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Well, the typical 80,000 to 100,000 dreaded plastic cooling system parts failure has loomed up or sprung on me again. I really hate plastic parts for cooling systems, but that is the nature of the LS. Anywho, I was looking to see if Rockauto had an OEM part for this...

I have just finished a summer to winter long project of essentially replacing or rebuilding my driveline from the tranny back to the wheels. As I get time I plan to write up my thoughts and experience on each main component section, ie diff, rubber couplers, center carrier bearing, dropping the...

Well, after my most excellent safari to my local junkyard aka Salvage Yard for the Black Friday Thanksgiving 50% off sales, I was keeping an eye open to see if there is a repeat performance. There will be. My local junkyard, Pick a Part in Bloomington off Pyrite and the 60 freeway in Calif, is...

I am going to be replacing the center Carrier Bearing that supports the driveshaft(Torquetube) on my 2004 LSV8. There are the usual exhaust clamps holding the two pipes going from about mid car back and rubber hangers for the mufflers etc towards the back. To get at the center carrier...

I was totally flummoxed when I found out about this. Either I have been away from junk yards aka Salvage Yards too long or this is something I never expected... I have found out that at least in my local area, the local junkyards are all having Black Friday Sales. Any part 50% off, can't...

I will soon be getting either a new radiator or have the local shop put on a new end tank. I recently tried the Permatex Radiator repair kit(comes with Fiberglass patch and some black epoxy). NAPA and the instructions say it should work well for the hairline crack I had but I think because of...

Been gone a year or so, family, moving etc issues. I thought I would be rid of the LS by now but no luck. My son just barely got his license(23yo) but he has no interest in driving. So I still have the 2004 LSV8 with 180,000+ miles on it. BTW, those who swear they explode in a fiery inferno if...

Did a search and didn't find anything useful... So, how do I remove CDs from the 6 cd changer in my 2004 LS? Is there a tiny hole to poke like with a PC? or some button combination? My CD player has been getting alittle flakey, it plays OK and then seems to get confused and then...

We all have had or will have a failed DCCV Dual Climate Control Valve fail on us. Common symptoms are hot air from one or both sides of the cabin vents regardless of what the control is set to. Replacing the DCCV is not hard. But I don't recall seeing that we should also check the fuse that...

Finally did the plugs on my 2004 LS V8 last weekend. I have NO CLUE if any of my comments apply to the V6. let me say of the 20 or so cars I have owned/worked on, the LS is probably the biggest PITA to change plugs on. Only car that came close in the past was my 79 TA which required working...

This weekend I finally got around to changing my Front drivers side wheelhub/bearing. I am soooo lucky I live in Southern California. NO RUST BABY!!. I have been dreading this job for ages since I read all the other postings where people have to pound/ torch sweat the hub out or take it to...

I am posting this from another website where I was posting about worst pos's I have owned. Today I am much calmer, but yesterday if my LS "accidentally" caught fire, I would have got my fire extinguisher out of the trunk and saved it for my next car. BTW my LS does this trick several times a...

Hope these pictures get thru. I never posted pics to this site. This weekend I disassembled the DCCV on my 2004 LSV8. I assume they are similar for other model years but could be WRONG. I had hoped to disassmble and repair this expensive part but a torn rubber bootie killed that hope...

After letting the car sit for a few hours I was able to get a better look at the leak from the thermostat housing. Short answer is it is NOT the Tstat housing, it may be either a bad "Radiator Cap" or bad O ring on the cap. Or some problem with the hoses near by. The Housing is Most likely...

Found an interesting unusual leak for the LS V8. Long story so skip to bottom for short version. For a few months I have been losing maybe a quart of water every week or so and figured I would need to replace the degas bottle sooner or later. Last week I parked the car on a hill, face...

I had an intermittant problem with my radio buzzing and squawking off and on. Turned out to be a bad connection from the coax cable to the connector/plug. In messing around with this I cut off the plug and broke the small "button" glued to the glass to connect the antenna to the in glass...

Do our LS have Constant Velocity (CV) joints in the rear? The reason I ask is that during an inspection I noticed that our half shafts look suspiciously like CV joints, and maybe that is where I am getting a noise. If we do, how do you diagnose a problem with them? A month or so back I...

I changed my front brake pads about 6,000(?) miles ago to Pepboys brand pads, I think Prostop(?). I have been severely unhappy with those pads. After a few hundred miles my brakes started to squeal like a freight train coming to a stop. To be fair I did not resurface the rotors( I rarely do) at...

My car has been in the shop almost 3 weeks now. It is a 2004 LSV8 I bought used at about 14,000 miles. It now has about 45000 miles on it. It had some work done on it last summer when it came up with the classic coil stumble. The dealer replaced a few coils and it seemed OK. But over the...

I have a 2004 LS. Just last week I noticed some strange lines on the factory grill of my LS. It looks like the chrome is starting to bubble up in what looks like wrinkle fashion. I have seen this on cheap toys but never on a vehicle. I live in So cal, so it isn't extreme cold causing it. Is...