88 Bird intermittent engine shut down***SOLVED

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Re: 88 Bird intermittent engine shut down***SOLVED

Reply #105 – May 23, 2019, 07:11:55 PM

Quote from: james cassity – on May 23, 2019, 12:46:22 PM

we all should be building a contingency plan for future TFI failures.

Motorcraft, spare. Make a remote mount with a heatsink...

Re: 88 Bird intermittent engine shut down***SOLVED

Reply #106 – May 23, 2019, 07:57:22 PM

checked all those boxes by newer birds and cougs with the TFI module/heat sync mounted up inside the cowl wiper arm area.

found several for easy pickings but the the tfi's on these heat syncs are not push start tfi's so ....

Re: 88 Bird intermittent engine shut down***SOLVED

Reply #107 – May 23, 2019, 11:32:14 PM

http://fatfoxx.com/products.php

I was minutes away from ordering from this place when I decided to try a distributor from american muscle which fixed my concern.

I completely agree with motorcraft only tfi modules. Unless you enjoy replacing them. I still have my special tfi socket somewhere around here.

Re: 88 Bird intermittent engine shut down***SOLVED

Reply #108 – May 29, 2019, 07:17:41 PM

My '88 3.8L had the TFI module mounted to a heat sink on the rad core support, up in the cool air flow, from the factory. Since I did the 5.0L swap, it's now mounted on the distributor. I might eventually extend the TFI harness and mount it back on the rad support.

Re: 88 Bird intermittent engine shut down***SOLVED

Reply #109 – June 01, 2019, 10:57:04 AM

if you disconnect your tfi plug in and swing out the slack all the way to fire wall, you will find out that whole cable will dress in with slack to way forward of the pass strut tower.

no wiring work needed.

alll you need now is a 3 wire extender to go from the tfi to the pip in the dizzy