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Reply #15 – November 29, 2008, 10:10:03 PM

Quote from: 88FoxBird;245371

It runs for the usual couple seconds.

That's good, it means the EEC computer is working and you are not in 'limp home" mode.

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I think my car has other issues besides the occasional overfueling. Every once in awhile on a warm restart it has trouble strarting and I have to pump the gas alittle for it to fire, and when it does I get black smoke out the pipes for a sec. Also the car doesnt coast so think the trans may have an issue.

Maybe you have a leaking injector that's flooding the engine.
Opening the throttle lets more air in to lean it out.

Running the self tests and pulling the codes is a good idea.

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Reply #16 – November 30, 2008, 01:29:35 AM

Quote from: jcassity;245386

im kinda confused on your car,,
you say its an 87 but i see you have the turbo coupe nose and a primer hood.

if it were an 87 3.8L CFI engine, you would not have that stuff.

Is this motor out of an 88? swapped in?

Now your confusing me. It is an 87 3.8 cfi with a TC nose and hood swapped on it. Also the car is getting into overdrive and the linkages all look good. BUT the trans fluid doesnt look all that healthy but its still shifting fine for the most part. Heres one for ya. When it downshifts from OD to 3 at about 35mph it doesnt do it smoothly, its kinda like (another stick buttstuffogy lol) downshifting without rev matching in a stick shift.

Anyway its a $250 car that was wrecked when I got it with 104K on it and now it has around 112K and this was all put on in a period of about 7 months and it was doing this the whole time. Original plans were to swap the 5.0 cfi ho that is sitting in the garage into it when the 3.8 died but the little sumbitch wont quit lol! Right now I have another project that has priority(2.3T Ranger) so the little 3.8 just gonna have to keep going.

Sorry for the rambling that probably didnt make sense but I'm tired.

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Reply #17 – November 30, 2008, 01:44:15 AM

sounds like you know what to do.,,,, filter and fluid type f.

while the pan / filter is off, start the car and just at idle, a helava lot of fluid will rush out from i guess the converter and whats still stuck up in the transmission. I do this for just 10 sec or so to get more fluid out.

if no ones ever been in the tranny, you'll probably find a plastic lolly pop thing floating around in the pan.

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Reply #18 – November 30, 2008, 08:37:01 AM

Type F in an AOD? I was always under the assumption that type F would destroy an AOD (which requires Dexron). I've heard of people using a quart of type F to firm up the shifts, but never a whole pan full of it...

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Reply #19 – November 30, 2008, 10:06:01 AM

Quote from: Thunder Chicken;245446

Type F in an AOD? I was always under the assumption that type F would destroy an AOD (which requires Dexron). I've heard of people using a quart of type F to firm up the shifts, but never a whole pan full of it...

you would know better than me, but type f has always been my trans fluid for everything ford.

type f was introduced by ford in 63 for thier transmission, and dextron introduced by gm for thiers. Your thinking is perfectly understandable with all the years of GM experience you have.

http://www.aa1car.com/library/atf.htm I am not really sure anymore how applicable the type f or dextron is anymore today as it was over the past years. As we know, many changes have came along. I guess all we here as a community need to know is what was the transmission fluid used in 1983 on a bird or coug. I remember my neighbor in VA Beach telling me what my father had always said. Type f for ford, that other stuff is for gm.