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11251
Lounge / Re: Need Serious Input N O W
sounds like a great idea but i would be like you and wonder what the owner of your wish list is up to.
11252
Engine Swapping / Re: Tips before install & 1st Start
dont forget that if your column indicator does not agree with your shifter, you can move the white plastic colar on the column to manipulate the red indicator.
you have to take the lower cover off ot see it.  it has a cable going to it and runs up to the prnd21.
11253
Engine Swapping / Re: Tips before install & 1st Start
yeah,, id take the column covers off and hunt down why the shifter does not spring back. 
personally, id would have left the tranny in,, its easy to get the flywheel to torque converter bolts to line back up and still be able to manipulate the motor mounts and alignment pins on the bell housing.

removal
you put a jack stand under the tranny
remove tranny covers and flywheel/converterbolts/starter / bellhousing bolts/harnesses/ bla, bla, bla, bla ect
remove the engine
reinstall the top two bellhousing bolts part way screwed in
lay a long pipe under bellhousing bolts that will also reach out to the frame on each side just aft of the strut towers
lower tranny on this new support support
remove jack

install
jack tranny all the way up till it hits the floor
remove pipe support
lower engine
align flywheel to torque converter as well as alignment dowels
add converter / flywheel nuts
add bell housing bolts
lower engine with the entire motor mount assy already on engine


you can actually see this method in a pic somewhere in the haynes manual.  this way you never really mess with the tranny and the linkages ,if it aint broke dont fix it kind of approach.
11254
Electrical Tech / Re: Pissed Off, Time To Kill Car
well, yeah there are lots of suggestions but you really gotta get a cheapy ananlog meter.  I use to have onei got from sears for 12bux a few years ago but dad has it now cause i ended up with a Fluke digital meter. 

maybe it would be helpful to just post up what you did in your 3g alt conversion since it sounds like the problem started after that or am i wrong?
11255
Engine Tech / Re: Serious safety problem with my coug
mines an 87 shawn.,, going out for an eve ride now to get some smokes before they close.  i think im on to something from what i did today while troubleshooting.
11256
Drivetrain Tech / Re: Rear differential clunk
yeah, rear ends are complicated if you know the sciences.  Folks who mess with them all the time do not use the terms "setting up my rear differential" lightly.  its a  tuning process that has specs and all the wing dings that i know nothing about. 

anyone know anything of the 3.08 rear end slop source?,,not hijacking anyones thread here,, just seems to be a good topic to open up to interested crowds.
11258
Engine Tech / Re: Serious safety problem with my coug
Quote from: zpyro
I think one of those would fit in a pocket in some big pants when you go to the yard.


um...i mean...don't steal!  :wtf:



sumthin tells me id better keep my eye on you around my shop :flip:


this problem has not happened again so it may have been just a fluke.  Im still chasing the bucking in a curve.  Im down to inspecting the steering column for a rubbing wire harness.
11259
Electrical Tech / Re: Pissed Off, Time To Kill Car
Quote from: TurboCoupe50
Anything that would kill a good fully charged batt in just a minute or two is gonna be making smoke.


yeah,, thats what caught my attention,, there should be a puddle of melted plastic somewhere.

did you really do that to the head unit and your car? :giggle:
leme guess, your out of change today? :ies:
11261
Engine Swapping / Re: Tips before install & 1st Start
Quote from: bondocougar
Darn :brick: I just gasket sealed the valve covers on.

You think I can get close enough by just watching the screwdriver in the #1 for its peak?


yes and no......there are 3 instances where the piston is on tdc and you gotta pick one of them as correct.

intake stroke - where piston starts from the top moving down sucking fuel / air in.  Intake valve opens and stays open until piston reaches bottom.

compression stroke- this picks up directly after the intake stroke. intake valve just now closed, exhaust valve is closed. fuel and air gets compressed. piston continues to move up until its at the top then plug gets fire and kabooom happens piston moves down because of the explosion, continues till it reaches the bottom.

exhaust stroke- directly after combustion/compression stoke.  exhaust valve opens up, piston moves up and pushes waste out to the world. piston reaches top and the exhaust valve closes and guess what? the intake valve opens and it repeats this process again.

your camshaft is the boss and tells everyone what to do, the crank just simply spins around with all of its journals 180 deg out of phase with eachother.



turn the crank by hand while you hold your thumb over the empty spark plug hole 
Gotta be kind of agressive when you rotate it because as you do so you will feel and hear air pushing from around your thumb. 
this means your on compression stroke whichi is just prior to when the sparkplug gets spark. 
when you hear this air,,remove your thumb and rotate the crank till your crank pully / pointer agree on zero tdc.
use a srewdriver if you want
set dizzy / rotor / cap to agree with number 1 spark plug post on the cap.

done.

as for th wiring,, get the colors for us.  i dont have this memorized but someone else may already know exactly which conn your talking about.
11262
Lounge / Re: I have Some bad news bout my car.
so its her fault,,,,,,,,,seems to me that her insurance should be contacting you.  Maybe its because the state you live in is what is called a "no fault" state like kentucky.  No matter who's fault it is, each inidvidual is responsible for their own damages.
if thats not the case then im confused here :dunno:

glad to hear everythings ok and no one was hurt.  Id disect the body parts off the car and see whats bent up.
11263
Engine Swapping / Re: Tips before install & 1st Start
dont worry about TDC.
remove valve cover
watch the rockers on number 1
spin crank by hand
let number 1 I valve open and start to close,
when this happens start watching your harmonic
place a screw driver in number one hole
the piston will push up on the screw driver
as the piston reaches the highest point, look at the harmonic again
as you keep slowly turning, harmonic will be on ZERO DEG TDC
stop here
install dizzy / rotor / cap
tweek which tooth the dizzy is on so it agrees with the cap
done.


it is impossible to argue anything other than than perfect when you align the concept of TDC if its done like this.  theres no if ands or buts about it.

the only possible explanation for if its gonna still be out of time is if the cam and crank dont agree when the timing chain was put on and that aint gonna be your fault.

you can be off a tooth or two on the dizzy and it can still be brought up and running by advance of the base with no serious issues.

you can not be off a tooth on the cam to crank and get away with a good start,
11264
Misc Tech / Re: What is this?
Quote from: TurboCoupe50
As far as D/S loop, not hardly..... That little piece of metal ain't gonna hold anything that resembles a flapping drive shaft


my thoughts exactly,, if it were intended to be a safety brace to prevent a car from flipping thru mid air and save lives,, then ford needs sued today for neglect in its intended design.