Progress Thread Pete is checking out these valve covers

Potomus Pete · Jan 19, 2020

New lights for behind dash. Dragging my feet on this because Im sick of taking my dash apart. This week doing double oxygen sensors. Hope to see a difference in lower rpm power.

General karthief · Jan 19, 2020

The leds will give you about .0000005 better 1/8 miles times. The 02's won't help ya.

Potomus Pete · Jan 19, 2020

General karthief said:
The leds will give you about .0000005 better 1/8 miles times. The 02's won't help ya.

The o2s better do something . Dont say that. Im sick of replacing stuff that is not needed. That was my resolution two years ago. The lights I do because its ten bucks , and I gotta get away from you know who.

Wayne Waldrep · Jan 19, 2020

I can hear the gasps now but in 31 years I've replaced O2 sensors ONCE. ECT (Temp sender)....never. ACT sensor....never. TPS....once but only because it came on a new TB. EGR....never. Fuel pump...once but only because it came in the Powerdyne kit. Oil sender...once. IAB valve...never.

DSB88GT · Jan 19, 2020

Wayne Waldrep said:
I can hear the gasps now but in 31 years I've replaced O2 sensors ONCE. ECT (Temp sender)....never. ACT sensor....never. TPS....once but only because it came on a new TB. EGR....never. Fuel pump...once but only because it came in the Powerdyne kit. Oil sender...once. IAB valve...never.

That's great to hear. Is your quadrant original too?

Potomus Pete · Jan 19, 2020

Wayne Waldrep said:
I can hear the gasps now but in 31 years I've replaced O2 sensors ONCE. ECT (Temp sender)....never. ACT sensor....never. TPS....once but only because it came on a new TB. EGR....never. Fuel pump...once but only because it came in the Powerdyne kit. Oil sender...once. IAB valve...never.

Did you get a check light on the o2s , or did it for what ever?

Wayne Waldrep · Jan 19, 2020

DSB88GT said:
That's great to hear. Is your quadrant original too?

No. I put a BBK adjustable cable and aluminum quadrant in back in 1990 I believe. Been in ever since. Almost 400k miles, 3 different engines and tons of drag races. It's about time to replace the cable though. You know those adjustable cables don't last very long.

Potomus Pete said:
Did you get a check light on the o2s , or did it for what ever?

Only checked codes once in my life. Never had a reason to. I did new sensors on the new engine. I pulled my original engine with 248k miles on it. Still running fine. Young and dumb. I thought I just had to have a fancy engine in the car. Duh!
It was pretty dang fast though.

Potomus Pete · Jan 20, 2020

The black picture is because 3 lights were burned out. Of coarse Im cleaning everything. Im going to plug this thing after I eat and see what happens. These bulbs from Amazon are supposed to be good. I love this stuff , although I rarely drive at night. Mostly because my wife does not like driving in my car. She says I drive to fast, and it hurts her neck. I rarely go fast anymore.Simply because I dont want to break anything . Be back with fresh lights I hope these lights are such that I dont have to worry about how there in. I get a kick out of all our pictures of our stuff on the kitchen tables. Kids Forever.

Potomus Pete · Jan 20, 2020

Look what I learned on Stangnet. And it only cost me ten bucks.

Yes they dim....Happy days...or nights....top down...

Potomus Pete · Feb 1, 2020

Ready to get my new o2 sensors installed. Amazon $23.00 each you might not like brand. two for the price of one. Iv had to go a little cheap on some stuff. After all I could rear end someone next week. This heavy car with small brakes sucks. That one sensor is in a bad spot and had to be crushed. Both came out easy, almost hand tight. Runs much better probably because its cold out. It does go though-real happy with the power. New harmonic balancer is working out real smooth.

Potomus Pete · Feb 1, 2020

Is there any brake pads that work better than others that can stop my car faster. Right now I have Motorcraft.

Potomus Pete · Feb 1, 2020

Potomus Pete said:
Is there any brake pads that work better than others that can stop my car faster. Right now I have Motorcraft.

Potomus Pete · Feb 1, 2020

Just went out for a ride. Cant get over how this car runs. Playing with the timing tomorrow.

Potomus Pete · Feb 1, 2020

Whats this thing hanging at my trans mount. It broke off when I did my trans. Nothing is happening because of it. No cel or tach problems.

General karthief · Feb 1, 2020

VSS? The sensor at the speedometer cable to trans?

BlakeusMaximus · Feb 2, 2020

Is your speedo still working?

Potomus Pete · Feb 2, 2020

Yes speedo works thats why didnt care much. Plugs into manual trans. Crached the end and could probably tape it.

stanglx2002 · Feb 2, 2020

BlakeusMaximus said:
Is your speedo still working?

That plug will not effect the speedometer from working due to being mechanical. That plug is for the VSS

Potomus Pete · Feb 2, 2020

Thanks I was just reading about this thing. I better try to put it back in. I think Its leaking a little.

stanglx2002 · Feb 2, 2020

The O-ring on the Speedometer/VSS is probably where your leak is coming from. These flatten and/or dry out over time to start that leak.

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