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And, that's not high pressure cut out?
You got some weird stuff going on. What's the no start? Crank? No fire? I would be suspect of the starter; I've had them go intermittent before death.
That 2 prong on the compressor is for high pressure cutout, this relay is another cutout, it sounds like that's what sends signal back to the ecm to turn the fans on high and bump the idle speed up.
Yeah it cranks, I checked fuel pressure and it's fine, I checked and it has spark, have not checked injector pulse yet.
Yeah it cranks, I checked fuel pressure and it's fine, I checked and it has spark, have not checked injector pulse yet.
Again, this car is cursed or I am clueless, I lean more toward the 1st
I'll eat crow on this one, I was just clueless.
I probed the harness and found my injectors weren't getting power. Turns out one of the spade connectors I had disconnected and was covered by my conduit. Plug it in, car runs. Official me being dumb moment.
Took the car on a cruise and AC temp is 39F, 43F temp drop, not bad!!
I'll eat crow on this one, I was just clueless.
I probed the harness and found my injectors weren't getting power. Turns out one of the spade connectors I had disconnected and was covered by my conduit. Plug it in, car runs. Official me being dumb moment.
Took the car on a cruise and AC temp is 39F, 43F temp drop, not bad!!
Been there, done it man! Sometimes it's truly the simple sh*t that boggles our brains!!! Glad you got it figured out, that's a cool sleeper to cruise.
Well I ran to one of the few local salvage yards that has older stuff and went on the hunt for another radio for this thing. I bought a din 1.5 factory radio last fall out of a S10/Bravada that turned out to be a newer 21 pin hookup, changed my wiring harness (no biggy) and still no go. It had a display but no sound. The car was a factory radio delete car that had a garbage shaft radio installed new at the dealer. It was bad.
I found this one out of a 89ish lesabre and put it in.
Good news is it works on the front left speaker
Bad news is the passenger front speaker had no sound and was randomly scratchy/static
Rear passeger side was kinds staticy but kinda made some sound
Rear drivers side was dead
The front speakers are 1 year old kickers
Rear are 1979 garbage that I can't get newer ones to fit since they are super low profile and wont fit between the interior panels and the inner fender
I'm sure the rear speakers are trash
But the front right speaker not putting sound out and just random static confuses me.
Blah. Audio. Not a fan.
I found this one out of a 89ish lesabre and put it in.
Good news is it works on the front left speaker
Bad news is the passenger front speaker had no sound and was randomly scratchy/static
Rear passeger side was kinds staticy but kinda made some sound
Rear drivers side was dead
The front speakers are 1 year old kickers
Rear are 1979 garbage that I can't get newer ones to fit since they are super low profile and wont fit between the interior panels and the inner fender
I'm sure the rear speakers are trash
But the front right speaker not putting sound out and just random static confuses me.
Blah. Audio. Not a fan.
Well the AC is kicking butt. It's legit fun to drive again. Drove 4 hrs to a car show this weekend, hauled 5 dudes around the show and 3 coolers, used 3/4 tank of gas and at the end of the trip walking around for 6 hours in 85F, and when I got home I wasn't hot, tired, or my ears ringing.
My other 4 buddies took their pickup down to the show and parked in the parking lot, I pulled in the lot too and and then they hopped in and put the coolers in the back, and needed to get to registration. We didn't know how to get there so we asked one of the parking lot directors. He kept thinking we wanted to get a closer spot but we finally convinced him we were ENTERING THE CAR into the show and not just spectating.
Dude must have been a 32 Ford roadster or tri 5 chevy guy. Goodguys finally opened their cutoff to 88 so I think some of the old heads are still a bit resistant to accepting 80's wagons 🙂
I didn't care since line 10 seconds later some 10 year old kit shouted "COOL CAR!" at me in ear shot of the parking lot director guy so if I am making 10 year old kids happy and 65 year olds questioning why I am bringing it into the show, I call it a sucess.
So this morning I decided to finally get my boost actuated exhaust cutout installed. Did some welding and found out the cutout didn't move. It turns out China shipped me a vacuum actuated one instead(normal closed, vacuum open). Decided to make it work. Swapped the spring from one side to the other, flipped the diaphragm, welded some bolts and nuts to reclamp the diaphram in, and put it in. Trimmed the spring to open at a lower pressure.
Also replaced the blown out muffler with a glass pack I had on the shelf. Old one did blow out but the insides were totally rusted out.
Car is quiet now and the cutout opens at like 5psi. Car previously made like 6PSI with the old exhaust and I assumed the wastegate was just set funny. turns out the old exhaust was just really bad and now it makes 12PSI and really moves now. It's dead quiet until 3psi and then by 5psi it sounds droney loud and the floor shakes since the cutout dumps right under the passenger floor.
Diaphragm and spring flipped to the other side.
Yeah yeah it looks hacked, but I had to trim the crimp off to switch parts around an can't weld anything directly on since the diaphragm would melt.
And I had to flip the lever arm 90 degrees to push open instead of pull open and had to flip the actuator and only use one bolt, I gotta find something new here.
Old muffler, she was split!
My other 4 buddies took their pickup down to the show and parked in the parking lot, I pulled in the lot too and and then they hopped in and put the coolers in the back, and needed to get to registration. We didn't know how to get there so we asked one of the parking lot directors. He kept thinking we wanted to get a closer spot but we finally convinced him we were ENTERING THE CAR into the show and not just spectating.
Dude must have been a 32 Ford roadster or tri 5 chevy guy. Goodguys finally opened their cutoff to 88 so I think some of the old heads are still a bit resistant to accepting 80's wagons 🙂
I didn't care since line 10 seconds later some 10 year old kit shouted "COOL CAR!" at me in ear shot of the parking lot director guy so if I am making 10 year old kids happy and 65 year olds questioning why I am bringing it into the show, I call it a sucess.
So this morning I decided to finally get my boost actuated exhaust cutout installed. Did some welding and found out the cutout didn't move. It turns out China shipped me a vacuum actuated one instead(normal closed, vacuum open). Decided to make it work. Swapped the spring from one side to the other, flipped the diaphragm, welded some bolts and nuts to reclamp the diaphram in, and put it in. Trimmed the spring to open at a lower pressure.
Also replaced the blown out muffler with a glass pack I had on the shelf. Old one did blow out but the insides were totally rusted out.
Car is quiet now and the cutout opens at like 5psi. Car previously made like 6PSI with the old exhaust and I assumed the wastegate was just set funny. turns out the old exhaust was just really bad and now it makes 12PSI and really moves now. It's dead quiet until 3psi and then by 5psi it sounds droney loud and the floor shakes since the cutout dumps right under the passenger floor.
Diaphragm and spring flipped to the other side.
Yeah yeah it looks hacked, but I had to trim the crimp off to switch parts around an can't weld anything directly on since the diaphragm would melt.
And I had to flip the lever arm 90 degrees to push open instead of pull open and had to flip the actuator and only use one bolt, I gotta find something new here.
Old muffler, she was split!
Glad you made it to the show ok. I ended up having other obligations so I could not go. Maybe next year. I have a couple questions for you. Does your vent deflector change a little bit with higher rpm? What are you running for pressure on low side of the A/C? I am thinking about getting a Ford vacuum pump to run the heating and cooling vacuum stuff. I do have check valves in, but the air deflector still closes a little bit at 2500 rpm and effects how much air blows out of the vents. I know you have overdrive, so maybe you don't have that problem.
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