"daft-drunk" (daft-drunk)
10/30/2015 at 12:51 • Filed to: None
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"daft-drunk" (daft-drunk)
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My beater car is a 97 Riviera with the L67 engine and it wasn’t mentioned in the lists of cars that were pending a recall. Off the top of my head I can think of Park Avenues and I think LeSabres also having this engine or the non supercharged variant. Should I just expect immolation?
Urambo Tauro
> daft-drunk
10/30/2015 at 12:53 |
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If it wasn’t affected, no worries.
Open the hood, look for oil seepage at the valve covers, and clean the engine bay with a good degreaser. Couldn’t hurt to carry a fire extinguisher, just in case.
Smallbear wants a modern Syclone, local Maple Leafs spammer
> daft-drunk
10/30/2015 at 12:57 |
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Wait, what? That engine's been gone for years, and is well known as reliable. If you managed to push a 3800 into breaking, it's probably your fault. With that in mind, what actually happened?
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Smallbear wants a modern Syclone, local Maple Leafs spammer
> daft-drunk
10/30/2015 at 13:00 |
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19 minor injuries in the last 6 years... on cars over 10 years old... my guess is GM is just trying to get rid of ANYTHING that MIGHT be brought up now.
Future next gen S2000 owner
> daft-drunk
10/30/2015 at 13:02 |
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While most of those engines are similar and have interchangeable parts, small details may have been changed from year to year and platform to platform.
I wouldn’t worry.
ttyymmnn
> daft-drunk
10/30/2015 at 13:08 |
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I have a Honda Odyssey, and back during the Takata airbag fiasco I wanted to make sure mine had been repaired. I had the service rep pull the repair record and show me the part numbers on the bags they took out and the bags they put in. I suppose you could do something similar, tracking part numbers etc. just to be sure.
jariten1781
> daft-drunk
10/30/2015 at 13:50 |
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Since it is supposedly from oil dripping on the headers/exhaust/whatever...if the plumbing is different perhaps your oil will just drip on the ground.
Baeromez
> Smallbear wants a modern Syclone, local Maple Leafs spammer
10/30/2015 at 13:51 |
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If you managed to push a 3800 into breaking, it’s probably your fault.
I’m guess I’m just gifted that way.
AMC/Renauledge
> daft-drunk
10/30/2015 at 13:53 |
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Different platform, so the layout of the engine bay in your car may be different enough to keep this problem at bay.
Also, of the cars recalled, 99.9% haven't had this problem.
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Smallbear wants a modern Syclone, local Maple Leafs spammer
> Baeromez
10/30/2015 at 13:53 |
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You must be.
crowmolly
> daft-drunk
10/30/2015 at 14:02 |
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Even though it’s not in the literature I would definitely consider it included.
Echo51
> jariten1781
10/31/2015 at 04:59 |
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Or people could maintain their cars like, i dunno. Sensible adults. But haha, jokes aside, american has the FREEDOM to blame whoever made it first!