Teaching My Wife's Boy to Work on the 'underbird September 30, 2010, 07:57:07 PM There's a little bit of grease, a little bit of rubbing knuckles on metal, some ranting about the idiot car parts places, and a whole lot of new words for him to mumble when he gets his own car to work on.Momma's gonna be proud :D Quote Selected
Teaching My Wife's Boy to Work on the 'underbird Reply #1 – September 30, 2010, 07:58:20 PM AWESOME !!!! a new generation Quote Selected
Teaching My Wife's Boy to Work on the 'underbird Reply #2 – September 30, 2010, 07:58:56 PM nothing like passing on the passion of getting your hands dirty and using words your mother would slap you for saying :D Quote Selected
Teaching My Wife's Boy to Work on the 'underbird Reply #3 – September 30, 2010, 09:32:26 PM And we got it back together Bad news is I think the shaging headgaskets are about to show their ugly head. Quote Selected
Teaching My Wife's Boy to Work on the 'underbird Reply #4 – September 30, 2010, 09:35:41 PM time for more cursing with some added tool throwing :D Quote Selected
Teaching My Wife's Boy to Work on the 'underbird Reply #5 – September 30, 2010, 10:33:12 PM Quote from: turbo_88_XR7;337375nothing like passing on the passion of getting your hands dirty and using words your mother would slap you for saying :DI guess that depends on who your mom is, lmao! Everyone in my house is convinced Dakota's first word is gonna start with an F lol Quote Selected
Teaching My Wife's Boy to Work on the 'underbird Reply #6 – September 30, 2010, 10:44:13 PM lmao it's different for you though.. you're sing and busting your knuckles like the rest of us here Quote Selected
Teaching My Wife's Boy to Work on the 'underbird Reply #7 – September 30, 2010, 10:49:19 PM Sing, busting, bruising, burning (I love the smell of welding in the am... I have issues, lol). I'm way more of a metalworking person than a mechanic, trust me. Rip it apart and put it back together, diagnose a problem, I'm calling Steve or Bill, lol. And hey, as many kids as we can corrupt the better. My friend has 3 I plan on putting to work as well and another friend has one on the way Scott I'm sure your wife appreciates the time you're spending with him even if it's gonna cost her money down the line, lol (we all no parts aren't cheap!) Quote Selected
Teaching My Wife's Boy to Work on the 'underbird Reply #8 – September 30, 2010, 11:37:07 PM Quote from: crystal;337437Scott I'm sure your wife appreciates the time you're spending with him even if it's gonna cost her money down the line, lol (we all no parts aren't cheap!)She's digging the working together, just not the language lessons.This head gasket thing is sort of worrying me, though. I'm getting the mist from the exhaust, coolant loss with not visible leaks, and when I checked the oil (on the first pull of the dip stick) it had a milky tint to it.All of this has led me to think ...How hard would it be to go from EFI to carb? There's a lot of computer shiznit on the '97, but maybe, just maybe I can make a carb'd engine work? Quote Selected
Teaching My Wife's Boy to Work on the 'underbird Reply #9 – September 30, 2010, 11:41:55 PM what motor? going from EFI to carb on a 5.0 just requires intake, carb, HEI distributor and a different fuel pump(unless you want to run a regulator with a return line with your stock pump) Quote Selected
Teaching My Wife's Boy to Work on the 'underbird Reply #10 – September 30, 2010, 11:49:48 PM I honestly don't think it would be super easy because of all the electronics (at least as far as the tranny goes but I could be horribly wrong, the newest thing I ever owned was an 88 tc). Now if it was a fox where the transmission is mechanical, piece of cake Don't mind me, I'm very biased, I way prefer mechanical systems to electrical even though they're usually not quite as precise. But hey, at least if my car takes off like a bat outta hell I know it's the throttle sticking and not the computer getting the wrong electrical pulse via magnetic interference or something stupid like that and therefor thinking you want the pedal to the floor (oh drive by wire how i hate you...) Quote Selected
Teaching My Wife's Boy to Work on the 'underbird Reply #11 – October 01, 2010, 04:39:53 AM Quote from: turbo_88_XR7;337445what motor?It'd be a major repower of the 'underbird Quote Selected
Teaching My Wife's Boy to Work on the 'underbird Reply #12 – October 01, 2010, 11:28:27 AM nonono.. i meant what motor is in it or are you planning on a swap? Quote Selected
Teaching My Wife's Boy to Work on the 'underbird Reply #13 – October 01, 2010, 12:50:40 PM You can reuse your efi harness and dizzy if it's a 5.0L. Just put a carb and intake on it. Quote Selected
Teaching My Wife's Boy to Work on the 'underbird Reply #14 – October 01, 2010, 06:56:38 PM Quote from: blu84302;337499You can reuse your efi harness and dizzy if it's a 5.0L. Just put a carb and intake on it.it's easier to just but an HEI distributor.. no headache involved Quote Selected
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