I'm taking it to get inspected tomorrow...

It's been a while since I've posted anything and it was a beautiful day Winchester, New Hampshire yesterday, so I thought it would be a good time air out the old hot rod and charge the battery. I few trips around the town and a quick clean up before putting her back to bed.

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My car turns over VERY slowly when it's extremely cold out and battery is only a year old.

I've been fighting this for a while... The first thing to do is to find out if the lid is the problem or the seal. Get a turkey baster, remove the carpet and the spare tire cover. Now use the turkey baster to squirt water in the valley around the seal. Do it one side at a time and watch for water ...

BlackHawk99 wrote:Intake gaskets.

So drinking antifreeze would be something to watch for?

BlackHawk99 wrote:If I was tasked with this, I'd stay away from the 3400 since I'm not a fan of them.

Don't the Grand Am's run 3400's? They seem to be okay.... What usually fails?

BlackHawk99 wrote:If I was tasked with this, I'd stay away from the 3400 since I'm not a fan of them. They were found in the early Lumina vans, Ventures, Montanas, etc.

I'd go for any year GMC Safari or Chevy Astro with the bullet-proof 4.3!

I was looking at a few Astros.... The 4.3 is a bulletproof motor.

So, I've been tasked with the duty of finding a cheap, used, minivan ($5000ish) for my department at work. Any minivan's out there to stay away from?

Careful.... I brought the dealer the list of 11 steps it takes to change the vin in the radio and an hour later and $80 they said "Huh, it did have the old vin in it...."

There's a reason why we call them a stealership....

I'm shopping for winter rims for my step-mom's Envoy and I've found that it's an 8X18 rim with a +50mm offset. I called my GM dealer and they say all 6 lug bolt patterns are the same. Is that true?

Thanks Jimbo.... I'll check it out.

I need to find out what year OEM rims fit a 2008 GMC Envoy Denali? Does anyone know a good site?

So far no complaints.... I'll ask after they've had it for a while.

I miss my 95..... There's something special about each body style but, the 92-95 is a real classic.....

My Dad and StepMom traded in their 03 Yukon in on an 08 GMC Envoy Denali. The truck is NICE. It's got the 300hp 5.3L with Active Fuel Management. It's black on black, 4X4 with self leveling suspension and navigation. It's a pretty truck....

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I have never seen Pete unshaven before... wow! :wink:
Uh oh, you better watch out Pete...

I was thinking the same thing... :roll: Sorry Tracy.... :bdoor:

The paint on Pete's car was awesome from the first time I saw it. It's funny, Pete's really into keeping the paint up on his car and the car ...

Paint.

Larger piping from the res back, larger inlet and outlet from the mufflers, and believe it or not it made the exhaust quieter....both at idle and no more chainsaw sound above 3K rpm's

before i had 3 inch from the headers and the resonator removed and replaced with a 3". after that 3" it necked ...

Your coupler and SC bearing will fail.

It smells rank!

According to the owners manual it looks like they suggest you check and fill the oil level every 30k miles or 36 months. I'd use that as a guideline.