I suppose that's a possibility. You know "Job 1" and all. Lol.
Does it have the early or late TBird emblems on the c-pillars and grille?
That’s a question I don’t know the answer to. Those are long gone, I de-badged the car when I repainted in 95. It must have been the cool thing to do at the time.
I have to ask. So I’m pretty sure there was a dash change in 85. Did you switch out the dash to an 83/84 style at some point and I just missed that?
I wondered if anyone was ever going to notice this car has the wrong dash. I did put a different dash in, but it’s the same style as the one I took out. It’s possible a previous owner changed it, but I have owned the car since 94/95. My best guess is that it’s a really early 85 and ford did what they did best back then, threw whatever parts the still had laying around at it. The 10th vin digit is “F”.
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I have to ask. So I’m pretty sure there was a dash change in 85. Did you switch out the dash to an 83/84 style at some point and I just missed that?
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Some interior progress, it’s been slow going but starting to take shape.
I decided to paint the cluster mounting panel flat black.
The factory shifter boot doesn’t fit over the MGW shifter, hopefully I can find one that does, or have one made. I’m also in need of the lower panel that has the cigarette lighter in it.
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Got some time today before the rain came in to get the fuel lines and the fender liner wrapped up.
I was limited to 12" lengths of hardline that had the proper quick disconnect ends on both ends. Until I source a new or used set of factory metal lines these will work just fine.
Got a little kink in the feed line, but my hand bender is kinda cheap. Not going to affect anything though. I cut down the nylon line as needed and fit new straight female quick connect ends to them to mate to the hardlines. The hardlines fit the fittings I was using in the engine bay, so no changes were needed there.
Fitting the fender liner took more work than it should've. I had to relocate the HVAC vacuum reservoir and then had to straighten the fender a bit on the rear of the wheel opening to get the liner happy and fit up properly. This is the damaged fender, so it wasn't too unexpected.
With that wrapped up, the car is road-worthy again. Ready to put miles on it to sort the tune. Once I'm happy enough, I'll switch it to a NB O2 sensor.
A couple things to deal with in the near future.
- Sort the location/mounting of the MS ECU. I'll probably need to extend the harness for this for me to be happy, but it won't affect things in the short term - Get the tach working again. (Still a mystery) - Mount the fender-mounted wiper/washer tank-pump. The old engine bay one was displaced by the battery. - I've been needing to figure out what's binding on the DS door lock I replaced the switch a while back, but it won't stay down and stay locked. Gotta pull the door panel to sort that out. - Clean up/loom wiring in the engine bay.
Last post by Chuck W -
OK. Mystery solved on why the outputs (temp related) weren't working.
I originally wanted to use the Ford sensors, as I had a good set of them. MegaSquirt is base coded around GM sensors. The resistances are different. Now, you can change the settings to use other sensors, but it's much more difficult with the old, MS1 stuff. I got the settings for the gauges to change without problem, but I couldn't get the firmware changes needed to work properly.
So, what I had happening was, while I had good readings on the gauges in the TunerStudio dashboard, what actually runs things is the firmware. The gauge might be showing 205*, but the ECU wasn't seeing that, and thus wasn't switching the output channel.
My TPS related output for the WOT signal to cut off the AC compressor was working fine, as it hadn't been altered.
I should have parts for this and the fuel lines this week, so hopefully I can get this fully on the road next week.
