ten.) It blew the valve
cover gasket twice almost in a row, so we used silicone. After the
silicone, why would it start leaking again if it is indeed the oil? I've
been getting around fine without oil leaks using the silicone for over a
year and a half now. My oil level was past the full mark, but the engine
was warm, so I didn't get an accurate measure. I'll check it soon when it's
cold. All I can tell you for sure is the leak was sitting under the
passenger half of the car in the front.
The antifreeze in the reservoir was about a half an inch above the 'Add'
line, but it was not warmed up all the way - the engine was warm, but not at
it's normal temperature when it's warmed all the way up.
Before you tell me to get rid of my car (which I know I should), I would
like to within a year - if it will make it that long...
Oh well, the car was free when I got it and it's purpose was just to get me
by until I could get something better. (At least that was my mom's idea.
My dad still says "oh, it's not that bad - we haven't given it a tune up in
a while" "it wouldn't cost that much to fix it". This is coming from
somebody who hates 4 cylinder engines and always complained about the 2.5
and said that he would never let anyone ever buy a four-cylinder engine
again. I don't think he's actually ever considered everything that's wrong
with it. There are 4-cylinder engines out there that are pretty reliable,
but the 2.5 is not one of them at least with the Celebrity we used to have
and this car. After dealing with the lackluster power of this engine, I'd
probably get a V6 engine in my next vehicle, although if I feel comfortable
with getting a 4-cylinder engine (since most of them do have more power than
the 2.5), I'll be getting one. I don't need lots of power even as a teen,
but I do want something that has enough power to go up an incline at 65mph
without really pushing hard on the gas pedal. On this car, if you spend
$900 on it, you're already spending about the amount of its value -
considering its condition.) Dad hasn't complained that much about my car
after he bought his gas-guzzling Blazer (which he's spent $5000 on it in
repairs in the past year and a half) and the gas prices have doubled.
I will now stop rambling.
Thanks.
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Tuesday, 14 March 2006
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| 2002 Pontiac Grand Am SE1 Security Light Dmull305 23:14:48 |
| | Hello,
I own a 2002 Grand Am. My problem is that the Security Light will
come on intermittently when drive. Soon thereafter, when attempting
to start the car it will not crank over. To correct the problem I was
told to attempt cranking the engine. If it failes to crank then turn
the key to the off position and then back to on. The Security Light
will go off after about 10 minutes. It will then crank. What is
causing the problem??? Help!!!!
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