Don't ever let me touch your car....
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From: Sarasota FL
Car: 99 WS6 / 00 SS / 11 CTS-V / 13 300
Engine: LS1 / LS1 / LSA / 5.7 Hemi
Transmission: 4L60E / T-56 / 6L80E / W5A80
Axle/Gears: 3.23 / 3.42 Auburn / 3.23 / 2.62
Don't ever let me touch your car....
My code 34 was the easiest thing I have ever NOT been able to diagnose.
Somehow when I changed the radiator hose, I knocked the PCV hose loose from the throttle body. After looking at it for about 30 seconds at work, every tech in the shop was laughing their as*es off at me...
The joys of auto repair...
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Jason E
Trying to sell the...
'89 Camaro RS 2.8
The future third gen...
'87-'92 IROC, GTA or Z28
or 4th gen T/A or Z28
Daily driver:
'95 Grand Am SE 3.1 Coupe
Long Live #3...
Somehow when I changed the radiator hose, I knocked the PCV hose loose from the throttle body. After looking at it for about 30 seconds at work, every tech in the shop was laughing their as*es off at me...
The joys of auto repair...
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Jason E
Trying to sell the...
'89 Camaro RS 2.8
The future third gen...
'87-'92 IROC, GTA or Z28
or 4th gen T/A or Z28
Daily driver:
'95 Grand Am SE 3.1 Coupe
Long Live #3...
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Try this one.
Trying to repair my 1966 Corvette, I dropped the carb stud down the carb.
Yeah, I $hit in my pants
Another:
Trying to align, better, the drivers door of my Dad's 1954 Corvette. Undo one screw, nothing.
Undo the other........CLUNK
My Mom see's me struggling and utters those famous words... "You better fix it before your
Father gets home!"
I discovered how they build Corvettes on the assembly line, real quick. In the door area, was a littlel trap door, held on by a phillips head screw. I removed that screw (taking a big chance) opened that little door, felt the back plate, reattached the striker plate, closed the door, put that car back in the garage. I never aligned that door ever again.
But from those experiences, I have made my way to the higher levels of personal auto mechanics.
You will, too.
It seems many bad running Fuel Injected cars, problems tend to break down to a bad vacuum hose. It's only knowing here the leak is.
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Chat Soon,
KED85
Karl
1985 Firebird 2.8 to 3.4 swap project for Smog Happy LA, CA
Trying to repair my 1966 Corvette, I dropped the carb stud down the carb.
Yeah, I $hit in my pants
Another:
Trying to align, better, the drivers door of my Dad's 1954 Corvette. Undo one screw, nothing.
Undo the other........CLUNK
My Mom see's me struggling and utters those famous words... "You better fix it before your
Father gets home!"
I discovered how they build Corvettes on the assembly line, real quick. In the door area, was a littlel trap door, held on by a phillips head screw. I removed that screw (taking a big chance) opened that little door, felt the back plate, reattached the striker plate, closed the door, put that car back in the garage. I never aligned that door ever again.
But from those experiences, I have made my way to the higher levels of personal auto mechanics.
You will, too.
It seems many bad running Fuel Injected cars, problems tend to break down to a bad vacuum hose. It's only knowing here the leak is.
------------------
Chat Soon,
KED85
Karl
1985 Firebird 2.8 to 3.4 swap project for Smog Happy LA, CA
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From: Spotsylvania, Va.
Well, my most recent famous one was the spark plug in the intake (and it HAD to be dropped in AFTER I got the upper intake and fuel rail on), and now my 3.4 is stripped back down to the pushrods... dammit.
Then there was the time I broke the tranny kickdown cable on the Cougar, it got wedged UNDER the throttle arm, and was stuck at over 2500rpms (which I soon found out it takes longer to stop a car with a stuck throttle), and on top of that, I had to drive it to work, home from work, to and from school, and to the Ford dealer before I could get the little plastic retaining washer to fix it... probably took another 100K miles off the life of that tranny.
Heh, how 'bout this... Open the hatch on my Camaro one day, got something out of it, closed it and ::thud:: the pulldown assembly fell down into the hole. And, the Chevy dealer said they had sold the last one to someone earlier that day, so I had to order it... had to hold the hatch down by climbing inside of it, wedging myself up in the glass, tying a rope to the hook, and tying it to a cinderblock I put in the "trunk"... not fun.
How's that for bad luck with cars?
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--'87 Camaro LT --
Currently undergoing a 2.8->3.4 swap.....
Then there was the time I broke the tranny kickdown cable on the Cougar, it got wedged UNDER the throttle arm, and was stuck at over 2500rpms (which I soon found out it takes longer to stop a car with a stuck throttle), and on top of that, I had to drive it to work, home from work, to and from school, and to the Ford dealer before I could get the little plastic retaining washer to fix it... probably took another 100K miles off the life of that tranny.
Heh, how 'bout this... Open the hatch on my Camaro one day, got something out of it, closed it and ::thud:: the pulldown assembly fell down into the hole. And, the Chevy dealer said they had sold the last one to someone earlier that day, so I had to order it... had to hold the hatch down by climbing inside of it, wedging myself up in the glass, tying a rope to the hook, and tying it to a cinderblock I put in the "trunk"... not fun.
How's that for bad luck with cars?
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--'87 Camaro LT --
Currently undergoing a 2.8->3.4 swap.....
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