It has been a while since I posted anything, so. I have been working on the car a little here and there. I replaced my alternator with a 140amp alternator. Seems to be keeping up with the load now. I did some work on the exhaust and got that together. I found my elbow pipe that goes on the end of the down pipe was too long and the coupler end was bunged up from a pipe clamp. I cut the damaged end off, shortened pipe, and welded a new slip end on.
I also added a O2 bung so I can move my Wideband gauge sensor down there. I had to get creative with joining the 3 inch downpipe to the 2.25 inch exhaust pipe. I ended up welding some reducers and crap I had laying around together. I thought I took a picture of the nonsense, but I can't find it. I plan to replace the exhaust in the near future. The person before me had put dual glasspacks on a six cylinder. I think it sounds a little retarded to me. At least it is quieted down now. I checked my knock gauge. I found the signal wire was unplugged from the gauge. NOT GOOD! I have it working now. I forgot when you start the car the gauge will light up the first knock light to tell you it is working. Hopefully I did not detonate the engine too much. I have been tweaking on the tune a little bit. Have not been able to drive it lately because it has been raining every day for a week. On the 80 miles I have driven the car it has not used any oil. Before I was using a quart every 70 miles. I did not see anything wrong with the valve seals, turbo, or psv valve when I replaced them. It is fixed though. My guess is the turbo was the culprit. I had to redesign my power steering reservoir. It blew all the oil out of it going down the highway. Plugged my vent hole and added a vent hose. This weekends project is going to a car show Sunday if is not raining and getting the A/C working. So far that has been challenging. First the blower motor was not working. Checked the wiring. Found blowed fuse. I got that fixed. I vacuumed down the system and it held vacuum for 15 minutes. I went to charge it and a valve core started leaking in my A/C line. I swapped that out. Vacuumed it back down again and started over. Now my new compressor the clutch is slipping. That is were I quit last night. Today I plan on burnishing the clutch, check my clutch voltage, and trying again. Any one have trouble with a new A/C clutch slipping? Sorry for the lack of pictures, not much to look at I figure.
