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Messages - Chuck W

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Misc Tech / Re: Air Conditioning Update Question.
Did they spray foam in the evaporator tubes?

I *think* the box is the the same, but you shouldn't need to do more that replace the evaporator (and the heater core, since you'll have it apart)
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User Rides / Re: Chuck's '83 TBird
Thanks!

The side view is obviously a bit more subtle, and tartan isn't some glaring contrasting color.

The GLI Recaros in it have little hints of red in the inserts, so it kind of ties together a bit.
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Other Vehicles / Re: Oops, I did it again. I bought a new car. (1986 Ford LTD wagon)
its amazing how good of shap that lower rad core support is in.  you amaze me with your quarky appreciation for the odd fox box platforms.  im sure you will turn it into a gem!

Well, there is a bit of damage hiding on the bottom rear of the passenger side of it, but nothing I wanted to mess with.  This is a car that is going to get DRIVEN, so I wanted to make sire things were sealed/fresh.

Truth be told. If I didn't have the '83 TBird, I'd be building up another 80-82 Box TBird/Cougar XR-7 in its place.  :toothless:
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Other Vehicles / Re: Oops, I did it again. I bought a new car. (1986 Ford LTD wagon)
Since the other site is down, I'll update here.

Been going in circles this past few months trying to work between several projects.

This one needed to get the K-member mods done and I accomplished that. (Pic of it in primer)

Relocated the FCA mounts inboard 3/4", since I was going to use the SN-95 arms, and the stock width between the control arm mounts was the same between the LTD and the Mod K-members. I was going to have fender contact if I tried to leave them as-is.


I talked myself into thinking that I needed to clean up the engine bay before I dropped the drivetrain back in the car, so I needed to address that, and got it knocked out this past weekend.



I need to remove a bunch of un-needed wiring and do a few more things, so it wasn't a bad idea to strip everything out.


I hit it with a couple rounds of scuff and clean with some grey ScotchBrite pads and treated any remaining corrosion areas with some Corroseal.


The primed and painted it with some Seymour MRO paints.



Next task is to get the drivetrain back in the car and out of my way in the garage.
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Other Vehicles / Re: Added another Fox to the fleet - 1985 Marquis LTS
Been a minute since an update.
As mentioned in the LTD wagon thread, the 3.7/6R80 is going there and this is staying as-is drivetrain wise for a bit.

Not too much to report, just been driving it and doing a little maintenance work. Nothing exciting.

We did take it up to Detroit for the Motor City Fox Fest back in July. Did great on the trip.





It'll get parked when the snow/salt starts to fly, but I do have a couple projects for it when I can get more done on the wagon engine swap.
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Lounge / Re: F.E.P down?
I haven't heard a peep in response to my last message. :dunno:
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User Rides / Re: Work In Progress. '88 TC
Yeah, that Gills controller shouldn't be a problem. I have something similar on mine currently. No problems.

Does the car "surge" or anything in line with the erratic movement of the boost gauge?

I'd do a smoke test and see if you have any leaks.

I don't remember. Is this car running on a stock LA-series ECU?
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Lounge / Re: F.E.P down?
Yeah, it's down again. Going to try and get in touch with Skye.
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User Rides / Re: Work In Progress. '88 TC
I wish I'd kept the AC on the Tbird when I did all of the IC stuff, etc.  Guess I'll wait until I do something different with the drivetrain to worry about it.

It would be driven a lot more over the summer. I get stuck in traffic too much back and forth to work and don't want to hassle with getting cooked trying to get there. The LTS has been getting a bunch of use this summer.
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User Rides / Re: Chuck's '83 TBird
OK. Got it sorted out.

Tested the fuel pressure and it was good. No need to drop the tank to find a pinched return.

I hooked up the laptop and started to look at things. Almost immediately I saw the MAP gauge stuck at "100 KPa" or ambient. It wasn't reacting at all. SO I grabbed a length of vacuum tube and bypassed the in-situ feed to the ECU and sure enough it was reading properly.
The MAP signal hose to the ECU had gotten pinched when I reinstalled the seat after chasing the power issue.

Found the problem and put it all back together and the car is much happier.  :toothless:

Now, back to my other project and hopefully I can get the roof wrap sorted out soon.
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User Rides / Re: Chuck's '83 TBird
New pump is installed, but the car runs like doodoo. :nonchalance:

It appears to be super rich.  When I pulled the fuel pressure regulator reference hose off of the intake, the idle smoothed out a bit.

I didn't get a chance to check the fuel pressure yet, but should be able to tomorrow. Hoping that I didn't somehow pinch the return line between the tank and the body (would be hard to collapse it though.)

I'll need to toss the laptop on it, to see what the WBO2 is showing.

It's possible that if the fuel pressure is correct. the car was tuned under a weak fuel supply and now that it's getting a healthy dose, the tune is off. This thing doesn't "learn" like the stock EEC4 stuff.

We'll see I guess. I don't think anything else broke/failed when the pump went.