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If I was a betting man I would vote your water pump has either died or the gasket has blown on ya, but you really need to find out where the leak is coming from, it could be quite a few things. Look around the engine bay for any obvious water marks. Try topping the coolant up again, then...

lol thats awesome i love it, plenty of cold air. just watch it on rainy days you'll probably be sucking alot of water through it

yeah mate as said above ^ try that. if the steering wheel is only very slightly off centre though then that method may not work as there is so much gap between each hole. if it is off-centre by only a very small amount than you what you need to do is make sure your wheels are facing 100% forward...

if its slipping bad either way the kickdown is adjusted, then that probably means your tranny is on its way out. yer a shift kit should probably fix your problem (depending on what the actual problem is), but to install a shift kit into a dying transmission is not too smart as a shift kit...

mate try adjusting it the other direction, that will make your gears hold out a little bit longer before it upshifts but it will speed up the shifts nicely :w00t:

As the title says- do you's know of any ways to clean the o2 sensor?

any ideas at all? even if you's have some guesses that i can look further in to?

ive had this problem for a few months now, when driving on the highway the car only sometimes goes into torque converter lockup. its annoying cos i do a fair bit of 100km/h cruising driving but most of the time it will be revving at around 2100 revs when it should be 1800 revs but the torque...

it really depends on how you use your car. if your constantly putting your foot down, or if you tow around a fair bit of weight alot, or if you have a shift kit or some other modification to your tranny then its probably a good idea, but if none of those apply to you then its probably not worth...

what david dubbo means is the electronic module that the coil packs are mounted to that the wiring connects to (not the actual metal mount itself), it is black and a rectangle shape wedged between the coil packs and the metal mounting

yeah true, i thought about if i stuffed it up so wasnt 100% on doing it myself. but yer ill get it done professionally now i reckon, thanks for all your replies :thumbsup:

here's a link to a thread that shows you how to do an error check https://forums.justcommodores.com.au/threads/checking-your-computer-faults-vn-vp.3937 and here's a fault list if you do get any errors Just Commodores - For All Your Holden Commodore Needs

maybe try doing an error check the next time it happens? that would be what i would do as a start.....

yeah as above ^ dont expect your fuel pump to last too much longer

i want a hj for my birthday! hahaha

ok so my dad just bought some 35% tint off ebay for his hx statesman, but now he's received it and its not as dark as he had hoped, so he's just gone and bought some darker 15% tint. he said if i wanted i could have the 35% tint as he's obviously not gonna use it now. so ive got 2 questions- 1...

Yeah i'd be looking at the distributor cap first up (but not sure how to test them cos I have a v6 and use coil packs not the dizzy's) maybe even just something really small like making sure the leads and lead that runs to the dizzy is connected properly?

you should probably check to make sure your getting spark aswell

this might not apply to the 5L engines, but on the v6's when you turn the key to on (but dont actually start the car) you should hear the fuel pump priming for about 3 or 4 seconds. did you ever notice a whiney kind of noise in the past before you started up the car each time? and if so, does it...

Ah true. Im not very knowledgable about transmissions, are those things easy to do for the home mechanic or should I just leave it to the pro's? Only thing i've ever done with the transmission is take the pan off, change the filter and pan gasket, re-fill the trans fluid and changed the...

ah true thanks mate ill check it out, could you explain where it is though? lol not too sure

i believe the vn's had an issue with these buttons running an aftermarket antenna, but the genuine ones work fine. and the problem was resolved in the vp series (just what ive heard)

lol damn beat me to it

a non-sparking plug could be a few things. could be the spark plug itself, could be a spark lead, could be a coil pack, could be the dfi module, could be the ecu, could even just be that a lead or some wiring has come loose. if you've got a multimeter at home test the lead and the coil pack...

so whenever i first drive my car in the mornings ive noticed that 2nd gear revs alot higher than normal. for example at light throttle when 2nd would usually shift into 3rd at about 40 km/h when warm, it will sit in 2nd to about 55-60 km/h when cold. about a week ago it even got up to 70 before...

Yeah mate as above. Probably your cas. Easiest test is to go for a drive with a cold bottle of water in your car, then when the car warms up it will probably stall again, then when it does tip your water bottle over the harmonic balancer (the big pulley at the bottom of the engine) and if the...

like above ^ vn ss are worth more and more everyday, keep it in good knick and sell it in another decade or so and you'll get some decent money for it dont get rid of it ay. personally i would be keeping the vp 5 speed too, any v8 manual gets me all gooey on the inside lol. and im also another...

+1 for bypass hose

when my engine mounts were shagged whenever i put my foot down off the line the engine would kind of 'jump' a little i guess is the word. i dont remember it ever vibrating more than normal but i just thought of this when i read this post. so it maybe worth just quickly checking your engine...

lol a bit off the topic but yer thats quite good. my vp gets about 13.5 - 14 around town and my mates vn series 1 gets around the 14 - 14.5 (and considering your calais model is a heavier car than the standard executive model that makes your fuel economy even better)

How young do you reckon the o2 sensor is? Cos anything over 30,000 kms and the o2 sensor can start deteriorating. I was getting about 17 litres per 100kms city driving and 10 litres per 100kms highway driving and when I changed the o2 sensor it went down to 13 litres city and 8 litres highway...

yeah mate simple as. theyre exactly the same, just the v8 is 5mm bigger inside. some people will say they are worth getting some will say not. i personally have used the standard 60mm TB, as well as the v8 65mm TB, and also a bored out 70mm TB, and i recorded no power gain at all. my 0-100 did...

heres a link to the ebay item im talking about if you choose to go that way- HOLDEN COMMODORE VN VP VR VS VT VX VY COIL & DFI PACK - eBay Other, Ignition Systems, Car Parts, Accessories, Cars, Bikes, Boats. (end time 28-Jul-10 13:44:26 AEST)

yeah mate very high possibility it could be one or more of your coil packs, if new coil packs dont work then i'd be betting on the dfi module (or otherwise known as ignition module) which is what the coil packs are mounted to. you can buy a set off ebay with a brand new dfi module and all new...

i just had the car up on stands and and the lowers dont seem to have any excessive play in my opinion but ive just got the car booked in to get a suspension check done just in case on thursday. ive also just bought a set of new upper arms with bushes already in them off ebay and ill install them...

yeah mate would be a MASSIVE job as vs has electronic gearbox and vn's dont. your ALOT better off just buying a second-hand vn or vp gearbox and swapping them

thanks heaps for everyones replies. ill try and get her up on stands tomorrow and have a look with a screwdriver. i just found some upper trailing arms off ebay for $60 with new bushes already in them so ill grab them asap. yer the car has done almost 300,000 kms now so i expected some problems...

Personally i'd jump at any 5 litre vn thats only got 200,000 k's on it and still runs well, but thats just me. If its as good as your describing it to be I would expect it to go for around the $5000 area?

i may be wrong but i have a feeling that after removing the radius rod you need to get a wheel alignment done? can anyone clarify?

just realised how small these pictures came out so ill add some better ones a bit more close up. damn photobucket shrinking my pictures! lol