Steering wheel and pedals are in, and the brake booster & master cylinder are torqued down.
Encountered a hiccup (what else is new?) with the TCS module and throttle cable. The cable seemed to have tension on it, and wouldn't allow the throttle body to fully close. Fed up, I decided to just ditch the TCS system all together. It was an easy decision to make, as the new rear I picked up is a 3-channel, versus the original 4-channel that came in the car & was damaged in the wreck. I had planned to swap 4-channel axles & backing plates onto this rear, but that's $150+ I can pocket now, I suppose. From what I was told, the ABS module I have will have to be swapped out for one out of a non-TCS equipped car--If this is true, then what a shame, as I spent more hours than I'd like to mention polishing the stock ABS block to a beautiful shine!
Special thanks to Adam to coming in clutch with a part-number for a non-TCS throttle cable--$39 from my local parts store, which is a hint more expensive than I thought, but it cleans up the engine bay some, and more importantly: It's not broken
Threw the new engine belt on and poured some Mobil1 in & spun a new filter on today before things went south... I had forgotten to install the new plugs while the motor was out of the car (...yeah) so I tackled that today. All went well, got the driver's side done & the wires on, then moved onto the passenger side. While doing cylinder 4, the plug fell out of the socket & disappeared down into the motor mount's clam-shell, I believe. After spending 45 minutes trying to find it, I admitted defeat & left it in there, threw a new plug into Cylinder 4 and called it a day right there
I'll tackle cylinder 6 & 8, as well as the shifter, AC, rear brakes, wipers, & driveshaft/TQ arm after the holiday. Right now, I need to get on road and go help the girlfriend move [furniture/clothes/entire life] into her new 2nd-floor apartment (Is there an emoticon for back pain?)
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Originally Posted by MyFirstZ
I think it may just be the evaporater and thermal expansion valve that are different. The entire assembly looked the same except for that. But either way I think we have to swap at least that.
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Hopefully Tuesday.
Mike-
I through the beat-up stocker on for now, but Beggs has both a rubber one & a poly one that I will eventually snag. The local parts store didn't have one, actually, and the only thing they could find me was $90... Autozone & Advanced said they didn't carry one either. No big deal now, anyway, as the crossmember is up, and I have a local source the mount. Thank you, though.