My '96 Lumina has had issues with temp fluctuations, had a bud who is a good mech look at her and says I have freeze in the oil and oil in the freeze....intake gasket.
So I'm worried about head probs but guess I'm gonna dump the $450 for the intake and hope for the best. She's got 166K on her and is starting to rust - she's been so good but I hate to put a couple hundy in her and then have the head gasket or some other major bull break me.
So basically, anything to look or watch out for more upcoming probs than the head gask? - ways to separate head from intake problems with those 3.1 GM knockers....just like the 3.8s and all the rest? BTW - I can hear my old girl knock on a cold morning from inside the hut.
I went ahead and watched some of the MLF coverage. Wheeler didn’t make the cut but the bigger story was the Poche/Avera fallout.
Kinda funny listening to both sides of the story and putting together the scenario, reading between the lines.
got this tackled today took about 3 hours to get both sides done. Didnt even get to use a torch....
Thought I was golden with just jacking it up and I could get to everything but no luck. Had to remove the entire axle hub and brake assembly to get to what I needed. Was a pain but still better then taking off the entire pivot arm.
Axle bearings were already greased and in great shape thankfully. Got both leaf springs installed and its ready for the road again.
Probably going to have my electric brakes checked, I am not touching anything with the brake drums. Based on what I saw it doesn't look like my electric brakes have been working anyway. Brakes are nice to have if its slippery out
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My '96 Lumina has had issues with temp fluctuations, had a bud who is a good mech look at her and says I have freeze in the oil and oil in the freeze....intake gasket.
So I'm worried about head probs but guess I'm gonna dump the $450 for the intake and hope for the best. She's got 166K on her and is starting to rust - she's been so good but I hate to put a couple hundy in her and then have the head gasket or some other major bull break me.
So basically, anything to look or watch out for more upcoming probs than the head gask? - ways to separate head from intake problems with those 3.1 GM knockers....just like the 3.8s and all the rest? BTW - I can hear my old girl knock on a cold morning from inside the hut.
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