GMSlam
CEG'er
Hello all,
big opening story... questions I branched off below.
I have a 1996 GL 2.0L Auto. I just bought the car not too long ago. It has 62k miles on it.
To be brief I took the car for a test drive and the brakes blew out. But for the price I paid I was gonna fix them. It had new rear lines put on recently. Also a new wiring harness. I fixed the brakes, and after another 21 miles, the engine started to make a noise. I took it in to the local repair shop because I suspected timing belt.... After $1100. I had replaced the timing belt, water pump, timing sprocket, idler pulley, and some other various things. I'll get the bill and add anything I missed. They told me there was something funny with the fans, they werent coming on and could use a tune up. I found the fans werent coming on at all, and found a resistor that looked like it needed replaced on the assembly, the bolts had been broken previously and after a struggle I removed them and replaced it. The high (emergency?) fans started working but not the low fan speed. Which I went and tested all the wires, everything had power but not the ecm which i found used at a local junk yard. Upon replacing that the fans started working. Thank heavens. Anyway, I drove it from my rents house in Mantua to Akron. The whole time the heat was on, and the guage showed at the end of the tail on the L. I watched the guage the whole time, not really moving at all... when I was 10 mins away, I turned the heat off, and the guage began to rise again. I'm thinking it's either the guage or the engine is running hot? I havent tested it with a OBDII? thing yet but will do it tomorrow or sunday to find the actual temperature.
But what I was wondering is if there is any reason why not to change to a 180 degree thermostat?
Would it be simple to replace the shifter, the button sticks at times, and the shifter wont lock into gears, and the display is off. Sometimes D is Drive and sometimes N is drive. It seems shifting from Park that N is drive, and shifting up that D will be drive.
Thanks so much guys.
big opening story... questions I branched off below.
I have a 1996 GL 2.0L Auto. I just bought the car not too long ago. It has 62k miles on it.
To be brief I took the car for a test drive and the brakes blew out. But for the price I paid I was gonna fix them. It had new rear lines put on recently. Also a new wiring harness. I fixed the brakes, and after another 21 miles, the engine started to make a noise. I took it in to the local repair shop because I suspected timing belt.... After $1100. I had replaced the timing belt, water pump, timing sprocket, idler pulley, and some other various things. I'll get the bill and add anything I missed. They told me there was something funny with the fans, they werent coming on and could use a tune up. I found the fans werent coming on at all, and found a resistor that looked like it needed replaced on the assembly, the bolts had been broken previously and after a struggle I removed them and replaced it. The high (emergency?) fans started working but not the low fan speed. Which I went and tested all the wires, everything had power but not the ecm which i found used at a local junk yard. Upon replacing that the fans started working. Thank heavens. Anyway, I drove it from my rents house in Mantua to Akron. The whole time the heat was on, and the guage showed at the end of the tail on the L. I watched the guage the whole time, not really moving at all... when I was 10 mins away, I turned the heat off, and the guage began to rise again. I'm thinking it's either the guage or the engine is running hot? I havent tested it with a OBDII? thing yet but will do it tomorrow or sunday to find the actual temperature.
But what I was wondering is if there is any reason why not to change to a 180 degree thermostat?
Would it be simple to replace the shifter, the button sticks at times, and the shifter wont lock into gears, and the display is off. Sometimes D is Drive and sometimes N is drive. It seems shifting from Park that N is drive, and shifting up that D will be drive.
Thanks so much guys.