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Messages - Chuck W

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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.
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User Rides / Re: My 85 TBird
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?
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User Rides / Re: My 85 TBird
That's a lot of work to redo the dash in the car like that.

I need to do something similar with the dash in the LTD wagon. "Luckily" I may have to pull the dash anyway to deal with the heater core/box.

The interior is coming along nicely!
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Other Vehicles / Re: Added another Fox to the fleet - 1985 Marquis LTS
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.

Glad to have it drivable again  :toothless:


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Other Vehicles / Re: Added another Fox to the fleet - 1985 Marquis LTS
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.
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Electrical Tech / Re: ECU Harness
Your pics don't tell a complete story to be able to help better.

Might be an issue with one of the injector circuits, but hard to say.
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Other Vehicles / Re: Added another Fox to the fleet - 1985 Marquis LTS
Fired things up again today after a tweak in TunerStudio and I have proper WBO2 readings again. I messed with the warmup routine a bit while it was coming up to temp.

Still don't have a working HI speed fan, and it might be a problem in the MegaSquirt itself. More digging on that to come. Might just switch which output I'm using.

I still can't figure out what happened to the tach signal.  :dunno:
The tach signal comes from the coil, but at some point in the process of cutting out the excess in the wiring harness, I must've removed something needed. The only thing that is even close is the old diagnostic plug. I cut it out at the splice and redid the splice with the wires that remained. I'm tempted just to run a new lead to the cluster. The LTS (and the LTD LX and Police versions) were the only ones with the tach, and none of the wiring diagrams have all of the info.
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Electrical Tech / Re: ECU Harness
I'm not seeing a YL/BK or TN wire on the diagram for an 85 2.3T ECU. Pic to help ID what location they are?