trade ya my taxi for your GA

If it were a former pd car, you'd probably be close to a deal already lol

it is a former PD. its police interceptor on the title white car painted yellow. rubber floor(no carpet) and thee spot light

174, 000 on the truck. The rear diff was replaced three years ago with a lower miled one as well.

someone has a kevlar trunk organizer for 100 bucks up the street from me.... AND the fun little strobes for the roof :D

dam something not right then

guy in chicago has the plastic molded rear seat for $10

Ok found several couple different prices, the driveshaft will usually survive have a shop check its balance and if its straight, dont take the dealers word it needs replacing.
ok first near to you, or at least I hope so.
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Man, that is half tempting... I already have one 200,000 mile ford 5.4, not sure I need another... I actually have to hunt down a drip on the truck tomorrow lol

Those are sorted by distance from you, they can also be sorted by price, they had them for under 200 even for grade A parts but shipping them could cost a bit.

Thanks man. I appreciate it. That first one is a about two hours from me. Has high mileage, but I'll see what the shop says here once I get it back home. I trust these guys more than the stealership.

i dont know much about it, but can't you swap out just the gears, and replce the broken u-joint with out swapping the whole axle? to me would seem cheaper and easier. but maybe I'm wrong

walked out of advance auto and saw this! i walked right back inside and said "okay, who has the gto?" spent 10 minutes talking and listening to each other's cars.
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grand am's water pump was getting loud. bearings were shot, but it wasn't leaking. but when i pulled it off, i expected water to run out. THE FRIGGIN THING WAS DDDDDRRRRRRRYYYYYYYYY

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And the coolant resevoir was empty too. So i'm thinking i've got a coolant leak AGAIN. i put the new pump on and filled it with water and let it idle for 20 minutes. Never saw a drop of water run down the block or drip off of anything. but i do see a trace of oil between the rear head and block.

also, i thought that when i filled the coolant tank up and let the car run, it would pull water out of the tank. But after 20m i unscrewed the lid and coolant shot out the overflow tube.

My temp gauge has been working fine. and i didn't ever get a low coolant warning light like always before. oil looks clean. only put 10k on it since the head gaskets were replaced.

the car sits outside in the grass, so i wouldn't notice a coolant puddle.

You can, but its not really cheaper. And it sure is not easier. The carrier is an extremely tight fit into the housing it requires a special tool that can actually pushout the side of the diff case, by mm's but still.

Then you have to set the gears exactly if they are out it will screw up your entire rear end.

never messed with a rwd diff. so now i know thanks

uncle had his rear gear swapped in his mustang, think it was around a grand when he had it done, but i didn't pay a lot of attention to his story lol

i helped my uncle swap the rear axle in his 66 stang, upgraded to a 9in with disc brakes
was farely easy

That was the entire rear from one disc to the other? because the entire housing in this case is

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If you mean all the gears inside like this

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as you can see that ring gear is damn near the size of the housing.

no sorry the rear diff was 9in gears we swapped the whole axle, got from a donor lincoln i think

That's the car I want!!! 05-06 GTO

btw put the black and clears on the taxi today... still waiting for the backordered HID kit to come in. but then shortly after. all this dam white stuff keeps falling from the sky...they called for 3in

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So like the first pic? That is by far the best thing unless you have a great shop.

Random question Gene, would you be willing to take a picture of your front tires and rear tires side by side to get a tread width comparison? I'm starting to get intrigued with 255/35 tires, would fit my wider stance better since I have spacers and go overkill with 255/35/18 Michelin super sports .

Whenever you get a chance.

Do you want an off the car comparison? or on the car?

I will be pulling the tires off to replace my power steering rack soon, maybe even tomorrow so taking them off is not a problem.

If you could get a good rear picture to show the width of the 255's on the car and then off the car side by side that would be helpful

ok I will get the side/rear on car pic right now, then when I get them off the car I will take them.

Oh and I have run the 255/35/18's up front as well no fitment problems I will be going with all 4 255/35/18's soon.

I would love to see an aggressive, 9" wide wheel pulled off on a GAGT someday...

Ok, ignore the ****ty condition of the wheels, ;crap

This is the drivers side rear tire
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This one is standing at the passenger side front of the car.
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This is passengers side rear.
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and this one is supposed to be a more close up of the last one, not sure how well it turned out.
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you got pebbles behind ur lights

lol so there is, ;crap

on the other hand here is a close up of the reverse light that I did not have before.

yeah they look like 3-4 inch driving lights you can get from any FLAPS

They are driving lights, I bought them from wal mart in 09 but they dont carry those any longer.

Quick question about my truck. I'm new to trucks, so bare with me. Is it possible that just the slip yoke broke and I could replace that and the ujoint and be good to go? I'm really not believing this dealership telling me that the rear end seized up and I"m needing a new driveshaft and rear end. Doing some research here and there leads me to believe that this is the only problem..

yes the yoke could have just broke, though even just that is a big problem, you have to pull the ring gear out and the gear the rest of the yoke is connected too.
It should be a whole lot smaller job then replacing the entire diff housing and cheaper though.

At that im second guessing my self on if the ring gear has to come out or if the shaft can slip by it.

The best thing you can do is pull the rear diff cover and see the shape of the gears, have someone that you trust, and knows what they are looking at, see if any of the gears are broken, or the axle shafts twisted off.

If the diff did lock up at 60+ you would have felt the rear lock up even if all it did was cause a jolt through the truck it breaking free and rolling again could be the result of gears or axles twisting off.

jack up the rear end so the tires aren't touching the ground and spin the tire, other tire should also spin and have someone look at where the part broke that should spin... if all does i would say nothing is seized

SALT REMOVAL
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Hey look, tanners finger snuck into the pic.

Tanner come change my bulb out :hay:

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For the love of humanity, polish those tails.

dont polish... trash and get some GT tails