Last Indian

1 hour ago, JUSTA6 said:

Gas was 1.35....unreal.   Store opens to seniors and high risk @ 7:30am.   Whole store has been sanitized and they even hit the cart as they pass it out.  All new product was restocked overnight (what was available). Kinda funny walkin around with maybe 30 people in the whole store. Won't need to venture out for another 2 weeks or longer.

Copy that! Same deal hear! Yeah! Oh! Well maybe not!😷

On 4/1/2020 at 5:37 PM, Stewy said:

See what the service location says regarding your rear wiper - a little experience coupled with a little bit of an educated guess says that the wiper motor needs to be replaced as it's trying to "park" (i.e. the wiper arm is trying to go into its "rest" position) however due to a failed motor assembly (could be the motor and / or the gears in the assembly), the wiper arm is not able to achieve the "rest" position. Typically, wiper motors will try for a length of time (several seconds) to "park" and if it can't, it will pause for a length of time (maybe several minutes) and then start the process all over again which all results in draining the battery. Also, when the wiper arm is trying to "park", it very well may not be noticeable by observing the arm on the outside of the hatch, just a FYI.

 

Regarding the $7EA and $7E8 codes, those appear to be hexadecimal codes and admittedly I am not able to convert the codes to the standard "P", "B" or "C" codes (I did some searching on those codes but my interwebbing skills are currently failing me). Not sure if anyone else can chime in with more information regarding the codes.

The 7E8 code is a cat failure code. Which can be a number of things! Complete cat failure, a crack in the housing or pipe or flange. You’ll have to inspect it to see. More than likely with the car in the air and running.

6 hours ago, JUSTA6 said:

Thinkin you were a jeweler in another life.  Simply amazing!

1 hour ago, Frosty said:

I totally agreed. This coming from the guy who has some of your art work on his front grille.

Thank you, you guys are great! But now I need to decide which one! I was sure originally Chief of the Sixes was it, but now I’m leaning towards the Grand Prix Flaggs/Pontiac Arrowhead!

36 minutes ago, Frosty said:

Gas is down to $1.79 around me as of yesterday. Still a shame that I don't really need any.

This is when I wish I had put in the ground tank! I would fill it up to the top! Oh yah, that’s right I couldn’t! City regulations and all, dah!!

4 hours ago, 64 kiwi boni said:

Haha, yes i have had lots of time to think about how to attack it Frosty, its the tig welding that is challenging me, years of fusion welding have helped but i really think i need to buy a foot controller so i can modulate that heat.

Boy if i had my chassis!! things would be much easier!

 and yes... just after i took those pics it was time for a beer... Speights isnt my flavor, but similar to my Draught beer  called export 33 ( low carb beer) 

having said that i do like my Heineken 

Yup! Foot peddle would make a big difference in control. I’m not a fan of mig, I’ve used it often, but I just prefer tig. Better control for heat and bead control! That said when I weld thin sheet metal I usually like acetylene and aircraft welding tips. You can actually control this type of welding best of all. While it’s not good for production work, takes longer, but from a welding standpoint, it’s stronger and less grinding. I’ll take a Willoughby Brewing Company Wheat, thank you! 

18 minutes ago, indymanjoe said:

Last time i could look my hand was hairy, now i'm blind..should've stopped at needing glass's..and in keeping with that thought all the trim is done finally! seriously when michelle paints she finds it a must to remove all the trim with a sledgehammer..then complains how long it takes me to something i despise so much.detailed carpentry. Caulk and paint make me the carpenter i aint.

Tell her the newest look is drywall to the floor no trim just exposed nailheads showing! Also the less perfect the wall looks the less people see small imperfections!😁

$2.50 for premium at Shell or Sunoco, yay, oh yah isolation!

1 hour ago, Ringo64 said:

Eh. Lived here 20+ years and only have come across them when I'm in their habitat. Came across more deadly creatures when I lived in St. Louis  

I agree! Same goes here for me! We call them people who have driver’s licenses! Had one a year or so back on a 4 lane driving with no hands, on an IPad, curb lane, drive of the road, up over the curb, a crossed the tree lawn, on to the sidewalk, missed the bus stop sign, but not trying to and back out onto the road and never hit the brakes once!!! 😳🤭

1 hour ago, Frosty said:

Thanks Mr. Obvious!

You are welcome Mr. Frosty, but in chocolate!

7 minutes ago, Frosty said:

Isn't that a song by the Knack,  "My Corona"? Or if your from Michigan "Mi Corona"? 

Land of cold beer and pizza. Put-In-Bay Ohio - South Bass Island, Lake Erie. Sigh.....even got the T-shirt, hat, and beer mug.

Well if you went there you could claim you were social distancing! I doubt that there are many folks there right now?

29 minutes ago, Frosty said:

There was a time you could almost walk on top of Lake Erie too. I still remember the Cuyahoga River fire in 1969 being in the news. Didn't TIME magazine declare Lake Erie "dead" at the time?

I wonder what's going on a Put-In-Bay right now? The world's longest bar is at the Beer Barrel Saloon at 405' 10" long. Of course my favorite place is - wait for it - "The Frostie Bar"!

 

Yup! Saved a lot of money on BBQ fuel! Just sit on the dock and roast a wiener! Hopefully not your own!

Yes and at the Frosty bar, wait for it, - - you can get a cold corona!!

22 minutes ago, 64 kiwi boni said:

So dont you have alligators in your pond/ lake ???

 i saw them when i was in Orlando... freaked me out😜

Captain Hook would be proud!

1 hour ago, Frosty said:

Agreed. The Aztek and Rendezvous were sister vehicles on the same platform. You may also need to get the brake lines and other parts from the Rendezvous as well.

7 hours ago, Stewy said:

The best suggestion I can give is look into a comparable year Buick Rendezvous rear brake setup (I know that in at least 2005 the Rendezvous' had rear disc brakes) and since the Rendezvous and Aztec are the same vehicle (at least mechanically), that may be the best way to go.

That’s a 10-4 good buddy. Those are interchangeable, but you have to get all the hardware! Brackets, dust plates & the master cylinder will be different so will the in-line restrictors. Then there is the obvious.

48 minutes ago, JUSTA6 said:

Figured you would boot something out the garage to get Lucy in while we are all grounded.  (it's been 50+ years since I was last grounded)  Glad to hear this will be the last week of the wifes radiation and birthday wishes sent her way.  Totally unnatural to be thinkin about Autorama in June anyway.

Copy that! Glad to hear about the wife as well!

4 hours ago, SPRINT 6 said:

It's been sunny and warm, Honey Do all done, Grass cut and now... 😉

Ok! That looks why to familiar! ! Except it’s why to wet & cold to sit out!

20 hours ago, Fitzy said:

Goodness me, I hope a Pontiac purist never inspects my car- they'll pick it to pieces, what with it's incorrect headlining, exhaust cutouts and flat brake pedal - it's my very own Pont-enstein.

I am astounded by your answer, and am grateful that you took the time to respond and am equally astounded by the engineering behind a curved brake pedal. Simple, elegant innovation - once the driving force behind the auto industry, now robot assembled characterless bubbles with a life expectancy of 5 years or so.

So, can you tell me why GM put the bloody distributor at the BACK of the engine, in a black painted engine bay, where anyone less than 7 feet tall will never see what's inside the dizzy without actually physically climbing on top of the engine? I remember tuning my old Cleveland V8s and how easy it was to adjust points with the dizzy front & centre of the engine.

And the inlet manifold? Are there improvements in flow and breathing from that distinctive Pontiac design? I must admit, I enjoy peering into the inky blackness of my engine bay and marvelling at all the unique characteristics that my car displays.

Peter, if I may? First off, nothing you’ve done should offend anyone! It’s your car you should do exactly what pleases you! Period! Besides, you’ve saved another poncho! You’re posing a question so I answered it, nothing more. 

With regard to the distributor question. No engine is perfect, some come closer than others and to some degree I think that is proven by a specific engines longevity. The Cleveland was a good motor, but as an overall motor, meaning beyond standard production cars, it fell short! It had several issues, that could be overcome with extensive work, but never really gave back in power for the effort when compared the Pontiac or Chevy. That said you can actually build a GM V8 with the distributor up front! The main reason to set a distributor in the rear of an engine of a rear wheel drive front mounted engine is protection of the electronic brain! Is it necessary? Probably not! In the end though, those engines dominate the car market, race market and more, for more than three decades virtually unchanged, that’s domination! And yes, I’m not a big guy, so I have actually sat inside an engine compartment at times or laid on a covered fender to work on a engine.

With respect to the Pontiac manifold design! Just shear genius! There is a whole world of physics around that design principle. It all deals with principles of fuel delivery, vaporization of fuel, density of the charge, volumetric efficiency and separating that from the rest of the engines thermal impact. In essence these are two different worlds that should never meet, except in the combustion chamber, which to a greater extent is why direct fuel injection can actually deliver more power than port injection or carburation.

5 hours ago, Fitzy said:

So, here's a curly one. There I am, idly surveying my stripped interior and I know I need to contort myself to get in there and continue wire brushing surface rust but am making excuses to postpone such pain. I examine my brake pedal - it has never looked right. The car is a factory auto, so it's the wide brake pedal, but it's not flat - it's slightly curved, so that the centre is higher than the sides. Is this how they came from the factory, or has the previous owner stomped on the brakes over the years, hitting the pedal off centre and thereby bending it's surface?

I reinforced the centre of the pedal with my extended leg (foot on pedal) and bent the outside edges back up with a pair of multigrips in order to restore a nice, flat pedal surface. It now looks how I imagine it should look, but if it's meant to be curved (perhaps in order for a smooth transition from accelerator to brake) can someone let me know? At any rate, I'm leaving as it is, because it now looks like a brake pedal on a regular car, you know - with a flat surface!

Yes the original pedal was curved! I believe most of the pre 1990 car pedals were curved, clutch & brake. Some more than others, but still curved not flat! The two  reasons I believe are simple. One as you push down on the pedal it goes through an arch. The curved pedal allows your foot to stay in contact with the pedal as it goes through the arch better than a flat surface, this is a proven fact. Secondly an curved surface allows greater psi pressure on the pad surface, not pedal pressure, but pressure on the pedal surface. Which minimizes the tendency for your foot to slide of the pedal, aka a type of hydroplaning if you will and this does actually happen. 
As I’ve said before, the old timers were pretty dam smart, not so much today! Now most pedals are flat, which is why that’s what you are use to seeing!

Well since the temperatures aren’t cooperating yet & we’re in lock down, I thought I’d do some other mods. One I had started several years ago, a sport foot rest and the other was a recent idea. A new center for the steering wheel.

sport foot rest goes on the left side on the raised area of floor.
 

original center I designed.
 

new designed center. After all the Indian is a six, so why not the Chief of the Sixes Indian Head.

also a new backing plate of amber Ultem.
 

long way to go to cleanup all this detail & then polish.

2 hours ago, gandhi_2006 said:

Hey Frosty, long time no chat lol.  I usually run seafoam about once every three months.  So im thinking that fuel system is ok.  vacuum should be good,  all of the hard plastic GM tubing has been replaced with a higher quality tubing.  I dont have a CAT anymore so thats out lol.  Plugs and wires were just replaced when this started.  didnt fix it.  air filter is good to go.  

 

So i guess fuel pump will be tested.  But first im gonna take off the SC belt and see if it still does it. 

1 hour ago, Frosty said:

Fuel filter is probably inline. You might still check it.

A couple other possibilities. First one of the first symptoms of an IAT going bad is hesitation/stumble/stutter, so check that. The other real possibility is the fuel pump or regulator. A simple check! Get a pressure gage, get a hose with the correct fittings to connect to the schrader valve on the fuel rail. Make sure that it’s long enough to mount somewhere at the windshield area or inside the cabin, where you can see it. Run the car as you normally would to generate the problem, note the pressure readings. This will tell you if that’s where the problem is. Also the 4t65e & 4t65e-hd can cause this same symptom, under the right conditions, but again, I doubt that to be the problem.

7 minutes ago, gandhi_2006 said:

I have an aftermarket boost gauge.  When i slowly apply boost, not flooring it,  the car will stutter, and the boost gauge will bounce.  I have no codes, no misfires,  and all fluids are perfect.  I am running premium 91+ octane. 

Yah, that’s not belt slippage! If the belt was just slipping the engine would run normal, but not with boosted power! Something else is going on. Maybe fuel injectors, maybe coil, maybe even the blower itself has an issue (doubtful)! Tell us some more of how it performs over all! For instance idle, hard throttle, standing hard  launch, etc.

13 hours ago, gandhi_2006 said:

Ok, so my SC belt slips at half or more throttle. I just replaced the belt, of course Gator,  and it still does it.  I was kind of thinking maybe it is the tensioner pulley assembly.  What are your thoughts?

also nothing else is wrong.

Ok I have to ask this first! What occurs that makes you think you have belt slippage?

6 hours ago, Frosty said:

I like smut.

Just not sure how our moderator would handle it.

Well this wasn’t it, but?