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Fri Feb 15, 2008 12:24 pm

RafCarre12 wrote:

The ones on the left :wink:

Looks like you are making good progress~keep it up.

Fri Feb 15, 2008 2:31 pm

So i did a little carpet yanking today. I drove about an hour and a half each way to pick up some new shinnies... I don't think I'll have too much time to work on her tomorrow since I'm driving up to Hartford to pick up another engine. I'm think I'll reseal that one and keep the one thats in there well... in there.

Mon Feb 18, 2008 1:52 pm

So the PO had an alarm put it the car. It was the Avital 2100. I didn't plan on using it so I decided to take it out. The gas gauge and the turn signals were also not working so I thought I'd clean up the wiring a bit. Long story short, I've removed the alarm, the gauges and turn signals now work... (and here is the punchline) the car won't start. To be clear, the when I turn the key to accessories, everything turns on properly but when I crank it, nothing happens. So I need to reconnect the wire(s) that would have gone through the alarm that didnt not allow the car to be turned on while the alarm would have been going off.

The problem is that, I don't know which wire that is. There are two wires that was left disconnected that weren't already disconnected... Two of them are the hot/switched wires red/yellow, the white one was disconnected previously and the purple wire is spliced into a white wire under the dash so that leaves the two brown wires.

Oh wise electrically savvy Sambanistas... HELP! :D

Tue Feb 19, 2008 7:42 pm

Good news...

So I started ripping the tape off... and removed the splice that had the red and yellow power wires pictured previously. The were just wrapped and taped.

Found some more ugly splicing but at least they soldered the one connection to the main live wire (upper left of the picture)

After removing the add on fuse block... the reason why the starter would do nothing when I cranked it. the main power to the starter was spliced and tabbed and was plugged into the alarm.

So I took the splice out... I still need to is to weld and heat wrap the red wire with the black stripe and heat wrap the other wires that were spliced and I should be all set. The red and yellow wires are the power supply to the radio, which I'll deal with later.

And here it is almost done!

I know this was a simple issue but I'd still like to thank everyone that chimed in. :181_blue:

Tue Feb 19, 2008 7:44 pm

First of all that car is not as bad as the 2 sitting in my driveway .
Give me a day or two to take some pics of my rust

Tue Feb 19, 2008 7:48 pm

Wwildman wrote: First of all that car is not as bad as the 2 sitting in my driveway .
Give me a day or two to take some pics of my rust

haha, get me a shipping quote on that 1600 to 07452 too.

Tue Feb 19, 2008 7:50 pm

Wwildman wrote: First of all that car is not as bad as the 2 sitting in my driveway .
Give me a day or two to take some pics of my rust
Do I smell a "rust-off"?
I'll need to take some more pictures of what the left coasters would call parts cars....I might have agreed,but they both run perfectly!

RUST OFF!!! :lol:

Tue Feb 19, 2008 7:53 pm

SloFasty wrote: Wwildman wrote: First of all that car is not as bad as the 2 sitting in my driveway .
Give me a day or two to take some pics of my rust
Do I smell a "rust-off"?
I'll need to take some more pictures of what the left coasters would call parts cars....I might have agreed,but they both run perfectly!

RUST OFF!!! :lol:

LOL, if it had only started before I started working on it I know my car isnt that bad for being on the north east... it IS why I bought it after all. :P

Tue Feb 19, 2008 8:18 pm

RafCarre12 wrote: Wwildman wrote: First of all that car is not as bad as the 2 sitting in my driveway .
Give me a day or two to take some pics of my rust

haha, get me a shipping quote on that 1600 to 07452 too.
I will get a quate tomorrw when I get home

Wed Feb 20, 2008 1:21 am

Nice work, man!

It seems that you have been infected by the Type 3 virus.

Keep up the good work and do keep us updated!

:D

Wed Feb 20, 2008 10:24 am

So according to FedEx, UPS and the USPS... I'm due to get a mess load of parts within the next few days. This is going to make for a busy weekend. \:D/ \:D/

Fri Feb 22, 2008 11:04 am

So its a snow crappy day out so I needed an indoor project...

So the sliders that came on the driver's seat looked like this...

Initially, they don't look that odd unless you know what one of them should look like... but when you look at the other side... its kind of obvious...

Yes, the PO welded about a 3" piece of diamond plating to raise the seat. I'm not a tall guy (5'9") but that still made me twist my neck a little while driving so that wasn't going to stay...

So I was lucky enough to borrow a friend's punches (thanks Ant) to take the seats apart. Each of the handles/knobs have a 1/8" retaining post in them.

So I took both seats apart, wired brushed the loose crap on them and hit them with some textured spray paint... It didn't come out too bad at all. =)

Fri Feb 22, 2008 12:22 pm

That's some good progress for a cold day! :D

Fri Feb 22, 2008 12:39 pm

Mike Fisher wrote: That's some good progress for a cold day! :D

Thanks! Oh and if anyone needs a raised seat perch, PM me. I'll let it go for cheap... I'll even respray it so it looks like new. :lol:

Fri Feb 22, 2008 1:15 pm

Good job on the seat bases they turned out pretty pimp

Fri Feb 22, 2008 1:18 pm

superstef1130 wrote: Good job on the seat bases they turned out pretty pimp

Thanks!

FedEx just showed up too!

Fri Feb 22, 2008 2:02 pm

So what did you buy the car from a miget family :? Ive often thought of lowering my seats being 6'5" :roll:

Fri Feb 22, 2008 2:08 pm

notchboy wrote: So what did you buy the car from a miget family :? Ive often thought of lowering my seats being 6'5" :roll:

The mom that drove the car was something like 4'10" so she needed the added height. Let me know if you want the base for tinkering with it. :D

Fri Feb 22, 2008 5:40 pm

had a few mins before dinner...

Sat Feb 23, 2008 9:18 am

So this morning's "project" was to test fit the Porsche turbo (7 slots) on the car. I bought 4 to 5x130 adapters and the appropriate lugs and so on. The front wheel went on just fine and looks pretty good. The rear adapters are hitting the rear brake drum retaining bolts however (they're allen headed). I know I could probably take the adapters to a machine shop to have small wells drilled out to accommodate but I was thinking that perhaps there was a source for flush mount versions for the brake drums. As it turns out, since the bolts are on perfect opposite sides of the brake drum, one of them is right in line with an existing hole that one of the newly patterned bolt goes into.

Once again, HELP! :lol: