Its the typical this **** is easy. then when **** no worky, wheres that manual?

 

For ignitors, the way I remember is the trailing one (the one you dont really need) is the one that you cant get off. The alternator is in the way of that one.

So, the one you dont need is the one you cant get out. Easy!!! I figured this out after switching my ignitors around. I am still young though so i am still learning. HA

Edit: Actually, not ignitors, just the wiring - you know what I mean

Edit 2: Matty lol

 

That descibes me down perfectly.....every damn time.....lol

 

Thats almost as bad as what we did...

Turbo'ing my friends 240sx--we ran a hose off the charge pipe in front of the intake right into the valve cover breather, never thinking that particular part of the engine shouldn't see boost...

And then we were baffled when the oil dipstick blew out!

Everyone ***** up the easy stuff. wacky said it best! I always add an hour or two to my estimated project time for that. And breaking off bolts. Gaaaah I hate that.

 

when ever i play with my ignition i usally forget to plug the negitives back to the coils and flood the damn car gosh i need a buck every time i do it its that bad

 

Heh, I have trouble with remembering to connect the negative of my battery after I store my car for the winter. I get in to start it and.... WTF??? Then I spend 5 minutes troubleshooting until Amanda comes down and asks what I am doing. I explain and she walks over and connects the battery VOILA! I feel like an idiot, and she thinks shes a hero... Or she thinks Im an idiot...

Today I couldnt figure out why the car was lacking throttle and was bogging badly. I went over my DFIS three times figuring I had forgot something. Then it hit me like a fat lady at a buffet on BBQ night. I had forgot to change the fuel filter for three months straight. So I swapped it out with a FRAM $1.00 filter, and my problems vanished.

 

Gotta love those fuel filters, so far I've changed my fuel pump twice, fuel filter 6 times, rubber fuel lines, Carb, Intake, Fuel Tank, fuel sender, rewired the fuel system, and now the fuel lines are in my sights.....hope i dont get them backwards...

 

How do you plan on redoing the hard fuel lines?

I need to do the same thing on my Pinto. I think I have seen Aluminium fuel line at Summit. Do you just get a small pipe bender and make it to the shape you need?

 

I didnt realize how much extra junks I have. Got to start cleaning

 

Hey Matty,

Well I'll use aluminum lines, i have a small tube bender and work the lines until they fit, it's not hard, especially if you can get the old ones out in one piece to copy. Put in new hose clamps and she'll be right mate. I eliminated the return line so that one won't need to be replaced.

Steve

 

Awesome thats what I thought. Its nothing for me to take out the old lines. Its kinda scary how east the fuel system on the pinto is. I can drop the tank in under a minute. No joke!

Matty|yattM

 

I've dropped three FB tanks in the past week, third one took 10 minutes...

 

Damn Wacky, I'm in the middle of moving my junk and I don't have near as much as you do Then again a good portion of my stuff is at work...


Doing up hardline is a piece of cake. Line bigger than 3/16" really does need a tubing bender to keep it from kinking, but one of the nicer plastic jobs works great. When I bend new line, I only use the factory stuff as a general guide, the factory has to worry about assembly tolerances that we don't have to concern ourselves with. On an RX-7 the lines are supremely easy compared to some of the cars out there when they are routed behind the rack at one end, then over the tank on the other...

I *do* prefer steel line to aluminum. Aluminum should only be used if you're doing up AN type tube nuts and have the proper 37deg single-flare tool for them. For hoseclamp or SAE type fittings, steel is the only way to go.

 

When I did the Al lines for widebody in 3/8", I found that 2 thumbs worked better than the tubing bender, still need to be careful though. I used my flareing tool to put a bubble flare on the tube ends so I could use FI clamps.

 

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And wacky are those meshie rims for sale?

Jon

 

Haha, even at my age, I am still getting schooled by my elders, and now the youngins are stepping in. Apparently I was doing the wrong drugs back in the 60s. lol.