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Re: The beast LIVES! (lots of pics, not good for 56k'ers)

Reply #15
Looks like your goin good keep up the hard work it will pay off somtime LOL
84 Turbo coupe 2.3T Modded with 88 upper and lower intake, 88 injectors, E6 manifold, T3-4 AR.60 turbo, 31X12X3 FMIC, Homemade MBC , Greddy knock off BPV.
4 eyes see better than 2! 
Da Bird!

FreeBird

Re: The beast LIVES! (lots of pics, not good for 56k'ers)

Reply #16
I musta missed the funny part.

Anyway, got a couple pieces of 3/8" hose to put that little line back on from the TB to the oil filler. Y-pipe's ready to go, except I need to cap off the old air line somehow. (I have a way, just won't try it until tomorrow) Now I just need to kick myself for being out there at 1 AM mounting the rear view mirror button.

Re: The beast LIVES!

Reply #17
Quote from: Bird351

- Put taillights back together on L side. (need some of whatever the rest of you have found to be the best sealer for putting the lights back together)


if you bend the clips back outward, it'll hold itself. Then just use any sealant such as silicone to make it airtight
1988 Thunderbird Sport

Re: The beast LIVES! (lots of pics, not good for 56k'ers)

Reply #18
It's feeling more and more like a car again. With a project like this, even the little stuff like gluing the rearview mirror back up feels like real progress. Now if I could just make up my  mind on whether or not I'm going to put the Y-pipe in first or paint the quarter panel first..

Re: The beast LIVES! (lots of pics, not good for 56k'ers)

Reply #19
Back to square 1 with the car. Takes 5-10 seconds of cranking to start it, it slowly starts, sputters, sometimes flares up in revs, tries to level off and run right, then dies. Just killed the battery trying to start it long enough to move it.

Re: The beast LIVES! (lots of pics, not good for 56k'ers)

Reply #20
Charged up the battery a bit more and had another go at it.

The more times I try to start it, and get it to run for a few seconds at a time, the more it wants to stay running.. but by the time it starts getting easy to keep it going, the battery is dead and I have to give up. Last time before the battery ped out, it started hard, ran smooth, sputtered, recovered and ran smooth again, sputtered/recovered one more time, and ped out after about a minute total.

Needless to say, I'm back to charging the battery on 6A.

Re: The beast LIVES! (lots of pics, not good for 56k'ers)

Reply #21
Just for the hell of it, I disconnected the IAC, (TPS is already disconnected/bad) stepped on the gas just a tiny bit, and tried to start it. Had no problem running it at over 1000 RPM for several minutes. Reconnected the IAC, pushed the pedal in again just a little bit, and tried to start it again.. did nothing but chug along barely running.

So are all my problems related to this TPS being bad? Or is it something else in addition to that?

Looks like my transmission is also leaking now. I guess I left it on jack stands for too long.. 'cause once I let it down again, it started to drip. Bummer.

Re: The beast LIVES! (lots of pics, not good for 56k'ers)

Reply #22
On an unrelated note.. just some of the cleanup work I've done to the car.

The silver paint in the front lights came out a little better than expected. Now I just need lenses for 'em. (I have one lens in the back seat, pretty cracked up tho)

Also threw in a shot of the different colored dash pieces taken in a better light.


Re: The beast LIVES! (lots of pics, not good for 56k'ers)

Reply #24
This picture doesn't quite do it justice, but you can see the difference between a taillight assembly that's been rubbed down with polishing compound and had the reflectors re-sprayed with silver paint vs. one still showing 16 years of weathering. Every light is noticeably brighter. (esp. the license plate light, which did not have any sort of reflective surface in there)

EDIT: Oh yeah, on an unrelated note, I cleared up my instrument cluster lighting problems. The fuse that controls the clock, rear reading lights, and the trunk release button was burned out. When I replaced that, the base lighting in the cluster came back. Go figure. Found out the trunk release is shot, though. Oh well, that's wut keys are for.

Re: The beast LIVES! (lots of pics, not good for 56k'ers)

Reply #25
Got some seat covers yesterday. The day before, I took a scrub brush and some Simple Green to the stains in the carpet. Looks like a LOT of coffee and/or soda was spilled in there. But anyway, even though the stains are still visible in some spots, the interior feels like a completely different car. Once I get new clips put on the windows, I can put that door back together. Still gotta figure out what I'm going to do about that broken shift indicator you see hanging down.

On the engine side of things, I've put in a couple more new vacuum lines, new dist. cap and rotor, new coil, new TFI, new TPS, and re-gapped all the plugs. (the gap was a bit small) Car starts easier but still doesn't run right. The thread in Engine Tech seems to either have people stumped, or ignoring me for being an idiot.. I can't tell which. :p (but neither would surprise me.. hah)

Next I need to find a replacement for that little metal grommet/washer/whatever that helps hold the TV cable into the throttle assembly.. and possibly an EEC, since the friend helping me locally thinks I might wanna try to find one on Ebay in case this one's messed up.

But enough talk.. this was just an excuse to add another pic. :p

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Reply #26
looking good man. I know when I fix something or clean something on my 300 dollar junkyard mobile I feal like a million bucks!  But it looks like I'm having a little better luck, I drive mine everyday.
One 88

 

Re: The beast LIVES! (lots of pics, not good for 56k'ers)

Reply #27
I'm waiting for the money to get new O-rings for the injectors, a new fuel pump, a new FPR, and a fresh fuel filter. We're having a yard sale this weekend, so maybe after that I can start working on it again.