IamChevyman5
09-08-2005, 12:52 PM
Hey,
I haven't posted in a while, probably because i haven't had a reason to. But guess what? My grand am started F'in up on me the other week. Bad too. Stallin, sputtering, real annoying stuff. My uncle is a recently retired GM engineer, so I managed to drive the car out to his house, in Oxford, Michigan, about 45 minutes away from my place. After 5 minutes of driving, he got it with the first call. He said that it was probably the Emissions gas Recirculation valve (EGR valve) so we went to Murreys to see how much to replace it on my 2.4. They quoted us at just over $200.
My uncle said that it wasn't worth it, it was bullcrap, and that what he always does with his cars is to just buy the gasket, and to clean the EGR valve out of carbon. So we found a store with my gasket, got it, and after taking it back to my uncles, about a half hour later we had the old gasket removed, carbon off, and the new gasket in place of it. A day after my uncle did all that for me, the check engine light turned off, which made it even better for me. The whole deal cost about $20 bucks to fix my car from almost undrivable. $16 dollars for a manual (because the EGR valve was really hard to find) and $2.50 for a EGR valve gasket :)
Well anyway, what I wrote all this for, and what I am asking yall is if you have any sweet tricks like this that my uncle had, that would make a car drive so much better, for so cheap. Preferrably cheap, and engine only, hopefully. Anything close to what the cleaning out of the EGR was would be sweet, and comparitive cost would be friggin awesome.
I can't wait to try all these new tricks on my own car, my brothers 150,000 mile car, and whatever other cars I can get my hands on. That EGR thing was great, no work, no money, and all return.
Thanks yall,
Dan
:flag: :jesus:
I haven't posted in a while, probably because i haven't had a reason to. But guess what? My grand am started F'in up on me the other week. Bad too. Stallin, sputtering, real annoying stuff. My uncle is a recently retired GM engineer, so I managed to drive the car out to his house, in Oxford, Michigan, about 45 minutes away from my place. After 5 minutes of driving, he got it with the first call. He said that it was probably the Emissions gas Recirculation valve (EGR valve) so we went to Murreys to see how much to replace it on my 2.4. They quoted us at just over $200.
My uncle said that it wasn't worth it, it was bullcrap, and that what he always does with his cars is to just buy the gasket, and to clean the EGR valve out of carbon. So we found a store with my gasket, got it, and after taking it back to my uncles, about a half hour later we had the old gasket removed, carbon off, and the new gasket in place of it. A day after my uncle did all that for me, the check engine light turned off, which made it even better for me. The whole deal cost about $20 bucks to fix my car from almost undrivable. $16 dollars for a manual (because the EGR valve was really hard to find) and $2.50 for a EGR valve gasket :)
Well anyway, what I wrote all this for, and what I am asking yall is if you have any sweet tricks like this that my uncle had, that would make a car drive so much better, for so cheap. Preferrably cheap, and engine only, hopefully. Anything close to what the cleaning out of the EGR was would be sweet, and comparitive cost would be friggin awesome.
I can't wait to try all these new tricks on my own car, my brothers 150,000 mile car, and whatever other cars I can get my hands on. That EGR thing was great, no work, no money, and all return.
Thanks yall,
Dan
:flag: :jesus: