Useless functions: oil life indicator
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Joined: 09-13-2006
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From: USA
your right... the chips light plug on aircraft engine have both sides of a circuit in the lubricant... when metal shaving... feral... alum... titain... etc fill the gap the light comes on... air craft engines have great hunken filters but sh&t happens... ever seen metal shaving on a dip stick... cranks... cams... push rods... piston rings... bearings and a whole slug of other parts can shave metal that magnet can catch some of it on the wrong side of the filter... seen enough chips lights to know that filters don't catch everything. I don't know about this engine but many alum blocks have steel cylinder sleeves.
this is why magnets work..
this is why magnets work..
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Joined: 05-26-2006
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From: Providence, RI
Originally Posted by REDFLYR
get rid of your hhr and get 55 FORD... you'd be replacing the oil every 3000 miles without ever doing an oil change... appearently money and the environment are of no concern to you either... my mother liked the good old days too... but I could never convince her to trade in her Ford for the horse and carrage she remebered as a young girl... you will most likely will be dismayed that your HHR steering is "fly by wire" no mechincal linkage... another one of those new fangled ideas. try pulling the EPS 60 amp fuse and driving down the road... it's called "arm strong steering"... i can only guess that you have disconnected the power breaks and all the techno stuff that has come out in the past 50 yearsYou got it.
hey Snoopy
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From: Rochester,N.Y.
Originally Posted by Snoopy
So, for CH, nfboy, and others who wondered about the manual release it is restated.....and if this troublesome, the MODERATOR can remove or relocate it.
I didn't do any poking around inside the door. I just popped the cap, looked inside, and didn't see anything. 
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From: "Upland" Mesa, Arizona
Originally Posted by REDFLYR
get rid of your hhr and get 55 FORD... you'd be replacing the oil every 3000 miles without ever doing an oil change... appearently money and the environment are of no concern to you either... my mother liked the good old days too... but I could never convince her to trade in her Ford for the horse and carrage she remebered as a young girl... you will most likely will be dismayed that your HHR steering is "fly by wire" no mechincal linkage... another one of those new fangled ideas. try pulling the EPS 60 amp fuse and driving down the road... it's called "arm strong steering"... i can only guess that you have disconnected the power breaks and all the techno stuff that has come out in the past 50 years
I thought I had read someplace that it is an ELECTRIC Hydraulic pump for the power steering
. Thus no parasitic power loss. I remember working with the "wire drive" group years ago and they had servo units for control.I may need to get underneath again, and look.
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Snoopy
going by what the Chevy service tech told me in Polson, MT when one of their sale persons blew my EPS fuse giving my a boost. he also told me that all there that is under the dash is a reostat and servos below. Snoopy I am about 70 percent blind so sometimes I have to rely on the professionals. let me know if I have be lead astray. I do know that when that fuse goes it gets nearly impossible to steer... the car now has spare 60 amp fuses in the tool kit. (need a spare for the battery as well) we stopped at every parts store between Polson, MT and Sandpoint, ID (SUNDAY) before finding a GM dealer (MONDAY) that had a 60 amp fuse... wife drove very gingerly with a 40 amp fuse from the rear window defroster in the EPS slot. a couple of my hotrod friends were interested in the flyby wire system in order to eliminate linkage in tight fitting problems
going by what the Chevy service tech told me in Polson, MT when one of their sale persons blew my EPS fuse giving my a boost. he also told me that all there that is under the dash is a reostat and servos below. Snoopy I am about 70 percent blind so sometimes I have to rely on the professionals. let me know if I have be lead astray. I do know that when that fuse goes it gets nearly impossible to steer... the car now has spare 60 amp fuses in the tool kit. (need a spare for the battery as well) we stopped at every parts store between Polson, MT and Sandpoint, ID (SUNDAY) before finding a GM dealer (MONDAY) that had a 60 amp fuse... wife drove very gingerly with a 40 amp fuse from the rear window defroster in the EPS slot. a couple of my hotrod friends were interested in the flyby wire system in order to eliminate linkage in tight fitting problems
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From: "Upland" Mesa, Arizona
Hey RedFlyr...you got it buddy. Please understand I wasn't criticizing. I was just amazed, when you said that. THAT starting me thinking about what I had heard or read.
Maybe someone else knows for sure....??? Until I can get under and look.
Maybe someone else knows for sure....??? Until I can get under and look.
