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    96 cobra clutch clutch issue

    Is the clutch adjusted correctly? Sounds like it might be dragging which will prevent shifting out of neutral with the motor running. If you have a manual clutch adjustment, the release fork should just offer resistance with the pedal released. You should be able to grab the cable end, and...
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    Air Conditioning Won't work

    The more common mode of failure I have seen on the cycling switch is that it cycles _way_ too frequently. Low pressure should swing between something like 22 and 35. If the switch goes bad, it will hang right at 20-22 PSIG with the compressor going off and on like mad, which will damage the...
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    Installing o/r x-pipe tomorrow, quick Qs?

    Also, use a 6 point socket and throw the 12 point sockets out. I've never rounded a bolt/nut using the correct sized 6 point socket. I have broken a few off, but that's a lot better than rounding and being stuck...
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    clutch fork hits pressure plate

    Wrong TOB, or bent fork, or something wrong on ball end that retains fork, or pressure plate not torqued down properly, etc...
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    Ordering Gears Quick Question

    Sorry but there is no speedo gear on a 2000. If you google around, you can find a small device to wire in series with the VSS pickup on the transmission and it can correct perfectly, even if you decide to change tire sizes you can adjust it to get the speed dead on at 70 if you want...
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    Air Conditioning Won't work

    Here's a list of things to check and how to check them. 1. A/C clutch coil itself. You can use a voltmeter across the two terminals on the compressor connector. Should not be open. As an alternative, connect +12v to one of the pins, ground the other and see if the compressor clutch "snaps...
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    Interesting Spark Plug story

    No, the insufficient flow code is caused by insufficient flow. As in no flow. The computer can open the valve and notice there is no effect on engine performance and conclude something is wrong. In this case, the EGR pipe is missing and the manifold openings are plugged. So the MIL is...
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    pulling my motor. need a little help

    I would remove both as an assembly. From reading your post (asking about tranny bolts) I assumed you wanted to remove them as two separate pieces. Either way works. You can't leave it in the car however, and remove the motor. You would find it impossible to mate the motor/tranny together...
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    AC Compressor Question

    The only issue is that clutches are becoming harder to find. It is so easy to install one improperly and not get the air gap right, and cause it to slip, overheat, and ruin the front seal on the compressor itself. Several times we have looked for a clutch for a specific vehicle (last was a...
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    Interesting Spark Plug story

    Actually I had mentioned that previously. While replacing 4 bent valves due to a missed shift at the strip, my son wanted to cap the EGR and eliminate the pipe and the crud in runs back thru the intake, which he did. So there is no egr and at the moment we regurlarly get a CEL for...
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    AC Compressor Question

    What you want to do is take the old compressor, after you remove it, and drain the oil out. Add that much oil + 2 oz to the new compressor. Or if you want to be sloppy, you can wing it and add 4-5 oz and probably be perfectly OK. You should replace the accumulator/drier however, not because...
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    pulling my motor. need a little help

    First the starter. Getting to the top bolt is not difficult at all. Remove the H-pipe first. total of 8 bolts or nuts, two at each exhause manifold, two on each rear exhaust flange connection. Don't forget O2 connectors or you can rip a wire off an O2 sensor and get to buy another one...
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    Oil in spark plug hole

    the only seal is the top of the plug boot that is supposed to fit in the plug well opening snugly. After a year or two of high temp operation, the fit is not so snug. There are no seals anywhere else as the plug well is simply bored straight thru the head to the combustion chamber. We have...
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    Blown a plug :shock:

    There aren't 6 on any I have tried. Try this. Take your plug, socket and extension and insert it into the well. turn and lift up until you reach the point where the plug threads have just barely engaged the threads in the head. Now count the turns in including what is needed to get to 15...
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    Blown a plug :shock:

    It is simple. Steel threads that are not perfectly smooth, in contact with aluminum threads that are soft. The steel will roll up tiny pieces of aluminum and start a galling action that will ruin the threads over time. Anti-seize contains suspended soft metal particles that prevent this...
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    Its that time again

    That test is all well and good, but it is not indicative of the stresses inside your motor. The critical points are bearings. And there you have perfectly mated surfaces where the load is spread evenly, rather than focused on a single mis-matched contact surface. Companies like SPF use that...
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    Oil in spark plug hole

    How can you get oil in the plug openings? Valve covers leaking that much oil? In any case, oils and plugs do not mix, it will cause a miss. I'd pull the plugs, and the boots. Wash the boots in gas and dry, ditto for the plugs. Clean the plug wells with shop rag (clean, no grit) as well...
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    timing gears

    I do not believe so. On an OHV engine this is doable as the distance from crank to cam is fairly short. But on the 4.6 you'd have to have a dozen gears to connect crank to cam, and that would introduce too much slop and friction, not to mention cost...
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    Interesting Spark Plug story

    1. Plugs look right to the eye. They certainly do not protrude thru the head enough to come anywhere close to the piston top... 2. As far as cam timing, I don't see how it could affect anything. All that does is change where the valves open with respect to the piston and TDC. Nothing...
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    stock 1/4 miles times

    we have a 2000. Only mod is a 3.90 rear end. When running with real slicks, the best time it has run is a 13.2. It regularly runs 13.4's-13.5's with the M/T slicks. Trap speed is always right at 100 however, I think the best we have seen, without going thru a big stack of time slips is right...
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