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Topics - 88CabernetKitty

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User Rides / MY "Kitty"....
Here's the photo that I've been asked several times for. The long wait is over! LOL!

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This is my :cougarsmily:"Kitty" as she sits as my daily driver. Sorry it took so long to get my friend to download and get me this pic taken late winter/early spring of this year with an Android phone.
I hope to be starting her restoration sometime within the next six months.

[Yes, I know she's actually Scarlet Red! My S/N has a rather dyslexic story behind it which includes my 89 Bronco...she IS Cabernet Red (and tan)!]
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Electrical Tech / Contradictoy Instrument Cluster
Question: What would cause Kitty's instrument cluster to lie?

It started after a chronic ongoing over-heating problem occurred and was finally figured out and fixed last summer.

None of the gauges tells the truth other than the speedometer/odometer which are fine. Furthermore, and the most disconcerting is that when the green Service light is On the engine seems to run fine. But when it goes out the engine runs really rough. This is with it in gear. It seems to try to smooth out a bit when out of gear. Also, when it is On the gauges read inaccurately and when it is off they 'try' to get 'better'?

This light has a mind of it's own. It does as it pleases, when it pleases. This has been going on for quite a while. I've just been driving the car normally while keeping a very close eye, ear and feel on the thing. But don't take it very far. Just keep fairly close to home, just in case...

I've taken the car to two different O'Reilly's and had them hook up their O.B.D.1s to it to try to see what's what and neither one got a reading at all. Nothing showed up on either of the meters.

With hot weather coming on fast I feel the need to find out what the 'scoop' is on thisand fix it A.S.A.P.


Thank you in advance for any and all suggestions that you may be able to come up with for me to try to remedy this situation.

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OOPS! I just discovered that I may have put this in the wrong place? Please forgive me? If we can just take care of this here this one time, I promise to be more careful next time.
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General Fox T-Bird/Cougar Discussion / Help?
I don't know where y'all want this question asked, but I need to know where my Cougar was made. As in what plant. The VIN is: 1MEBM6044JH688010. I have done all sorts of internet searches to no avail. I guess I just don't know the right term to use.

Can someone help me figure out where to go to find out this info?

Thank you for any and all help you can give me. @};--