Some of you may know I blew my motor in my 95 and bought an 89 engine from a Lincoln Mark VII. I heard that engine run right in front of me and it idled perfectly.
I finished putting the exhaust back together today and all the air-pump stuff also. So I was ready to go for the first start-up. I had to remove the distributor prior when painting the engine but I replaced it exactly like how it was before I removed it. But anyway, today, I tried to start it and it just didnt wanna do it. So I thought I replaced the distributor wrong so I checked the whole thing again with piston#1 TDC while rotor pointing @ #1 sparkplug "pin". Same stuff. I had some help and we tried different kinda positions and we did fire it up but it was EXTREMELY sluggish and died like 5 seconds after. Something is wrong. Wasted like 2 1/2 hours working on this problem.
Here is what I "assembled" this engine with so you all know more about it:
- Stock Lincoln E7's heads, block, lower intake, cam, timing chain.
- My mustang's upper intake, oil pan, fuel rail, injectors, timing cover, waterpump, distributor, balancer, all the front accessories. Still running all the 95's electronics and sensors.
My friend is saying that I should be using the 89's distributor but I dont think it's the problem. The shafts are identical. Electronics are different. But since I run the 95's harness, I basicly cant use the 89's distributor since it has a module attached to it that us SN95's dont have.
Anybody have any suggestions about what could be causing the engine not to start and run well ?
Thanks
Mario
I finished putting the exhaust back together today and all the air-pump stuff also. So I was ready to go for the first start-up. I had to remove the distributor prior when painting the engine but I replaced it exactly like how it was before I removed it. But anyway, today, I tried to start it and it just didnt wanna do it. So I thought I replaced the distributor wrong so I checked the whole thing again with piston#1 TDC while rotor pointing @ #1 sparkplug "pin". Same stuff. I had some help and we tried different kinda positions and we did fire it up but it was EXTREMELY sluggish and died like 5 seconds after. Something is wrong. Wasted like 2 1/2 hours working on this problem.
Here is what I "assembled" this engine with so you all know more about it:
- Stock Lincoln E7's heads, block, lower intake, cam, timing chain.
- My mustang's upper intake, oil pan, fuel rail, injectors, timing cover, waterpump, distributor, balancer, all the front accessories. Still running all the 95's electronics and sensors.
My friend is saying that I should be using the 89's distributor but I dont think it's the problem. The shafts are identical. Electronics are different. But since I run the 95's harness, I basicly cant use the 89's distributor since it has a module attached to it that us SN95's dont have.
Anybody have any suggestions about what could be causing the engine not to start and run well ?
Thanks
Mario