ITS STARTING TO AWAKEN FROM ITS SLUMBER!!! It actually surprised me and fired while listening for the solenoid clicking. I have oil pressure and now have a place to start tomorrow. But it caught and fired briefly for a second or two on its first try.
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ITS OFFICIALLY ALIVE!!! Ran for more than a minute without any loss in oil pressure or what not. But I gotta fix those vac leaks and timing needs to be fine tuned. It fired up and ran on the first try without any hesitation once I got the battery back up. I had to kill it because it was smoking from somewhere. Someone said its likely the rings needing to seal. The passenger exhaust is not 100% hooked up because of a crooked stud so that could be a factor too. NO leaks down below or anywhere as far as I can see. I really need another pair of eyes. TO be sure.
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You will have some oil blow by until the rings fully seat which would explain the smoke
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Had it running for 30 minutes. No leaks, no smoking, no wild temp fluctuations. We're good to take it out. Get in, try to go, would barely creep at 3000. I was low on ATF big time even after I checked it....talk about an Auto trans noob mistake........:facepalm:
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I loaded the rear hatch glove compartment w/moon rocks..sorry i forgot to tell you.
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And its on the street...only problem is speedo don't work but who needs speedos LOL. Seriously Matt did it work when you had it? If so what do I need to do to fix it. You're good as your word though, IT IS FAST compared to what my 84 was when I had that crap caprice motor in it. May be as quick as my bro's fiero.
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check the vss plug
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the trans has an electric VSS, all birds after 85 had an electric on. On the tail shaft, driverside. It may have come off with all the work.
sorry about the trans being low, thats kinda my fault. You have to check it when its running and warm. When Matt and i took the front of the engine off to check for possible damper issues, we started it briefly without the radiator in the car, and the trans lines were going no where, so it barfed a bit of trans fluid everywhere, hence the shortage. good to hear its up and running again! |
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VSS is disconnected. I'm gonna go through the manual and search on TGO but if anyone knows off the top of their head what color the VSS wires are I'd appreciate it.
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I found it on TGO guys, it also answered the question of where this one square 4 pin connector went. Now I should know how fast I'm running, because if the 84 was any indication with a totally busted suspension, as I discovered, however fast you feel like you're going, you're really going like 20 MPH faster at least.....
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Plates on, speedo fixed. I drove it to the gas station 3 miles away, then came back and went past my house, probably a good 10 mile run speeds ranged from dead stop to 60 mph. Ran great, sounds great at speed, but I do need to get that exhaust fixed. I'll get pics when I get the chance. I still need to put the hood latch back in its place, but I think we can move this out of the project thread. Hell even the SES light didn't come on. But now I know something is out of wack on the daily...you know something is not right when a 25 year old car is more solid than a ten year old one.
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And now for the picture extravaganza! Excuse the mess, we use the garage for storage and cars. My brother is bad at putting stuff back where it belongs and some of the mess came from disassembly of the motor and etc. As I've said, I looked over the heads and decided to just clean up the chambers and leave them be.
Enough talk, time for the show. Great another third gen in the driveway with no motor, now what? http://i571.photobucket.com/albums/s...rchr/006-1.jpg http://i571.photobucket.com/albums/s...abrchr/011.jpg Disassembly of the L98 not in order....but yeah. http://i571.photobucket.com/albums/s...chr/0052-1.jpg http://i571.photobucket.com/albums/s...brchr/0042.jpg http://i571.photobucket.com/albums/s...brchr/0022.jpg Cause of death... Can see the bearing surfaces are grooved, totally destroyed. http://i571.photobucket.com/albums/s...rchr/004-2.jpg http://i571.photobucket.com/albums/s...rchr/002-1.jpg http://i571.photobucket.com/albums/s...rchr/012-1.jpg |
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http://www.njfboa.org/forums/showthread.php?t=55254 Put a few hundred more miles on her, find some open road, brake stand it to 3k and hold on... :twisted: |
You should put your T56 into the GTA...
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What did you pay for the t56 you got by chance? complete??
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Trans, bellhousing, slave (replaced slave as precaution), 4th gen pedals, hardware (though some was missing) clutch disc and pressure plate, flywheel, a 4th gen crossmember, I had to get a fork and T pivot, and a shifter stick. I had the shifter but not the stick. Naturally I had the housing machined to work with the mechanical speedo to save me the wiring hassle so it will work on cars with a mechanical speedo if change the gears to spec for mechanical speedo cars. But like I said, since its already setup for the 84 its kind of pointless. Especially since I theoretically could have the 84 on the street within a couple months after that. However, seeing as I'll be stroking the motor, it will be a lil more time before it sees the street under its own power. |
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