Dallas CC: engine drop Wednesday pm!

[SSSammy]

Patrick, you drop her off here and I promise to return her a few hours later with grease under her fingernails

Joe, I'm back at my job during the days, so I'm working on the car evenings after about 7 for a couple hours. Tonight is electrical checks, distributor, lower coolant hose and thermostat. Maybe headers. Tues night is headers, sidepipes, maybe turn it over. Install a seat, get it off the jacks. Install the new surge tank that ERA is overnighting. Wed .. if no further snafus stop us, start it up and drive it a little way. So whatever works for you .. John Ross and I will probably be here.

Wed looks like the night for a start up, I'll post a confirmation here on Tues. So, any of you in area the who like to watch train wrecks or drink beer or both .. this Bud's for you! Approx time is 7 pm.

Sam

[FST FOX]

Originally Posted by SSSammy

Patrick, you drop her off here and I promise to return her a few hours later with grease under her fingernails

Hey now, I'm the only one who will be geting her dirty, but nice try let us know the exact plans and I will keep in touch with you.

[SSSammy]

John came over and we got the last two wires terminated and he did an expert job installing the throttle linkage on the double pumper. Then we hooked up the battery and turned the switch .. nothing! The solenoid is hot, the main circuit breaker is hot, the ignition switch is cold. Fuse L1, which feeds the bat term on the switch is cold. So Tues will be electrical debug night instead of all that other stuff

Engine start date can be calculated by "dividing the number one by zero" .. engineering shorthand for "undefined." Grrrr!

Sam

[Joe Wicked]

Electrical is my strong suit. I usually can trace down the issue pretty quickly. I'll see what is going on tonight and let you know. I kinda dropped my multimeter in the water a while back, so it doesn't work to well, but I should be able to borrow one from work.

[Joe Wicked]

Originally Posted by SSSammy

Engine start date can be calculated by "dividing the number one by zero" .. engineering shorthand for "undefined." Grrrr!

LOL, I missed that this morning when I was waking up. I guess that is a sign of an engineer when you find that funny.

[SSSammy]

Big night! Joe and John both came over and we worked a total of about 4 hours. In just 20 min, former Navy electrical tech Joe had isolated the the major electrical outage to a high amperage connector pin behind the dash. Pushed the pin into the housing .. problem solved. Lights all checked out, horn honked, starter cranked

Installed the new shorty surge tank that Peter from ERA overnighted, and then went on to the headers. Very tough .. and it took three of us about a half hour to 'slip' the first sidepipe on. Four into four pipe mating, not flanges .. .. but we eventually got it done.

Tonight, second side pipe, distributor, lower radiator hose, coolant ... done! Thurs night, pre-start checks and start it up Fri, wash and detail. Sat, test drive!

Good time for me to re-iterate how much I appreciate all the folks who have come out and helped in the last week, with special thanks to John and Joe! I would be way far away from driving my new baby if it were not for all of you

Sam

[Joe Wicked]

Not a problem, as I said, I enjoy doing this stuff. You make it sound like I solved the problem by laying my hands on the car. You had already troubleshot and isolated it down to the circuit and pointed out where the connectors were. There wasn't much for me to check to find the issue. It would have taken much longer if I had to start from scratch and find the connectors myself. I am glad that it was just the pin too. At first I was thinking that the connector was bad and not making contact.

I won't be able to make it tonight, but I may try for Thursday. No promises though. Just remember that you may need to loosen the header pipes more than they already are to slide the side pipes on. Soon you will be cruising .