Grammy had a 93’ with the supercharger. You could hear her building boost from around the corner. One time I said “light em up!” When she was leaving the house. She did a burn out in front of my Dad, who yelled out “don’t tempt her!”
I bet the transmission fluid change made the biggest difference in performance today. I know from experience that a transmission service should be a priority when you get a used vehicle that you want to keep. It's almost a phobia for me to drive one without doing it within a day or two, but I've had a couple of 300,000 - 400,000 mile GM 90 degree V6 with automatics last longer than I owned them after getting both of them around 200,000 miles. I believe it was religious fluid changes, temperature vigilance, and those near perfect drivetrains. One was a 3.3 liter with a 3 speed, 91 Oldsmobile Cutlass Cierra and my favorite of all time, 4.3 liter 4 speed 2 door 2WD 90 JMC Jimmy. I used to pretend it was a race car that could pull a trailer and drive off road too. The only thing that I would want more is the "Typhoon" version. Tyler Hoover's old one is still the driving device I dream about owning, if I could own just one vehicle in the world for the rest of my life.
Really? I'm terrified that a fluid change will kill it by removing the grit that's keeping the clutches from slipping too much. I'm pretty much resigned to replacing the trans on my old Dodge B20 in the next year because it already slips when you first start it.
@@Canthus13 i have always been worried also but I change it anyways and just supplement a qt of atf with a qt of Lucas transmission additive and have always had positive results
Old comments but.. yeah, since my Park Ave has been having a few probs, I've been looking at them on YT. By "some probs", I just mean I had to replace the alternator (and battery) a couple or three weeks ago and then I had to get a MAF sensor yesterday. I remember reading in the manual 20 years ago that the Park Avenue (non-Ultra) called for transmission fluid changes every 50,000 miles OR every 25,000 miles if primarily driven on "windy and hilly roads". I have always remembered that because I read "windy" (as in wind up toy) like "windy" (it's a windy day with that wind blowing so hard). And for about 20 seconds, I stared at that word thinking "how are roads 'wendy'?" So, yeah, that memory must have its own wrinkle in my brain :-P I'm at 120k miles on this 2000 Park Ave and I've changed the fluid and filter at least 3 times, maybe 4 times, I can't remember. It was my grandma's car and she was all about keeping her stuff in good working order and I was all about doing free labor for her. Remember being in your early 20's and having that kind of energy? That thought hit me a little while back lol... I was talking with someone about how we always used to wax our vehicles and then wax our family's vehicles just for fun. Now I barely wash my car 😞 Anyways, I do believe in servicing the transmission sooner rather than later. That's because "later" is usually because something is already slipping or acting up. Once something is acting up, a fluid change doesn't fix anything. It may help it out for a little bit, but the damage is already done. There's some rare cases like in the Ford 4R70W transmissions with torque converter shudder that a fluid change to Mercon V actually was the permanent fix, but yeah, I want to say OVERALL, waiting until you have an issue to change the fluid only masks the problem for a short while whereas vigilant fluid changes prevents those issues altogether.
Did the same to my olds intrigue 3800. Monster man, the mechanic said new tranny I said Nah and bought the kit , installed it, new fluid/filter, and it went another 100k with me..then I sold it and saw it driving around years after
Just took my Buick Ultra on its first road trip from UT to AZ. Best recorded mileage 33 mpg going 80. For the first time I used pure gas (no ethanol) which is supposed to burn hotter and increase mileage. All I know is for a large vehicle, that mileage is amazing. Great highway car. Honestly, it was easy to creep up close to 90 and not be aware of it. I had to catch myself multiple times easing back. The car accelerates like a bat out of hell, smooth, quiet ride and when my back got a bit tired just turned on the heated seat which also cover my lower back and it was great. throw. However, I may it up for s put it up for sale because I just don't get the use out it deserves. It needs the love of someone who appreciates what it has to offer.
Did the accumulator spring kit on my 98 Grand Prix GT back in the early 2000s. Don’t remember what company it was from but they gave you three different options. Mild, medium, and bang-screech. I opted for the medium setting. Cold shifts were a bit harder, but once warm if driving normally it wasn’t very noticeable. Get in the throttle and wow what a difference. We watched shift timing on the tech-2 and it was shifting at around .9 seconds. Very nice!
I have a 99 Buick, Ultra and I Love this car....It is not fast, but has Great Torque!!....Rides great, good on gas, and Hitting Passing gear Is Impressive!!....Same color as Yours, but mine has 240,000 miles....Still running Strong!!.....Problem: I keep breaking motor mounts!!....I brought it to a local speed shop, and they did a great job!!.,..They Fabricated their Own, Guaranteed Not to Break again!!....So far, so Good!!
I also had to replace transmission...Only because 1 of the broken mounts ripped the boss off the tranny, nothing to weld to??....So had to replace the trans to get good mounts installed, again....1st tranny shifted harder, but this one is OK...
Seafoam Trans-tune and lucas stop slip. Almost 250000 miles on my 99 parkave still runs with tccs yelling I Just keep a small scanner to clear the code until I can replace it. Rock auto has a trans pan with a drain plug on it I feel you on that
You must service these 4t65es or they will have issues. Nobody ever does. All of the high mileage ones I've owned were always serviced. Ones I had problems with had fluid that looks about as bad as yours.
Great job. The very next job on that car is to add the heaviest duty auxiliary transmission cooler B&N makes. It is rated for 21,000 pounds. That fluid is a disgrace. Back flush the transmission, then install a new filter, and get the cooler in. Then you will have a transmission that will work. My 89 Grand Marquis with the 5.8 litre had one from the factory as part of the towing package. It also had a factory shift kit in the heavy duty AOD. Ford never advertised the upgrade to the transmission, but having had 3 Trailer Tow III cars and 3 regular Panthers, believe me, the difference is very noticeable. After all, the power of the engine is useless if you can't get the torque to the ground
You should look into getting a pcm from ZZ performance. I did a shift kit in my buick regal and not until I swapped out my pcm did I notice a huge difference
@@richkelly4040 sadly I no longer have that car. mine was an LS but with the tune I always ran at least 89. I honestly have no idea if there are any gas stations around me that sell e85 so I never looked into it
i gots and idear... you talk to tyler and ross... get them to "Death-Trip" a car to its POSSIBLE DYNO-DESTRUCTION... EACH... content called "Death-Dyno - run it or junk it." then tie in with Garrett in FLA... a MONTH'S worth of content for ALL
So you went from a 3.4 to what? I had a SSEi Bonneville with intake, exhaust and a 3.4 modular pulley on a stock tune. I had a 4T60E-HD due to being a 96. So the vacuum reference on the side of the trans had a small Philips screw I could tighten and increase fluid pressure and thereby firm up shifts.
Jeepers it looks like there was a murder in your garage with all that ATF on the floor. I don't have any automatic Saturns left, but I did my share of changes of fluid and filter, as well as some magic tricks to try to fix an endemic sticking reverse. But those had something called a "valve body". Never opened a transmission for anything larger than a miniature riding mower.
The valve bodies will stick if you never change the fluid. If you wait until the transmission starts to shift a bit "strange" and then change the fluid, filter and all the valve bodies, it is like a new unit. But don't wait that long. And don't waste time checking which valve body is bad, just change all of them while you are in there.
@@marknelson8724 that makes sense. I did change the fluid and filter before the strange shifting, but a "reverse slam" is a well known problem with that Saturn automatic transmission. (It's always and only reverse, used relatively infrequently but requires much higher pressure to actuate I guess) Now my only Saturn left is manual, and the other car is a Subaru with CVT that's programmed to pretend it has shift points which drives me slightly crazy. 😁
At 12:50 your old Datsun Z is there. You weren't careful enough to not get it in the video. Come on Jake make a video about it. If you hate the car so much, why do you keep it sitting behind your house rusting to the ground? You clearly are trying to avoid it from showing up in your videos.
Can I blindly complain here? Here it goes: the thing with these mechanical car TH-camrs, the bigger they get the less video they post. So should I hope for this channel to grow or not? That's difficult. Anyways this channel is still awesome. Cheers P.S. sorry about this rant.
JR posts everyday, cleetus posts everyday…. who are you talking about? pretty sure 100% Jake has to work a full time job to, if you’re talking about hoovie i’m pretty sure he works another job to and has 2 kids now
*The crypto market has been favourable in the past weeks, I keep missing out on this opportunity, I'm most certainly very impatient how can I ever make a profit in the crypto market.*
My crypto mentor Mr Bruce.E Wilson , you may have come across him on a few interviews I invested $3000 last two weeks and it profited me $11,410 a higher success.
@@uruzykorie9684 Wow I know Mr Bruce.E WilsonI met him at a conference in carlifornia 2019 where he introduced us his business strategy, he helped me cover my student loans
I’ve been trading crypto with Mr Bruce.E Wilson for over a year now and I've made about a whooping profit of $86,000 in crypto its not much but I'm ok with the progress since i now make a whole lot from the comfort of my bed.
How many guys feel better about their own shop cleanliness and organization after watching 100 Percent Jake? 🙋🏻♂️
Not me. My “shop” is a 3 square meter basement and I just stuff every tool I have in there in miscalleneous ikea bags.
But it works! :)
Grammy had a 93’ with the supercharger. You could hear her building boost from around the corner. One time I said “light em up!” When she was leaving the house. She did a burn out in front of my Dad, who yelled out “don’t tempt her!”
I just got a visual 😂😂you're Grammy sounds awesome 👍👍✌️
@@aceboogie8986 WW2 marine veteran. She was a hoot.
i would've loved to see grammy do a burnout with her park ave
It is always amazing to me how people can work on transmissions in their garage. Good job, Jake.
Run Buick, run!
Snappy! Don't wreck it
install drain plug
I bet the transmission fluid change made the biggest difference in performance today. I know from experience that a transmission service should be a priority when you get a used vehicle that you want to keep. It's almost a phobia for me to drive one without doing it within a day or two, but I've had a couple of 300,000 - 400,000 mile GM 90 degree V6 with automatics last longer than I owned them after getting both of them around 200,000 miles. I believe it was religious fluid changes, temperature vigilance, and those near perfect drivetrains. One was a 3.3 liter with a 3 speed, 91 Oldsmobile Cutlass Cierra and my favorite of all time, 4.3 liter 4 speed 2 door 2WD 90 JMC Jimmy. I used to pretend it was a race car that could pull a trailer and drive off road too. The only thing that I would want more is the "Typhoon" version. Tyler Hoover's old one is still the driving device I dream about owning, if I could own just one vehicle in the world for the rest of my life.
Really? I'm terrified that a fluid change will kill it by removing the grit that's keeping the clutches from slipping too much. I'm pretty much resigned to replacing the trans on my old Dodge B20 in the next year because it already slips when you first start it.
@@Canthus13 i have always been worried also but I change it anyways and just supplement a qt of atf with a qt of Lucas transmission additive and have always had positive results
@@jeremyTallen1 I'll try that once I have the money to replace it saved, just in case.
Old comments but.. yeah, since my Park Ave has been having a few probs, I've been looking at them on YT. By "some probs", I just mean I had to replace the alternator (and battery) a couple or three weeks ago and then I had to get a MAF sensor yesterday.
I remember reading in the manual 20 years ago that the Park Avenue (non-Ultra) called for transmission fluid changes every 50,000 miles OR every 25,000 miles if primarily driven on "windy and hilly roads". I have always remembered that because I read "windy" (as in wind up toy) like "windy" (it's a windy day with that wind blowing so hard). And for about 20 seconds, I stared at that word thinking "how are roads 'wendy'?" So, yeah, that memory must have its own wrinkle in my brain :-P
I'm at 120k miles on this 2000 Park Ave and I've changed the fluid and filter at least 3 times, maybe 4 times, I can't remember. It was my grandma's car and she was all about keeping her stuff in good working order and I was all about doing free labor for her. Remember being in your early 20's and having that kind of energy? That thought hit me a little while back lol... I was talking with someone about how we always used to wax our vehicles and then wax our family's vehicles just for fun. Now I barely wash my car 😞
Anyways, I do believe in servicing the transmission sooner rather than later. That's because "later" is usually because something is already slipping or acting up. Once something is acting up, a fluid change doesn't fix anything. It may help it out for a little bit, but the damage is already done.
There's some rare cases like in the Ford 4R70W transmissions with torque converter shudder that a fluid change to Mercon V actually was the permanent fix, but yeah, I want to say OVERALL, waiting until you have an issue to change the fluid only masks the problem for a short while whereas vigilant fluid changes prevents those issues altogether.
That looked like a real bastard of a job, good job getting it done despite the BP oil spill levels of atf on your floor
Did the same to my olds intrigue 3800. Monster man, the mechanic said new tranny I said Nah and bought the kit , installed it, new fluid/filter, and it went another 100k with me..then I sold it and saw it driving around years after
In Australia/New Zealand we got the supercharged 3800 in rwd form in the Holden Commodore
Looks like there was a 100Percent murder in Jakes garage
Just took my Buick Ultra on its first road trip from UT to AZ. Best recorded mileage 33 mpg going 80. For the first time I used pure gas (no ethanol) which is supposed to burn hotter and increase mileage. All I know is for a large vehicle, that mileage is amazing. Great highway car. Honestly, it was easy to creep up close to 90 and not be aware of it. I had to catch myself multiple times easing back. The car accelerates like a bat out of hell, smooth, quiet ride and when my back got a bit tired just turned on the heated seat which also cover my lower back and it was great. throw. However, I may it up for s put it up for sale because I just don't get the use out it deserves. It needs the love of someone who appreciates what it has to offer.
I'm glad others can respect and appreciate these older buicks
It Will Ride Out...04 Ultra 223000+ And Enjoying My Buick. Why Did They Fuckery And Stop...🚘 Once In 1, Its Hard Too Get Out...Buick Baby...☝🏾💯✨️
That garage floor is a crime scene if you ask me!
I love this project for whatever reason!!! Keep it up
Jake: why don't they just put a drain plug on it
GM engineers: we saved $0.25 per car and got a larger bonus
😂😂😂
Did the accumulator spring kit on my 98 Grand Prix GT back in the early 2000s. Don’t remember what company it was from but they gave you three different options. Mild, medium, and bang-screech. I opted for the medium setting. Cold shifts were a bit harder, but once warm if driving normally it wasn’t very noticeable. Get in the throttle and wow what a difference. We watched shift timing on the tech-2 and it was shifting at around .9 seconds. Very nice!
I have a 99 Buick, Ultra and I Love this car....It is not fast, but has Great Torque!!....Rides great, good on gas, and Hitting Passing gear Is Impressive!!....Same color as Yours, but mine has 240,000 miles....Still running Strong!!.....Problem: I keep breaking motor mounts!!....I brought it to a local speed shop, and they did a great job!!.,..They Fabricated their Own, Guaranteed Not to Break again!!....So far, so Good!!
I also had to replace transmission...Only because 1 of the broken mounts ripped the boss off the tranny, nothing to weld to??....So had to replace the trans to get good mounts installed, again....1st tranny shifted harder, but this one is OK...
For Christmas, someone should get a big bag of floor dry.
Always good to do a mod to fix a problem. IE, your transmission. Cool video.
Clean the leaves out of the wiper area omg my ocd!!
Lucas trans additive is a must with transmission fluid change
headers do wonders for 3.8 cars.
This is a amazing project car. So funny.
Love the Buick content Jake!! Great job
Throw in some exhaust to help that engine breathe, powerlog and down pipe
Have a happy Thanksgiving Mr and Mrs 100% Jake.
I often wonder why Gm never offered the grand am with this engine option. Love the 3.8
9:00 is this the reason GM fwd transmissions don't last long. People don't drop the pan and change the filter.
Love My 04 Ultra
Love the buick! Makes me want one after watching the videos. Also makes me miss my old ‘00 buick regal LS with the 3.8(3800)
A beautiful engine indeed
Need to get a big intercooler now .
I loved my park avenue ultra
Safety is mo bettah
Another Buick project done!!! Happy Thanksgiving Jake & 100percent wife!! 🦃
This is the content I’m looking for
Keep going
Good work! Happy Thanksgiving!
Total Q-car now. Love it!
Seafoam Trans-tune and lucas stop slip. Almost 250000 miles on my 99 parkave still runs with tccs yelling I Just keep a small scanner to clear the code until I can replace it. Rock auto has a trans pan with a drain plug on it I feel you on that
Happy Thanksgiving 100% family!
Wow very cool! Love this car.
Intense has a false knock kit for like $15. But it goes between the transaxle and engine.
Happy Thanksgiving Jake!
Might wanna checkout ur front motor mount
That will be a beast soon. Now, go clean the garage floor
Keeping my dream of a supercharged Le Sabre alive again.
Hey Elliott! Happy Thanksgiving
Need to talk John Ross into buying a dyno for his shop like Cletus did.
@100percentJake did you use submersible grade fuel hose, normal FI hose will rot quickly.
You must service these 4t65es or they will have issues. Nobody ever does. All of the high mileage ones I've owned were always serviced. Ones I had problems with had fluid that looks about as bad as yours.
Great job. The very next job on that car is to add the heaviest duty auxiliary transmission cooler B&N makes. It is rated for 21,000 pounds. That fluid is a disgrace. Back flush the transmission, then install a new filter, and get the cooler in. Then you will have a transmission that will work. My 89 Grand Marquis with the 5.8 litre had one from the factory as part of the towing package. It also had a factory shift kit in the heavy duty AOD. Ford never advertised the upgrade to the transmission, but having had 3 Trailer Tow III cars and 3 regular Panthers, believe me, the difference is very noticeable. After all, the power of the engine is useless if you can't get the torque to the ground
how much HP you think it has now?
Dyno tune it Jake!
You should look into getting a pcm from ZZ performance. I did a shift kit in my buick regal and not until I swapped out my pcm did I notice a huge difference
Been thinkin of doin the same, 2 my regal (gs). Gonna try PCM 1st. Are U using hi octane fuel or e85? Thxs
@@richkelly4040 sadly I no longer have that car. mine was an LS but with the tune I always ran at least 89. I honestly have no idea if there are any gas stations around me that sell e85 so I never looked into it
Nothing says thanksgiving better than watching Wichita mafia videos!
i gots and idear... you talk to tyler and ross... get them to "Death-Trip" a car to its POSSIBLE DYNO-DESTRUCTION... EACH... content called "Death-Dyno - run it or junk it." then tie in with Garrett in FLA... a MONTH'S worth of content for ALL
You ever think about cleaning off a bench to work on lol
So you went from a 3.4 to what? I had a SSEi Bonneville with intake, exhaust and a 3.4 modular pulley on a stock tune. I had a 4T60E-HD due to being a 96. So the vacuum reference on the side of the trans had a small Philips screw I could tighten and increase fluid pressure and thereby firm up shifts.
I think it's a 2.7"
"road trip to blow the car". I am in
Jeepers it looks like there was a murder in your garage with all that ATF on the floor. I don't have any automatic Saturns left, but I did my share of changes of fluid and filter, as well as some magic tricks to try to fix an endemic sticking reverse. But those had something called a "valve body". Never opened a transmission for anything larger than a miniature riding mower.
The valve bodies will stick if you never change the fluid. If you wait until the transmission starts to shift a bit "strange" and then change the fluid, filter and all the valve bodies, it is like a new unit. But don't wait that long. And don't waste time checking which valve body is bad, just change all of them while you are in there.
@@marknelson8724 that makes sense. I did change the fluid and filter before the strange shifting, but a "reverse slam" is a well known problem with that Saturn automatic transmission. (It's always and only reverse, used relatively infrequently but requires much higher pressure to actuate I guess) Now my only Saturn left is manual, and the other car is a Subaru with CVT that's programmed to pretend it has shift points which drives me slightly crazy. 😁
The Bingo Buick
The car that bled to death
What is kr
👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Hydramatic murder scene!
More e46 content jake
Hi, instead of paying lots of $$$ for the dyno test, why not use a smartphone app to measure HP and torque?
I want and love that car so bad, to bad i live in europe
No EPA. I'm calling the cops.... That looked like a murder scene.
now if u go back to non e85.... I bet u will get better boost and power..... remember e85 doesn't really have power... remember it's made from corn
👍🌴
At 12:50 your old Datsun Z is there. You weren't careful enough to not get it in the video.
Come on Jake make a video about it. If you hate the car so much, why do you keep it sitting behind your house rusting to the ground? You clearly are trying to avoid it from showing up in your videos.
Have a happy T day
Man I really hope that has the HD transmission, if not 4gear go bye bye
Al the supercharged cars got the HD. They… aren’t a ton better than the normal one, lol.
@@100PercentJake uh nope my 2000 gtp had a standard trans sadly
Can I blindly complain here? Here it goes: the thing with these mechanical car TH-camrs, the bigger they get the less video they post. So should I hope for this channel to grow or not? That's difficult. Anyways this channel is still awesome. Cheers
P.S. sorry about this rant.
Hes been posting about twice a week consistently and he only has 22k subs so.............
JR posts everyday, cleetus posts everyday…. who are you talking about? pretty sure 100% Jake has to work a full time job to, if you’re talking about hoovie i’m pretty sure he works another job to and has 2 kids now
How old are you.
You used to love this car, now it seems like you hate it. So does this mean that you regret working amd heavily modifying it?
I think he regrets the fuel bill more than anything
I love this ghetto shit! 😉
Dang Amish boy tuning Buick instead of audi's
Plz can I have this I'm 18 in college and I don't have enough money 2 buy one
You should go full trailer park and put it on meth!! Then you can crank up the boost and melt your pistons doing 13 sec ¼ mile runs.
*The crypto market has been favourable in the past weeks, I keep missing out on this opportunity, I'm most certainly very impatient how can I ever make a profit in the crypto market.*
There are platform where you can invest and they trade your money. Then pay you profit either weekly or monthly. That's investing.
My crypto mentor Mr Bruce.E Wilson , you may have come across him on a few interviews I invested $3000 last two weeks and it profited me $11,410 a higher success.
@@uruzykorie9684 Wow I know Mr Bruce.E WilsonI met him at a conference in carlifornia 2019 where he introduced us his business strategy, he helped me cover my student loans
I’ve been trading crypto with Mr Bruce.E Wilson for over a year now and I've made about a whooping profit of $86,000 in crypto its not much but I'm ok with the progress since i now make a whole lot from the comfort of my bed.
please 🙏 tell me how i can contact Mr Bruce.E Wilson I've lost alot of money trying to trade on my own
First
First grader?
Might as well increase power and reduce fuel economy as Brandon is ensuring gas is going up