Looks to be Weber swapped. I would love to have this as a test mule for my 2.3 ford engines.
Looks to be Weber swapped. I would love to have this as a test mule for my 2.3 ford engines.
akylekoz said:
Looks to be Weber swapped. I would love to have this as a test mule for my 2.3 ford engines.
doesn't look too rusty (especially for Michigan!), but if you're going to look at it, I'd definteily take a look at the rear wheel arches, front valance, and the rockers (which are obviously rusty). If it's not too bad, that's a fairly reasonable price I would think. And where's the rear bumper?
Another cold-ass day, a few other little things until I can put the engine back together.
So I do have a 5lb propane tank to take for longer trips, but sometimes it's just more convenient to have a 1lb if I just want to make some hot water or something small and don't want to hook up the larger tank. I don't like having 1lb cans just stuffed in wherever they fit, and came across this double-can 3D printed "rack" for them (on Amazon, but independent seller). It was pretty inexpensive so figured I'd give it a try, and it came in today. Overall, nice quality, great fit and a nice design
I mounted it up on the little swing-out door (where my Jetboil now lives) for easy access just high enough to get my footlocker out beneath it. So, it's pretty much out of the way, does the job, and uses space that nothing else really uses anyhow.
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On the kitchen end of things, I ordered a Kelty kitchen bag that seemed to be the size, setup I wanted, and it came in today too. There are some cheaper knockoff one on Amazon, but this one seems to be built pretty well and has a lifetime warranty on it I think, and looks pretty nice.
It folds out so it can hang off a rack or whatever when cooking
I think it'll work great, but then I got distracted by my really annoying coffee box, which is totally inconvenient and I have to unload half of it to get to stuff I need.
Hey, let's see how the coffee stuff fits into the Kelty bag....
hmm...that actually works really well and makes all the coffee stuff easily accessible. So yeah, I'm gonna use it for that and order the other (slightly smaller) Kelty kitchen bag as well. I think the coffee stuff will actually fit in the smaller one and I'll use this one for cooking stuff. Or vice versa, TBD.
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It probably won't happen, but I feel like if I showed up with some cash he would let it go cheap. FBMP add is over a year old, he clearly has other priorities and a SWMBO. I however have the same affliction.
So, my stuff from RockAuto came in so time to get the engine back together. Immediate problem.
They sent the wrong gasket kit for the IM. The part number is actually correct for this vehicle, so Fel-Pro is probabaly in the wrong here, not RA. Luckily, the old one was still in good shape so I just put a bit of RTV red on it and re-used it. Anyhow, got everything assembled, including new plugs, new wires, new PCV (while I was in there), all back together, then went to start it up, expecting it to just come to life and.....it didn't. Cranked, and cranked, I could hear it trying to fire. Eventually it fired up and......was misfiring badly. Like, barely staying running. WTF.....
Turned it off, checked the order of the plug wires (correct), checked that they were seated well (yes), triple-checked everything else was hooked back up...no dice. Then I pulled the plugs to check if I was getting ignition/combustion.
Hmm.....three of the six look like nothing is happening......no fuel. They were all sparking when tested. So now I think i got half a batch of bad new injectors, but that seems extremely unlikely. So maybe I broke some of the old wires in the harness while taking stuff apart? Either way, I have to take the IM and everything apart again to do that, grr. First I figure I'll check the plug for the one injector I can actually get to that wasn't firing....... now keep in mind, I cleaned up all the injector plugs/contacts and may have made an error regarding use of dielectric grease. I use that stuff on all the connectors on the 1985 rally car (e30) but those are tight German connectors. So I'm thinking maybe these not-German old mitusbishi connectors aren't as snug, and aren't wiping the grease when plugged. So I clean that one plug out well, and then use a little pick to bend in the contact surfaces for a tighter fit. I plug it back in and try the car. It stumbles to life again, still misfiring, but definitely LESS misfiring (like, 2 cylinders instead of 3). So that seemed like the solution. Took everything apart, pulled all the connectors, and cleaned/re-bent them like the other one. Plug it all back in, put it all back together, and after a few cranks it fires right up again. So that did the trick.
Now, that was last night. This morning I decided to test if it was starting quickly - since all this was due to perceived leaky injector or whatever. The answer is NO. I had to crank it for about 5-10 seconds before it came to life, which seems a lot like what the problem was previously. So I'm at a bit of a loss here now. Everything in the fuel system is new. New coil, plugs, wires. Did a smoke test and no vac leak. The only thing I haven't replaced is the little "ignitor" ....so maybe that's the culprit? THough again, engine runs perfectly once started. So may have to trouble shoot some more.
Oh....and while doing the rear plug on the driver's side, I leaned into the brake master reservoir (36 years old...) and it literally cracked across half of it...
Love that brittle plastic. Guess better to do it here than on the trail, so I have a new one on the way.
- also, my second Kelty kitchen bag came in. This one is the "not Deluxe" one which is only 10 bucks less. It's not as nice, and definitely not as large (which I'm surprised at, a bit), but should be fine for my limited cooking utensils, plates, etc.
It actually fits better in my cooking footlocker anyhow. The coffee one will live outside the box for quicker access :)
....and just a quick follow-up to that last post...., the new brake master/reservoir arrived. It's identical to the old one so that's good, because it meant I didn't change the master itself since no air got into the system, I just changed out the reservoir itself. So, I think the rig should be back in action now.
irish44j (Forum Supporter) said:So, my stuff from RockAuto came in so time to get the engine back together. Immediate problem.
If you flip that end for end and turn it over it looks like it should fit.
Hard to tell over the internet though.
Toyman! said:irish44j (Forum Supporter) said:So, my stuff from RockAuto came in so time to get the engine back together. Immediate problem.
If you flip that end for end and turn it over it looks like it should fit.
Hard to tell over the internet though.
lol- I took the pic this way to be dramatic, but I did try it other ways. It *almost* fit but the bolt holes were off by enough that I didn't want to try it (especialy on a metal gasket). I should have taken a pic overlaid with the old gasket. Trust me, it was driving me crazy because I was like "this looks like it should fit!!!"
Either way, the old one works fine, no leaks, so probably just as well to get my $16 back....
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With it down in the teens-20s today, the Raider was REALLY hard to start. Like, took a good 30 seconds of cranking. Once started, ran fine, and started up instantly after I was in the store for 15 minutes. Clearly it's not about an issue in the fuel/ignition hardware at this point, and the most likely culprit is the system that tells the ECU the coolant temperature when cold so it can change the fuel map. Oddly, this is the same sensor that had the broken wire on it that I fixed a few posts up. Maybe it's been broken for a while but it didn't matter until it started actually getting cold out. But fixing the wire didn't do anything, so there are three things in the system that could be the issue: the ECU, the sensor, or the wiring itself. The wiring is a tough one so not starting there. I have a spare ECU, so plugged that in and it made no difference....so ruled out. I'm searching for the spare sensor I have (or will order one today if I can't find it), and will try that. If not, then will start tracing wires......
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