Recent content by drewmah

I almost forgot. The accumulators for the powermasters are almost $400. Like I said the real fix is to change to vacuum brakes. Drew

Usually when the PowerMaster lays down and the motor runs everytime you hit the brakes, it's the accumulator. When it's not the accumulator, it's the pump going bad. It won't pump up and turn off. Try holding the brakes and listen to see if the pump motor turns off. If it does the pump is...

Accessory Problems Check the lighter and see if it works. If not, take it out and get a new assembly (not just the lighter part) and install it. Mine shorted out and grounded on the receptacle metal on the dash. Which blows the fuse for the accessories. I have an 87 Type T and the fuse box...

Thanks to everybody who responded to my post. Thanks especially to Aminga. You saved me a lot of time man. I was pulling and replacing the ACC 20 amp fuse because my Chilton manual showed the lighter to be on that fuse. It wasn't. I pulled the lighter and tried both fuses again and everything...

Has anyone had their courtesy lights, dome light, and radio just go dead. Can't find any bad wires and only one bad fuse that is the courtesy light, radio, dome light, plus accessories. Keeps blowing that fuse. Stumped because I can't find what is shorted and blowing that fuse. ??????? Thanks. Drew

My TypeT did the same thing. No solenoid click. Nothing. So I bought a whole new starter at AutoZone. Solenoid and Starter. Hard to get out until you figure out how to slide it past the tranny cooler line. Started up just fine. The old one was completely done. Crispy critter. Yours could be...

Service Manual How much for the Buick service manual Chris?? Drew

Thanks guys. Just replaced starter and when I got everything working my A/C was blowing out the heater vent and defrost vents. Crawled around under the dash checking vacuum lines and control cables and couldn't find anything wrong. Then I read one of Silver Fox's posts and started looking around...

Directscan problem Guys, Dave is right, the parallel port is the key to this problem. You need to get an older laptop with the parallel port and Windows '98 and older. I couldn't get Windows '98 to work, but I hate computers. Radio Shack has cables that will connect to the DirectScan connector...

DirectScan issues Russ, I just replied to Tim Barnum's post about the DirectScan. Had the same problem as him and you. Finally bought an old laptop just running DOS and only use it to run DirectScan. Works really well. Don't know anything about all of these conflicts with Windows, but was...

Directscan problem Tim, also check out the answers to Buickruss post below. There are more answers there on the DirectScan. I only use computers and hate when something goes wrong. Especially TurboDave's answers. Wouldn't hurt to try. Also the cleaning of the ECM contacts has to be really...

DirectScan problem Tim, I think you are having the same problem I did with the software. DirectScan runs on DOS and there are problems with Windows 98 and up conflicting with the software trying to run under Windows and on DOS. I finally looked for and found an old Globalyst 250 laptop (thanks...

Looking for a tri shield mirror for a friend. No guarantee it will be purchased from this board. Anyone interested it is for a '70 GS. If you have one PM me or email me and I will submit the info to the guy who owns the car. Thanks. Drew

Thanks for the reply Erik. I have somebody who is picking up an old laptop with DOS on it next week. Thanks. Drew