[Mulletbird]

Helps out some ...

Planning on pulling out all the excess wires (gonna take a while ... as I said, this car has separate wires, full harnesses and everything, for three different engines and ecus), A/C Evaporator and lines (GM installed that on non-A/C cars ... I guess it's cheap enough to be worth it, but this car never had A/C in it), and anything else that is in there that doesn't need to be there.

Also, I've called a friend of mine from back home to loan me a timing light so I can now adjust the ign. timing so it'll (hopefully) idle. Mech. pump, I've been considering putting in an electronic pump. Also, I'm not sure if the starter's even working anymore (might be dead, or it might just be not enough juice ... gotta find out). Once again, though, I have an unknown source of a short-circuit; even with three chargers (150A each) plus my neighbor's 2008 Cummins 1-ton HD wired up, it still didn't have enough juice to do much more than turn on a few lights for a second, and you could hear, quite clearly, electrical arcing. Basically, with more wire in this car than in the entire space shuttle (okay, slight exaggeration, but there's thousands of feet of cable in here) and most of it not connected, and the rest is rigged beyond belief (okay, when you have a quadruple-bypass from where a wire was cut, and not long enough, so they just added another piece rather than cutting to the right length, and after cutting it several times had to add another piece twice more, that's a sign that some mechanic just didn't know wtf they were doing). I've been slowly fixing stuff as it broke, but now I'm planning to fix it right, and once, and get it done so I don't have to deal with the same thing again the next week.

So, if you don't wanna come, don't. But, yeah, this car is in REALLY bad shape, and considering how little $ I have, I really want to just replace what needs replacing, and nothing else. And without the money for diagnostic equip, it'd help if someone would bring some out here (I bought a timing light and had my own multimeter, but when my dad saw it, he stole it from me, so now I'm without even basic diagnostics besides putting salt-water on my hand, touching a wire lead, and seeing if I get electricuted or not to test for continuity).