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Never thought he'd make it in here again, but here's Ben!

After a wash;

Thanks, Tom. I'll give that a look at.

I know milesfox mentions carriage bolting a mount in somewhere on this board. Maybe check his videos on YouTube? Does the carrier mount really experience much stress in any direction? I figure it's just more of a center hanger to keep the driveshaft straight.

Wired up some independent lines to the front door speakers and installed new pioneers up there. While routing lines through the door grommet I noticed the factory harness there covered in some electrical tape. I didn't mess with it but now the car sometimes randomly thinks the driver's door is open; will have to investigate further. Other than that, smooth sailing!

Lots of brat owners on here that would love to have those covers. If I were you I'd set aside a weekend to crank out as many of those as you can and make some $$$. ;-)

also, the original trans is gone I'm assuming?

Definitely doable by yourself, though not fun. I did it by myself using only a floor jack, some wood, and a chain to hold it in place when repositioning the jack. I had two sets of car ramps I had the car sitting on that gave me plenty of height to work under it. Do have the trans bolted to the crossmember already. Loosen the engine mounts so you can tilt it forward, get the trans up and forward enough to get the crossmember bolts lined up and started, from then on it's all shoving and shoving. If you're in a real pinch, forget the rear drivetrain and cap the driveshaft input on the back of the trans with something. I used a cap from a can of wd-40 when the trans was out of the car, it didn't leak but I didn't run it like that. I'm sure you could though, just carry some extra caps and some gear oil with you just in case? Depends on how quickly you need this slapped together of course, otherwise I've thought about carriage bolting the center bearing if you don't have access to a welder.

The tin can does, all this work was on Ben though, and his is non functioning, for now.

Oil on the joints fixed this issue, thanks for all the ideas/suggestions.

That thing is fresh!

Jumped the ground on the thermoswitch leads and the fan powered on so knew it wasn't a 12v problem, swapped in the switch from my GL, cut+crimped spade connectors on Loyale wires and fired him up, started getting warm and still no fan. Messed with the wiring and it came in. Found a loose connection in the blue connector. Cut out the connector and barreled the wires, all is well, fan runs normal now :-)

Thermostat in the Loyale. No more overheating in 15 minutes! Now it just overheats in traffic because the cooling fan isn't coming on! Ugh!

Cool story, bro. really though, that was nice of you. When and if you convert it, id be interested in knowing the operating psi on the low line.

You will get many varying opinions on this. Personally I don't like synthetic oil and just use conventional. Mobil 1 is an excellent brand though and I would also use their filters as well. No matter what though, change your oil every 3k and it'll last forever.

No new cv's, but two old tired ones that need replacing. If the wheels are off the ground and I grab a tire and push it from left to right, I can feel the resistance at certain points. pump only has 100k I mean, I doubt it is the pump...but who knows. It did take some abuse a few months ago with a deformed wheel....Is the pump hard to replace? Is it replaceable?

93 Loyale, stock (no lift) Fluid full, pump has a little noise coming from it, belts tight, any ideas? Even with the wheels off the ground the steering has certain points in the wheel rotation where it gets stiff My mind is coming up with all sorts of things but I don't even know where to start Bearings in the struts U joints in the steering shaft The rack itself What's the best way to troubleshoot this :-(

Automatic, manual, front wheel drive, 4wd? In very nice condition they can fetch upwards of 4k. Give us more details, photos if you can, and list anything it was optioned with.

And this, my friends, is where the flying Magpie's story comes to a close. Bought with on 46,000 miles on the clock, the final mileage of the GL is as follows: Though those nearly 40k miles I got to put on you were peppered with you being out of commission for lengths at a time (stupid wheel hub. Stupid water pump. Stupid carburetor. Stupid rear axle. Stupid wheel bearings.), you always made sure you got me where I had to be *BEFORE* breaking down. And I appreciated that. When you sat in practical hibernation for 22 years with only 46 thousand miles being driven, you came in to my possession and I promptly loaded you with well past the listed 860lb capacity weight and drove you clear across the country to Nevada. TWICE. Did you break down in the middle of nowhere Utah? Did you leave me stranded in Arizona? Looking for a garage in New Mexico? No you didn't. You waited until you got me, my stuff, and my loved ones all the way clear back across the country to spill your waterpump bearing guts all over and send the clutch fan into the radiator. You waited until THE DAY AFTER we all got back home. And for that I salute you. When you unbeknownst to me developed a seriously big rust hole in the fuel filler neck (hey we don't pump our own gas in Jersey) allowing tiny particulates of rock salt and road grime to fling up the wheel well into said hole and into your fuel system, you let me know by barely ever running, and when running, running very rough, but by some stroke of miraculous-ness the one week I needed you to get me out to Pennsylvania, you were there for me. You ran perfectly for that ONE week, got me through 500+ miles of round trip highway driving, and THEN - not until I was back home - decided it was time to give up the ghost. And after all of my efforts to keep you going, fixing one thing only for three more to break, and then fixing them too, I was JUST about to re-do your entire fuel system, when I noticed the underbody rot had gotten exponentially worse from the last time I really took a good look. And then it was time to make the hard decision to give up on keeping you going, but to utilize you to keep others going, and now that I think of it, every vehicle you donated parts to was a 93 Loyale.... Ben got your front clip User superpoo93 was super excited to be receiving your heart (and marks the THIRD time your ea82 engine will be in Nevada, only this time on it's own) Your successor, the infamous Tin Can got all of your luxurious GL amenities; The trunk light The ashtray light Your trunk lid and ALL of your body mouldings Your fogs and switch! Your Map-lights Your foot rest and floor mats (Why Loyales don't have these is beyond me...) Your full length Arm rests ...but one thing I couldn't take off of you was your soul. And I will miss you, little buddy. Farewell. ---------------------- Fin.

Had it hauled off :'(

Yeah, I can imagine near 200hp in this car would be pretty fun. Even with just the measly 100 +/- 10 that the iron duke puts out, the gearing is good enough for a 100mph cruising speed. I can't believe how solid the cutlass is though, I'm used to my Subarus, when I close the door in this car it's like slamming a vault shut.

My money is on the seller just being incorrect and it having a 4 speed in it.

Failure by design. The lower radiator hose rubs against the air conditioners compressor, wearing at the hose till it bursts. New hoses in place, good as new.

Lol, congrats on the addition! It looks like it's in nice shape. I've always thought those things make excellent off-road rigs; light, short, nimble. I don't think the alternative vehicle forum here gets too much traffic.