02silverpathy

I actually read that an off brand matt was in there on top of the Toyota matt, anyone else see that? Either way, I have to say: my life -or- making the car do uncomfortable things = screw you car. I can't figure why it would not have been put in neutral, I realize that newer cars get to those speeds quickly, and that a car you are not familiar with, but all of us must use common sense logic to look at the mirrors, know that layout of the car, maybe even give it a "walk around" before you jump in and pull off with a load of friends or family, ya know?

Lol, yeah. My buddy has an 8.1, loves it to pieces...dang good MPG for the whole set-up. He wants to SC it and keep up with Diesels....while he's towing his show C10 with a hotub in the back!!

I just watched the MNF game and good God, Brett Favre! I grew up with Kosar, Montana, Testaverde, Marino, Moon, Cunningham, Elway, Aikman, and many others but I must say this guy is non-stop! I know that it takes more than a great QB, but the bullets he throws either hurt you or you catch them...and he's 40 this Sat. Please take time to put your fav's in here, but also take time to know that this guy is a living playing legend!

No doubt...remember the last "good" cavalier? It had a 2.8l V6...great car, maybe not eco but great car Z24 was sweet!

B was right, the drums are scored prety good so the shoes were stuck in the drum where they had been riding. It was the adjuster that needed to be released to get them out of the drums so I could remove the drums, lol...what a mess it really was. I never had that much trouble with drums before. I have a recycler near me with a low mileage 03 and I am thinking of checking out the drums on it, mine are pretty dug into. Sam and I didn't remove the shoes, in fact we left the brake lines on...'cause I'm lazy. We simply removed the necessary nuts/bolts and slid the ends out!

After driving 1200-1300 miles the rear brakes performed OK. I only wish now that there wasn't so much nose dive in the truck, it is a little ridiculous. I have a hard time blaming springs too as they are only 3yrs old and have not been off road.

Thanks all for the help! The drums were indeed carved into a bit. I cleaned the drums, scuffed them up thoroughly and re-installed....oh and adjusted them back into a good working position! They have at least another 30-40K left in them, seems like they always last 100K huh?

Using bolts to help extract the drum is fine, but the entire assembly is stuck inside the drum...they will need to be grade 8's so that the can continue to go into the drum and pull all but the wheel cylinder off, then you risk distorting the drum. I figured the PB would cause me an issue, but I already had one and shoes are terribly expensive, lol I just wanted that crap off!

Sweet! That seems easy enough...in fact maybe I shouldn't have gotten so angry and thought about it! Lol, any other ideas? I had these things off about 10 months ago when SammyB and I swapped my gears too, they were no problem then.

Hey all, I am trying to service my drum brakes before I leave for vacation (Saturday). The shoes are staying inside the drum area, they will not free themselves from the races of the drum--and I do not have the parking brake on. I even tried spraying PB Blaster on the shoes to get them to release...no good. I have beat the drum from all angles, they just won't pop loose of the drum itself. Any suggestions out there? I got one side off but had springs going everywhere dur to shear force of the shoes being ripped away from the backing plate. This was not meant to be a destructive service!

I am thinking that this needs to be stickied....in addition to somone explaining how to get the flares off carefully. I added a set to my 98, they did not bolt to the fender as mine was an XE (no flares), and in 1 year they ate a part of the driver side rear quarter!

How many degrees is each cam tooth worth? I did a timing belt in my Honda and was off 2 teeth...this is 9 degrees and I had to fry the clutch to move. After adjusting forward the 9 degrees and 4 more for fun she is a screamer...I would guess that the belt is off a few teeth on both cams.

Nice write up Lee! Welcome 02 pathy owner!

One good way to mess with the tow of the tires is to meaure the distance between the outsides the tires from the front and the outsides from behind the tires...this will show a difference if they are out of tow.

Hmm 5 speed yes! but you will need a flywheel, a clutch, pedal set and whatever to trip out the neutral safety switch...could very well be worth it though man. If you were closer dude we could really get you hooked up here. ***Check Ben Wood Auto*** I got a trans for my buddies XL7 w/t-case shipoped for $480...granted they are just north of me, but the price was flat rate IIRC.

So be it, the VQ runs over 10:1 compression...this is a lot more pressure in each cylinder the any VG exempting a forced induction model under boost. It is also a damn good thing they don't burn any oil as with under 4 qts total it would die in 5K if it burned any. I am fairly sure there are planty of VG's that developed rod knock from oil starvation and got shuttled to the JY just as any other engine. It's not like oil consumption at my rate is some "fail" factor for quality of the engine or how long it will last. Many low tech engines don't burn any oil and don't produce many HP's. If it lasts forever at that rate who cares with no power how much fun did you have? Know anybody with an old 4 cyl non turbo Mustang that just raves about performance and that it has lasted forever? ...the future is throw away engines, and vehicle recycling wether we like it or not, the only saving grace is that Nissan, Honda & Toyota have decided that theirs should be less throw away than domsetic US products.

When I first watched the video, my wife had left her itunes up and I thought that the song I heard you edited in, maybe a bit to sappy but any way it was Coldplay "Strwberry Swing" wow, made the video powerful ! ..."Everybody was for fighting Wouldn't wanna waste a thing Cold, cold water bring me round Now my feet won't touch the ground Cold, cold water what ya say? When it's such… It's such a perfect day It's such a perfect day I remember We were walking up to strawberry swing I can't wait until the morning Wouldn't wanna change a thing People moving all the time Inside a perfectly straight line..."

Extra cheers for the daughter taking in this part of Dad's life! Too Cool!

I added a filter between the pcv and the throttle body. Removed the brass colored metal line, Added rubber gas line from the pcv, added a small frosted plastic fuel filter (with filter media inside) in line, connected another small section of gas hose from the filter to the throttle body. Done! This has been sucessful at catching oil blow-by between oil changes, maybe 1 ounce? This also tells me that oil consumption is not really a PCV issue, or at least not to a large extent. I suppose when my filter starts really pick up oil it will be time for a new valve cover gasket, until then the only real issue I have is the drivers side #6 spark plug fill up with oil...this is a cause for a new valve cover...yikes @ $200!

It should work fine, the chip is only for starting the engine. If you get a remote start installed you most likely will have to give a chip key up for installation...guess where it goes? Inside the car under the dash with the alarm, so that the alarm can "verify" with the OEM anti-theft that the car can be started.

Lol @ Alexrex & 01... ...my 2002 VQ recently turned in 5000 miles between oil changes and used about 3/4 qt. My truck has 62,7xx on it and is an auto. Most of my mileage is City driving (2-6mi trips), the most stressful for an engine (I think?). Everyone with a VQ just add my un-patented inline filter to stop the oil from going into the intake, lol. edit: it used less than 1/2 qt for those 5K miles!! I just changed my oil tonight.

Great site thanks for pointing this out!

I wouldn't say resurrect, I just recently bought the bulbs to do the main cluster and accessed this thread myself. I have not installed them yet, but I got the Autolumination 5 led bulbs for the cluster...in white. They also sold me a set of 7443 front turn/parking bulbs for the front...19 or 20 something LED, not really that bright for the cost. Could have got those from that dude on eBay from HK.(Warden something). His bulbs are awesome and don't take long to ship either...measurements here is the key. I would like to get 9 single 194s for the third brake light to finish converting all the OE lighting to LED but thats a small fortune! I picked up the LED resistor/rectifyer at Autozone for way less (12.99).

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