Today (this past day, Saturday) I decided to tackle the injector issue.
Finally figured out how the 86 TV cable detaches...what a dramatically better design than the 87+ setup.
Broke 3 of the 4 screws for the "5.0 EFI" cover plate. Philips screws and used a manual impact driver. Broke right off. One of them even mangled the impact bit too.
Bypassed the EGR spacer coolant lines. The gaskets show evidence of leaks, as they always do, so decided to pre-emptively resolve that before it became a real issue.
Found a pinholed heater core line, will replace.
Tightened TV slightly since I was there and have found this car shifts, in my opinion, too early and soft.
Need to replace many vacuum lines and further diagnose TPS, I suspect it's scratchy and drops below minimum in the scratchy section.
Injector does seem to have resolved the misfire, however it is possible the green corrosion which likely resulted from mouse piss was the issue. I wasn't about to put it back together to test though, when I had the injector already.
The injector is a leftover from when I did them on my 91 years ago. One of the remans was bad and had to be swapped, so I put the 91 back together with one of its originals. The warranty replacement came, and I never installed it. That's the one I used today on the 86.
Do not think I'm touching the intake gaskets on this car until they fail significantly. This is going to be a bolt-breaker, I can already tell. I can break the bolts now or I can break them on a decent summer evening in my own driveway with no time constraints. I'll take the latter option.
While working on the car, which is at my friend's shop, around 8:30pm I heard a reciprocating saw out back. This is pretty normal for the neighbouring businesses so I thought nothing of it at first...but after it went on for a while and then seemed to get louder and closer, I started thinking about how odd it was for the (long closed by this time) neighbours to be using a saw so close to the fence. Poked my head out the man door and saw someone cutting the cats off a full exhaust system laying out behind the shop!
Quietly shut the door, went up front and told my friend to call the cops and then move vehicles to block him in...we assumed he had come in a vehicle. We got back there and the guy was seemingly gone, but he was hiding behind friend's '00 Grand Marquis in the corner of the lot. Once he knew we saw him he dropped his bags and hopped the fence to the rear neighbour and took off on a bike. Cop came, took report, reviewed surveillance but due to lighting and dirty lens there's nothing they can get from it.
Damage: resonators cut from late model BMW 7-series exhaust - not cats like they appeared to be - still have the resonators but it's cut apart now.
Chevy Aveo exhaust manifold and cat cut apart, cat and manifold chunks recovered from the bag he dropped, but this has sealed the car's fate as scrap now.
90s Nissan Pathfinder cat (aftermarket) is missing, seems to have been taken on a previous day.
'00 Grand Marquis exhaust cut on passenger side, cat not removed, just one cut completed before we interrupted him I guess. The pipe is too rusty to weld but may be repairable with a band clamp.
Friend is up by 2 DeWalt batteries the guy dropped, which is something at least since all his tools are DeWalt.
Guy also dropped his kit for smoking and shooting up, which included a small amount of crack (best guess is that since he seemed to be running low based on empty baggies, he's trying to get some cash quick to replenish).
The 2000 went back inside to prevent further attempts on it for the night. The 86 is outside. I am concerned the cats will be gone by tomorrow but there's nothing we can do about it...nowhere else to put the car. Camera lens has been cleaned and car is directly in front of it, but that won't deter him if it didn't the first time around. Just shitty all-around.
Finally figured out how the 86 TV cable detaches...what a dramatically better design than the 87+ setup.
Broke 3 of the 4 screws for the "5.0 EFI" cover plate. Philips screws and used a manual impact driver. Broke right off. One of them even mangled the impact bit too.
Bypassed the EGR spacer coolant lines. The gaskets show evidence of leaks, as they always do, so decided to pre-emptively resolve that before it became a real issue.
Found a pinholed heater core line, will replace.
Tightened TV slightly since I was there and have found this car shifts, in my opinion, too early and soft.
Need to replace many vacuum lines and further diagnose TPS, I suspect it's scratchy and drops below minimum in the scratchy section.
Injector does seem to have resolved the misfire, however it is possible the green corrosion which likely resulted from mouse piss was the issue. I wasn't about to put it back together to test though, when I had the injector already.
The injector is a leftover from when I did them on my 91 years ago. One of the remans was bad and had to be swapped, so I put the 91 back together with one of its originals. The warranty replacement came, and I never installed it. That's the one I used today on the 86.
Do not think I'm touching the intake gaskets on this car until they fail significantly. This is going to be a bolt-breaker, I can already tell. I can break the bolts now or I can break them on a decent summer evening in my own driveway with no time constraints. I'll take the latter option.
While working on the car, which is at my friend's shop, around 8:30pm I heard a reciprocating saw out back. This is pretty normal for the neighbouring businesses so I thought nothing of it at first...but after it went on for a while and then seemed to get louder and closer, I started thinking about how odd it was for the (long closed by this time) neighbours to be using a saw so close to the fence. Poked my head out the man door and saw someone cutting the cats off a full exhaust system laying out behind the shop!
Quietly shut the door, went up front and told my friend to call the cops and then move vehicles to block him in...we assumed he had come in a vehicle. We got back there and the guy was seemingly gone, but he was hiding behind friend's '00 Grand Marquis in the corner of the lot. Once he knew we saw him he dropped his bags and hopped the fence to the rear neighbour and took off on a bike. Cop came, took report, reviewed surveillance but due to lighting and dirty lens there's nothing they can get from it.
Damage: resonators cut from late model BMW 7-series exhaust - not cats like they appeared to be - still have the resonators but it's cut apart now.
Chevy Aveo exhaust manifold and cat cut apart, cat and manifold chunks recovered from the bag he dropped, but this has sealed the car's fate as scrap now.
90s Nissan Pathfinder cat (aftermarket) is missing, seems to have been taken on a previous day.
'00 Grand Marquis exhaust cut on passenger side, cat not removed, just one cut completed before we interrupted him I guess. The pipe is too rusty to weld but may be repairable with a band clamp.
Friend is up by 2 DeWalt batteries the guy dropped, which is something at least since all his tools are DeWalt.
Guy also dropped his kit for smoking and shooting up, which included a small amount of crack (best guess is that since he seemed to be running low based on empty baggies, he's trying to get some cash quick to replenish).
The 2000 went back inside to prevent further attempts on it for the night. The 86 is outside. I am concerned the cats will be gone by tomorrow but there's nothing we can do about it...nowhere else to put the car. Camera lens has been cleaned and car is directly in front of it, but that won't deter him if it didn't the first time around. Just shitty all-around.
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