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i have a 1988 gt 5.0 theses are the things i have done to it when i bought the car 2 years ago it was running fine besides the tranny the 3rd gear was grinding bad finally the tranny stop working so then i went out and bought a brand bew tranny and clutch from ford racing.. when i put the clutch and tranny in the car was running like a champ again but the only problem was the floating bearing that goes between the clutch and the traany the one that sits in the fork was always spining . so i had to adjust the clutch well to do that i had to take apart the dash because the quad assembly has two different settings so it was on the wong setting i had to fix that so i did that ... now the tranny and clutch was insink with each other but my dash was all apart now and wires every where so i slowly stared to retape everything and connect everything back together now ther was a remote starter that was instaled before i got the car and by the time i put the wires and dash back together the remote starter staring to drain the battery and it wouldnt start so i took it to a shop and the took it out and put the car back to factory check as much as they could but they where only a small place and only did remote starters mind you the car was not even staring so now they got it to start for me and it seems it it holding a charge. but now which was still aproblem the car evey time you but it into gear and try to drive it it would just stall out. so i started simple changing all the senors throttle, map , idle, and changed the distributor, the cap , the wires and the spark plugs, them me and my friend started clean uo the engine bay reconnecting wire that had old tape and just jerry rig and making them look better with better connections .. now this car has and did have tons of wires that we cant find anything that the connect to . we know that some of the wires are for the a/c that has been taking out but there is just tons of other connection that we cant find .. now mind you that it was like this in the begining and the car run great but like i saud i am trying to clean it up.. so here is my problem when i start the car it will start fine and idle great in neutral i can hitthe gas and no miss firing at all but then when i but it into gear and drive it is fighting for power it wants go go put it we just drive real slow and the rpms wont rev up and when you hit the gas it will start to stall out.. i just dont get it and the turn singals will not work but the hazard light will yes i changed the relay plug things n both of them it was working like a year ago but when i put the dash back together stuff just stared going wrong but i am all most sure i connected everything rite back the way it all was before.. i have timmed it back to factory and everything i took the first spark plug out turn the the cranks until the first spark plug holle had pressure aka closing the first piston and set the distributor in the right way had the spout plug out wheni timmed it and then timed it then turn the car off and put the spout plug back in like i said i just dont gett it can some on please help me figure this out either email me afornataro89@gmail.com or call 412-310-4412 or something does any one know of a good place i can take it that is around pittsburgh PA thanks chris
 

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Please edit your post and use proper punctuation and capital letters.
Electrical problems are difficult enough to solve without added complications. Having to translate someone's explanation of them into an understandable format adds to the difficulty of solving the problem. It is very easy for some important detail to get lost in the translation.
 

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Nope... not even going to try to read that mess.
 

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I tried reading it last night and got a headache trying.
 

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Engrish.

Bring Dem.
 

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Sounds like you might have a vacuum leak, among other things. Open the hood and let it run and listen for a hissing sound. Check all of your vacuum lines. See if you can pull any computer codes. If you had a remote starter and then it was removed it could well be electrical as stated. Try giving information in short bits and maybe we can digest it better.
 
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