Recent content by RonH

You can buy kits for this on eBay. Less than $20 and all the parts are there. I put one on my Suburban. Only have to remove one parking light and put terminals on existing wires, then connect one long wire to power source. Easy mod.

Likely problem area is the multi-function switch (the turn signal lever) or the wiring harness that runs in the steering column that leads to the switch. Bad switch, frayed wires, bad connector -- all can cause intermittent problems.

You are going to be looking at another fuel pump with that strategy. The pump depends on being submerged in fuel to provide cooling. Running your tank dry will allow the pump to overheat and can cause it to fail.

Fan switch, or perhaps a bad ground on the circuit

You can buy replacements on eBay for about $20 and put them in yourself. They have to be soldered in after you remove your old ones. http://cgi.ebay.com/DELCO-GM-DISPLAY-LIGHT-BULBS-FOR-CD-CASS-RADIO-10-each_W0QQitemZ250190015610QQihZ015QQcategoryZ48612QQrdZ1QQssPageNameZWD1VQQcmdZViewItem...

Too late to get anything for your trip now, but for the future, at least a couple of companies, Airsep and Inogen, make oxygen concentrators that work off 12 volt cigarette lighter plugs. They are designed for airline use (of course the airlines won't let you plug them in; you have to use the...

Are you sure it's your manifold gasket? There's a coolant hose that connects to the manifold close to the throttle body on the passenger's side. Water seeping from this will drip from the engine and make you think it's coming from the gasket. Check it out before you tear into it.

You don't say what year or engine, so no specific answers for you. Whatever you have, you need to get some instructions, Chilton's or Haynes manual, or a service manual on DVD or something like that. The job is not rocket science, but there are some things that should be done in sequence and...

On the inside of your glovebox door, there's a list of codes that tells you what options are on your vehicle. These are called RPO codes. There's a list here: http://www.c2e.info/rpocodes/ It's sometimes difficult to determine what the option really means from the code description, but I...

I put one on a 5.7L 98 Suburban. It made an impressively loud noise when accelerating, and it made my mileage worse by about 15%. I bought it cheap on eBay and I sold it cheap on eBay.

So just don't mention that you have put in any refrigerant.

I'm missing your point. Left or right hand drive is the same regardless of which way you are facing too.

I don't think the difference in height in an SUV and a car would make a difference. I have mine at the top of the windshield of a Suburban, and the range is excellent. Maybe there's some coating on the top of your windshield that inhibits the radar beam?

Do you have an overhead console? It may be easier to find a wire inside that.

For some reason, I find that it's easy to remember that vehicles built for export to places where vehicles keep the to the left side of the road are labeled with "RHD" (right hand drive)