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Cadillac runaway acceleration
On 05/16/2015 08:55 AM, Bill Vanek wrote:
> On Sat, 16 May 2015 00:21:13 -0700, The Real Bev > > wrote: > >>On 05/15/2015 02:49 PM, Brent wrote: >>> regulator issue. Probably a broken gear. A plastic gear knowing GM. >> >>Probably. The 1960 Ford broke the little plastic roller that pushed on >>the window to roll it up and down. 25-cent part, taking the **** off >>the door was the troublesome part. Probably the same here, except for >>the gear-grinding noise at the top and bottom. More crap. Oh yeah, the >>interior door-puller broke so I have to close the door by hooking my >>fingers into the space between the window and its frame. > > Those window regulators had a plastic gear, with a plastic "tape" that > ran in a channel. You could replace the tape and gear, but I don't > know if that stuff is available anymore. Relatively easy job. I think at this point we have to decide whether we want to drive without AC or not. It was one of the best things about this car. I 've already sunk too much money into it, and it still needs more. The knackers are looking better and better... -- Cheers, Bev =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= SAVE GAS, FART IN A JAR |
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Cadillac runaway acceleration
The Real Bev > wrote:
> >We could probably do that ourselves, we have a little 5" lathe that >hasn't moved for 40 years. Not gonna do it, though. The car is at the >point where stuff is just going to start breaking and I don't want to >deal with it any more. I really am superstitious about this -- fix one >thing and the car will deliberately break something else. Do it! Press the bushings out... if you don't have an arbor press, you can put a drill bit into your drill press upside-down and use the rear of the bit to press the thing out. Take them to a motor shop and see if they can match them. If the originals are just pot metal bushings that are part of the casting (which would be something horrible only GM would do), then measure the diameter of the shaft and go to a motor shop and see if they can find something to fit... then drill out the casting to press them in. If you have to machine bushings, don't try and ream the center. Scraping the oilite will seal up the pores in the metal which are holding oil in. Use a drill bit on the lathe to do the center, and use a newly sharpened drill bit and run slow and cool. And yes... the car WILL break something else soon. A lot of engineering on the part of GM has gone into making sure that everything in the car will fall apart at the same time. My statics professor in college had worked for GM and thought this was such a wonderful and ingenious practice. I was (and remain) kind of horrified by it. >>>I truly wish my mom had asked us before buying this POS. A "luxury" car >>>with 85,000 miles on the clock should NOT need this much crap in >>>addition to the crap it's already demanded. >> >> GM quality has improved a lot since this car was made. It hasn't improved >> enough, mind you, but things are much better today. > >Never again. The 73 Dodge pickup is made of real metal. It goes, it >stops (well, it needs some serious brake work, but it stops if you >pump), and its problems are understandable by humans. There is a reason why the US car industry lost badly to the Japanese in the seventies and eighties. --scott -- "C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis." |
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Cadillac runaway acceleration
On 2015-05-17, Scott Dorsey > wrote:
> And yes... the car WILL break something else soon. A lot of engineering > on the part of GM has gone into making sure that everything in the car > will fall apart at the same time. My statics professor in college had > worked for GM and thought this was such a wonderful and ingenious practice. > I was (and remain) kind of horrified by it. Everything has a design life. The Japanese automakers also practiced having everything on the car last the design life as well. It's acceptable provided the design life is long enough. At GM back then it was probably something stupid short. |
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Cadillac runaway acceleration
On Monday, May 18, 2015 at 2:05:14 PM UTC-5, Brent wrote:
> On 2015-05-17, Scott Dorsey > wrote: > > > And yes... the car WILL break something else soon. A lot of engineering > > on the part of GM has gone into making sure that everything in the car > > will fall apart at the same time. My statics professor in college had > > worked for GM and thought this was such a wonderful and ingenious practice. > > I was (and remain) kind of horrified by it. > > Everything has a design life. The Japanese automakers also practiced > having everything on the car last the design life as well. It's > acceptable provided the design life is long enough. At GM back then it > was probably something stupid short. Cars are nothing but buckets of nuts and bolts. |
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