How many miles does your 1994 LHS/New Yorker have?

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Bob Street

Does anyone have more than 200,000 miles on their 1994 LHS/New Yorker?
Currently I have 160,000 miles and am trying to see if I should keep it or
not. My engine does not burn oil, I still get 24 mpg and so far I have had
no major problem. Could I possibly go to 200,000 without major repair?

Your thoughts....
 
treat it right and get 300,000

i used to work on a guys buick century with 318,000 on it and he herded cows
with it.
 
Bob Street said:
Does anyone have more than 200,000 miles on their 1994 LHS/New Yorker?
Currently I have 160,000 miles and am trying to see if I should keep it or
not. My engine does not burn oil, I still get 24 mpg and so far I have had
no major problem. Could I possibly go to 200,000 without major repair?

Your thoughts....
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I am curious to know what engine you have in your New Yorker. I have
heard of people getting 200,000 or more with the 3.3 L. Earlier 3.3's
have the rocker arm tower failure with high mileage.

-Kirk Matheson
 
Bob said:
Does anyone have more than 200,000 miles on their 1994 LHS/New Yorker?
Currently I have 160,000 miles and am trying to see if I should keep it or
not. My engine does not burn oil, I still get 24 mpg and so far I have had
no major problem. Could I possibly go to 200,000 without major repair?

Your thoughts....
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I've got over 207,000 on my wife's 1993 Vision (same drivetrain,
suspension, and everything except the sheet metal). I'm going for at
least 250k before possibly retiring the car. Still gets 27 on the
highway, doesn't use any oil.
 
Kirk Matheson wrote:

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I am curious to know what engine you have in your New Yorker.
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The only available engine in the 94 LHS/New Yorker was the iron-block
SOHC 3.5L. Tough little son-of-a-gun.
 
Retired salesman friend has his former company car, 3.5L '97 Intrepid,
currently at 350K+ miles and still going strong. Mainly highway miles.
Pulls Coleman pop-up camper at 65MPH+, severely overloads it (750 lbs.
of soil or bags of water softener salt in the trunk, 10 sheets of 1/2"
plywood or drywall strapped to the roof, etc.). Drives hard. Lots of
jack rabbit starts, panic stops (likes to tailgate). No problems, even
with the trans. Does have 2 aux trans coolers in series-parallel with
the original unit, mounted away from the radiator behind the openings
where the "fog" lights originally mounted. One aux cooler is bypassed
until trans fluid reaches a certain temp, which I don't recall off hand.
Was used in Kentucky hills several years.

Only engine work he has had done was intake manifold gasket kit and
injector recall. Synthetic oil and filter changed every 4K miles.
Plugs, wires and coil pack every 50K. Synthetic gear oil in
differential every 20K. ATF+4 and filter every 20K. Brakes every 20K,
if they need it or not. 3rd set of rotors up front, 2nd set in back.
Original front rotors replaced at 50K after webbing between surfaces of
one rotor cracked completely through. Rotor fell into 2 pieces when we
took it off the hub. Struts replaced all around once. All suspension
bushings replaced at 150K. Last I talked to him, was still averaging
25MPG overall and passes Illinois emissions tests with results well
below maximums allowable.

He's fully expecting at least 500K out of the vehicle.
 
Bob said:
Does anyone have more than 200,000 miles on their 1994 LHS/New Yorker?
Currently I have 160,000 miles and am trying to see if I should keep it or
not. My engine does not burn oil, I still get 24 mpg and so far I have had
no major problem. Could I possibly go to 200,000 without major repair?
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Yes.


Matt
 
Mike said:
Retired salesman friend has his former company car, 3.5L '97 Intrepid,
currently at 350K+ miles and still going strong. Mainly highway miles.
Pulls Coleman pop-up camper at 65MPH+, severely overloads it (750 lbs.
of soil or bags of water softener salt in the trunk, 10 sheets of 1/2"
plywood or drywall strapped to the roof, etc.). Drives hard. Lots of
jack rabbit starts, panic stops (likes to tailgate). No problems, even
with the trans. Does have 2 aux trans coolers in series-parallel with
the original unit, mounted away from the radiator behind the openings
where the "fog" lights originally mounted. One aux cooler is bypassed
until trans fluid reaches a certain temp, which I don't recall off hand.
Was used in Kentucky hills several years.
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I thought the Intrepid was FWD. Most FWD transaxles share the tranny
fluid with the differential. Does this really have a differential that
is isolated from the transmission?

Matt
 
Yes,

The 42LE transaxle case is one casting, but the diff and tranny fluid
volumes are seperate.
 
I've got 164K miles on my '94 LHS and it runs like a new car. The only
major work that I've had to do is rebuild the tranny at 160K. I had never
serviced the fluid which in hindsight was a bad choice. I fully expect to
get at least another 100K miles out of this car.
 
Matthew S. Whiting wrote:

I thought the Intrepid was FWD. Most FWD transaxles share the tranny
fluid with the differential. Does this really have a differential that
is isolated from the transmission?
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Yes, it does.Since its a longitudinal engine with front drive, the
ring-and-pinion gearset is a hypoid gear just like a rear-drive car
instead of a helical gear like transverse engine front-drive cars. You
cannot lubricate hypoid gears with ATF, so it has a separate sump inside
the transaxle housing. There's a chain drive from the mission section
output shaft to the differential section input shaft.

The manual suggests not to use synthetic gear oil in the differential
(for some reason) but I can't imagine any good reason not to. My only
guess is that there is some possible reaction with ATF if it were to
leak a little past the seal that isolates the two sections. Strangely,
this subject just popped up on another thread.... (synthetic fluids in a
Pacifica.)
 
Steve said:
Yes,

The 42LE transaxle case is one casting, but the diff and tranny fluid
volumes are seperate.
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Cool. I've wondered why they don't do this more often. Seems like it
would increase the life of both units.


Matt
 
Steve said:
Matthew S. Whiting wrote:




Yes, it does.Since its a longitudinal engine with front drive, the
ring-and-pinion gearset is a hypoid gear just like a rear-drive car
instead of a helical gear like transverse engine front-drive cars. You
cannot lubricate hypoid gears with ATF, so it has a separate sump inside
the transaxle housing. There's a chain drive from the mission section
output shaft to the differential section input shaft.

The manual suggests not to use synthetic gear oil in the differential
(for some reason) but I can't imagine any good reason not to. My only
guess is that there is some possible reaction with ATF if it were to
leak a little past the seal that isolates the two sections. Strangely,
this subject just popped up on another thread.... (synthetic fluids in a
Pacifica.)
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I never popped the hood on one and didn't realize it had a longitudinal
engine. Thanks.

Does the differential have a limited slip type of clutch in it? I know
that my pickup rear axle requires a special lube/additive to maintain
the appropriate friction properties for the limited slip diff.

Matt
 
Matthew S. Whiting wrote:

I never popped the hood on one and didn't realize it had a longitudinal
engine. Thanks.

Does the differential have a limited slip type of clutch in it? I know
that my pickup rear axle requires a special lube/additive to maintain
the appropriate friction properties for the limited slip diff.

Matt
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Nope, just an open differential. Limited slip on an FWD would be one
hell of a handful to drive any direction except straight, except for a
Torsen type differential like the old Nissan SE-Rs used to have.
Front-drives torque-steer bad enough with an OPEN diff, I can only
imagine how bad it would be with a conventional limited-slip!
 
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