Recent content by FitzPR

That explains the slightly tighter fit than the 10 gauge wire in my Dorman yellow eyelet. But i actually went ahead and did this, around the same time as when you posted: The wires are about 2-3 inches shorter now. I squeezed it as much as i could using vice grips, then released em, tightened...

boy do I feel dumb. It’s the alternator terminal. It’s been like this the whole time, inside the boot. I didn’t need to open RB2, and route around the splice Pic 2 shows what was actually still fully connected, about one half of the larger wire’s strands were not broken, shown here in “less...

Yeah, it supplies full voltage, but it doesn’t make it through to the EFI fuse. I’ve put in a wire from the link to the fuse (from circled C to oval 2), and now it runs reliably, except now the lights don’t work. The only thing that works through splice E5 right now is charging! What doesn’t...

It’s a 94, and I did pull the negative while I was working. But I think I found the problem! When the fault is occurring, there’s a bad connection, possibly at splice E5. There is only a tiny amount of voltage at the supply side of the EFI fuse. I used an add a fuse to feed it temporarily from...

My alternator went out about a month ago, and as i was intending to do a commute from University (just finished my BSME at 34) to my internship, i changed it out in the parking lot of the AutoZone next to the school. Looks like the unit in there was the original one. It had been intermittently...

The valve clearance wasn’t something I was worrying about, though maybe I should have. My uncle had suggested a similar clay procedure for finding the piston to head clearance, without a gasket, before he found out my pistons protrude, obviously if there’s no gasket and the pistons stick out...

My receipt appears to say .006, but the old guy who wrote it wasn’t the guy who ran the machine. It’s also possible someone was in here before me. I’m most likely going to put it together in the morning. The old guy at the machine shop suggested putting the head on, but not fully torqued, (10...

Some time ago, i posted Overheating Problem has me stumped. Spoiler alert: it was the HG. I had my head surfaced (it’s straight), and my block needed resurfacing as well. I told them to do a minimum pass, and they did great, the locations of the deepest pits are still visible, but completely...

Hey guys, I do appreciate all the info, and will probably try those things, but I haven’t had time to work on it in a while. a few weeks after my last post, I went on a two week vacation to Yellowstone. Then, i spent a week pulling the knocking 455 in my 73 GMC motorhome (it’s a toronado FWD...

I have a 94 with about 280,000 miles, which i bought used a few years ago, and have been having cooling system problems ever since. first issue was just making a noise like a coffee percolator from the expansion bottle after parking, complete with steam and some coolant coming out the overflow...