Progress Thread Pete is checking out these valve covers
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Just ordered it. Be here tomorrow from Amazon . Looks good and will go in my closet full of special car crap.
Amazon sent the funnel set next day. Seals tight and works good for sixteen bucks. I believe its fixed it took lots of fooling around I dont know whats going on. Never had this much air in the system. Florida sunrise at six thirty am on my way to Ft. Myers
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Next issue at hand is more salt and pepper shaker problems. Before I cleaned them if you touched them a certain way the car would just shut off. Well, now when I get in to start it occasionally wont go, and after reading they can cause wandering idle. I am going to delete them with extra wire and solder. Its not my specialty at all. I have never soldered in my life, but all kinds of things on this car would have been impossible years ago.
I agree with the General. If you ever need to pull the motor, you'll have to take wire cutters to them again, and resolder it all!
Well you wouldn't have too but it sure does make life easier, you would have to zip tie the whole thing outta the way, that would be a pain.
HemiRick
I'd be looking at jacking under the house
Not true at all they can just flip up on the cowl....I just had mine apart and did this very thing w the wires
I did see a 15 wire connector on the web. I doubt I will be pulling the engine any time soon. Its way beyond my level of expertise. But never say never. It does make sense to hard wire them. First I am going to get rid of the re call set and just make one set. Two sets of shakers is twice as much chance of problems. Maybe the re call ones are the problem. They seem more flimsey than original. I trust in HemiRick of coarse with the hardwire idea. Actually I was reading a Ford online magazine and they strongly recommended it.
True........didn’t thinking of removing the entire harness and doing that.
My short term patience would just cut the wires.... lol
Just went out to get my wife a few things and see how this car runs- It runs smooth and fast. Still shows hot although it doesnt seem hot. No smells or pinging it stays at the same temp and never goes above where it is on the gauge. I replaced both temp gauges but this one was the culprit of the change. Just put about ten miles on it havnt done that in a few months. Merry Christmas to all pretty soon off to my bi-yearly church visit.
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HemiRick
I'd be looking at jacking under the house
Sounds like you need a $15 infrared temp gun. Great for diagnosing heat related problems.
https://www.amazon.com/Thermometer-...&sprefix=infared+heat+gun,aps,178&sr=8-21/URL
https://www.amazon.com/Thermometer-...&sprefix=infared+heat+gun,aps,178&sr=8-21/URL
Steel1
Mustang Master
You might want to look into getting a auxiliary coolant temp gauge. The stock one notoriously sucks.
why’d you switch the temp sender to begin with? If the old one is good you could reinstall it and see what it reads.
why’d you switch the temp sender to begin with? If the old one is good you could reinstall it and see what it reads.
The old one broke in two. Just fell apart ; I took it off by mistake long stupid story. I may get one if its one wire and not that expensive
Yo, Pete, I'm confused (should not surprise anyone here), you talk about the reading on your temp gauge after you changed a broken temp sensor, you show a pic of the ect sensor, it has two wires and is mounted to the heater tubes, it communicates with the computer not the temp gauge. The temp sender communicates with the gauge and has one wire.
Which one did you change?
Which one did you change?
Oh and BTW, if you have the extension on the ten pin connectors I would take it out and try the single black and white connectors first.
Now the idea of eliminating them altogether is a good idea, I'm just say'n I would put a connector in there, that's just me.
Now the idea of eliminating them altogether is a good idea, I'm just say'n I would put a connector in there, that's just me.
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