Next I sprayed with rustoleum truck bed liner, it's a hard paint with grit, very durable, my concrete pump truck grills are all sprayed with this stuff and it never chips Image Unavailable, Please Login
Look how civilized it looks, I should get better at it and sell them. I'd make hundreds Image Unavailable, Please Login
Now if I only had one of those presses I wouldn't have had to go to the hardware store and buy a cheap and nasty vent. Real louvres are something else... Image Unavailable, Please Login
Well it's alive again. Fired right up. Belts didn't explode, now to do the little stuff. Adjust new clutch. The front bank header has a little leak. I saw lots of terrible welding on it while apart, I'm going to enjoy it for awhile before I dig back into it, oh and I need to do the oil change now that I can warm the engine. I'll snap a picture of the press tonight
All that I see is a serious discussion many many years from now on how car A has forward and back facing louvers " just as it left the factory" and car B has unidirectional louvers that can easily be replaced so "the factory must have figured out a solution to bi-directional louvers"
Well I spoke to soon, car is dead on rear bank. 8 months ago I washed the engine, degreaser, electric pressure washer. I remember the tach going dead after that and I only ever fired it up to move it on the lift. I took it to the gas station and thought this things a pooch. Slow., brought it home, adjusted clutch and took it out for an embarrassing ride around my area, it started backfiring gunshots and smoke, limped it home. Ok so today I started eliminating trouble spots. Digiplexes were and are properly grounded, it's the rear bank that's not firing and tach is dead as well. I swapped wiring plugs on the digiplexes with no change, those are eliminated, next went to the coils, powers working to the wires, swapped coil wires around, rear bank fires, front dead, that's a no brainier since rear bank coil is dead, next I swapped the power and trigger wires to the coils, rear coil fired, bad coils eliminated. Next I goofed around with crank sensors, couldn't do much here because the sensor on the bottom of bell housing (front bank) is like a trailer plug, different than the locking originals. The bottom trigger is working because the engine starts, I decided to pull the other two (tach and rear bank) and switched them around, still nothing, I was hoping it would run full engine with tach sensor acting for rear bank. No luck. Can't imagine washing the engine killed these things but that's where I'm at. I'll check Seattle Ferrari to see if the have any in stock (doubtful) otherwise another week of waiting for ups
Welp, it bothered me to no end that I'd have two sensors fail so I had another look. Discovered that the rear bank plug had pulled the black lead in on itself, tricky devil. Can't get the plug to work so I'll direct wire the sensor and try it out Image Unavailable, Please Login
Gotta love those old connectors. Weatherproof? Not. And the plastic doesn't age gracefully. Spent a chunk of spring two years ago changing all my contacts and many of the housings - Courtesy of Dave Helms and his gold connector kit.
