V1 RichN City Goblin - 2007 LT donor

[Ben Eldridge-Peter]

Rich I live absurdly close to you in salisbury nh. Im really interested in starting this project do you mind if I talk to you about it somtime?

 

[RichN]

Been busy this weekend. Redrilled the front of the steering knuckles and installed the new arms and shorter tie rods. Nose painted and installed. Rear tires with spacers installed, it was easier to buy different lug nuts than install longer studs. Rear fenders installed. Almost finished painting the engine cover. I’ll redo the alignment this week, plan on doing what I did before with string and jackstands. Plan to install the signal cancel cam later today.

Edit, picture was taken before putting on the tie rod. Tapered end should be down.

 

[RichN]

It was a nice weekend and I was able to take it for a spin.
Still had to slalom around the melting snow on the shoulders of the back roads.
I have all the body panels back on except the engine cover.
Turn cancel cam works; I used to forget sometimes to turn it off before.
The new front knuckle design is great; so smooth up to 55mph, didn't feel floating or loose at all.
I also turned the shocks up 5 clicks so not sure what helped the most.
I'm running 25psi in the tires, I may drop it down in the warmer weather.

 

[JSATX]

I forget to turn my blinkers off all the time! What did you install for that?

 

[TheNuker]

I forget to turn my blinkers off all the time! What did you install for that?

There is a little ring that goes on the steering shaft that the blinker clicky hits and turns off after you turn.
I'll try to take a pic of it tonight.

Nuker-

 

[k.rollin]

There is a little ring that goes on the steering shaft that the blinker clicky hits and turns off after you turn.
I'll try to take a pic of it tonight.

Nuker-

It's not the clockspring from the donor, is it? Mine got trashed when I removed the steering wheel if I remember correctly.

 

[Briann1177]

There is a little ring that goes on the steering shaft that the blinker clicky hits and turns off after you turn.
I'll try to take a pic of it tonight.

Nuker-

Is this a DF provided item?

 

[DanPerryy]

This is the turn signal cancel collar provided by DF

 

[ctuinstra]

Okay, this is the perfect time to bring up another question. What is keeping your steering shaft from compressing more and the cancel bracket from rubbing and hitting the three screws? On ours, we can pull the shaft out some and push it in to the screws. Kaleb was worried about it catching on the screws and stopping the steering (which could be a real safety concern), however I don't think it can go in between the screws to hit squarely on one.

 

[Lonny]

You should have a snapring and a thin o-ring that keeps the shaft from sliding in the bearing.

 

[ctuinstra]

You should have a snapring and a thin o-ring that keeps the shaft from sliding in the bearing.

I did keep the snap ring from the donor shaft. I will have to check that out! Thanks!

 

[ctuinstra]

I just put the snap ring on. I knew it was on the original shaft but I didn't see the groove for it. I had to tap the shaft back to finally expose it completely. I knew I wasn't going to get by without having to pull the steering wheel hub at least once. Luckily I had a harmonic balancer puller that worked great!

 

[JSATX]

I just put the snap ring on. I knew it was on the original shaft but I didn't see the groove for it. I had to tap the shaft back to finally expose it completely. I knew I wasn't going to get by without having to pull the steering wheel hub at least once. Luckily I had a harmonic balancer puller that worked great!

With the snap ring on there is no movement in my steering shaft. You can yank on it back and forth and there’s not even a thousandths play.

 

[ctuinstra]

Is this a DF provided item?

Mount it with the tab 180 degrees from the turn signal. If you consider the turn signal to be at 10:00 position, mount the tab (with the steering wheel centered) at 4:00. That way it cancels at the same for both left and right turns. The little piece works really well.

 

[RichN]

Ben needs a new transmission and scored another 07 SS. I’m wondering how easy it would be to fit the supercharger on my car? What parts would I need off the donor? What extras would I need to purchase?

 

[ctuinstra]

You would need the ECM for sure and that would need the matching BCM. Unless you could reflash your original ECM?

 

[RichN]

I'm not installing the supercharger; it's fast enough for me to get a speeding ticket soon enough.
I did get the engine cover mounting brackets installed. I'll post a picture next time it's outside.
Question for anyone flat towing an automatic.
Do I need to do anything special?
I know Dan heavily modified his, but is any of that necessary?

 

[ctuinstra]

Question for anyone flat towing an automatic.
Do I need to do anything special?
I know Dan heavily modified his, but is any of that necessary?

Bad idea to tow an automatic without disconnecting the drive line in some way. Even in neutral, you can overheat the transmission and catch fire. I've seen it happen on the interstate.

 

[Briann1177]

There are fluid pumps you can buy for exactly that reason.

 

[Lonny]

GM says you can flat tow automatic cobalts. You are not suppose to go over 65 mph I think. I would crank it up everytime you stop for gas to let it re-lube everything.

We flat tow our automatic goblin all over the place and it is completely stock. Two times we have flat towed it two trail of the dragon which is an 1800 mile round trip.

We keep the engine idling on those trips because we can be running 80 plus mph for hours at a time and our automatic goblin has short tires so it probably thinks it is running 90.

I don't know if it would hurt anything if we didn't leave it idling but it only uses a few gallons of gas for an 800 mile trip.