Recent content by litz

Not sure about the TTA but on the GN there is a wire in the black wire loom just behind the alternator,has a green plug on it, connect it to the positive lug on your alternator, this will give juice to the fuel pump, by passing the fuel pump relay, you will hear the pump runing and see the...

Let me clarify me previous post. The small screw from the butterfly broke in half, some of threaded half is still in the butterfly, and the head with a small threaded shaft was lodged in the top edge of the piston. The button head of the screw then broke free from the small threaded shaft...

The screw from the butterfly did not come out, but broke in half, turns out the other half of the screw, just the threads are still in the butterfly. The piston looks like it can be saved unfortuneately the head of the screw passed through the exhaust and took a few bites out of the turbo wheel...

Update on the cause of the problem: After pulling each plug wire with no change in the knocking sound, and pulling valve covers to find nothing, pulled spark plugs. Plug in Cylinder #1 had its contact flattened out something crushed the tang on the plug against the electrode. All other...

By the way Nick, nice photo of your car on two wheels. Don't think I will ever see that with mine but nice to dream!

Will do. Will ask my local guru to help read the tea leaves as it were. Thanks for the input to all. Will update when I find out what happened.

How about drainign the oil and looking for metal? I checked the dipstick saw nothing, water or debris.

Oh, the reason for only the back 3 plug wires, knock seems to be mostly on drivers side and having limite time today to be in the garage.

Well, Nick I pulled the back three plug wires off the coil pack, one at a time, so car was run with 5 cyclinders at each test. No difference in the knock. At idle the scanmaster reads 0 degrees retard, if I reve the motor a little, I can get 1.7- 2.5-3.2, nothing too serious on the RPM's...

yea pretty loud at idle, not a motor guy but would suspect a rod is banging. I will try what you suggest and let you know here in a few minutes. thanks.

Car has been running great lately, weather getting colder. Today, took it out, first time run since Wed. last week. Got on it just a bit at a few stop signs, all well, boost was 5 to 10lbs but pulling hard due to cooler temps. Then, from a roll of about 25 mph, hit it pretty hard, not full...

Thanks, but just got a set with all the plastic trim pieces from junk yark, $23.00. Appreciate your offer though.

looking to find power seat tracks that are direct bolt in for 87 GN. I plan to bolt them to Grand Prix seats, I already have a way to make any tracks fit the seats. Need to find tracks that bolt into the Buick GN, preferbly with multiple adjustments. thanks for any input.

It's out an on the garage floor for now. will be looking at installing something from DEI, one of the Viper models. Not too concerned about theft, never take the car anywhere to worry about that. Plus I have a pass key I installed wired right to the ECM using all red wires, be tuff to figure out...

I tried pulling the power to the brain and the car would not crank. I did find a number for Code Alarm and spoke to one of their techs, he told me to pull the Starter Key wire and the Starter wire from the alarm module, join them together and then just remove the alarm module. All works fine...