It's been a busy week. I have been doing some minor stuff on the imposter. I removed the stock air cleaner and put in one of those chrome units with the 360 degree paper filter in the middle. It looks like a chrome cookie. 
I can feel a differnce in how she breathes now. I need to find a plug for the starboard valve cover so I can remove that metal tube / rubber hose that ran into the back of the air cleaner. I also plugged off the rubber tube that ran to the back of the air cleaner. I am assuming that is all smog control stuff.
I have begun working on the problem of the reverse lockout not working. I removed everything to expose the bottom of the shifter. Just removing the sides, as was suggested, didn't do it. I found that the woodruff key in the shift handle was broken off. MPE can't order a new one, so I will check with a buddy of mine who is a machinist. Maybe I can convince him to make one for me.
While I had the console torn apart, I began looking at the heater switch. I found two "towers" that the switch screws into were broken off. I am trying JB Weld to put them back together. If anyone has a good heater/AC face plate to sell, let me know while I have this all apart.
I found that a PO did not use the proper screws to put the shifter boot in. I found of the clips that the screws go into. Maybe MPE can get 3 more of those for me. I already have an interior screw set, so I have the proper screws.
I am trying to sell the car, so the more I can remove "negotiation points", the better. I still have that noise in the rear end. I have replaced the rear calipers, and the wheel bearings and u-joints for the left rear. The ones on the right rear I was told are OK. So, I can deduce that it is either the rear end itself, or the emergency brake stuff. The EB doesn't work, so I am suspecting it. The noise seems to comes on after it has been driven around a while. It sounds like something binding.
I also noticed something else strange. After I took the console off, I noticed a cable that looks just like a speedometer cable. The speedometer and tach both work just fine. I would think it unusual to put in a new speedo cable and leave the old one in place. Any ideas what it might be?
I found another unusual bit. There is a cable with a plug on the end. The plug has a cap on it. When I remove the cap. I find a "male" plug with half a dozen small rods in it. They form the shape of a half circle. Could that be left over stuff from the security system which doesn't work on this car? In fact, I can't find anything that would suggest that it has, or has ever had, a security system in it. The plug is about 1 in in diameter.
Every trip into the bowels of the beast is a learning experience.
I can feel a differnce in how she breathes now. I need to find a plug for the starboard valve cover so I can remove that metal tube / rubber hose that ran into the back of the air cleaner. I also plugged off the rubber tube that ran to the back of the air cleaner. I am assuming that is all smog control stuff. I have begun working on the problem of the reverse lockout not working. I removed everything to expose the bottom of the shifter. Just removing the sides, as was suggested, didn't do it. I found that the woodruff key in the shift handle was broken off. MPE can't order a new one, so I will check with a buddy of mine who is a machinist. Maybe I can convince him to make one for me.
While I had the console torn apart, I began looking at the heater switch. I found two "towers" that the switch screws into were broken off. I am trying JB Weld to put them back together. If anyone has a good heater/AC face plate to sell, let me know while I have this all apart.
I found that a PO did not use the proper screws to put the shifter boot in. I found of the clips that the screws go into. Maybe MPE can get 3 more of those for me. I already have an interior screw set, so I have the proper screws.
I am trying to sell the car, so the more I can remove "negotiation points", the better. I still have that noise in the rear end. I have replaced the rear calipers, and the wheel bearings and u-joints for the left rear. The ones on the right rear I was told are OK. So, I can deduce that it is either the rear end itself, or the emergency brake stuff. The EB doesn't work, so I am suspecting it. The noise seems to comes on after it has been driven around a while. It sounds like something binding.
I also noticed something else strange. After I took the console off, I noticed a cable that looks just like a speedometer cable. The speedometer and tach both work just fine. I would think it unusual to put in a new speedo cable and leave the old one in place. Any ideas what it might be?
I found another unusual bit. There is a cable with a plug on the end. The plug has a cap on it. When I remove the cap. I find a "male" plug with half a dozen small rods in it. They form the shape of a half circle. Could that be left over stuff from the security system which doesn't work on this car? In fact, I can't find anything that would suggest that it has, or has ever had, a security system in it. The plug is about 1 in in diameter.
Every trip into the bowels of the beast is a learning experience.
