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| Panzerjunkie | Jun 9 2013, 08:02 PM Post #1 |
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Owner of Jazzy the Geo Dog
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finally got a day to relax and post my project got it from a kid locally with 191k for $800 and help back to the house the transmission sounded like a box of cornflakes 2 tires gone and needing axles things I got done clutch/flywheel tranny swap from a 4cyl 96 sedan with 120k both front axles rear main seal water pump 195 f thermostat timing belt alternator belt new coolant tube oring air filter new plugs cleaned efe heater /new gaskets cleaned egr/ new gasket cleaned tbi new pcv cleaned pathways fuel filter new two tires Swapped bucket lights with composites shot blasted rims painted stock silver dash cancer clean up (looks really good i used a can of something better) radio swap with a pioneer deh-p6700mp (oh yea) new battery terminals removed a freaky attempt at a pulse drive switch set on the horn engine bay clean up added rear hatch pop lever added heated rear window switch (need to scavenge rear glass) painted wiper arms oil change wix filter m1 0w40 now some pics and then to do's ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() to do vacuum lines more thorough tune up wires cap etc tighten or loosen alternator belt so it stops squealing have the tranny sealed (has a slight leak between the bell housing and the main housing get tranny looked at 2nd slips alittle when shifting and the boot on the shift link is split (didn't find out till it was to late but for $150 and it's smooth moving hey.) full motor rebuild (compression is 152 160 152) will have to do much later) seal exhaust leak at joint after cat new muffler pioneer speakers rear heated glass wash carpet and seats dent repair awesome set of snow tires or optimo 724s ![]() Im sure I'm missing something possible additions rear wheel skirts sunroof belly pan moon discs paint job more to come ![]() the worst rust i've found ![]() yea i love this little car
Edited by Panzerjunkie, Jun 9 2013, 08:04 PM.
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| dayle1960 | Jun 9 2013, 08:07 PM Post #2 |
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Fastest Hampster EVER
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You are well on the way to getting all of the bugs worked out of your metro. Very good, my friend. Vacuum lines will only cost ten bucks. As far as the tranny leak, be sure the oil is not coming from the dizzy o-ring. Sometimes when the dizzy leaks, the oil runs down the tranny and drops off the tranny at the mid-line of the tranny, thus you might think the tranny is leaking when in acctuality it is coming out of the motor. |
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| Mythstae | Jun 9 2013, 08:27 PM Post #3 |
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That's very... evocative mental imagery... ![]()
So, that's a 3.79, isn't it?
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| RONNIEREDLINE | Jun 9 2013, 08:30 PM Post #4 |
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METRO MAD MAN
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thats a nice looking car for the milage on it, nice color to, mine is silver sage, just kinda blah, but no one notices me in it, the car gives me my freedom from my customers, because im not in my company truck |
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| Panzerjunkie | Jun 9 2013, 10:36 PM Post #5 |
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Owner of Jazzy the Geo Dog
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thanks for the heads up dayle i'll keep an eye on that on the next test drive it only seams to leak when i take it out for a bit. but i gotta get the rpms down so i can take it on a drive over 5 miles i just don't feel good trying to take it on i25 for 20 25 miles to the tranny guy. i did get stranded once found out the alt belt wasn't tight enough to charge yea that was a rough night getting towed home by a kid in a beefed up 1ton dodge with a 4ft tow rope at night and my windows where still pretty grimmy yea i keep a battery cables a can of gas and a jug of coolant with me now
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| Panzerjunkie | Jun 9 2013, 10:48 PM Post #6 |
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Owner of Jazzy the Geo Dog
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yea pretty bad when I put the old one on the bench and rotated the shaft it sounded like those bead link chains till i got to one spot and a chunk noise and some resistance It did sound like all kinds of junk swirling around in there when it was running till i put the clutch down. should have seen the golf ball size gunk ball with metal on the plug as far as i understand yea 3.79 is what it should be i got this weird issue where at 45 or 50 it starts reading 5 to 10 slow on stock tires i suspect the gauge cluster may be messed up. but it does move well with the tranny it's not to slow on the get up and i had to move only one stud for the shift linkage |
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| Panzerjunkie | Jun 9 2013, 11:16 PM Post #7 |
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Owner of Jazzy the Geo Dog
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That's a great color man I was looking for that or white so I could give it a gelcoat white effect If i cold repaint it really well at a reasonable cost maybe some kind of gunmetal grey metallic/black or gelcoat white dunno yet was going for a ugly paint car so I wouldn't care about dings/dents but i'm really loving this car. I was pretty surprised at it's body condition it was buried under a mountain of ice and snow when I went and got it it took around 30 mins to get enough off to see the car with prairie winds icing our rears off. well see it's my first blue car funny thing there's another blue one around my town somewhere some kids are cursing around in. |
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| Panzerjunkie | Jun 9 2013, 11:32 PM Post #8 |
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Owner of Jazzy the Geo Dog
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Ok guys so I think I'll name my little buddy if it's not taken I'll name it...... MR. Roboto yeah ![]() and if it gives me a hell of a time fixing driving I can call it killroy
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| Panzerjunkie | Jun 11 2013, 02:47 PM Post #9 |
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Owner of Jazzy the Geo Dog
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hey dayle i was poking around the posts and seen you has the gas gauge issue did you ever get that fixed? I'm figuring I'll have to pull my cluster and clean all the contacts to get that working right and hope it can do something for my speedo. |
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| Panzerjunkie | Jun 11 2013, 02:49 PM Post #10 |
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Owner of Jazzy the Geo Dog
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more to do fix gauge cluster gas and speedo fix head liner |
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| Panzerjunkie | Jun 16 2013, 12:20 AM Post #11 |
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Owner of Jazzy the Geo Dog
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done disabled daytime running lights (just unpluged the module under the steering wheel) everything seams ok tighten the altinator belt did vac hoses but may need to redo them some of the hoses that will stay on 3mm id seam to restricting idle at start up 1400 motor sputtering cleaned guage cluster contacts and no improvement ... |
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| geo pet | Jun 16 2013, 06:55 PM Post #12 |
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" my strange addiction "
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nice ride |
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| socal geo garage | Jun 16 2013, 08:11 PM Post #13 |
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very nice metro. |
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| Johnny Mullet | Jun 16 2013, 08:27 PM Post #14 |
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Fear the Mullet
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You got a nice, clean Metro worth keeping forever
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| Panzerjunkie | Jun 17 2013, 12:36 AM Post #15 |
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Owner of Jazzy the Geo Dog
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you guys are making me love the blue the final tack in that was when I put the door trim up to see how it looks and yea that's hot I just got the belt squeak cleared and it's smoothing out tightened the new 5mm vac hoses with screwclamps yet the idle is still high 1400 sometimes 960 maybe turn the distribitor and dial the timing back? my odb tester tends to say it's at 20 sometimes at 8 sometimes at 10 what do you guys think? I would love to find a panaramic sunroof that I could fit to this once everything is running great I do drool over your twin sun roofs GP I took it for a spin around the country side for about 15 mins or so and man it's great! still concerned about that idle though.. current doings.. pulling cloth off seats and tossing them in the wash man there comming out nice I'll have to post pics soon wish I did a before on the back bench bottem it was bad like truck stop crapper bad. Thanks for this awsome site! |
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So, that's a 3.79, isn't it?



7:24 PM Jul 10