From what I have HEARD, tranny's like the Whole banana shoved into them, although I would think they would tend to make MORE noise while doing so. :naughty:Quote:
Originally Posted by Knight
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From what I have HEARD, tranny's like the Whole banana shoved into them, although I would think they would tend to make MORE noise while doing so. :naughty:Quote:
Originally Posted by Knight
They're replacing the entire rear end. This is why we continue to work with this dealer. :nana:Quote:
Originally Posted by pajeff02
Make sure they do in fact do that.Quote:
Originally Posted by Slow@$$WS6
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Originally Posted by Slow@$$WS6
That's good. If you grab the old one for parts you might be able to sell the housing, axles, backing plates and such.
While halng ass to work in my 2001 TA, I rubbed her on her sweet dash and said "Baby, you know I love you, but when you wake up in the morning, I don't want you too get upset when you see a 1980 black Bandit with a gold bird and shaker hood sitting next to you in the driveway. I'm bringing her home tonight and you two will need to get along. Ok baby? I love you and you'll always be #1!
ha, i talk to my car sometimes too
ordered the bird some UMI swaybars :D
LoL! she will be upset that you are dating her older sisterQuote:
Originally Posted by Ain't Right
I got tired of adding diff fluid all the time so it wont blow since it pisses it out... So now I refuse to add fluid to it and let it blow!
Im currently admiring her through the window while I wait to get my haircut
Took it to my local speed shop and had a pair of QTP electric cutouts installed on the ends of my Long Tube headers. WOW! What beautiful music that big cam makes coming through the cutouts on LT's! I could just listen to it idling all day.
Drove Too Fast today. She was clean. Then, I drove home quickly while trying to doge the rain drops, had to turn the wipers on 2x. Pissed me off! Going on a 200 mile cruise tomorrow, and now I have a few rain spots. Going out to clean her now! Sunny weather awaits tomorrow morning.
I took it to the park where I set up my camera on a tripod to document that big thumping cam.
Trick Flow Cam: .238/.242 duration, .595/.595 lift, 112 LSA singing through uncapped long-tube headers. I've been replaying the movie clip for the last hour.
Installed my Tick Adjustable Master Cylinder...my back hurts.
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Jeremy, I envy your determination. I currently have clutch issues and I think the Tick MC could solve my dilemma. The contents in my MC is black and there are also small solid bits floating around in it. My pedal is slightly mushy at times and it occasionaly sticks to the floor during a hard high RPM shift. And lately slips on a launch.Quote:
Originally Posted by ls1caminoInstalled my Tick Adjustable Master Cylinder...my back hurts.
BTW; Your photo is exceptional quality. Must have been high-tech equipment.
That's the position I was in running wires through the firewall for my gauges. Not a whole lot of fun.
Dreaded doing this since I bought the car. Used to do just fine wedging underneath my truck dash. Totally forgot there was a.. ya know, CHANGE when you go from a truck to a RWD V8 car. :/Quote:
Originally Posted by pajeff02
Filled her up with premium after running her damn near bone dry for the first time. Drained and swapped covers on my spare rear because my 'new' rear had a bad cover. Too poor for a specialty cover right now, and if I did I'd make sure my spare tube was straight and just build that thing since it only has 42,000 miles on it. Gonna pick up my Texas Speed Rumbler today from the 'holding house' aka my buddy's storage unit. Probably install it sometime within the next two weeks once I get money for tips and welding said tips.
Don't feel like shopping for another bumper cover since I already got a really good CETA mod on it right now.
I spy NGK Plugs in the door....Quote:
Originally Posted by ls1caminoInstalled my Tick Adjustable Master Cylinder...my back hurts.
I think that is the official position for such installation.
I just picked up a set of plugs, to damn tired to put in after a cruise in from this afternoon. May do it next week end.
Prepped my axle back for install, sand and recoat with header paint to help reinforce the somewhat worn coating on the kit. Can't wait to hear this thing fire up in person rather than clips from the internet. Hopefully end up with that machine-gun rumble that I've seen a few with stock manifolds, Ys, and cats pull off.
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Winter projects:
Started disassembling my rear suspension. I'm going to chrome the half shafts (yes I know it can weaken them), polishing is too much upkeep though. I'll also undercoat the car with Por 15 and top coat that with POR-15 hardnose light gray. I'm also going to powder coat the front suspension to match the rear, and give the exhaust system a brushed finish.
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Nice! C4 rear suspension?
Well the time to call strange and order a rear, the 10 bolt died today.
Yes, C4. ThanksQuote:
Originally Posted by cpop98ws6
I did not do anything with my Trans Am today because I don't have a Trans Am.
Looked at it sitting in the garage.
Drove it to town with the track tires on it for gas. Put it up in the air and swapped to the lowest LCA mounting hole for the track this weekend. Polished my exhaust tips.
Contemplated putting her away for the winter and starting the projects I have planned.
I've got a major oil leak from somewhere. I thought it was the oil pan, but after replacing that, it's still dripping. I think it's a valve cover...damn these cars and their cowls.
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Originally Posted by ls1camino
Any chance it's the OPSU? :dunno:
I doubt it...I replaced it when I installed the new motor, and the drip is only on the passenger side.Quote:
Originally Posted by pajeff02
Used my lathe to turn a spark plug anti-fouler into an O2 sender bung extension: http://www.ls1.com/forums/f9/exhaust...spacer-161026/ Trying to get my Innovate LC-1 A/F gauge to behave properly!
Opened the door, sat it in, then got the flashlight from the glove compartment and promised her I would use her Thursday to run pick up the wife from the airport and wash her before reaaaaal good!
Gave it a good bath yesterday ( that's why it's raining today ), took it out for a QUICK run up rte. 21 North to " blow the carbon out " of the chambers, :drivin:, stopped for a couple of containers of "hops and barley mix", went to the g/f's house, got on the computer for about 6 hours, passed out, watching it rain on my nice, (ex)-clean ride. :cuss:
Burned rubber, dropped the hammer at every other light for each gear needed and sped excessively. Pretty much drove like a dick, trolling anything. Haven't driven it in 3 weeks, so I had to make up for it.
Seems the less I drive it, the harder I'm on it.
I went for my usual Sunday Cruise (about 35 miles of block-to-block red lights). Pure pleasure with a 6 speed and 4.56 gears. Coming home I included the usual on-ramp where I blow the carbon off the plugs. That on ramp is about a mile of one lane without any merging traffic. I carelessly bounced off the rev limiter at 6.5K RPM while in 2nd gear. That pierced me deep in my heart. That rev-limiter really comes up fast with 4.56 gears.
Left it locked in the trailer at the track ready to go for next weekend!
You left you car at the track??
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Originally Posted by Cutlass
No worries. It's an enclosed trailer and Beaver Bob lives at the facility. Lots of guys leave their trailers there for extended periods during the season.
huh, interesting. Never heard of such a thing :)
Went a new PB of 12.28 @ 108. Followed by three consecutive 12.328 passes.
Nice! What mods?Quote:
Originally Posted by T/A98
Full exhaust, Lid, 3.73's, Yank PT4000 convertor, Tubular K member, front lower a arms, LCA, LCA relocation brackets, getting to the ground through Weld Draglites with MT ET streets 275/60's
Hmmm. Maybe there is a little more in my car yet. What RPM do you launch at?
I fixed my headlight motor jackhammer noise problem with the quick fix flippage 180. (sounds like a skateboard trick lol)
drove in the rain.... got damn squirrelly
Went for a cruise, discovered what appears to be axle bearing noise. Less than a year old too.
3200 RPM. Im gonna pull the seats out, remove the powersteering, and mess with the tuning and go back and try for an 11.9x on race gas. I definitly think its possible.Quote:
Originally Posted by pajeff02
moved mine outa the garage as the house was on fire
What?! Everybody ok?Quote:
Originally Posted by suede
Pulled the axles so I can replace the bearings after 6 months of use....
That really sucks, did you contact Moser and tell them about it?Quote:
Originally Posted by Knight
No, figured it really wouldn't do any good. Maybe I'm wrong, but I figured they'd put it off on bad installation, improper usage, ect., - what most big companies do to avoid handling problems. I'm sure Bob @ Brute would try to help, but I don't blame him. I really don't want a replacement from Moser either, as I don't feel like doing this again next year. Figured I'll pick up a set at the local Napa.Quote:
Originally Posted by cpop98ws6
Yeah they prob would try to blame it on something, would be more of a headache than what its worth.
That's what I figured. If it was the carrier or something more serious, I would go after them.
Drove it in the rain to work this morning. I was damn scared after what happened in the rain last time. Although the new 245's are so much better up front than the 275's. Kept the 275's in the back though.
well the fireplace had a wood header right above it and over the years it has gotten hot, then yesterday it finally torched up, all is well now, we had 4 firetrucks, 2 ambulances, 2 fire cheifs, and 2 traffic controllers, they tore out some sheetrock outa the garage side and ripped a 4x2ft hole in the mantle of the fireplace to get at it all
Glad to hear everyone is ok.
Gave it a bath (bubble), polished up the interior, took it for a ride to "clean it out", stayed over the g/f's house. Very nervous about parking my car in her apartment complex due to all the "furriner's" that live there and TRY to drive/park their "ox carts".:eeek:
Brought it home from the track without running it due to the stupid snowstorm we ended up having on Saturday. :(
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Crawled under her today and greased every bushing I could find.
Then I pulled the differential cover and fixed a leaking gasket.
Filler her up with 75/90 AMSOIL gear lube.
Now she runs quiet as a church mouse with only the exhaust note.... Heaven..
Nuthin just went to the storage to start it up,let her run for about 35-45 minutes she mostly wont see any part of the winter but i will make sure i keep the fluids up to par during the upcoming cold season,im gonna miss her LoL!
If you're not going to actually drive the car for about an hour or so, you're better off not even starting it up at all. Letting it idle for a half hour won't get the engine oil hot enough to burn off the water vapor that will condense in the pan. It's better to let it sit for a while until you are ready to take it out for a longer ride so that All the fluids are brought up to operating temperature.
You look serious about it, though.Quote:
Originally Posted by pajeff02Brought it home from the track without running it due to the stupid snowstorm we ended up having on Saturday. :(
I try. Started running our car back in '09 at the track and am totally hooked. :)
Picking up the axle bearings tomorrow, and getting it put back together. Hopefully I won't be tearing into the 9" again......
Had to pick up lawn mower parts, so i took the back roads and got a little seat time in the 100 mph range. You gotta love wide open spaces!!!!! :)
i pulled my 01 trans am up to my recently aquired 80 black and gold, non-turbo, hardtop trans am(one of about 72 made that year) and jump-started it and pissed the neigbors off!! I can't wait to run through the engine and tarnsmission and give this baby a new highgloss paint job and fresh decals!!
Do they have preformance parts support for the 301???Quote:
Originally Posted by Ain't Right
This one has has a 400 from a 79 in it :) But I'm thinking of dropping an LS6 in it down the road
Synthetic oil change(Quaker State) with a Wix long filter and a new alternator on the 2001 V6 'Bird this morning.
Tried getting the drivers side shock out and curse repeatedly because the t-50 torx bolt is stripped. It's only being held by the one torx bolt. Not exactly sure how to get it out.
^^^Vice grips. or use a chisel and hit it at and angle to spin it out
torch? plasma cutter? Grinder? Drill? lol
Cut a straight groove in it with a hacksaw and use a hammer with a chisel or flatblade screw driver to turn it.
I vote easy out.....
If I use a drill what size bit should I use? Should I drill the whole thing out....I don't want to have to re-thread it. I may try easy out. I think I'll try a few things first.
Just front half the car. Thatll get you the best results.
Easy button?:drama:
Had to pull it out of storage because the GTP had to be fixed,so i decided to take the plasti dip off my speedlines 2 rims down 2 more to go,i liked the look of the black rims but im going back to the polished aluminum look
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Rebuilt both headlight motors using brass gears and the supplied t-brace, works great so far, can cruise with just the fogs on and headlights dont pop up and no grinding noise either.
Did this on the 11th, took me a bit to piece together
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Finally got all the plasti dip off of my wheels car looks great its back to normal now
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Just ordered a strange s60 with 4.10s, it will be shipped December 2.
^^^^ nice
I changed the rear springs and getting ready to take the leaking power steering cooler off. Than flush the radiator and power steering.
I tightened the straps on my car cover
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filled her up with gas $2.36per gal premium; I love college towns.
Went to get brake caliper bolts for the pass side i lost 2 on the driver side now the pass side is doing the same thing,driver side is fine now,i dont seem to see what the issue is i tighten the bolts tight,but somehow they work themselves loose & the funny thing is i dont get to drive my car very often,most of the time its in storage,i put on a new caliper bolt & had to tighten the top bolt because that one was semi loose,i wonder whats goin on
Changed my brakes for the first time since I've had it. Everything was going smoothly until I got to the slider pins. I went to take them out to re-grease them and apparently the people before me hadn't done it to two of them and they seized in there pretty good. Broke the head off one, had to drill that out. Took forever... then I had to heat the other one up and work it out. Bought new pins, greased the hell out of them and put new Akebono's on there. Had crappy Duralast (autozone) non ceramic pads in there. They were actually still in good shape because I don't use much brake (love downshifting) but I like re-doing things so I personally know what's in there. After that, gave it a nice waxing and called it a day :)
eh, id rather replace brake pads vs clutches etc
I took my father-in-law for a high-speed run in it to the next town over about 30 miles away to the hospital this pat weekend where after letting it set in the parking lot a couple days I then modified the rear seat with an infant carrier and brought home my first child, Mr. Asher William Storie :D
Congrats! Isn't fun trying to use a rear facing infant seat in a Firebird :lol: Pretty much makes the passenger front seat useless. But it gets better when you get to use a forward facing seat back there.
I guess it was kind of what I did to my Trans Am last night but I just took the tape off this morning.
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I gutted my interior ans getting ready to take a sawzall to it.
Nice!
I have had it parked for 2 weeks,I finally got around to putting the cover on it:(
Washed it, put some dry-gas in it, filled the tank ($3.45/ gal, hi-test ), took it for a
"sedate" criuse down the NJ TPK to 8A, back to 15W, parked it, covered it, had a brew or five waiting for the spring-time to get here so I can uncover it again. :(
I got my new shifter installed 2 days ago and we had a snow squaw. About 3 inches. I'm not waiting till Spring to play. The shifter is SWEET SWEET SWEET. For all of you who have not yet swapped out the POS factory 6-speed shifter, you're missing out on much enhanced driving pleasure.
finally got around to straightening out the hood where the previous owner replaced the motor with the 6.0 hood gaps look much better now and my headlight doors dont rub on the hood.
recently put a 8.8" rear in it... no more TQ arm... i was thinking of coil overs in the rear but said screw it...
now today i scared the hell out of a postal worker at the post office when i started my car up... :lol:
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Originally Posted by Spaz
You've scared them every other way, might as well do it with your car too.
What ratio? Is it quiet?Quote:
Originally Posted by Spaz
With how loud Spaz's car is... you could dump a handful of nuts and bolts into the rear and he'd never hear it! :chuckles:
I've had a 9-inch Dana with detroit locker and 4.11 gears from 1999-June 2011. In June I switched to 4.56's. Both sets of gears have unacceptable noise. I had 2 sets of 4.10's in the stock GM POS rear housing and broke both sets within 200 miles each. I can tolerate the noise when I concentrate on the sound of the open elect cutouts.Quote:
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