Here's my sad tale... 91 GMC pickup with new HT383 engine & Edelbrock MFI catches fire (probably trans fluid leak on exh). The truck is gutted by fire. The hood was down the whole time. All non-netal parts are gone. Engine paint (block & valve covers) looks OK, no blistering or peeling. My...

Hi all, I just caught part of a news item on television that seemed to say that congress was considering a suggestion that All gasoline would be required to be an ethanol blend at fairly high ethanol content. Apparently a move to reduce gas prices. My understanding was that older vehicles...

Does anyone know that this diagnostic is. What is the worst case scenario of the problem. BTW: I'm considering purchasing a car with this outstanding problem. Thanks, Dave

96 chevy truck mines in the mornign when I barely tap the throttle. What could this be?

Hello all My Savanna has been running horrible since I replaced the in-tank fuel pump. The comp. is now spitting out A-B bank rich code all O2 sensors have been changed and has had no effect...The dealer wants 65.00 up-front to hook it up to their machine....anyone have...

You didn't get your injectors cleaned thru the vacuum hose on the brake booster, you got your engine de-carbonized. Injectors are cleaned by removing them from the engine or by connecting a pressure canister or a cleaning machine with a pump to your car's fuel system and running a cleaning solution...

6 months ago my battery went dead on my 2000 Toyota Avalon (58K miles). I replaced with Sear DieHard battery. In a week or 2 I started to notice that the door lights flicker as well as the dashboard (odometer display) and the day lights, the local Toyota dealer told me my alternator is no good, ...

'87 Isuzu Trooper, 3.2L, 4cyl gas 4WD. Just pulled the engine. The manual I have for this car discusses the O2 sensor but does not show a diagram of it nor does it specify where it is. Can someone tell me where it is, or at least what part it is on, so I can find it and identify it? (it's not...

I have a 2004 Cadillac CTS-V (w/ Corvette Z06 LS-6 engine). Recently, I had my tires rotated, and now the display for the tire pressure is wrong. It reports the pressure for the back tires as the front tires. The Cadillac dealer wants $15 to "recalibate" the system, but I'd like to do myself....

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Very often I drive with my motor bike only in areas where only gasoline with octane rating of 95 is available. They call that onealready 'super plus extreme', but I need a bit more 'extreme' as my motor needs octane 98. And I must admit that often I hear a sound of continuous 'pinging' coming out...

Hi, I am planning on doing almost all of the grunt/prep work on my 67 camaro before being sent out for paint. I have recieved didderent opinions from body shops reguarding the EDP coating on my new sheetmetal. I have almost all new metal on the car. Some is Goodmark and some id NOS GM (quarters)....

So recently, I bought a 1990 Jetta that runs, but makes a lot of noise. (Some of this is due to a hole in the muffler.....) I changed the oil over to synthetic, bacause it's over 100k miles. But since I changed it, the oil pressure buzzer has been coming on intermittently. If I remember correct,...

1/ Could anyone please say if all the major auto manufacturers in Asia, the USA and Europe, design their Consumer Automobiles with separate Transmission Control Module (TCM) and Powertrain Control Module. 2/ And do these TCMs all accept speed data, from the transmission, in the form of pulses?

Hello folks, This van backfires out the intake (once) under moderate to heavy load. It also misses at idle during cold operation. The miss disappears as it warms up. The backfire remains. I replaced the worn out plugs, wires, cap, rotor and PCV. This improved the idle quality but didn't cure...

Appreciate some help on this What can cut off the current supply to the fuel pumps to shut them down while driving? This happened to me already twice in one year. The car would not start again until I jump start one of the pumps with external wires strait from the battery. Once I do that, the...

Hi all, i recently changed my brothers altenator in his daewoo laganza. i jumped the car to get it started and it started. drove it for a few then parked it. my brother came to pick it up and it wouldnt start. it seems as if the battery connection was going in and out. but the battery tested good...

Any ideas about what might cause excessive brush and slip ring erosion in an alternator? I put a new unit in my '79 Porsche 928 about 6 years ago. A few months ago, it began to exhibit intermittent operation. I took it apart and opened it up. The brushes were worn down to 3 or 4 mm i height and...

I've got an '84 Pontiac w/ 2.8L 173CI V6 (really a Chevy V6). The orig choke has been acting up, barely sets on a slightly cool morning and almost immediately opens making the car prone to stalls for about the 1st five minutes. Picked up a new choke tstat from local parts store thinking...

could someone please let me know from start to finish how to change the water pump on my rover 214 sei thanks ken ps i know this is a big ask but im desperate.