Trevor57
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- Joined
- Jan 10, 2010
- Location
- Chicago suburbs
I purchased an automatic 245 a while back, and planned to use the clean body for a project. I pulled the engine and auto trans, expecting to do a manual swap, but the car sat for over a year. I finally got motivated to do something with it, and it is becoming a bit of a mess.
The car was running, and driving fine when I removed the engine. I am doing a m47 swap, and +t. While getting the pedal box in, I quickly realized that the underdash wiring was a little hacked up. It appears that the previous owner had tried to retrofit cruise control on this car, and didn't do a great job on the install. (the cruise did not work on the drive home from purchase.) There were many splices, and things that made no sense.
I tried to start the car today, and no crank. I verified the starter was good, and then bypassed more of their hack wiring to get the starter to turn over. Now I have no fuel, and no spark.
The project car is at an offsite garage, and I didn't have a ton of time to troubleshoot this morning, but I am planning to go back tonight, or tomorrow. So far here is what I have done, or information I have.
Timing *should* be good, since the longblock sat and was running fine. I plan to double check
Fuel pump primes with key on, will check pressure at rail
Swapped back to stock computers just in case, no change.
Any input as to where I should start is appreciated. Right now I feel like there could be a wiring problem, due to their hacking. I removed the cruise setup, and maybe they had tied it into something important, and now I caused the issue. Start with fuel, or spark? I feel like I have analysis paralysis.
The car was running, and driving fine when I removed the engine. I am doing a m47 swap, and +t. While getting the pedal box in, I quickly realized that the underdash wiring was a little hacked up. It appears that the previous owner had tried to retrofit cruise control on this car, and didn't do a great job on the install. (the cruise did not work on the drive home from purchase.) There were many splices, and things that made no sense.
I tried to start the car today, and no crank. I verified the starter was good, and then bypassed more of their hack wiring to get the starter to turn over. Now I have no fuel, and no spark.
The project car is at an offsite garage, and I didn't have a ton of time to troubleshoot this morning, but I am planning to go back tonight, or tomorrow. So far here is what I have done, or information I have.
Timing *should* be good, since the longblock sat and was running fine. I plan to double check
Fuel pump primes with key on, will check pressure at rail
Swapped back to stock computers just in case, no change.
Any input as to where I should start is appreciated. Right now I feel like there could be a wiring problem, due to their hacking. I removed the cruise setup, and maybe they had tied it into something important, and now I caused the issue. Start with fuel, or spark? I feel like I have analysis paralysis.