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#4025 of 4283 Re: 98 aurora low oil pressure at idle after warm up HELP please ! [pscheid] by brinwood Sep 05, 2008 (9:30 am)
Replying to: pscheid (Sep 05, 2008 6:37 am) My 97 has the same oil pressures at those RPM's. I change my oil and filter at 7,000 miles. I use 10-30 Pennzoil and it doesn't use any. I have 117K on my aurora.
#4026 of 4283 Re: Loose Sterring Wheel?? [boston08] by pepe13pepe Sep 06, 2008 (12:39 pm)
Replying to: boston08 (Aug 30, 2008 4:52 am) I would check your rack and pinion, my 1997 aurora was like that since i bought it in November of 07 and my rack and pinion bushing/bracket snapped about a week ago when i was pulling into a parking spot. The play on the steering wheel is horrible now because nothing is holding the rack and pinion to the frame. So I am thinking that there was a fracture in the bracket before. If you are not too car saavy i would have someone you know how is look underneath at the it and see if there is any damage done to your rack and pinoin or the brackets. good luck. p.s. to get it fixed by a shop will run you about 600-1200 dollars is what ive found
#4027 of 4283 Re: Loose Sterring Wheel?? [boston08] by e_net_rider Sep 07, 2008 (3:47 am)
Replying to: boston08 (Aug 30, 2008 4:52 am) Can you clarify? What exactly moves up and down? Just the wheel flexing at the tilt joint or the whole assembly noticeable at dash junction? Is there any side play? Going back to a complaint of mine, wife bought without consulting me. I got in and noticed lots of play, gave wheel a hard shake and upper assembly fell into my lap. At the tilt joint, aluminum castings with a steel pin about 5/8" on each side of column for the joint. At some time one of the pins was replaced with a quarter inch drive socket which was still loose and the shake broke the casting. Whole column was replaced. Definitely time for removing covers and doing an inspection. Replies to this message: dr_turbo (Sep 07, 2008 7:59 am)
#4028 of 4283 Re: 98 aurora low oil pressure at idle after warm up HELP please ! [blk97au [bdblkab96] by e_net_rider Sep 07, 2008 (4:07 am)
Replying to: bdblkab96 (Aug 19, 2008 6:39 pm) I decided to revisit your comment about knowing noisy lifters because that may be a relative to a specific engine thing. Having known someone with a '65 Mustang 289 High Performance, that thing is noisy at idle always, but then it uses solid lifters. Hydraulic lifters should be much quieter and I don't know about overhead cams. I'd presume them to be even quieter and they may remain near quiet at insufficient oil flow, just not enough to prevent wear. Your noise level indicating good oil may best be answered by someone who has knowledge of this engine.
#4029 of 4283 Re: Loose Sterring Wheel?? [e_net_rider] by dr_turbo Sep 07, 2008 (7:59 am)
Replying to: e_net_rider (Sep 07, 2008 3:47 am) boston08, not sure if yur asking me the question but the wheel moves mainly up/down but also with some side movement. If I grab the steering wheel it feels like something in the shaft is loose, not the entire column where it would mount underneath. I hope I am making this clear to understand. Thanks   paul
#4030 of 4283 Re: Loose Sterring Wheel?? [boston08] by oldwino Sep 07, 2008 (5:20 pm)
Replying to: boston08 (Aug 30, 2008 4:52 am) If the movement is up/down without any side movement and is pivoting at the tilt joint and not the whole steering column, then it's possible that the tilt locking mechanism is loose. I had a Buick that started getting up/down movement in the tilt function. It got worse til it came completely loose one day and flopped down and would not lock into any position. I ended up having to do some disassembly and put the screws back in the locking assembly for the tilt. I don't know if the Aurora mechanism is the same. My guess would be that it's probably different. Good Luck.
#4031 of 4283 Re: Loose Sterring Wheel?? [boston08] by pepe13pepe Sep 18, 2008 (12:25 am)
Replying to: boston08 (Aug 30, 2008 4:52 am) im replying to your post again because i just fixed my rack and pinon and got it done two days ago. After fixing that I found out my tilt had come loose, so i took off the cover to replace it. I fixed that but still had play in my from left to right. The play I had in my steering wheel was due to the two cases that connect where your tilt is. (sorry i am not clear as to what the specific name of it is). Anyways I had to remove the piece to see if i could get it welded, long story short, it was a pain in the ass and i wasted a couple hours figuring out how to fix this(because i am not that mechanically inclined). Heres how it goes to check if that piece is broken or if the tilt is messed up. There are six screws in the steering wheel case that must be romoved to open it and the only way to get to them is from under the case. Three in the bottom half and three that screw up into the top half. One of those last three you must get to by sneeking up through the hole where your tilt lever is. If our cars are the same (which they should be, as all 95-99's are) then you will have to use a 1/4" 5mm socket and a 1/4 extension would be the best. the case is then only held together by clips, just squeeze and pull and the case should seperate. (you have to remove the tilt knob cover which is held in by one screw i think) Once that is removed you will see the guts, now if the TILT is out of position you will be able to tell by looking underneath, if you can see the two sets of teeth sticking out and not in the case, then thats your problem right there, which hopefully thats all that it is. But if they appear to be positioned right then check the right and left sides to the two aluminum half cases meet each other. they should be held together by a pin (actually two seperate pins). but on mine, the part where the two meet from the rear half case was broken and that had to be welded. and fixed. I could walk you through the process of how to remove that piece which is not that hard but due to the lack of time that i have right now, i cannot explain. Please leave a post if you need further instructions or feel free to call me at 269 290 3735 and leave me a message, as i usually dont pick up numbers that i dont know,. I would gladly help you all that i can. All of the repairs ive done this past week wouldve cost me close to $1500 if not more and in all i spent maybe 200. Hope to save you money and hope this helps
#4032 of 4283 Re: 95 dash gauges cut in & out [jlehocky] by wickedinva Sep 23, 2008 (4:38 am)
Replying to: jlehocky (Dec 08, 2007 6:14 pm) I had to replace the dash cluster to fix the gauges eventually you will loose all visual of the gauges on the dash panel my 95 aurora dash panel turned completely off and it was after dark I couldn't see the speedometer, or any other gauges when the cluster went out. Hope this helps you.
#4033 of 4283 Re: Computer reset? [rtajajolu] by wickedinva Sep 24, 2008 (4:33 am)
Replying to: rtajajolu (Apr 25, 2004 1:33 pm) lift up the back seat and disconnect the battery for around a minute that should reset the system.

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