Blue by You - TC+4 Reply #76 – July 22, 2011, 09:11:20 AM X2 on that shift cable, wish I thought of that for my car. Quote Selected
Blue by You - TC+4 Reply #77 – July 22, 2011, 05:09:44 PM I love it when you have to use your imagination to make things work. Most of us have had to do that many times. Great idea on the cable. Quote Selected
Blue by You - TC+4 Reply #78 – July 23, 2011, 09:19:27 AM Alright, made some more progress last night. I'm really just trying to get this thing running and just have a few more to dos...- Find the cougar vacuum tree and install it- Figure out the intake tube situation with MAF- buy a belt and install- Temporarily re-install the dash and wiring- Convert the 4-cylinder tach to 8-cylinder by adding a resistor (see coolcats.net article)- Install steering column- Connect all the dash harness wiring- Check fluids- Prime engine- Hook up batteryATTEMPT to START!!!!!Man I'm getting close to a start, but it won't be drivable quite yet. I have some other things to get done before the first drive. Quote Selected
Blue by You - TC+4 Reply #79 – July 23, 2011, 02:50:50 PM I dont know how I missed this thread but nice work and good luck. Quote Selected
Blue by You - TC+4 Reply #80 – July 23, 2011, 02:52:55 PM My valve covers look just like yours. Nice. Quote Selected
Blue by You - TC+4 Reply #81 – July 30, 2011, 05:54:25 PM I was tinkering around with some stuff and decided to get the dash and steering wheel back in. I found the vacuum tree and installed it. I stole the inlet elbow from my 92 mustang. I hooked up all the necessary wiring. So, I hooked up the battery and turned the key to run. The fuel pump primed - that was a good sign! I turned the key to attempt to start it... nothing. hmmm.So, I just turned the key to run and jumpered the starter solenoid. She sputtered...more later. Quote Selected
Blue by You - TC+4 Reply #83 – July 31, 2011, 03:27:59 PM I bet you are right! I haven't begun to diagnose, but I wonder if that is the case.BTW. She's ALIVE!!!!Again, I just jumpered the starter solenoid to get it to crank. And with a little throttle, she fired up! She ran very rough at first with a lot of smoke out the exhaust - I'm sure that was just the oil from the cylinder walls and rebuild.I adjusted the timing to be 10 deg BTDC (spout out) and the idle picked up some. It still blew quite a bit of smoke. So I shut it down.I pulled all the plugs to see what they looked like. They seemed OK. No large oil burning cylinders. While I had the spark plugs out, I decided to do a compression test. Every cylinder was between 135-140 psi. I would have thought they would be higher (maybe rings still need to seat), but at least they were consistent. I just started it a second time and it seems to run pretty well. I noticed some knocking noise, but it appears to be exhaust (h-pipe). And the idle is very low. I wonder if the IAC is not working, Or my TPS is not set correctly.So definitely bugs to work out, but at least I have a running vehicle again! Quote Selected
Blue by You - TC+4 Reply #84 – August 02, 2011, 01:23:20 PM That's going to be a beast of a vehicle. What are you planning to do with that 2.3? You should make a rail buggy with it! Quote Selected
Blue by You - TC+4 Reply #85 – August 03, 2011, 05:49:16 AM Cool! It must feel pretty good getting it fired up. I may be firing mine again today or tomorrow.Post up some video of it running and let us hear it! Quote Selected
Blue by You - TC+4 Reply #86 – August 25, 2011, 11:51:21 AM Alright. Last night I had about an hour just to diagnose and tinker.I found that I had forgotten to plug in the transmission harness to the dash harness... doh! So I plugged that in and now I have backup lights and the car will start with the key (only in neutral or park)! Yea. I'm glad I have the transmission wiring correct.I took out the Engine harness to tape it an loom it. It looks much cleaner now.Then I ordered the new Heater core and A/C Evaporator core from Rockauto.Next Steps:- Pull dash out to tape and loom engine bay wires- Wire in the Tripminder- Tape and loom the PRC wiring- Remove all the ABS wiring from the chassis harness (late-model ABS will eventually go back on)- Install heater/a/c cores and re-install box into the firewall- Then, lots of re-assembly!To make it driveable:- Adjust toe-in/out- Re-install front swaybar- Adjust shifter cable- Fabricate/Install cat-back exhaust- Install driveshaft- Check fluids- Test Drive! Quote Selected
Blue by You - TC+4 Reply #87 – August 26, 2011, 09:00:30 AM Good progress on the starting. I had a similar deal on mine with a forgotten harness plug.Sounds like a good plan for moving forward. Keep plugging! Quote Selected
Blue by You - TC+4 Reply #88 – August 26, 2011, 11:24:35 PM Are you running SD or MAF right now? With the vacuum to the map sensor off it will shoot out black smoke on SD. Quote Selected
Blue by You - TC+4 Reply #89 – August 27, 2011, 09:25:24 AM Thanks for all the suggestions guys. I really appreciate it. But... I just got tired of working on the TC. So... I threw in the towel and just went out and bought a new car... Quote Selected
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