RigsLS
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Mine made some noises, mostly clicking sounds.
What did you do to your LS today?
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Mine made some noises, mostly clicking sounds.
G-RELL
FULLY DIPPED LS
First post, Joined and read all the great info on here before I made my mind up on the right one. 2002 LSE , V8. 145000 miles, one owner. All service records from day one, done at dealer.
What I have done is so far is polish headlight, Pioneer DVD, removed factory subs and added one I had, straped down , keep sliding. Complete tune up , Coils, Plugs , So on.
looks good...Welcome!
R34SklnNsn
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Thanks. Really like the car.
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Went to the junk yard and found strut tower covers from a gen1. Passenger side fits perfectly but driver side will need some work as its a different design. No gen 2 to be found. I can take it back in 30 days. Also saw a gen 1 with rear decks and amp with the frame. I will go back and get that to put subs in there.
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Went to the junk yard and found strut tower covers from a gen1. Passenger side fits perfectly but driver side will need some work as its a different design. No gen 2 to be found. I can take it back in 30 days. Also saw a gen 1 with rear decks and amp with the frame. I will go back and get that to put subs in there.
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Get the bracket from the Gen1 driver's side cover. You can bolt the bracket under or over the bracket that's already there. That's what I did and the cover fits just like a Gen1.
Thanks! I will do that.
col batitong
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First post, Joined and read all the great info on here before I made my mind up on the right one. 2002 LSE , V8. 145000 miles, one owner. All service records from day one, done at dealer.
What I have done is so far is polish headlight, Pioneer DVD, removed factory subs and added one I had, straped down , keep sliding. Complete tune up , Coils, Plugs , So on.
can someone tell where I can buy this wood trim?
Thanks
And you can find them all over eBay.......
col batitong
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Picture above is my current set up. I got the complete wood decal, when I replaced my stereo, I had to buy the black plastic trim. I been looking so hard online on where to buy that wood decal. Hopefully someone here can point me where I can buy that small piece. Thanks.
You will need to purchase the whole kit.... Unless someone has extra pieces they want to part with.....
R34SklnNsn
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I removed the one from the original radio, cut it as close as I could off the sides. I removed the double sided tape from the back and put some thin 3m tape back on.
col batitong
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Thanks so much ill give it a shot.
medphys
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Did a coil and plug change on the passenger bank. '06 V8 tomorrow the complicated side. tomorrow Ill clear my moonroof drain tubes and door panels , since its rained hard here and I have those nagging interior leaks. getting my car ready for my weekly drives to baton Rouge and working the LSU games....nice 80 mi ride over I-10 and through the swamps....wish "they'd" get those coil prices down to around $50
joegr
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The OEM coils are $52.51 at Tasca. That's "around $50" to me...
lsemex04
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RockAuto For $47.79.
Telco
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My usual warning, if you order from Rock Auto make sure you get the part you ordered and not their "value" line stuffed in the wrong box.
Rapidtransit
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Replaced the steering rack and the outer tie rods. I got the remanufactured rack from Detroit Axle and it came with new inner tie rods. Had to swap the steering sensor and one of the hose adapters fittings from the old rack. Didn't know anything about teflon hose seals, but had to go to the dealer for them. After doing the fluid flush, it took a while to purge the power steering system of air. After an alignment the cars steering is very responsive.
medphys
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I was at the dealership ($86 ea, but Ill check Tasco) today picking up 2 coils and when I closed my door, thunk! my drivers door window dropped down. I pulled it into the quicklane and we determined it was not the motor just the regulator. $141 for the part and $150 for the labor. Ive never had one drop in the '06, but when I had 2000 and 2003 they did often as coils now... $500 day
Are those regulators as easy to change as the coils once you get it down?
Are those regulators as easy to change as the coils once you get it down?
1LoudLS
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why do you say complicated? its exactly the same for both sides (well with the V8...) both sides are super easy with the exception of a hard to reach back bolt on each side
there is a very good chance that your problem is not clogged drain tubes, it is far more common for the drain tubes to come completely disconnected from the moonroofs drip pan.
that being said, this summer the leaking water came back for a 4th time... boy was i surprised that the drain tubs were actually still connected when I pulled the headliner down. actually more relieved since the last time i went over kill to fix the problem, i was going to be real pissde if the tube came disconnected again. this time it actually was clogged lines, had to disconnect the tube and blast it out with compressed air (not from a can...)
well not really, its a little more complicated of a job. i can definitely do a full set of coils and plugs a little faster that how long it took me to do my last regulator.
the regulator wasn't nothing too difficult, door panels are nothing for me so i can pull one off or on in under five minutes but i did have to dick around with the glass and the inner door panel a bit, the inner door panel was my fault, as i has wrapped the entire inner door panel in dynamat, so that had to be cut away and took a little bit to find all the bolts. then after i got it all back together, I realized that I need to take it all back apart so that I could re-index the motor onto the regulator.
so now that i think about it, on a stock door and indexing the motor befor taking it all apart, it probably could be done in an hour or less..
If you have the window in the full up position you won't need to index the motor. At least I didn't. There is a YouTube video on how to do it on a Gen1 that mostly applies. At least the whole inner door panel comes out as a unit which makes it easy access the regulator. If you can wait Rock Auto was my least expensive option. Napa has it for ~$100....
medphys
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You're correct, I meant taking the purge valve assembly loose. and I think I left the rear lower out last time....