david-b's 2001 Grand Am DD fix

[ned032002]

That's cool, at least that's one less thing to worry about.

[vanilla gorilla]

Thats awesome man. Are you driving it yet?

[ned032002]

[david-b]

Yup been driving it since I picked it up the other day. Put over 100 miles on it just last night Thing has bee great. Noticing some small issues here and there with just the car in general but it's all basic fixes. I'm going to clean it up some today and try to get the passenger side mirror back on. All small stuff, but the car is filthy inside so I want to really clean it up.

Thursday night when I got her home. Notice all the crappy snow


New Head



Still has some lights on yet. Mostly because the ABS wire or connector on the passenger side wheel hub got destroyed. That causes 3 of those lights to be on. I'll get that fixed and that should take care of it. I hate dash lights so I want none lite. My boy who owned the car before really didn't care if they were on or not.


And how the Talon looked Thursday night after 8-12" of snow

[ned032002]

She still looks good, the Talon I mean. I hate dash lights too, and you've got a few of them. Is it easy to fix the ABS wiring? BTW, we've about the same amount of snow here.

[Blackcrow64]

Speed much?...

At least you got one car running finally...

[david-b]

I didnt even realize I was going that fast. I did get her up to ~90 for awhile, all with no radar. Limit was 55 too... oops Car takes forever to get up to speed. So used to that instant power.

Originally Posted by Brian

At least you got one car running finally...

Well I wish this were still true. Yesterday noticed some little oil leaking. Checked to see what was going on and didn't look bad. Drove all day yesterday and car started to run like shit and you could smell oil burning. I kept checking it out making sure I was good, didnt see anything though. Filled up oil. Was driving around with this girl and noticed the oil smell starting to get stronger, and the car died right outside my house. Oil light also came on. Let it cool down, filled it up with 4 quarts drove her home late night and smoke was coming from under the hood. FML

Drove literally a block to a gas station got some oil, found a flashlight and saw foamy coolant down the back of the block FML x2. Oil was near bone dry again. Filled up hoping to baby it home. Pulled out from the parking lot, and it died before I got to the light (and the station is on the corner). Got her started, and pulled into a hot dog stand across the street and noticed that the whole street was all smoked up. FML x3

Made some calls and after freezing in the 8* weather with 0* windchill, I got a ride back to my place. So right now the car sits at a hot dog stand and I need to get it towed somewhere. I have to call my mechanic buddy and see if he'll take it back, which he better. I'm so pissed right now it's not even funny. I'm just glad this didnt happen on the tollroad on Friday night. I would have been really screwed then.

[SilvrEclipse]

Man that really sucks. I hope you didn't damage any of the bearings running it that low on oil. Your daily driver is less reliable then your talon. Go figure that one

[david-b]

Ya tell me about it.

Car got towed to my mechanics place again. He took it back and going to tear it apart this week and see what's up. Thank god for free towing. This car has seen more tow truck time in 2 months than the Talon has in 2 years.

On the upside, I got the Talon to crank today. Torched the starter and that seems to break it free. Sweetness. Sadly battery was dead though.