What did you do to your Mark VIII today?

put a new tranny in my car today because reverse in th eold one was slipping pretty bad and found out my new tranny had no 3rd or 4th just reverse 1st and 2nd. so now im having my old tranny completly rebuilt. and by the way im getting fast a changeing the trannys in this car. heres a pic of it waighting for the next trans.
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Hopefully I will be finishing the suspension this weekend. There is a decent chance I will sell it before the end of the year.
 
mikeskustomfab said:
sure do cut it up and did custom suspension to make it lay flat on the ground. If it ain't low it ain't :q:q:q:q
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:D:headbang:

I noticed a squeak in my front suspension on the '97 LSC a couple of days ago. Upon inspection, I noticed that I screwed up:eek: When I rebuilt the front suspension a few months ago, I must have had a brain fart because I apparently forgot to grease the upper ball joint on the driver side. Now it's squaking and creaking and is probably ruined. I greased it, but the creaking persisted. So now I'm going to have to get another new UCA for the driver side. That sucks big time. But it could be worse.
 
AndyT said:
Yesterday I finally installed the new air injection pump, and no more CEL. Yay! haha
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Congratulations! How hard was it? How long did it take? I'm still considering trying to install mine on the '96 tomorrow. But first, I have to fix the leaky solenoid on the d/s front air spring because I got a call from an interested party yesterday who wants to see it. I told him about the problems and he was still interested. So the air spring comes first.
 
thaywood said:
Congratulations! How hard was it? How long did it take? I'm still considering trying to install mine on the '96 tomorrow. But first, I have to fix the leaky solenoid on the d/s front air spring because I got a call from an interested party yesterday who wants to see it. I told him about the problems and he was still interested. So the air spring comes first.
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On my Gen 2, it was cake. Jacked the front end up, got under it, took down that front valance under the bumper cover, and there it was. There were three 10mm bolts that held it into the bracket, unbolted those, unplugged it, and cut the one time use stupid hose clamp and out it came. Bolted the new one up, plugged it it, fitted the hose on, went to AutoZone, bought a hose clamp, came home and put the clamp on the hose, and bolted the valance back up.

I'd say, since I didn't have the right tools, since I had to leave my box at my previous job for a few weeks, unlocked, my stuff was picked through and I was missing quite a few sockets, and extensions, after I rigged something up, and went and got the hose clamp, I'd say about an hour and a half. If you have the right tools, and get a hose clamp in advanced, its an easy 30-45 minute job, if even that long.
 
AndyT said:
On my Gen 2, it was cake. Jacked the front end up, got under it, took down that front valance under the bumper cover, and there it was. There were three 10mm bolts that held it into the bracket, unbolted those, unplugged it, and cut the one time use stupid hose clamp and out it came. Bolted the new one up, plugged it it, fitted the hose on, went to AutoZone, bought a hose clamp, came home and put the clamp on the hose, and bolted the valance back up.

I'd say, since I didn't have the right tools, since I had to leave my box at my previous job for a few weeks, unlocked, my stuff was picked through and I was missing quite a few sockets, and extensions, after I rigged something up, and went and got the hose clamp, I'd say about an hour and a half. If you have the right tools, and get a hose clamp in advanced, its an easy 30-45 minute job, if even that long.
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Thats great. Glad you got it fixed. I don't think it'll be that easy on my '96. I do think the bumper has to come off. If that is the case, I'll probably have to hold off for a while. I need to get the suspension working first.

On a side note: Found this http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/1995...96?pt=Other_Vehicle_Parts&hash=item3f0b6d2f10 today. Price seems a tad high to me. And no mileage was given. But they are OEM and appear to hold air. But that's still a pile o' green for used air springs. Even with the compressor.
 
thaywood said:
Thats great. Glad you got it fixed. I don't think it'll be that easy on my '96. I do think the bumper has to come off. If that is the case, I'll probably have to hold off for a while. I need to get the suspension working first.

On a side note: Found this http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/1995...96?pt=Other_Vehicle_Parts&hash=item3f0b6d2f10 today. Price seems a tad high to me. And no mileage was given. But they are OEM and appear to hold air. But that's still a pile o' green for used air springs. Even with the compressor.
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That does seem a bit steep. And like you said, no mileage listed, or he doesn't even say if they still held air. For that price, you would assume everything was in working order, but you never know. Plus the guy has zero feedback....
 
Oil change, plugs, tranny filter/fluid, and fuel filter. Got it all done before it reached 110* outside too. Busy morning!
 
Hopefully oil change tomorrow. I bought Mobil One "High Mileage" 5w30 full synthetic. I've never used this one before; just their regular synthetic one in my, back then, Cobra.
 
What did you do to your Mark VIII

Gave the grandson a ride in the Mark and let it unwind a little ... made him smile from ear to ear (he's 13):p
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Got it towed to work. Got 3 journeymen mechs and 2 heavy duty journeymen helping me rip her apart. Located a new motor. Already have the old one out. I love my job :D
 
got a vcrm from zmt325 to day and put it in have ac and fan now looks like motor is ok and didnt overheat just bought 93 mark v111 last week 70.000 miles rust free
 
got the mark out of the garage to go over to my friends house (just hit 62K miles). he totaled his 1979 firebird..... just like i said he would..... oh well. what a shame
 
95MkViii said:
got the mark out of the garage to go over to my friends house (just hit 62K miles). he totaled his 1979 firebird..... just like i said he would..... oh well. what a shame
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How old are you bud? I've always wondered iirc you said your still in highschool? Im just wondering if I'm the youngest on the site :lol:
 
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