Hi All,
You may remember my recent problem with what ended up being a short in
my GP Wiring Harness. I don't recall where the story left off, but the
Indy who said they could work on it but ended up not being able to fix
it even though I was telling them what to do. Anyway, my wife & I went
to the Indy last Thurs. and after cranking for 20 seconds, then waiting
for 30 sec my wife got the car to start on a 80F day on the 2nd starter
cranking.
My wife drove it home and we finally started on it this AM around 9AM.
My wife was a big help as I can't stand for very long at a time, so I
mostly "Supervised" (my preferred mode of operation) as she removed the
linkages, the manifold bolts and all the bits and pieces. After lifting
the Intake Manifold off, we were able to examine the GP Wire Harness.
We found the wire going to GP #2 had lost its insulation. I don't know
if it was abraded or perhaps the heat cycles made it brittle, but the
insulation was gone from the point where the #2 GP wire left the main
harness and went to the GP. Rather than re-wiring the harness
completely as I had planned, I decided to put some black electrician's
tape on it then covered that with the Universal Magic Repair of Duct
Tape to make sure the Electrician's Tape stayed in place. Also, before
putting the Electrician's Tape in place, I cleaned the bare copper wire
with Brake Cleaner because the copper wire was coated with black diesel
oil which prevented the tape from sticking.
Then, as we finished everything up, I found the mandatory error which
seems to appear in all my repairs - the Accelerator Linkage that
attaches to the aft end of the linkage near the firewall was on the
wrong side of the GP Harness! I had it on the inside, between the
harness and the cyl head, and it needs to be on the outside. As it was
I was prevented from snapping it in place. (This is when I said DAMN!)
So we decided to stop at that point, I was beat and so was my wife, who
had stretched the tendons of her legs when leaning over the engine to
reach the fasteners.
But we tried it, and it started instantly like it always does,
confirming we had put the Manifold and harness on correctly and that we
had found and repaired the problem. Smiles all around. Tomorrow I plan
to either pop that linkage off at the bottom, or even easier, unfasten
#5 and perhaps #4 GP Wire and move the linkage rod into the correct
position.
On the road again!
LarryT
91 300 2.5T
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