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Pictures of my '87 2.8 Firebird... ((Rare Color??))

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Old Nov 30, 2003 | 01:27 AM
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Car: 1987 Pontiac Firebird 82k miles
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Pictures of my '87 2.8 Firebird... ((Rare Color??))

Go to my web site @ Cardomain.com for pictures!!

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Old Nov 30, 2003 | 01:34 AM
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Old Nov 30, 2003 | 03:02 AM
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Car: 89 f-bird and some others
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Looks pretty decent. Your color looks like mine i think. Should say in the center console. 9535 if I'm right. Not rare enough to make it worth millions, but rare enough you'll never find touch-up paint. I've tried.
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Old Nov 30, 2003 | 08:46 AM
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Car: 13 Ram 1500/ 78 Formy
Engine: 5.7 / 7.4
Transmission: 6sp / TH350
Axle/Gears: 3.55 posi / 3.23
Brown interior. ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwe.

Good to see you're back w/a Bird. We gotta do someting about the idiot lights though

Hope it lasts longer & runs better than the last one :rockon:

for the headlight repair, what's needed? are they nonfuctional (stuck in the up postion)?
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Old Nov 30, 2003 | 11:09 AM
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Car: 1987 Pontiac Firebird 82k miles
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The headlight motors work, but the gears are stripped out. I was told by the previous owner that last winter he was being an idiot trying to get the headlights up when the car was covered in a sheet of ice.... go figure!!
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Old Nov 30, 2003 | 12:57 PM
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I belive there is a kit refrenced on teh site that fixes this. Uses metal gears even.
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Old Dec 1, 2003 | 02:55 PM
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Yep, and he lucked out, the kit's for 87-up.
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Old Dec 19, 2003 | 09:23 PM
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GLUE STICKS FOR HOT GLUE GUNS!!!take your headlight motors out and there will be 2 screws holding a little plate on the side remove them (CAREFULL SOAK THEM WITH PENETRATING OIL FIRST) and u will be able to see a gear.on top of the unit there are 2 more screws take them out (CAREFULL SOAK THEM WITH PENETRATING OIL FIRST) and u will pull out a worm type gear. now the gear on the side will pull out. pull the side gear apart, the shaft will pull out of the gear with one side of it. there will be a lot of dust,dump that in the trash.get a standard size glue stick and stick one end in and mark where it comes even with the top of the gear.cut on the mark and u will need 6 pieces that long for both motors (3 each) put the 3 pieces in and spray with wight lithium grease. and ressembalthe motor by putting the worm gear in first then the side gear.then put the screws back in and reinstall.good luck!
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