Ok. Stupid me decided to swap my 99 Buick (Which was acting like the headgasket was blown now) for a 92 Deville with 145k on it. Seems to run and drive well but the goddamned HVAC panel and the Fuel Center won't come on. It has freon and the compressor kicks on but I can't control anything so I'm getting nothing from the vents and have no clue how much gas I have.


Anyone here got an idea?

Posted by jeepdave Ok. Stupid me decided to swap my 99 Buick (Which was acting like the headgasket was blown now) for a 92 Deville with 145k on it. Seems to run and drive well but the goddamned HVAC panel and the Fuel Center won't come on. It has freon and the compressor kicks on but I can't control anything so I'm getting nothing from the vents and have no clue how much gas I have. Anyone here got an idea?

get rid of it.
those older Caddys are nothing but trouble.

do what people up here do to old GM's, park it in an abandonned quarry...

Don't say it has a north star. Push it in the street and burn it . Or throw on some big wheels and sell it to a brother..

Step 1: Remove Northstar

Step 2: Install in:

Non North Star. 4.9 V8. And seems to run quite well actually. Zero rust. Air ride works properly. Its greasy but other than some minor clean up and such she seems solid.

Get yourself the ultimate in caddilacs - 76' coupe deville. 500 cubic inch v8 - 10mpg, and twenty feet long. Beautiful car.

Posted by Ricky_from_TV Get yourself the ultimate in caddilacs - 76' coupe deville. 500 cubic inch v8 - 10mpg, and twenty feet long. Beautiful car.

we put a 472 in an 86 Chevy shortbox 4x2 pickup once... it was a homicidal maniac.

The bad seed Chevette of HRM comes to mind

My roommate in tech school scored a 71 el camino with a 500 caddy in it that the owner thought was knocking. We drove the thing from Cheyenne,WY to Laramie,WY at highway speed and figured out it was something else. Turns out the flexplate was cracked in a bunch of places haha. Best 500 dollar motor ever. We put it in his 71 long bed chevy, thing would spin tires on both axles with no problems at all. What a beast of a motor!

Posted by cavemonkey My roommate in tech school scored a 71 el camino with a 500 caddy in it that the owner thought was knocking. We drove the thing from Cheyenne,WY to Laramie,WY at highway speed and figured out it was something else. Turns out the flexplate was cracked in a bunch of places haha. Best 500 dollar motor ever. We put it in his 71 long bed chevy, thing would spin tires on both axles with no problems at all. What a beast of a motor!

i had an 84 Celebrity 2.5L that did the same thing... it was a cracked flexplate.
I also had an 81 Buick Regal coupe with a 3.8L V6 that was noisy... turned out it was the impeller in the power steering pump was very very very very loose.