Dallas CC: engine drop Wednesday pm!

[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 .