Real Fiero Tech

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This is an odd topic indeed... I notice a *decrease* in efficiency when I have my EGR working. For quite a while I had the vacuum hose unplugged and capped. After watching "an inconvenient truth" (no really), I figured it was worth the mileage tradeoff and plugged it back in. I haven't see...

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Found ur problem.

LEARN TO WRITE ENGLISH, YOU STUPID ILLITERATE PIECE OF SHIT!

On a related note, I fucking hate the wordfilters here.

Remember though, that new pads seat the piston almost all the way in. Assemble it with the OLD parts, and compress the caliper until it bottoms out; make sure the nick is still outside that area. Yup. Measured and measured and checked and re-measured and eyeballed and etc... and it's just barely ou...

You've never dealt with a pressed-in seal? IE a grease seal on the back of a spindle type brake rotor or in a tranny around an axle shaft? Nope, none of those. Never had a proper set of garage equipment, so never had the chance to actually check any of that stuff out myself. So yeah, therein lies t...

lucky80 wrote:told ya, just like a oil seal. I think the heat from braking is what makes them seem like they're glued on.

Well, that's where you got me, I had no idea what an oil seal was... I still haven't completely torn apart my engine... yet :salute:

Well alright, but I'm concerned about getting the new one on... this thing is pretty plainly "adhered" to the metal, and what part I've peeled off doesn't want to stick to anything (or otherwise hold). Ah well, guess it can't... uhm... hurt... any more than I already have :scratch: edit: A...

Hello again, it's your friendly neighborhood bird, here to beg more advice. Long story short, through no fault of my own, my driver-side rear brake started dropping brake fluid like it had a hole in it. Tore off the wheel, couldn't exactly figure out where it was coming from. Tore the whole fucking ...

I ended up choosing the wrong value resistor for the "ON" LED for the mod (basically stole and re-assigned one of the resistors I had to chop through to fit the jack in), not having any formal electrical training and only raw logic and a JavaScript Ohm's Law calculator to work from... I en...

Actually, it cost me about $3, the cost of the jack ($1.50 if you only count the one jack in the 2-pack they sell)... and it's definitely not a no-brainer, you've got to be REALLY fucking good with a razor, drill, and a soldering iron.

Woo... a write-up? I dunno, crunching 9 hours of work down to a single write-up may be an exercise in futility... then again, I can't imagine how many of those 9 hours were spent reverse-engineering the wires with absolutely no web help whatsoever... :P Seriously, I couldn't find shit about that ste...

I'm too dead shot tired to think of how to write up a coherant topic right now, so bear with me... I just had to come to the first place I would think would be interested in such a thing, and report my success... call it sleep drunkness. :P So anyway, what I did was first get tired of a car stereo t...

Where exactly can you get a New fiero oil pressure gauge? Are you referring to the Sending unit on the engine or the Gauge in the car? New non-GM sending units are notorious for low readings. Well, definitely not the gauge, it's electronic so there should be no need to replace it. I don't understan...

Whee.... lots and lots of posts since I closed the tab and forgot about my question. I've since almost forgotten about the light. It still comes on but I don't put nearly as much an "OMFG!" emphasis on it as I did when I first saw it come on (neutral and kill the engine on the freeway offr...

Me again. Aren't you glad to see me? :salute: (edit: Also figured this was a better place for the topic, since Maintenance and Tech seem to have a rather, eh, blurred line...) I REALLY don't want to get into this system. All the other things I've dealt with have been easy to get to... hell, even the...

If I may put in my three cents, I think your welds look like absolute orgasmic sexiness. It makes it look all the more well done. To have it all ground down and smoothed out would just scream "I BOUGHT THIS SHIT PREMADE". If I may say... even though most of the time I have no idea what I'm...

Oh, well, a little update on the switch problem... I went off and bought the switch, of course. It was super-cheap, like 6 bucks, like I said. And, also, like I said, bought some oil change stuff, including a little 2-ton rolling hydraulic jack thingy for propping up the back to change the oil. Yay....

Well, online shopping with Autozone, I found a new "stoplight switch" that looks right, for pocket change ($6). Can't find the other, much bigger, switch though. Guessing it works fine since my cruise doesn't have a problem with "canceling" with the brake, although I don't know i...

Guh... Well, tonight it did the same thing. So while the lights were stuck on, I went under the dash once again, and checked things out. Both (yeah, looks like there are two, one huge switch and one smaller one I adjusted) were solidly pressed fully "in". So, I checked the lights (still on...