Blake Noble

Thank god. The bear is winning.

Another thread full of self-fulfilling prophecy. Or something like that.

An OEM stereo runs about twenty to forty bucks down here. A new stereo housing and adapter wires will run about twenty bucks from Wal-Mart. Either way, the cost is close.

Rechecked the oil earlier and it seemed to be free of metal. I'm going to try Camino's screwdriver trick tomorrow and retest all suspect locations.

It seemed free of debris, but I'll double check it here in a bit.

The free stereo offer still stands.

Note to self: stay the fuck out of MA. inb4: Hate to hear that, damn that sucks, kill him with fire, etc. Condolences don't really do much in the way of soothing a savage soul. But seriously do hate that you've had quite a few problems with the resident idiots in your town. Just to put it out there, I do have a cheap Sony stereo you can have that I kept from the Sonoma. It doesn't read CDs that well, though and it needs to be cleaned up because the idiots who painted the Cutlass got dust all over it.

Nuke 'em off of the upper parts of Alaska's ass, I say.

The oil pump couldn't be at the root of this, could it? The oil is pretty dirty, about 80 percent black, and could stand to be changed. I actually was going to do that this weekend but then the engine shit the bed.

The valves didn't squirt a drop of anything on the driver's side or on the rest of the passenger's side of the engine. Just the valves at the number two cylinder. Before the knock started, the PSI gauge would hold steady at about twenty and wouldn't budge an inch. It never bounced like it does now.

I don't but I'm probably going to pick one up. Even still, I'm kind of betting on the valvetrain at the number two cylinder being the root of the problem. Valves and lifters shouldn't squirt oil away from the engine.

I fix and attempt to diagnose mechanical work myself, especially the simple things that you mentioned. However, if I know have a major problem and want it fixed, I'll usually take it to someone I know that won't charge a huge price.

I rechecked the valvetrain on the passenger side of the engine and the valves squirt a little bit of oil in the direction of the inner fender at the number two cylinder. Something else I noticed in between checking the valvetrain is that the oil pressure is starting to fail; the PSI gauge bounces between 20 and 30.

This just keeps getting strange. I checked the valvetrain and it was working fine, checked what I could of the flywheel and it seemed to be ok. I know it's not a fouled spark plug or the timing chain. I can't, for the life of me, figure out where the hell this noise is coming from and it always seems to be coming from a different place, depending on where you're listening to it. If you stand dead center or off to the driver's side at the front of the car, it sounds like it's in the front of the engine around the water pump (like I said, it isn't the timing chain because the Regal isn't hard to start and it doesn't miss or skip time and a bad water pump shouldn't knock like this). It also sounds like it's near the firewall from the flywheel/torque converter over to the driver's side if you're sitting in the car or looking underneath it.

My dad knows someone who has a Buick 350 and that's probably what I'll put back in its place if the engine has a serious problem that's expensive to fix.

Trans Ams are everywhere ... besides KY. http://philadelphia.craigslist.org/cto/1436296778.html I wish I could find something like that here. Closest I've found were two T/As in Danville that weren't in as good of shape as that car is and were going for the same amount of coin. The guy has had them continuously listed on Craigslist since sometime early this year or late last year and still hasn't sold them. You would think that would be a nudge in his direction to lower their prices.

As far as sheetmetal goes, you can tell there are a lot of differences from the spy pics. It's basically an Astra with a boot and Buick grille.

Have a great one!

http://lexington.craigslist.org/cto/1438141602.html Isn't that great? After the powertrain chugs a ten-ton glass of retard-Kool-Aid, that shows up on Craigslist. At least I can say that I have one nice car that I know what do do with.

The asking price is a bit much on this IMO: http://knoxville.craigslist.org/cto/1433366309.html

Indeed it isn't. I have the entire weekend off, so I'm going to jack 'er up tomorrow, go over the flywheel and the trans area with a fine toothed comb, and start eliminating simple things before I put the blame squarely on the engine. I'm going to keep the Regal regardless of the outcome, but I'm probably going to let the engine and trans go for $900. Does that sound reasonable?

So I fired the car up today after not being started in a few days and the knocking has gotten worse. It's in time with the engine now ...

I'm not going to say it ...

I just hope Adult Swim gets its own designated channel soon.

So much hype for a car I've already seen.