I had been smelling coolant when I had been driving the 93 since I had changed the radiator. I recently had the passenger side freeze plug replaced, since it had apparently rotted through. I gave it about a week of driving to "burn off" the excess coolant from getting changed out and such....

And a final update for the 89... Last night, took it for a short drive, mostly to fill it up and stretch its legs. Plus that problem of no gauge lights was bugging me, and I FINALLY had a little spare time to look into it more. Noticed at a stop light in the reflection of the vehicle ahead of me tha...

I've continually had issues with both my 93 and 95 vans having non-working gauge lights (analog dashes, all 3). I have tried resolving the problem by re-fastening the gauge cluster to the mounts. This worked for about 6 months the first time, 4 months the second, and a couple weeks the third. Since ...

I haven't been able to make time to get a price on the used springs yet, I was curious if anyone else had a ball park figure, or any example. I'm not sure they're readily available, since truck parts at the yards around here do go fast. I was just asking in case I do run across a set while I'm on a ...

Recently I've discovered how different the steel leaf springs and the composite leaf springs act. My 93 holds heavy loads much better than my 95, and the 95 actually sagged so far as to seemingly ride on the bump-stops, and after not seeing a slight (maybe 1/2"-1") dip, the 1" tow hit...

I had this problem myself. I pulled the cable forward a little from the latch at the bottom (in the track) and duct taped the slack so it was tensioned a little better. That was over a year and a half ago, and it still works today. May not be the coolest or most attractive solution, but it worked fo...

Well, I did a treatment of seafoam in the 95 the other day, when I replaced the radiator (again, only maybe 2 years later). Oddly enough, even after 216k miles, the "cloud" you usually get out the back was quite small and short. I actually added a little more than 1/3 bottle (like the inst...

So very happy to see that van getting the TLC it so definitely deserved! It looks great, I'm really glad to see you made use of that lower air dam, I specifically added that to add my own fog lights later on, haha. My 89 looks relatively close to that one, although that one is in much better shape,...

So very happy to see that van getting the TLC it so definitely deserved! It looks great, I'm really glad to see you made use of that lower air dam, I specifically added that to add my own fog lights later on, haha. My 89 looks relatively close to that one, although that one is in much better shape, ...

Here's some of the Malibu Maxx that I bought back at the end of May. http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d157/LJRacing91/malibumaxxdaypics001.jpg http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d157/LJRacing91/malibumaxxdaypics002.jpg http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d157/LJRacing91/malibumaxxdaypics003.jpg It's g...