2020 What did you do to your Fox today?

[gr79]

" I guess the solenoid got stuck while sitting."
My Ranger does that after sitting a few days. Motorcraft battery 2013 vintage.
Also sometimes cranks few seconds then clicks.
Tap on starter, tap on solenoid- no change.
Get out the jump cables or a jump box. Zoom, no recharging needed.

Next no crank session the other day (clicking), checked battery voltage. 12.4 not great but ok.
This time, connected only the black ground jumper cable to engine just for kicks.
Zoom.
No battery charging occurred or was needed. Restarts return to normal.
Most times, starts like new and will crank strong over a longer time span if needed.

So the other day went out and purchased a generic 4g 24" ground cable for 5 bucks.
Neatly routed and connected to battery - and a bolt on a/c compressor mount. Is a good known ground.
Will know more as time goes on (sound familiar?).
New battery is on the agenda anyway. Current one will be spare. Using a pos wmart one as core.
Battery and/or grounds suspect.
Am going to add more ground cables to the Ranger frame and body. Old vehicles and rust scenario.
Already added additional ground cables to the Mustang and its been starting/charging fine, no electrical weirdness.

Hard part is determining not only if there is an electrical gremlin or more but where it is. Ranger here has one (or more).
Sometimes the ign timing goes wacko driving during warm up. Tach gets jumpy.
Temperature related. Never happens in summer. Prob a sensor.
Turn the HVAC blower on. Or if on, turn off. Engine smooths out. WTH??? Or multi restarts to allow PCM to find a strategy.
Once warmed up and past its fits, good for the rest of the day. And after tach dies to zero.
I know i may be delayed somewhere soon down the road if tach works on cold start. No tach, good to go.
Never does it when at the dealer or shop of course.

Will follow up with report when corrected.

[escogt]

oh crap, I thought it was plastic.....

Only the UPR one is aluminum. The OEM & Repops are plastic that warp or become wavy. I wanted one that didn't warp & stayed straight. My OCD was the reason for this. lol

[84lxvert]

Pulled the tranny to install a new Spec Stage 1 clutch, McCleod lightened steel flywheel, fork and ball, throwout and pilot bearing, rear main and pinion seal. Stuck in the house for another week of self-isolation before I can go rent a couple of pullers for the pilot bearing and pinion flange.

[massacre]

Yesterday I installed my new taillights, cleaned and greased the bulbs and sockets. Spent some time with the power probe, and my headlight switch is bad.
I was able to power up the Headlights and dash lights with the power probe, so it’s nice to know that they actually work.
Wipers are hit or miss, got them to work once with the wiper switch. Washer pump works. I can spin the motor with the power probe, so the motor seems good.

[Foureyedjoe]

On Saturday I started working on my MAF conversion. Ran wiring from my fuel pump relay and vehicle speed sensor wiring to ECM location and soldered pins on the ends of the wires. Made my wiring harness to run from the MAF location to the ECM. I still have to run it through the firewall to the ECM location but I saw House of Dula use a grommet inside the fender well that came in right behind the ECM so I think ill go that way. Since I have to pull the inner fender lining out to do that Ill probably do the wire tuck on that side while I'm in there.

[ClayBelt]

Put a new water pump and radiator hoses in it. Based on the amount of **** that was on the radiator end of the old hoses I’m going to snag a dual core aluminum one from fleabay for my SVO since I plan to push that baby hard

[ClayBelt]

Put a new water pump and radiator hoses in it. Based on the amount of **** that was on the radiator end of the old hoses I’m going to snag a dual core aluminum one from fleabay for my SVO since I plan to push that baby hard

[Two86fiveoh's]

Had the car aligned yesterday. Took it for a short drive today to test the new brake setup. Stopping power is epic, now I need to fine tune the rear brake bias.

[ClayBelt]

Changed the spark plugs and bitched at fedex for losing the filler neck seal. Ordered new wires cause I broke one. Don’t have much left as things stand to buy thankfully, but I do have a lot of parts that need homes in the car now. Bit of a mixed bag cause I need some tools I don’t have but they’re shutting down a lot of stuff here so renting/buying them isn’t an option.

[ashley roachclip]

Made a deal for an 01 Cobra IRS , from a guy on another site .
Of course , when it was time to make the deal , they flake out again �� still on the hunt !!!!

[ClayBelt]

Changed the brake booster out for a reman from Autozone today. The previous one was pretty well shot, only complaint is it took me 3.5 hours to get it out and only half an hour to get the new one in.

[84lxvert]

Pulled the tranny to install a new Spec Stage 1 clutch, McCleod lightened steel flywheel, fork and ball, throwout and pilot bearing, rear main and pinion seal. Stuck in the house for another week of self-isolation before I can go rent a couple of pullers for the pilot bearing and pinion flange.

Got everything back in. Used the grease method to remove the pilot bearing and my brother dropped off his puller for the pinion flange. Just waiting for the Redline D4 ATF to show up on Monday to button everything up.

[ClayBelt]

Put my Pro 5.0 shifter in the SVO. Feels much more like a manual should. Incidentally, if anyone wants a hurst short throw I now have an unneeded one sitting around

[Basin Motorsports]

I put a FatFoxx TFI module relocation kit on my widebody coupe yesterday. I made two videos of doing it, so they will be available on YouTube in the next couple of weeks. The kit is based on a stock wiring harness, and I've modified mine so much that I had to change a couple things to make the kit work on my car. Very clean setup after it was done. Between that and a new distributor, I hope my ignition issues are finally over.

[gr79]

Temp repaired flat upper DS door seal cracks with electrical tape.
Removed and reinstalled PS upper door trim molding correctly over A pillar and 1/4 trim.
Oil pan drain plug has tiny seep about one drip a day no matter what gasket type is used.
Gonna use yellow pipe tape on it. Pan threads are prob worn a bit now after 100 oil changes.

[ClayBelt]

Slapped some Packard plug wires and a new filler neck seal on the SVO, then took it for a drive to burp the cooling system and see how the Pro 5.0 shifter felt. It no longer leaks fuel and it definitely felt like it was cooling a little better, but I can tell the suspension still needs work. The Pro 5.0 feels a lot more like my old Miata, so I’m not complaining there. Sold my hurst shifter to a guy in Miami too which nicely offset the Pro 5.0.

[0F0 CBR]

Had an irritating rattle from my header hitting my steering shaft. Instead of putting in a bigger header tube dint, I took out the transmission mount and slotted the holes, pushing the tail-stock about 1/4" to the passenger side. Took it for the 1st rip of the year, no steering rattle or drive train vibration, gained about a 1/16" header clearance.
Spring did not come fast enough.

[gr79]

Waiting for the fuel prices to drop a bit more to about 1.00 gal.
Plan is to drive the car to a certain corner gas station in Roseville Mi as done many times in 1980. Gasohol E10 days.
Then buy fuel for the same price as back then. Premium was 1.32. Was Total brand, now rebuilt as Speedway.
I remember clearly telling myself was glad i bought a car that took regular.
Sometimes on its purchase date anny, a visit to the first gas station i pumped gas into the car in St Clair Shores, MI.
Was at the end of the test ride before going back up the road to the Ford dealer and purchase the car.
Gas still available at the same corner, new building. Was a Shell with bays in July 1980, now Kroger gas.

[ClayBelt]

Wire wheeled the rust spots, hit them with some rust converter, primer, and rattle can, and started looking into the best way to patch the holes in the hatch and bottom of the doors

[NAVYCAT]

well I sold my falcon and its heading to australia the capri now has the garage all to its self and now that I have alot of spending money its time for the capri to get painted

[Foureyedjoe]

well I sold my falcon and its heading to australia the capri now has the garage all to its self and now that I have alot of spending money its time for the capri to get painted

Nice, good looking car. Are you staying the same colour?

[NAVYCAT]

well it was painted 3 other colors but going back to silver 1E with the canyon red

[NAVYCAT]

go to getting dragged back to see my build from the start

[ClayBelt]

Did more research into the front brakes and spindles, realized I’m probably going to be “that guy” and eventually straight pipe a 4 cylinder

[conmech]

Getting M.M. 4 point roll bar with low front bars for my 83 RS. Will be powder coated body color.