Hey quick question for you manual tranny guys. At some point I do plan to swap my auto to a F23/F40 tranny. Would it be worthwhile to go ahead and get a slave cylinder from the list while they're on sale? Which would work the best?
Hey quick question for you manual tranny guys. At some point I do plan to swap my auto to a F23/F40 tranny. Would it be worthwhile to go ahead and get a slave cylinder from the list while they're on sale? Which would work the best?
Thank you!
The F23/F40 use an internal slave combined with the throwout bearing. A Fiero slave cylinder will be totally useless for them. Unless the one on the trans you buy is blown out, rusted on the steel parts, or damaged otherwise, you probably won't need to buy one.
The F23/F40 use an internal slave combined with the throwout bearing. A Fiero slave cylinder will be totally useless for them. Unless the one on the trans you buy is blown out, rusted on the steel parts, or damaged otherwise, you probably won't need to buy one.
Awesome thank you! Anything special I should look out for?
Awesome thank you! Anything special I should look out for?
For the F23/F40 swap? Neither of them are direct bolt-in swaps. The F23 requires less custom fabrication work than the F40, but still requires quite a bit of work to install.
As for the RockAuto clearance on Fiero parts, buy whatever you need for the stock Fiero to keep it in good running order.
They actually have clearance sales on parts for all vehicles, not just Fieros. As I mentioned elsewhere, they have the Moog rear spindles that many of us bought on a previous clearance sale early last year. All were sold, but they have them on clearance again.
They actually have clearance sales on parts for all vehicles, not just Fieros. As I mentioned elsewhere, they have the Moog rear spindles that many of us bought on a previous clearance sale early last year. All were sold, but they have them on clearance again.
Ahh, ok.
Someone had mentioned in the past that they were eliminating all Fiero parts and not carrying them anymore.
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It's very possible they are. Without some of us being on the inside, we'll never know so it may be good just to stock up on some of those regular maintenance or hard to find items that are common only to the Fiero just in case they do drop them. In general, Fieros have held up very well on most parts. I'm still running all original hoses on my 3 Fieros and my brother's Fiero. I believe 3 or 4 other Fieros I've had also had original hoses, and other items. Most replacement parts needed have been mechanical items.
Rockauto buys inventory from all over the place ("wholesaler closeout") and I think after consolidating inventories and testing sales patterns they come up with lists of surplus stuff that they don't want to store. I've kept links to their closeouts for many, many years and I own cars *way* weirder than FIeros. I've been checking Merkur XR4Ti closeouts for six years.... they still have XR parts in main inventory.
They actually have clearance sales on parts for all vehicles, not just Fieros. As I mentioned elsewhere, they have the Moog rear spindles that many of us bought on a previous clearance sale early last year. All were sold, but they have them on clearance again.
Hmmm... this seems like a good idea. Do I remember reading correctly that '88 rear bearings are sometimes hard to find?
I would not get in a panic here as most of these are common GM parts that work on the Fiero and many other cars too.
I suspect they are just running a sale here and if they are not many other places will continue to carry these parts.
The term closeout is often used to stimulate sales if they are not meeting expectations. This is the time of year when they make most of their money and they may not be meeting their numbers and just applied closeout to the sale.
Note too that Harbor Freight uses the term closeout often but yet they always have the same stuff.
One other option is that these are just old part numbers too in many cases replaces with new numbers.
I would not go on a buying binge here unless you really need something.
How do I get on the list for close outs so Rockauto would notify me?
Go to RockAuto.Com and in the left column there's a Newsletter tab. Click on that and sign up. You will receive frequent notices of sales and specials. In my case, I purchased items and clicked on the notification preference for the 86 and 88 Fieros.
This is copied from my notification that contained the above links.
We regularly add new wholesaler closeout parts to the RockAuto catalog. We will send an update email like this one, covering up to three of your vehicles, at most once every three months. To be notified immediately when a closeout part for your vehicle is added to our catalog, sign up for our RSS feed by clicking an RSS icon in our catalog.
if anyone is worried, go ahead & set up a rock auto acnt & set up your fiero in there; if they run any reports & see an increase in fiero potential demand, they'll hopefully keep fiero parts in inventory/available much longer for us.
power in numbers!
(they do have our PFF listed in their car club links section btw)
Keep Calm & Fiero on (hey, a t-shirt idea! anyone?)
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