16V 2.0 Pickup lives, sort of... Update...

[mr.utility at highstream.net (David Utley)]

Whoops, yeah, forgot the best part didn't I?

Yeah, it runs.  I can't believe it ran before, but it did, just not well at 
all...  It seems to accelerate really well, but we have now discovered that 
there are FI problems...  The DPR does not range in voltage as it should.  
That is fixable enough, I have help through Bosch...  ;-)

  I still have a lot of work to do before this thing is on the road.  Install 
axles, bleed brakes, finish and clean up the wiring, including wiring the 
cooling fan, gut and redo the interior (cabby dash on the way, got the carpet 
and door panels), get the cluster to work properly, on and on...  It should be 
a solid month before I am driving it...

Thanks again for the help...

Cheers, 
  David

PS--  Ummm, Jeff, um, do you have another one of those upper Autotech bars?

Quoting Jeff Toomasson <area53@validpath.com>:

> Yeah - but does it _RUN_ yet??  :)
> 
> >   Jim Jarret, Jeff, Brian, and others, thanks very much for the responses
> >   to 
> > my requests...  The sucker was indeed off at the cams, I think both were 
> > off...  I understand much better now why you folks have a love/hate 
> > relationship with your cars...  :-)  Damn, stupid to have to time it by
> > trial  and error. I got it on the second attempt with some help.  
> > 
> >   To sum up what we found:  Timing at the T-Belt was off by one tooth,
> both
> >   
> > cams were off, and the dist. was maxed at 7 degrees...  I was really
> > irritated  when I discovered that the valve cover bolts were finger tight.
> 
> > Add that to  the list of other things that were not tight:  All fasteners
> > for the front  suspension (we towed this thing three times with me in it,
> > once to the shop,  and back and forth from the muffler shop), the axle
> > stubs in the bearings (he  was smart enough to have them, but not smart
> > enough to  tighten them up, so I  will need new bearings), headbolts (they
> > were all over the place), many others  that at this point are not worth
> > mentioning...  It just goes to show what you  can get when you buy an
> > unfinished (unproven on the road) project...
> > 
> >   But now, I have justified my buying this thing, with y'alls help...  
> :-)
> > 
> > Thanks very much again...
> > 
> > Cheers,
> >   David Utley
> > 
> > 
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