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These are good ideas. I haven't checked the wiring yet, the thought of stripping all the wiring to bare wires was at the bottom of my list. The only thing I have done really checks fuses. How do you know if you have a blown BCM? I have not hooked up a OBDII yet, I'm going to do that shortly...

So, First off, I'm an idiot. I was working on adding the heat exchanger and the heat exchanger pump, so of course, I had to gain access to the fuse box. To begin I unhooked the positive battery cable from the fuse box and set it aside. All without thinking to disconnect the actual battery. This...

Hey Herder, I just got bad news about my PCM that you previously noted about yours being locked. Can you tell me what you ended up doing to resolve your issues? Did you have to buy a new PCM or can they be unlocked somehow?

So we have almost everything hooked up and were driving. There are a couple vacuum lines still hanging but the engine running nice, that is, until we plug in the maf sensor. Also it runs ok but also has no boost, but we can hear the turbo is working minimally, maybe 1 or 2 lbs. The guy that used...

Cool, Crossing fingers the loud bang was it just popping out and no damage! I will switch it tonight and update!

Lonny I just realized you added two images above that I thought were mine. It looks like the seal is sticking out on yours also. Is that right? If that's the case, do I have any issues other than the arms were on the wrong side?

Interesting, ill definitely switch the axels and see what I get. It does appear though that the seal is sticking out where it wasn't before. Can someone confirm this? If you look inside the trans, theres a pretty big gap also, should new seals fix all this?

Thanks for all the advice, we finally got into all the gears. Just needs minor adjustments so it's easy and smooth. Right now I am still lifting up on the reverse lever to get it into 5th.

So, let's start this off right. I'm an idiot. Ok, now that that's out of the way, when we disassemble everything on the donor, including taking the drive train out, the axle arms came out of the transmission and all the transmission fluid came out. No problem. Well, I have been through about 20...

YES, do it, JSATX, they knew I was coming and I still had practically every service advisor wondering what the heck was going on. Pretty funny

So, the key got locked in and wouldn't come out so I called the dealership and apparently there are recalls on the ignitions for cobalts. Any new builders, you might want to have your recalls (2 on the ignition and 1 for the fuel pump) taken care of before you take your cobalt apart. luckily I...

Thanks, Prime. We had to bend our bracket just like you had to modify yours and it helped tremendously. I probably need to adjust ours even more though. Can you show a picture of the configuration of the transmission arms when they are in reverse?

Uh oh, my car is running and I cant turn the key to the left to turn it off. Its locked. Any words of advice?

Thank you, Ross!

also, yes, I had the lockout shifter knob pulled up and still no bueno. I'll update if I can get it figured out.

Well, there are quite a few pictures and videos of the process I haven't posted yet, mainly because it would have been a really slow and painful process to follow. I'll get to them later. Now for the best part of this process, the FIRST TEST DRIVE. Here is some organic video (pretty long and...

That was very helpful! Thank you!

The donor I bought was in great shape and shifted nicely in all gears before we disassembled everything. Now that our kit is fully assembled, all the gears shift nicely except for reverse. When I try manually at the transmission with the cables off and I push on the shifter arms by hand to shift...

So today is the day. I got the wheels on the ground and got the car out of the garage! After making some adjustments, I can finally shift into all the gears, just not reverse. Does anyone know what may be causing this? Maybe the problem I listed before? I will note, no leaks appeared and...

Come on, of course, this is our luck! So are we crazy to want to do it without spending more money? Is pumping the brakes that terrible?