Top 10 1997 Chevrolet Lumina Questions & Answers

This just happen to me you need a wage and a coat hanger Use the wage to make a cap between the door and the frame of the car to slide the hanger into the car using the hook on the hanger, hook the Manuel door lock and pull

why not just replace the turn signal switch must faster and safer . buy one from your local parts house then you can see its not that easy to install but you can do it with a little help

3.1L And 3.4L (VIN E) Engines

1. Disconnect the negative battery cable.
   
2. Partially drain the cooling system into a suitable container.
   
3. Remove the drive belt guard.
   
4. Loosen the water pump pulley bolts before removing the drive belt. This should help keep the pulley from turning as the bolts are loosened.
   
5. Remove the drive belt. Please see Section 1.
   
6. Remove the water pump pulley bolts and remove the pulley.
   
7. Remove the water pump bolts and separate the pump from the engine front cover.
   

To install:


Exploded view of the water pump and front cover arrangement—3.1L and 3.4L (VIN E) engines

1. Clean all parts well. Use care when scraping gasket material from the front cover and the pump. Do not gouge aluminum parts. Clean the bolt threads well. The torque specification is low and if the bolt threads are dirty, an accurate torque is not possible and leaks are likely to develop.
   
2. Using a new gasket, install the water pump to the front cover. Install the cleaned and lightly lubricated water pump bolts. Torque to 89 inch lbs. (10 Nm).
   
3. Install the water pump pulley and bolts and torque to 18 ft. lbs. (25 Nm).
   
4. Install the remaining components in the reverse order of the removal process. When refilling the cooling system, use the proper mix of DEX-COOL® and water. Check for leaks.
   

If its like my 1999 Lumina, its on the end of the dash on passenger side. Open pass. side front door, look at the end of the dash & you should see a little door that says "FUSES" on it. Grab the tab at the bottom of the little door & pull out. And Ta da, there they are!

Hello Larry...Here are the steps to take. Detach the ground (black) battery cable. Lift the front of your vehicle with a floor jack, support it with jack stands and chock the rear wheels.
Unfasten the retaining nuts holding the heavy (battery) cable and the thin wire to the back of the starter solenoid (the small cylinder mounted on top of the starter motor) with a wrench. Move the heavy and thin wires out of the way.
Loosen the two mounting bolts holding the starter motor to the engine block with a ratchet, large ratchet extension and socket. Hold the motor assembly with one hand and finish removing the two starter mounting bolts. Make a note of the position of each mounting bolt, since they are of different sizes, and of any shims located between the starter motor, mounting bolts and engine block.
Remove the starter motor from the vehicle

To Install:
Position the new starter motor in place with one hand and install the two mounting bolts finger tight with your free hand, along with any shims installed with the original starter. Failing to replace the shims may cause the starter to grind against the flywheel or engage and fail to start the engine

Tighten the two mounting bolts with the ratchet, extension & socket.
Install the heavy cable and wire in their respective mounting studs at the back of the starter solenoid and install the retaining nuts finger tight. Tighten the nuts with the wrench; (careful not to overtighten)
Lower your vehicle off the jack stands...Attach the ground (black) battery cable.

There you have it, included is a picture of the starter, good luck, i hope this helps.

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you will need to cut them off then after the tank is out of the way you can take the nut side off

P1895 Engine control module (ECM), actual torque signal - circuit malfunctio

Sell this motor quick ,these are nice cars but suffer for these problems because the computer is bolted to the inlet manifold and gets too hot then cooks ,all these petrol engines from around this time suffer from this fault

sounds like your vent is plugged up or broken, so when you drive you create a vacuum and the fuel tank is being pulled in, thus the banging I just had a car with this issue, and I had to pull the tank out of the car and had to the show the customer before he would believe me, but seeing IS believing as they say. When you shut off the engine the vacuum decays and thus the tank reverses its process. Try driving your car with the fuel cap off and see if the noise goes away. That will prove it!
(also)- small leak in the tank
and finally try changing the gas cap itself
let me know
thanks
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if this does not work let me know and we will get this fixed i have had every problem with these luminas you can ever think of this is a fact lol and some are and can be nightmares but great vehicles no matter what anybody tells you i have owned them and worked on these for years now and this is 2014 so take it from there i have owned a 1999,98,97
~Dave

this happened to my car get new fuil pomp

In most newer chevys, the coolant reservoir is part of the pressurized system. Rather than just holding overflow coolant and relying on the radiator pressure cap to draw from and expel to the reservoir, it is an active part of the cooling system. On these systems, there is a coolant level switch in the reservoir. This will activate if the level in the reservoir gets below a certain point. So it is possible to have a full radiator and still get a low coolant light. Be advised that as the reservoir ages and get stained, it is not uncommon for the low coolant sensor to give false indications of low coolant.