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Messages - Chuck W

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Other Vehicles / Re: Added another Fox to the fleet - 1985 Marquis LTS
Pretty pleased this morning.

Started the car without any additional throttle input this morning. Almost a stall right after start, but it settled out and I didn't have to touch it.

Almost have those crank prime settings and after-start enrichments dialed in.  :mullet:

The ancient MS unit is pretty crude, but it's still better than the stock set-up was.
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Other Vehicles / Re: Added another Fox to the fleet - 1985 Marquis LTS
We had a big warmup and melt off this week, so it was much more conducive to working on the cars.

While I spent some time yesterday re-acquainting myself with where I was on the wagon project, I also had some time to sort out a couple of loose ends on this project.

At some point last year, I stopped being able to lock the driver door. I'd replaced the broken auto lock switch at some point, and all of that worked, but the driver-side just would not lock because something was binding and keeping the lock from fully engaging.
I took the door panel off and dug in to discover that the lock popper had seized up. This was preventing things from behaving.

I didn't have any spares, so I just disconnected the rod from the latch/lock assy for now. The only hitch is that if I unlock the pass side first and engage the auto unlock, the driver side won't pop and it needs to be open manually. A minor annoyance, but better than leaving the car unlocked.

Also, I took the time today to figure out what happened to my tach signal. I had rechecked the wiring on the harness I removed and altered, and that was all fine. I also knew that nothing on that side of things should be affecting the tach signal.

After a bit of tracing and ringing out wires, I found the culprit.

On the DS there is a 6-pin connector that contains the wire to the tach. Now, bear in mind, the wiring diagrams for these show almost nothing for a tachometer. They were a rare item in the LTD/Marquis. Took some digging and interpolation of things to find what I needed.
What I think happened is that the signal for this was tucked in with the TAB/TAD smog solenoids, which were removed. I probably pulled the wire out and de-pinned it from this connector when I yanked all of that garbage, not realizing what it was.
I wound up running a new wire to that connector and we again have a working tach.



Other than some tuning stuff and eventually swapping to a NBO2 sensor, this particular project seems to be wrapped up.

Now to get some good weather and clean roads!
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Lounge / Re: IMPORTANT! Board Future - DISCUSS HERE
My preference is for not to use AWS, but that's just me.

My webhosting is through ipage and have honestly had no issues over the years, but I don't run a forum or the like on it. I primarily use it for storage and I had my motor mount stuff on it when that was a going thing.

After 4eyedpride fell down and went boom, and the back-ups were lost or corrupted, it was a big shock/loss to the community. I for sure don't want to see this site suffer the same fate.
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Other Vehicles / Re: Added another Fox to the fleet - 1985 Marquis LTS
I imagine a bunch of the missing pics are from where hosting for the pictures moved or disappeared.

I know a lot of the pics in my older threads got broken when my original webhost shut down w/o warning.
I'd have to go back through each post and relink whatever was originally there.

Got the car dug out over the weekend, but the roads are going to be a yucky mess for a while yet.

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Other Vehicles / Re: Added another Fox to the fleet - 1985 Marquis LTS
The current state of things.



Got a foot of snow this past Sunday. Got everything else dug out, but had to put this off for a bit, as I have no place to easily put the snow.

Started working on that a bit after work today. I have to carry the snow to a couple different places to move it, so it takes a bit longer.

I want to have it uncovered so I can start it (and work on the start/warm-up routine a bit while it's cold) and work on a couple of the other small bits. The roads aren't going to be clear enough for a while now, so Natasha (as my wife refers to it (i.e. the Black Widow) is sidelined for a little while again.
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User Rides / Re: My 85 TBird
I'm pretty sure that they used whatever color for the receiver side in the Tbirds, as they were originally covered by the plastics.
I've run into red or other color receivers on grey interior cars a few times.
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User Rides / Re: My 85 TBird
That looks pretty good! Looking forward to seeing the finished product!
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User Rides / Re: My 85 TBird
After seeing it, I thought 3D  printing might be an option.  Might have to see if I can CAD something up.

It's hard to find them with those stupid mounting posts still intact. I don't think any of the ones I have onhand are unbroken.


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User Rides / Re: My 85 TBird
That's one way to do it! You going to cover it in vinyl or leather?
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User Rides / Re: My 85 TBird
What's the P/N on those upper door seals? My Tbird has needed those for about 20 years.