My '86 TurboCoupe

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My '86 TurboCoupe

Reply #45 – September 01, 2009, 06:03:20 PM

What you call "registration book", might that equal "owner's manual" ? The Owner's Manual isn't too big (maybe 50-100 pages?). There are the repair ("shop") manuals (several books), and then there's another how-to book for simple/common repairs (~50 pages).

If you only need the info, and it's not already available, it might be easier to take pictures and send you those.

Do you have access to a Chilton's or Hayes repair manual?

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Reply #46 – September 03, 2009, 05:53:05 AM

I think that paper where are written all informations about the car and its owner. I don't know the exact word of this dospoogeent.

We have two versions, "small" and "big". In small are written most important informations about the owner and car. I have to keep this card by me when I am driving this car. The "big" I have at home, there is complete info about the car and history of owners. But I have it full of incorrect informations. This dospoogeent is necessary for technical control station. Until first January of this year it might be a problem, because of incorrect informations.

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Reply #47 – September 05, 2009, 10:28:12 AM

Hi guys, I had a problem yesterday. I was boiling water. Today I changed thermostat, because I had the old one working strange. It was still full opened, but when I was taking it out, it was closed. It probably was dead and I went through city in rush hour.
But today I found one more strange thing. Is it normal, that A/C compressor is working in heat mode? It shut off only in OFF and VENT mode. I think it should work only in A/C mode, not in HEAT. And fan wasn't working too although it was connected properly.

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Reply #48 – September 10, 2009, 02:23:27 PM

Dospoogeentation -
if no one else has any pics, maybe I can get some this weekend for you to identify.

Boiling water -
is the radiator cap good?

A/C -
there is a separate temperature select which works all the time. So it's possible to choose 'max a/c' and 'hot' temperature and get hot air.

Does the fan work if you directly connect it to a 12V electric source? If your engine fan isn't working when the a/c is 'on', the relay may be bad. Or the a/c could be low on freon (that could also explain hot air in a/c mode).

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Reply #49 – September 10, 2009, 04:12:45 PM

I changed thermostat and today found and fixed one small problem with fan wiring. This was the main problem I think. I found it, because fan didn't work in A/C mode. I will see tomorrow, we have Friday night ride again. It's in the city, so it will be hard test.
BTW radiator cap works well.

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Reply #50 – September 14, 2009, 12:43:14 PM

Friday Night Ride was perfect, car worked well. I think that problem with overheating was successfuly solved :burnout:

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Reply #51 – September 30, 2009, 08:30:21 AM

Hi, can somebody make a photo of the strap over the battery used in TurboCoupe, please? I need to make a copy, because I don't have it and my battery isn't fixed on it's place (it's just sitting in the tray). I would like to make the copy of original.

Thanks

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Reply #52 – September 30, 2009, 12:28:10 PM

No strap over the top, just a clamp on the battery box as show in the picture.

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Reply #53 – September 30, 2009, 01:01:55 PM

Nice T-Bird! It's nice to see there are fans of these cars around the world.

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Reply #54 – October 01, 2009, 07:12:44 AM

Hi, thanks. I know about one or two Birds around, but all 87/88.

Rodsterh, Can you measure sizes and position of the hole in the clamp, please? Thanks.

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Reply #55 – October 04, 2009, 04:15:19 AM

I visited on Friday evening one guy, who wrecked an '88 bird. He had a lot of parts from that car, so i finaly found complete battery bay with the clamp and screw. And Rodsterh, thanks for help.
I also bought an autolamp dimmer, but as I found in EVTM, without controler. I will test it out of car and after tests I would like to install it into the car (with found or home made controler).

Does someone have one more electronic day-night mirror?

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Reply #56 – October 04, 2009, 07:07:41 AM

I hope to have a few of those mirrors as soon as I get to the salvage yard.I'm going to start grabbing all of them I see.

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Reply #57 – October 04, 2009, 04:58:52 PM

Ok, I'll send you a PM, probably tomorrow. And you can add one more part from salvage yard to list for me - front right position light (that next to headlamps) - I tried to use black chrome on light bezel. The disassembling was OK, but it cracked when I was putting it back to the bezel. It was cracked a bit from past and I finished it

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Reply #58 – October 16, 2009, 05:05:06 PM

Hi, the fog lamp, I was waiting since August FINALY arrived (that guy sent it last thursday). So I've taken the broken glass out and put the new one to the bezel.

Here are both fog lamps :)

I'm going to install them on car in short future :burnout:

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Reply #59 – October 16, 2009, 11:01:10 PM

I might have some black cats you can glue on the glass. I always save them when the glass breaks.