What did you do to your Mark VIII today?

Magnetico said:
Needed to change the front/driver brake pads. Never heard the squeak indicator telling me it's time to change the pads. Went straight from quiet to scraping in a matter of days! Put small grooves into the rotor.

Working on getting a rear bumper cover from a local guy that tears apart Mark VIII's and sells the parts on eBay. Want to get this fixed and painted soon because of my small rear-ender a couple weeks ago.
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You actually only changed one wheels brake pads? People like you scare me...and just FYI, Mark8 brake pads don't have thickness sensors
 
Sapperfire said:
You actually only changed one wheels brake pads? People like you scare me...and just FYI, Mark8 brake pads don't have thickness sensors
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oh the real nice $7.99 pads from Autozone have the metal clip that sticks out and scrapes when about half your pad is gone. Super Fancy
 
Those slip on sensors are ok-ish...the problem with most of them thou, is that they are designed to slip onto the pads ear that rides in the anchor bracket channel (our cars don't have this feature however) but on a car that does, this causes a hardware issue (the pad doesn't slide in the hardware properly)
None the less, they supply 4 pads per box, each wheel requires 2 pads--basic math here, and common sence would tell one with any, that if one wheel is grinding...and all the other wheels have the same miles on them as that one..maybe you should change them all...or at least the other side of the axle...I mean..youve already got the car jacked up ...and the parts...it's not just YOUR car you need to worry about on the road!
 
I'm actually going to overhaul all the rotors and pads in a couple months anyway . I Just bought the cheap Advance pads in the meantime. I would have changed the other side too but the wheel lock key is stripped to hell. The craftsman "bolt-out" socket I bought could only get three of the wheel locks off before it wore out, unable to get a grip on the last one. Went to Sears and they did not have anymore, nor two other Sears stores near by. :mad:

Sapphire, don't mean to scare you, dude. I know it's stupid to do just one side but so far I'm not feeling one side breaking harder than the other. But again, it's temporary until I get a good set of rotors and pads all around.
 
went to Minneapolis Tuesday and picked up my rear window from kk , very good time talking to him! brought back rear window and got it installed in the 97 mark viii which has been down since April! i sure missed driving that car!
 
Today I waited for the parts man to show with my new front end to no avail, looked at the rack Im going to have to remove, mostly we just stared at each other sizing one another up..... DSC00535_resized.jpg

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cut off my mufflers yesterday sounds pretty damn good i was surprised. this is coming from a man that put flowmaster 50 series delta flows on a 96 impala ss that sounded gourgeous. only problem was the exhaust was getting to me somehow fellin really tired behind my eyes since then. so i went to my old job and welded some 2.5 inch pipes straight back until i get my true duals double x no cats with some flowmaster 50 seiries deltaflows. anybody ever tried 50"s oh yeah mississippi tags no emisions.
 
I never really liked the sound of the X-pipe and Flowmaster combination. IMO, Flowmasters are made for the classic true dual or H-pipe setup.

What I would do is buy a mid-mount dual in/out muffler and choose some tailpipes of your choice..
 
Ooooohh yeah! Those wheels look sweet!

My car must not like the wet. It's been raining off and on here for about a week and my '97 LSC has developed what feels like a miss. I think one of the coils may be going. It only does it when it's under load. Taking off, passing, going up hills, etc. Under normal cruising it's fine. Smooth as a sewing machine. When the miss happens, it feels like the engine actually dies for a split second. It's very irritating. And it's probably that #8 coil that got wet when I washed the engine last year. :(
 
thaywood said:
Ooooohh yeah! Those wheels look sweet!

My car must not like the wet. It's been raining off and on here for about a week and my '97 LSC has developed what feels like a miss. I think one of the coils may be going. It only does it when it's under load. Taking off, passing, going up hills, etc. Under normal cruising it's fine. Smooth as a sewing machine. When the miss happens, it feels like the engine actually dies for a split second. It's very irritating. And it's probably that #8 coil that got wet when I washed the engine last year. :(
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Check to make sure you dont have a windshield seal leak. I had an F-150 that did and when it rained it would drip on the computer in the dash and cause issues. Dont take much to screw one up.
 
LaserSVT said:
Check to make sure you dont have a windshield seal leak. I had an F-150 that did and when it rained it would drip on the computer in the dash and cause issues. Dont take much to screw one up.
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That's a good idea. Thanks! I'll check it probably this weekend when I have more time. But now I'm a little worried(er). The intermittent "skip" has improved. It didn't do it at all yesterday and it did it only twice this morning. But now there's a slight smell in the car that smells like something electrical burning. It eventually went away before I got to work, but the fact that it was there worries me. I looked under the hood and didn't see or smell anything wierd. And I checked all the power goodies and accessories and everything works fine. I just don't get it. :confused:

Edit: Ha! Figured out what was making the electrical smell. It turned out to be my lighter adapter for my iPod. I think it's fried! Went out for a smoke break a while ago and noticed that the light that shows it's working was not on. So I took it out of the lighter socket and it was so hot I couldn't hold it! I'm glad I went out there or I could have caught my car on fire:eek: And that would have sucked real bad.
 
Well, my intermittent skip is apparently gone. It appears that it may have been a bad batch of gas. It didn't start until I filled the car up at a gas station that I don't normally go to. I went there because gas was 20 cents a gallon cheaper than my usual BP station. Now that I have run all that gas out, I filled it back up with 93 octane from my usual BP now that it has gone down to $3.78 a gallon for premium, and no more miss. Hopefully that fixed it. We'll see.
 
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Not sure what to do with these.. I doubt anyone would even want to buy em
 
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