Post by: Raydar on May 29, 2022, 10:38:23 pm
.jpg)
.jpg)
Post by: SpadeCustoms on May 30, 2022, 02:05:16 am
Post by: Fierofool on May 30, 2022, 07:28:04 am
Post by: Raydar on May 30, 2022, 09:40:26 am
Careful, you might be close to having an addiction!?
I can quit any time I want.
Post by: Raydar on May 30, 2022, 09:43:39 am
Already preparing it for an engine swap? 😉
Probably not any time soon. The engine was replaced only 14K miles ago (as the story goes, but there are receipts...), due to a failed timing gear.
Lots of other stuff to do, anyway.
Of course, if something goes south, that may change.
Post by: scottb on May 30, 2022, 08:11:32 pm
Post by: Raydar on May 30, 2022, 08:55:52 pm
It might be time for Tammy to lock you up in a padded room...... oh, wait, she knows that :P
Old news, man.
Post by: TopNotch on May 30, 2022, 10:09:03 pm
[The engine was replaced only 14K miles ago (as the story goes, but there are receipts...), due to a failed timing gear.Timing gear? Didn't only dukes have a gear driven cam shaft?
Post by: Raydar on May 31, 2022, 01:56:55 pm
[The engine was replaced only 14K miles ago (as the story goes, but there are receipts...), due to a failed timing gear.Timing gear? Didn't only dukes have a gear driven cam shaft?
V6s have two gears - cam and crank - and a chain. Never heard of a timing gear/chain taking out a 2.8, beyond "it won't run anymore" but, nonetheless, that was the story.
Sounded a little wonky to me, too, but there's a couple of pages of receipts for engine parts, so it was obviously rebuilt or replaced for some reason. (Maybe the dealer spun a good tale, in the name of capitalism, and profits.)
So the engine has 14K on it, and the transaxle was replaced, some time after that. It's got a NOS transaxle that came from Jeff Ianatello (aka Pontiac Jeff.) I also have another NOS transaxle that came with the package. Still has the Quad 4 bellhousing. Has 3.94 FDR.
It occurs to me that the original owner may have just beat the dog-crap out of it, and broke - or wore out - a bunch of stuff. But it appears that all of that got replaced, anyway.
(The guy I got it from did a bunch of work on it. I've got those receipts, too. Lots of "Rodney" stuff)
So... as they say, we shall see.
The tires are 18 years old. <shudder> But they don't look compromised.
Post by: SpadeCustoms on June 03, 2022, 11:12:16 am
Post by: TopNotch on June 03, 2022, 03:02:16 pm
[V6s have two gears - cam and crank - and a chain.
/quote]
I call those sprockets.
Post by: Raydar on June 03, 2022, 05:03:23 pm
I call those sprockets.
You can call them whatever you like. :D But whatever they are, that's what's there.
I still don't know how a broken one (they're steel... how would that even happen?!) could trash a 2.8, since it's not an interference engine... is it? (The topic has never come up, that I'm aware of.)
Of course, the whole "timing gear" thing might have been a smokescreen. Sounds a whole lot better to say, "the timing gear failed at 80K", than it does to say, "I blew it up at 80K."
Post by: Raydar on June 03, 2022, 05:10:27 pm
I would not trust 18-year-old tires just like I wouldn't trust 18-year-old "self"! lol
I know... right?
Post by: mweldon on September 06, 2022, 05:36:24 pm
Is that an IRM front lip or something else?
Post by: Raydar on September 07, 2022, 10:50:24 am
Dude.. nice score.. very nice...
Is that an IRM front lip or something else?
Thank you sir!
Nope. Just the stock front bumper cover. Must be the angle of the pic. Phones do funny things.
Post by: AJ_87Fiero on October 26, 2023, 02:13:05 am
It followed me home. That's my story and I'm sticking to it.Congrats! TFK stands for "THE FIERO KID"?? ;) i hope it's an 86 to go with the tag lol jk!
Post by: Raydar on October 26, 2023, 12:44:16 pm
Post by: AJ_87Fiero on October 26, 2023, 03:15:48 pm
ionowatchumean Sir. We're all still barely-legal 18yr olds here :). Our fieros help us feel that way. They're prime humanblood on a full moon night, to our vampiric-selves.I would not trust 18-year-old tires just like I wouldn't trust 18-year-old "self"! lol
I know... right?