The wire behind the glove box might b a speaker wire.....Is the red-red/black
wire been spiced to the plug ???? stereo/speakers work ????
Mike "MINOMAN" Huber
86 Mino El Camino
383 Carbed Stroker (for Now)
"Still drivin' it like I stole it"
Top Speed 138 mph - 4-05 BBORR
www.bborr.com
Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2011 11:27:03 -0600
From: rbuck@xxxxxxxxxxxx
To: elky@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [elky] A coupla progress photos
First, redneck engineering at its finest. Red duct tape to cover the torn
bumper cover on the Beater:
It otta get it past safety inspection. I don't think it'd pass with the ragged
edges exposed. I dunno whether it's rated for 200 mph, but with the little
2.8L motor, I don't think it matters a lot.
I've replaced the front wheel bearings, found a coupla cracked/broken vacuum
lines that seem to have been causing the intermittent Check Engine light (I
hope) and replaced the transmission mount. All tolled, it wasn't a lotta
money, but I sure spent some time, especially trying to make a TH350 tranny
mount work with a T-5. I had to kluge my own intermediate mount to the
crossmember. The T-5 mount is a dealer-only part and when they were available,
the price was over $300. No way. My kluge works and it's stayin that way.
I haven't been able to fix the temp gauge, so I tore into the dashboard:
Don't ya love those crazy $20 seat covers? :) Anyway, I replaced the
burned-out dash lamps, but didn't find anything that would have caused the temp
gauge not to work. So I'm gonna run a long jumper wire from the instrument
cluster plug to the temp sender. If that doesn't fix it, I'll do two things.
First, I'll just assume that I don't know a damned thing about basic
electricity and then I'll go buy an aftermarket gauge.
One other thing visible in this photo is the red/red w/black stripe wires
hanging down from the area of the fuse box. I figgered they might be for the
horn, since it doesn't work, but I couldn't find anything in the wiring
diagrams (the set I have is for 82-83) but that doesn't mean a lot. It looks
like the connector on the end should plug into the back side of the fuse box,
but I couldn't see a way or a place that it would fit. Any ideas?
And then the race car. This is a "middle-of-the-project" shot of the wiring
"tidying up" process.
There's a lot more work that's gone on than is visible in the photo. I
relocated the coil, redid its wiring, shortened a lotta wires and did a lotta
re-routing. It's gettin closer.
I just called the vendor and my 4 3/4" cowl induction hood still hasn't been
received from their manufacturer. I've still got some time, but it's gettin
closer and I already paid for the damned thing. Oh, well. One of my favorite
sayings is, "everything takes longer and costs more."
More when I have it to report.
r
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