1996 Oldsmobile Ninety Eight Regency - Answered Questions & Fixed issues

Its on the passenger side of the heat duct mounted with 2 screws

Disconnect the battery cable (either one) from your battery for 5 min. Reconnect the cable and be sure to tighten well...Hopefully the computer will reset and so will the sending unit to the dash display....?

if low on Freon in your air conditioner air will be cooler on passenger side due to being first side where Freon passes. drivers side will be warm

Possible faulty crank sensor or idle speed controller, fuel pump relay, or ignition module. Get a data scan and see what's sensor might out of range or defective. Check for clogged fuel filter also.

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Your blend door may be broken or stuck. Check the actuator and make sure it is working properly

There is a timing cover gasket behind the water pump.You may have to clean off the block to find the leak. Mechanics can use dye in the oil and a black light.

Despite the overdrive icon and manufacturers calling it overdrive, there is no overdrive unit on your Oldsmobile. What is mistakenly referred to as an overdrive unit is the lock up torque converter. Over a certain speed (usually about 35 mph), and absent a call for heavy acceleration, the torgue converter is hydraulically locked so that the drive and driven vanes in the converter spin as a single unit. The lock-up is controlled by a solenoid valve in the side pan of the transmission. The most common problem with the solenoids is that they fail to release and keep the converter locked up which stalls the engine at stops. The usual cure is to replace the solonoid

It could very well be, if the engine is the 3.8L. There is a coolant pipe with a 90o angle, going into the front of the intake manifold. It has an "O" ring at the intake and another at the coolant bypass assembly. Quite often the "O" ring gets hard and leaks, or the plastic coolant pipe deteriorates and breaks inside the intake manifold. Either the coolant bypass / tensioner assembly will need to be removed or the intake manifold will have to be removed to replace the pipe.

through the trunk.

It's marked AC and it's in the under hood fuse relay center, near the battery. The ballast resistor can fail too it's the device that if you follow the wire from the blower motor, it's in the heater box next to the blower and it can be unpligged , melted and just bad. Connect a test light between the two wires that connect to the motor, and with the key on, work the heater controls, to see if the light will come on in any position, wiggle the connections watching the light. If it's not working you might still have power so connect the test light between the body ground and the wires to the motor and you can find that you have power but not ground. The blower relay in in the firewall fuse relay center, standing in front of the car behind the engine it's the third relay from the left, under the Maxi fuse panel. This panel has two black covers and it's under the left one. The resistor is right under this fuse panel and it can have two plugs connected to it. The two wire connector is just power and ground. and it's on all the time the power from the maxi fuse. The maxi just makes the high speed though the relay and the lower speeds are controlled by the number 50 fuse in the insrument panel fuse panel number 50 it's a 25 amp fuse (clear)

it is located behind the right hand side of the instrument panel and it is located in the N slot next to the fuses.

Hello ericknac: My name is Roger and I will help you. You will find the oil pressure sensor located in the timing cover. In the area just above the oil filter and below the power steering pump. Should you need further help please just ask. Please rate the answer you received. Thank You for using Fix Ya. Roger

Right on top of your valve cover. It looks like a little plastic elbow and it should have a rubber hose going to it. Hope this helps

If you can find the starter,tap on it with a hammer,not too soft but not too hard.Try it several times.This will usually work if the starter is going.REALLY!If it is too difficult to find or get to,call a shop and ask them.If they want you to bring it in without answering,hang up and call someone else.Someone will give you a free opinion.

may be a worn motor/ transmission mount fooling you

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Haynes manual at the parts store. Disconnect the Postive side of the battery before working on the starter.

There is a blower motor resistor that controls the speeds of the blower. It is by the blower motor and will have a group of wires. It usually has 2 small screws holding it on.

Power seat movement is controlled by numerous small motors underneath the seat.

Front and back movement is often actuated through a motor on one side that connect to a rod (with some type of gear on the end of it) that runs to the other side. This rod can get out of position, or possibly something can go wrong in the gear.

You'll likely have to remove the seat to diagnose the problem.