Recent content by nedbread

Good afternoon. I have been tinkering with this problem for a while. It did seem as though I had a short somewhere in my electrical system, because of the fuse blowing. I began by looking through the wiring diagrams and identifying which electrical systems were on this circuit. Then I tested...

Hello! I have an M1010 with 32k miles that runs and is in good condition. The starter went bad and I had to manually remove the battery cable from the 24V + terminal to get it to stop turning. Big flash and spark and the battery post melted a chunk off of it. I replaced the starter and whirrr...

I am replacing the idle speed actuator having trouble finding this part ACDelco 14066255... I see one on ebay for $200 and one on bestbuy for $260, both seem high. Anyplace I haven't looked? Thanks, Ned

The headlights work after installing new dimmer switch. By the way I did not have to drop the steering column. Perhaps because I have those little 3" wrenches in the smaller bolt head sizes.

Thanks, I ordered that. Hopefully that is what I need as I was having the same problem as OP (just headlights out, everything else works, but they light up with 12V, and the yellow cable to the dimmer switch has 12V).

Hi, Following up on this thread, I do not yet know where to look for part numbers (I need the dimmer switch too). Is that a standard part or where can I find out what to order? Also, what does a dimmer switch do? Seems odd, you can't dim the headlights. Best, Ned

Against all available advice (my dad has agreed with the forum on locating the pin) I drove it out of the spot it was... fairly exposed parked on my busy street. 100 miles no issues. Will update if anything new happens. To be clear when I mentioned moisture that comment was unrelated to this...

The oil pan is down. It was clean etc... looks to me like a lot of my seals are gone. Looking around the engine from below I can see moisture on seemingly every reservoir. The mileage is at 34,000 but i suppose those things can go over time. The dowel pin was not in the oil pan. And it is...

Yep I guess the most likely thing is that it is in the pan. Might try draining oil then removing the pan then the front cover last if necessary. Thanks! Ned

I did remove the water pump. This does show the gears but the pin is most likely at the bottom of this front cover. Seems I would have to remove the torsional damper and the whole font cover to see all the way to the bottom of this area (just below timing chain and sprockets). Has anyone...

Thanks. It quit on the highway when a battery shorted. For some reason the pump seems to have forced its drive gear to stop. I guess, and the engine movement tore the bolt right off before the pump broke internally to allow the drive gear to rotate. Hence the metal bits that came off and fell down.

Thanks. It quit on the highway when a battery shorted.

Not currently in a hurry. There are two pieces of metal that fell into this compartment. One was a half a bolt that I fished out. The other is the dowel pin to time the IP to the engine. That is probably down lower and I can't feel. So I guess I have to open this compartment hence I wont be...

Thanks. I want to go ahead and take mine apart sort of like that just to get to that gear on the front in your first picture. How hard would you say that is? I guess I have to take some things off first? Any special tools? As for the bolts I can order from McMaster or there is a place called...

Thanks!