The Blue Whale

My 1992 Oldsmobile Custom Cruiser. The name was not my idea, everyone who see this thing calls it a whale, it's sticking lol.

Went and checked out this car on the advice of a forum member, it was clean as described. Came fully serviced with new tires and all, Pep Boys tech thought it was really good too as it took him 9 mins to determine it was safe for the road haha.

So it's my DD now, really enjoying it and the fuel mileage is surprisingly good considering it's size, it dwarfs even the BMW's in the office parking lot.

Few pics after a car wash today.







Plans are few at this point. Keep it clean, re-paint the front bumper. Going to get the electric fan setup as well since it takes forever to warmup in the morning.

Love it! Getting harder and harder to find! I like this color. I've only really seen the red or the white on OCCs.

Congrats!! I test drove this one and bought it last April didn't get it because it was owned by a dead guy so glad it went to a forum member and will be well taken care of. Beautiful blue olds enjoy!

bigbluey88 wrote:

Congrats!!  I test drove this one and bought it last April didn't get it because it was owned by a dead guy so glad it went to a forum member and will be well taken care of.  Beautiful blue olds enjoy!

Thanks! It was on your advice that I made the 2 hour trip to check it out. Worth it! It's a great car so far, put about 500 miles on it so far driving to work.

I got about 5 pairs of electric fans and radiator cowls to convert when you plan to do it. ( if interested)

Heh, is that an old dealer plate on the front? That's awesome!

I love the color!

My favorite of all the 91-6 B-wagons! Caprice glass and vista roof. The 92 OCC was the ONLY way to get that combination.

LS SWAP!

Yes I love the vista roof. I've always had a soft spot for Oldsmobiles so this car is perfect for me. Plus I'm not a fan of the gaudy chrome trim on the roadmonsters.

Yea the original dealer plate was still on the front, along with the dealer sticker on the back. I also got the glove box open and found the owners manual, warranty book and the salesman card. It is a one owner car but sadly this is the extent of documents I got with the car.

Hey Indy! Sorry I didn't get back to you, my buddy wasn't feeling well so we just headed back home. We'll have to hang sometime for sure. Hope you're taking care of that blue car. haha. I'll let you know on the fans, got a day off so I'm going junkyard crawling tomorrow.

THere is a blue one just like that running around here. Big scratch and dent on the side. I'll try to grab some pics

Well grabbed a Ford rear sway bar today. I scored as it had new end links on it! Now just need the clamps and bushings. It's only a 17mm but it's better than no sway bar.

Nice the car is a beauty hope it lives for many many years to come. Love the color glad it was worth the drive I'm about a half hour from there.

Ford rear sway bar installed today. The components that went into the install:



17mm rear bar and new endlinks scavenged from a junkyard 98 Mercury Grand Marquis, and Prothane universal 17mm bushing kit. Fairly easy install, hoping it'll tighten up the handling.

That's awesome. I'm going to try this on the '74 at some point...because the factory bar for that thing is hard to find, and if I do find one, it will likely be under a car that hasn't moved in at least 25-30 years, has trees growing around it, and may or may not provide shelter to a family of foxes or coyotes with its undercarriage. With something like this, I wouldn't have to drill or swap the LCAs, I'm assuming just have to drill a couple of holes up in the frame for the factory end links or something?

I have heard that the biggest bars came on the Fords and Mercurys that had the Performance and Handling Package with the rear air bags, dual exhaust, etc., because the police package already had stiffer springs from the factory. I'm wondering if the bigger bar also came on the Town Cars that had that (my brothers does).

Did you get those end links online?

http://www.impalassforum.com/vBulletin/showthread.php?t=231762

I did exactly what the first post showed, there is a slot in the frame gussets so thats where I put the endlink thru. It's a strong enough location, thats where the endlinks attach on the CV's

Apparently the CV's, Grand Marquis, and Town Cars with air ride had the biggest bars at 21mm, The CVPI had a 17mm bar. There was a town car at the yard that had air ride, but someone already took the whole rear axle, damn!

The endlinks also came from the junked Mercury, seems someone put them on the car right before junking it. Hey $20 for a sway bar and endlinks, not a bad deal. The rear end of the car already feel tighter just backing it out of the garage, I'd say do it! Plenty of junk ford cars out there to pluck a bar from.

yea buddy

Seats are in.





The manual caprice rails required some creativity to work.

GREEAT JOB!!!!    And a perfect match!!! Thats some good joo-joo!  

They're great! Hold you in place while the car sways down the road.   

Those look awesome in there dude. The only thing I don't like about those seats is they seem a micron narrower than the stock ones, and don't have an armrest. But I still want to put those in...something.   

MMMMM Nice! Welcome to the Hen's Teeth Seat Club! I have a full set in hiding. Top secret location. being studied by Top men.


I wonder what they'll look like in my boxy...

1984twodoor wrote:

MMMMM Nice! Welcome to the Hen's Teeth Seat Club! I have a full set in hiding. Top secret location. being studied by Top men.


I wonder what they'll look like in my boxy...

Hopefully Steve will remember where he put them when you want them back.

yup definitely a find! They are the polar opposite of the stock seats, more like bucket seats than a couch. Besides it's easy to plop a console in there.

You know you want them in your boxy....

boojum wrote:

Hopefully Steve will remember where he put them when you want them back.

Speaking of mind like a steel trap...  

Put WHAT by the way????   

Nice score on the blue bonnies!

I'm STILL looking for a set of red ones!

Best of luck Bill, I found these thru car-part.com, and several more sets of Blue have appeared since....but no red bonnies have appeared. A very rare beast indeed.

Oh and, if anyone has a TBI wagon rear seat back for cheap or less, I could use it. Any color, would prefer blue tho. Would rather store the original seats vs cutting them up.

Well, found the OCC's arch nemesis......water....  Barely ran all the way to work this morning.....kept stalling at lights. Guess I need to replace the entire ignition system.

Luckily with the TBI, given the screws for the cap aren't rusted, it's incredibly easy to do plugs/wires/cap/rotor on that thing...hopefully it's not some sensor getting wet or something though.

The gasket at the back of the hood could be letting water drip on your distributor also.

Thanks Matt, I'll look at that gasket. My plan was to pick up some wire dry spray after work so I can get home.

Well, ran great all the way home, popped the hood and pulled off the air cleaner. Dried water spray all over the distributor cap. damn. So soaked it with wire dryer I found in the garage.

Also found the vac line unplugged from the EGR valve, hoping that solves my code 32

MalibuSSwagon wrote:

Well, ran great all the way home, popped the hood and pulled off the air cleaner. Dried water spray all over the distributor cap. damn. So soaked it with wire dryer I found in the garage.

Also found the vac line unplugged from the EGR valve, hoping that solves my code 32

Was the cap cracked or corroded?  If it's getting wet, I'd bet the contacts on top look like ass.  Glad you're getting to the bottom of it!

MalibuSSwagon wrote:

Well, ran great all the way home, popped the hood and pulled off the air cleaner. Dried water spray all over the distributor cap. damn. So soaked it with wire dryer I found in the garage.

Also found the vac line unplugged from the EGR valve, hoping that solves my code 32

Welcome to the code 32 club   

Well the stumbling/cutting out came back today. Not really sure what the issue is as it only seems to happen when the car gets warm and gets worse the farther you drive. Not sure where to start troubleshooting this one...

I got a "known to be good" TBI  throttle body with all the sensors sitting on a shelf for sale......... Jusssssss sayin......

Did you check the timing?

I'm thinking vacuum leak or EGR clogged

Thanks Indy, I appreciate the offer. I actually just re-sealed the throttle body today. It was pretty clean inside, some of the passages were clogged with goo, and the fuel regulator diaphragm looked like crap, no tears tho. So I doubt this is the answer to my problem, but good to know it's fresh now.

Before - Ewwwwww



After - Nice!

Went on a craigslist adventure last night to pickup the next mod for the OCC.



Price was right and the guy was cool. Had a sizable garage stuffed with Chevelles. I could've drolled over them all night, but I had to get back on the road.

Tore into the transmission tonight. Looks like I'll be able to save this one. Gears aren't pitted, just need to clean off the surface rust.



Looks worse than it really is.

So, last week I tore into the transmission.



The gears are in pretty rough shape.



Got lucky however, a guy in Tennessee saw my project thread on another forum and offered up a clean set of gears to me. He's coming up this way to visit family in a month.

Also for those who do not recognize the transmission, it's an NP833 out of an 80-86 1/2 ton Chevy. Gear ratios are close to the 700R4, 3.09, 1.67, 1.00, 0.73.

So forget the four speed. Got an unbelievable deal on this TKO600 this week.



I'll just say I got it all for less than the bellhousing sells for new. Now I just need a 6.0L, LSA supercharger, etc etc.