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Old 07-11-2009, 09:25 AM   #5
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Re: "Check Gas Cap"

I guess I'll just see if the gas cap message comes back again. Taking it to the dealer is a lot hard there days - two of the closest GM dealers are now gone. It's 30mi to the closest one now.

The car itself...still hearing some residual noises & things that I'm 100% sure are related to the subframe issue. The klunk noise was a motor mount, which was under the derpentine belt area. They replaced it, the noise went away for almost a month now, but there's still some other wierd noises.

I'm not a car expert but 25 years of fixing everything from appliances, computers, cars and everything else imaginable has given me a lot of insights on how stuff works. And I know that when you drop a 1,000lb engine/tranny 8" all that energy has to get absorbed somewhere. All kinds of pressure was put on components on that car that aren't designed to handle that stress, so it's no surprise to me that I'm still discovering wierd problems. Finding the source is another issue, though.

But thanks for asking!!
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