My Official 1992 Roadmaster Thread

3.23 tow pack car! Nice! I had to do the 02 sensor on my 92 OCC to cure a run-rich, check engine light condition. It was AMAZING how much better my car ran when that was done.

Love the colors! Really nice score!!

 

I bought a new O2 sensor last week have to still change it when I replace covertor, it's a redneck hot rod right
now with pipe cut off. I'm not driving it but around the house until I get inspection sticker, got plate yesterday!

 

Aaaw come on. Drive it down Bourbon Street that way. No one will even notice the sound vibrating off the buildings.

I think I need O2 sensors for my hemi Dodge. The engine lite stays on and the converters have been converted. But it's got two up and two down stream.

 

So, as a super whiz mechanic, have you diagnosed those items as responsible or are you replacing them on a SWAG.

 

Didn't have to be a "Super Whiz" mechanic to see the glowing converter. Never claimed to be a "Super Whiz" mechanic but was good enough to support my family as a mechanic, when I was physically able. Six surgeries and more in the future have left me unable to be a "Super Whiz" mechanic but can still do some mechanic work.

I also know when to ask questions and when something is beyond me. Most O2 sensors are changed on a "SWAG" as you call it because a lot of things can cause it to run rich, MAF sensor, leaking or faulty injector, a short in computer or in a fuel injector driver in the computer as well as the exhaust leak I created cutting the cat off just to name a few and just as many reasons for it to run lean. After talking to a few mechanics I work with and I use Google and alldata , did a little lurking on a buick forum. When I say it runs rich I am not saying it is blowing black smoke but it does sometimes have a rough idle and taking off has a hesitation at first, so yes the O2 sensor at $20 may or may not fix it but that is a couple symptoms that lead me to believe it could be but I am all ears if you want to give advice.

 

The catalitic converters on my Dodge truck were so plugged both the insides and outsides glowed bright red. No wonder so many vehicles catch on fire. Had I been camped someplace and the grass was brown I'm sure there could have been a fire.
Still haven't replaced any O2 sensors. I'm sure the rear ones are faulty even though I'm far from a super whiz. Something is making the CHECK ENGINE light stay on. I did check under the hood and the engine is still there.

But my door is NOT A JAR.

 

Many people forget that the O2 sensors get dirty, causing them to misread the oxygen content. Normally, you don't get a check engine light until the cat is in trouble, either. Here in Canada, the fuel has quite a bit of sulfur in it, and that contaminates them very quickly indeed. Up until a couple of years ago, I used to advise people to change the sensors every 60-80,000 miles. People who did never had a problem with either emissions tests or catalytic converter failure, so it may well have helped. They also tend to get better fuel economy than others who leave things until there are problems, too.

 

My truck has around 75,000 miles on it and the Cats went bad at maybe 70,000. The check lite has been on over a year. Son said the O-2's looked dirty and he sprayed something on them then reset the gizmos. Light was off maybe one tank of fuel.
It now has true duals and glas pack mufflers. I believe 2 1/2" pipes all the way from cats back.
Against what my son says I burn the good 87 octaine corn fuel.

 

My new tires for my Impala wheels come in tomorrow! Pictures maybe by the weekend!

 

Aw man......!

Now I'm gona have to get new tires for my new rims, and it's your fault!

 

Is 1tire's last name Jones? You don't have to always keep up with the Jones'

 

Ya know I wouldn't bust yer chops if I didn't luv ya.
A SWAG is a swingin' wild arse guess. It looks like you made a FIG....frickin' intelligent guess.

Sometime I'll tell you about the load of bad gas I got in northern LA while driving down to help my son salvage his belongings after Katrina. It took me 3 years to get all the problems sorted out that it caused.

 

We'd spent nearly two weeks camped near New Orleans just before Katrina. Right after Katrina or maybe Dennis we were back in New Orleans. Someplace on the way home along the Panhandle of Florida I filled up at a gas station right near the Gulf and very near sea level. Maybe 200 miles farther with my Dodge van and I seemed to be running out of gas. Showed 1/2 tank. I coasted into a station, filled up, and things were fine. Close to Talahassee same thing happened. Again coasted off I 10 and into a station. Filled up again and it only took half a tank. This time I stopped and got several cans of Heet or something similar because I thought I had bad gas.
Back home it happened again. I knew I wasn't out of gas and figured the watered gas was gone.
It ended up being a hole in the rubber line on the in tank fuel pump. There is a loop half way up from the pick up to the pump. The hole was at the half way point of the rubber line. So after the tank was half empty it sucked air instead of fuel.
I bought a new fuel pump but another hurricane was headed toward us so I just filled the tank instead of taking a chance not having the van at that time. A month later traded the van for a Dodge truck and returned the fuel pump. Problem solved! see I was a super whiz at work.