Frosty

It sounds like the dome light circuit is plugged into the wrong power source/circuit under the dash. You obviously need a constant hot power source to turn on the dome lights when you open the door and the ignition is still off. It should go through the headlight circuit, as you indicate. Have you circuit tested the door plungers with a volt/ohm meter to insure they are working correctly? They could be bad out of the box. Have you done some recent re-wiring to the car besides replacing the plungers? From your description it almost sounds like you have plugged the dome light into an accessory or battery feed power lead instead of the headlight/gauge light circuit. '67 Tempest/Lemans/GTO Fuse block Wiring diagram from a '66 GTO - You want the Courtesy Light circuit at the bottom, lower left.

Actually I was thinking of my 4WD GMC Envoy Denali, which does have hubs, front disc brakes, CV joints and half shafts. However, CV joints are indeed another possibility. You should inspect your CV joint rubber boots for tears or holes as the grease can fall out and dirt, water, and grim can get it, thus leading to CV joint failure like Last Indian is explaining.

Stump water or the two of them acting like school girls when stupid raw horsepower is involved? You know as well as I do how intoxicating horsepower can be. I suspect that GE has to move on this morning. So RedChevy outta pop up soon, unless of course he is the latest victim of the Deer Slayer.

It's possible but I suspect you might have bad wheel bearings (they may not have been properly greased or packed or the spindle nut was not pre-loaded correctly) so the rotor and caliper assembly are banging into the spindle. Another possibility is your brake pads are not properly seated within the caliper and that the pads rattle as you turn. i recommend you take your car to a reputable front end shop and have it properly inspected. If you replaced the hubs they should not fail this quickly unless they were installed improperly. Lastly are you sure you have not picked up a rock or small stone inside your front tires hub cap or center cap?

He did. They came out upside down too.

I give you credit on that one 360. That is an excellent observation. My counter question to your theory then is why is JUSTA his shoulder hurting? Yeah no cups or cleats. No chew or pine tar either.

He is....but he has this crazy volleyball fetish that no one really understands.

Truly a buyer beware market. I know the guy that inspected it for you too!

...and what unsuspecting people buy off the Internet too!

I have something much better in mind. Moooohaaaaaahaaaaa!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Good to know you have solved that mystery of the universe. You know what you need to do to fix it.

Had a great except the convertible top incident. Joe gave me hell for actually cleaning the car. Mind you I really didn't clean it before i put it away after Charleston last year. So it still had all the bug schmutz on it. 55 Cheiftain with an LS motor 59 Catalina 50 Chevy custom 5-window pickup with LS motor '72 GTO that was originally Aztec Gold but it is a 455 4-speed car!

Probably. Or smaller stickers.

Capital idea!

Met up with Indymanjoe and JUSTA today at the car show at Bowman Chevrolet. Nice show. No registration fee. Free food. Free Bounce house. Couldn't keep Joe out of it. We didn't win nothing even though we were right next to the DJ booth. Lucy is running a little rough, she needs a tune up - bad. I have everything for the tune-up except a new distributor cap. I got an even bigger surprise when I went to put the top down. It didn't go down. It didn't move at all. It didn't do anything. No sound from the motor. So I crawled under the dash hoping it might be a fuse. I had some suspect but not blown fuses (the insides appeared to be contaminated). With JUSTA's help, I replaced those fuses, but to no avail. So now I have to figure out if I have a loose wire, a bad switch or a failed power top motor. I won't be able to even look at it again late next week. Arrrghhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!

JUSTA6, Indymanjoe, and I were at a local car show today. I met another '72 GTO owner with a 455. He is having similar oil consumption issues that I have (not necessarily germane to this discussion). He then said he had an overheating problem. Obviously this made be think of this thread. He said his issue was too much RTV/silicon on the water pump to intake manifold connection. It was too thick and restricted the water flow. He said his engine tuner buddy said that is rather common mistake people make who don't build Pontiacs on a regular basis and are use to overdoing RTV on Chevies and Fords. You can see the slight amount of RTV coming out between the water pump and the intake in the photo below. He said it was extremely thick into the water flow and once he re-did it that his water temps dropped immediately. So now you have something else to consider.

Natural invasive species?

Just dragged Lucy out of winter storage tonight. Threw the fully charged Optima battery into her, hooked it up, started her right up and took her home. I am planning on meeting up with JUSTA and possibly Indymanjoe in the morning for the first local car show of the season. I doubt I will make very many car shows or cruises this summer with the kid's impending graduation and open house, plus his baseball tournaments talking every available weekend in June and July. However, after that, I hope to make up for some lost time in August and September. I do have a special event planned for Lucy in early May that I hope I will be able to pull off. A lot will depend on the weather closer to that weekend..

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Because Spock considered a "caress" setting as illogical in case Kirk came across a ship full of women?

I am sucker for the Cragars. I respect the originality of the dog dish wheels but Cragars were the cat's meow back when I was in high school. I still own my original Cragars that were on my old '73 Lemans Sport Coupe that I had just out of high school. They are now rusty and need to be re-chromed, but I still have them. Someday I plan to re-use them on the proper car. Welcome to FP BTW ! Love the Goat!

JUSTA - please don't encourage the man! He's already crazy enough ! The only thing worse is riding with him and letting him drive !!!! There is no "set phasers to stun Mr Spock!" on this thing!

Not enough kindling obviously. Yeah, no redeeming parts at all !!!!