Recent content by rich_mc

Spent today installing gauges. Got a tach, oil pressure, volt meter, and boost now. Also got the carpet and seats back in. Tomorrow I need to do the headlight wiring modifications which will hopefully 100% fix the lighting issue I've been experiencing. Halfway confident that the first test...

Thank you. I've put a lot of effort into trying make it look as clean as possible without lots of extra stuff everywhere. I spent today installing and wiring a tach, oil pressure, volt meter, and boost gauges. Also got the interior put back in. Fairly confident the first test drive will happen...

I believe the crank pulley is always the same but they offer 3, 3.5, and 4 inch ones to go on the blower. Mine came with the 3.5 inch.

Nice ride... be sure to watch the for sale ads here on the forum for 8.75 rear ends too... I ended up buying a used one and redid the axle bearings and cleaned it up myself... I even regeared it myself, but after it being super noisy, ended up taking the center section to Moser and had them set...

I don't wanna get prematurely excited, but think I might have figured it out. I was looking at my Haynes manual and noticed that they show all the grounds for the front lights coming back to a single common point. So I took some scrap wire and clamps and grew the wires on each of the ends of...

Thanks. Kinda was my thought too so an intermediate step I made was connecting the ground to the inner fender instead of the radiator support plate thinking getting it farther away from the headlight relay kit relay would help. No dice. Then went with the attempt of running the ground all the...

And now the same issue is back. Headlights work fine if the turn signal/front marker light ground is unhooked. As soon as I connect the ground for the marker Lights the headlights stop working. Even tried running an isolated ground wire from the front marker light wire all the way back to the...

Throttle and kickdown cables installed. Need to adjust the kickdown yet but will have to wait for my son to get back here and help on Saturday. Vacuum lines permanently installed now. Tomorrow I'll trim the hood support and hopefully get the carpet reinstalled. Then make the boy help me...

Grill and lights back in. Lights are functional after half a day of troubleshooting. As part of this project I put in one of crackedback's headlight relay kits... Lights were acting dumb with things like the turn signal swith changing them between bright and dim, turn signal indicators on the...

Good news. Cut all the unused wires out of the factory harness, rewrapped it, reinstalled, and the car still managed to start when done. I must not have accidentally cut out anything important! I'm pretty happy with how the install is turning out to look. I'm excited to get to drive it again soon.

Cut all the now unused wires out of the factory harness, rewrapped it with the non-adhesive vinyl like original, and reinstalled. I believe engine bay wiring is now complete. Hope to get the grill and lights back in tomorrow night.

Regarding chicks, not interested. I was married twice already and not dumb enough to fall for that a third time! Regarding chickens, I do like those but usually get them pre-de-winged and slathered in buffalo sauce.

Thanks much for the guidance today. I'm 99% sure I got the timing lock removed. Before it stayed at exactly 15 all the time, but afterwards at idle it'd bounce up and down in range of 14-16ish. Regarding "base tune in tables" - is that what is established by driving it and letting the Sniper...

That's not a bad idea... - Me, while making nod of approval

Currently waiting on some more Lokar stuff to arrive so I can finish the throttle and kickdown cables... need to get it to the exhaust shop to have them make a modification to the pipe as with the new location it just barely rubs against the tranny linkage... then clean up wiring, hood back on...