Got a few questions...
Got a few questions...
(questions are related to my 1989 GTU)
1. How do you adjust the handbrake?
2. Anyone have experience with Car Parts Depot headlights? I won driver and passenger side headlights on Ebay for $20 each and I'm hoping they aren't garbage, cheap as hell since no one else bid on them.
3. Anyone know of sun visors that are a direct "bolt on" from a different GM car? Mine are garbage and out of a newer one so they look bad and have stupid airbag warnings.
Might add questions then, but these are all for now.
1. How do you adjust the handbrake?
2. Anyone have experience with Car Parts Depot headlights? I won driver and passenger side headlights on Ebay for $20 each and I'm hoping they aren't garbage, cheap as hell since no one else bid on them.
3. Anyone know of sun visors that are a direct "bolt on" from a different GM car? Mine are garbage and out of a newer one so they look bad and have stupid airbag warnings.
Might add questions then, but these are all for now.
Re: Got a few questions...
1. There is no replacement for having a decent tech-book with you while doing a job like this, even a Haynes or Chiltons is worth-while (I have both). They usually have pictures or diagrams that help too. Even AutoZone has tech info with specifications and usually pictures or drawings online to help. But an abbreviated procedure goes like this:
(You should already have the rear brakes adjusted by this point. If you haven't done anything with them recently and they otherwise work alright, you should be fine.)
A)Set the hand-brake up ten clicks, and release. Do this ten times.
B).Check both rear wheels, making sure they turn properly (so lift the back of the car, use jack-stands, and keep both wheels off the ground).
C)Set the brake handle up four clicks.
D)locate the little oval plug in the back (inside) of the backing-plate on each rear wheel. A 1/8" drill-bit should fit between the shoe and the park-brake lever (inside the brake drum), but a 1/4" drill bit should not.
E)Adjust the cable by turning the adjusting nut at the equalizer, between the two rear wheels, until the proper gap is set.
F)Release the lever, and make sure both rear wheels turn freely.
That is Chilton's answer, +/-...
For me, I say lift the rear of the car, set the parking-brake handle four or five clicks, and tighten the adjusting-nut on the equalizer until the brakes on both rear wheels just start to drag. Fully apply and release and reset to four or five clicks several times during this process to help actuate both rear brakes evenly if you experience any difficulties. Release the brake and make sure both wheels turn freely.
Good luck...
2. IF "Car Parts Depot" has anything to do with "Depot", they are a bargain-level replacement part. I rebuilt the front-end of my '92 Grand Am with Depot lights, and they were good quality (even included Sylvania bulbs), and mostly fit right and several years later still haven't fogged-over. BUT, one of the two corner marker-lights were assembled crookedly, and the plastic itself is more brittle than OE. For the price, they are hard to beat...
3.
Sorry, can't help much there... Cavalier? Grand Am? I have a really nice set of blue ones from an Olds Aurora for my '90 'T-Type' turbo 'Retta, with the slide-out extension and the fixed plastic front visor that lets you have a visor to the side and front at the same time 
, but they are a little too long considering the overhead console in that car, and the angle from the mounting-plate is totally wrong, so I will have to redrill the holes for them, which I really don't want to do. They are also massively thick, considering that both sides have lit vanity mirrors, and the Berettas' headliner is low enough for me already... (Um, in short, NOT Aurora visors... 
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(You should already have the rear brakes adjusted by this point. If you haven't done anything with them recently and they otherwise work alright, you should be fine.)
A)Set the hand-brake up ten clicks, and release. Do this ten times.
B).Check both rear wheels, making sure they turn properly (so lift the back of the car, use jack-stands, and keep both wheels off the ground).
C)Set the brake handle up four clicks.
D)locate the little oval plug in the back (inside) of the backing-plate on each rear wheel. A 1/8" drill-bit should fit between the shoe and the park-brake lever (inside the brake drum), but a 1/4" drill bit should not.
E)Adjust the cable by turning the adjusting nut at the equalizer, between the two rear wheels, until the proper gap is set.
F)Release the lever, and make sure both rear wheels turn freely.
That is Chilton's answer, +/-...
For me, I say lift the rear of the car, set the parking-brake handle four or five clicks, and tighten the adjusting-nut on the equalizer until the brakes on both rear wheels just start to drag. Fully apply and release and reset to four or five clicks several times during this process to help actuate both rear brakes evenly if you experience any difficulties. Release the brake and make sure both wheels turn freely.
Good luck...
2. IF "Car Parts Depot" has anything to do with "Depot", they are a bargain-level replacement part. I rebuilt the front-end of my '92 Grand Am with Depot lights, and they were good quality (even included Sylvania bulbs), and mostly fit right and several years later still haven't fogged-over. BUT, one of the two corner marker-lights were assembled crookedly, and the plastic itself is more brittle than OE. For the price, they are hard to beat...
3.
Sorry, can't help much there... Cavalier? Grand Am? I have a really nice set of blue ones from an Olds Aurora for my '90 'T-Type' turbo 'Retta, with the slide-out extension and the fixed plastic front visor that lets you have a visor to the side and front at the same time , but they are a little too long considering the overhead console in that car, and the angle from the mounting-plate is totally wrong, so I will have to redrill the holes for them, which I really don't want to do. They are also massively thick, considering that both sides have lit vanity mirrors, and the Berettas' headliner is low enough for me already... (Um, in short, NOT Aurora visors... )1989 SuperCharged 3800 Srs-II (First)Six-Speed GTU
1990 Turbo 3.4 5-Speed T-Type
1990 4.0L 4-Cam 32-Valve V-8 5-Speed Indy GTi (Project)
1990 Stock(!) 3.1 MPFI Auto Indy
1995 LA1/L82 4T60E Z-26
1995 3.4 DOHC Turbo 5-Speed Z-26
1990 Turbo 3.4 5-Speed T-Type
1990 4.0L 4-Cam 32-Valve V-8 5-Speed Indy GTi (Project)
1990 Stock(!) 3.1 MPFI Auto Indy
1995 LA1/L82 4T60E Z-26
1995 3.4 DOHC Turbo 5-Speed Z-26
Re: Got a few questions...
What color visors?
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'91 Black GTZ
'93 Quasar GT 5-Speed (Under Construction)
'91 Black GTZ
'93 Quasar GT 5-Speed (Under Construction)
Re: Got a few questions...
Grey.
Headlights are beautiful, they really do the car alot of justice.
I'll adjust the hb with the info provided, my service manual didnt have jack crap in it about that.
I need to get pics of the car on here sometime.
Headlights are beautiful, they really do the car alot of justice.
I'll adjust the hb with the info provided, my service manual didnt have jack crap in it about that.
I need to get pics of the car on here sometime.
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Re: Got a few questions...
649 posts and no photos of your car? Boy did we drop the ball on that one.
keep'em flying!
Re: Got a few questions...
Damn i didnt even realize i had that many posts lol. Maybe this weekend ill clean it up again and wax it for pics.
Another question, i know some computer controlled cars advance (or retard unfortunately) the timing (knock sensor think detects a knock?) When u run higher octane gas. Anyone know if that is true for our cars? According to my butt dyno and the very scientific burnout dyno, it feels more powerful when i refill from empty with 93, if that is true, would it be wise to unhook the battery for a bit so the computer resets and "learns" a more aggressive timing?
Sorry if this is a bit confusing to read im tires n posting from a phone.
Another question, i know some computer controlled cars advance (or retard unfortunately) the timing (knock sensor think detects a knock?) When u run higher octane gas. Anyone know if that is true for our cars? According to my butt dyno and the very scientific burnout dyno, it feels more powerful when i refill from empty with 93, if that is true, would it be wise to unhook the battery for a bit so the computer resets and "learns" a more aggressive timing?
Sorry if this is a bit confusing to read im tires n posting from a phone.