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Hey what is going on everybody, Thanks for the love, it make me proud to have a MC now, yea I got a lot of work, but thats how you get to know your car, so I'm cool with it, I appreciate all the advice, I will put some work in on the car this weekend and see how it goes, Montelicious thanks for the advice about the key, I will get a back up key this weekend and see what happens. Thanks again guys

 

Not a mechanic but been around the block with a few rides so......1st thing I would be concerned about is the motor shaking > could be a motor mount or something worse so I would have a good machanic check it out ASAP. Is your car blowing black smoke out the tailpipe ? and or slow to accelerate ? then I would have trans and power steering checked for leaks because if tanks were bone dry there is a reason.....Good Luck

 

how long did the car set. If it was an extended period of time like a few years I'd change all the fluids. If you already Aired up the tires you'll have to turn off the "check tire pressure" by using the stock radio programming mode or the directions in this link https://montecarloforum.com/forum/ge...g-go-out-3854/

 

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The is no black smoke coming out of the pipes, great acceleration, and the car was still being used by previous owner.

 

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The whine more than likely is the lack of power steering fluid, once that's replaced it should go away, if not then u have a bad pump. Also, if the power steering box was dry, its probable that you have a leak somewhere.

The jumping around is more than likely a mount. It could either be a motor or tranny mount. Does the car seem to shift hard? What i mean by that is, does it seem to lurch going from one gear to the next?

As far as the transmission fluid not being there, i'd remove/replace the tranny filter and flush it out.. but depending on who you talk to, this is the eternal question. To flush or not to flush. lol

You could also go to the extent of flushing the cooling system if you felt the need to do so, i guess it just depends on how clean things look when you gaze into the coolant. If it's horribly murky, i usually flush it out and add new. This is a common thing for me too because coolant doesn't last forever but very few people realize this and rarely change it. Especially on second hand cars from private owners unless they either know what they're doing or take it to a garage for routine maintenance. If the guy was still using it like you said and it was in that kind of shape I'm guessing he did neither, so cover your bases.

I'm sure someone has the way to get rid of the lights, (tire pressure, etc) posted on here. I just thought I'd give my two cents on your issues.

 

Here is the update on my car. So far so good. The transmission was leaking from the lines to the radiator. We re-threaded them with some plumber tape so they are good now. I put some more power steering fluid in with some stop leak and the whine is gone and no leak. I want to flush the cooling system because they were using the green stuff, hope fully I will be able to do that next week. I changed a bad wheel bearing and cv axle. I know I should have changed both sides but money was tight, for some reason the front motor supports were loose, I checked them then tightened them up. Overall she cleaned up nicely, I have pic to post but the site won't let me. Things I still need, struts, alignment, windshield, for some reason my service vehicle soon light stays on and my low coolant light keeps coming on then going off, but its full, another thing that bothers me is that sometimes it feels like I have hard shift and my air intake(the thing that connects to the air filter box) make a noise for a while when I crank the car up.