1986 capri RS * now with pics* huge pics sorry

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1986 capri RS * now with pics* huge pics sorry

March 27, 2006, 05:30:07 PM

me and my dad were working on trying to get his 1986 capri RS 5.0 5 speed runing and we cant figure out whats wrong . it has spark. it turns over . but i cant hear the fuel pump kick on when he trys to crank it over . the car has sat for about 7 years and hasnt been started in about 3 . any help would be great . any other questions let me know .

thanks
Z

1986 capri RS * now with pics* huge pics sorry

Reply #1 – March 27, 2006, 05:37:10 PM

try starting fluid. That will tell you if its gas related. Change out the spark plugs, fuel filter as well. Let us know.

1986 capri RS * now with pics* huge pics sorry

Reply #2 – March 27, 2006, 05:43:08 PM

whats starting fluid ? like eather(sp?). plugs look good we pulled them . oh its a fuely car too

thanks
Z

1986 capri RS * now with pics* huge pics sorry

Reply #3 – March 27, 2006, 06:28:33 PM

A fuely car? what is that?

1986 capri RS * now with pics* huge pics sorry

Reply #4 – March 27, 2006, 06:33:55 PM

fuel injected...

Z

1986 capri RS * now with pics* huge pics sorry

Reply #5 – March 27, 2006, 06:34:09 PM

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A fuely car? what is that?

EFI.....If it aint been started in 3 years it probably has some gummed up areas. I'd start with a fuel filter change

1986 capri RS * now with pics* huge pics sorry

Reply #6 – March 27, 2006, 06:39:38 PM

Eather yes, it is starting fluid. As haystack said, shoot some in and see if it will fire.

Your fuel filter could be clogged, as pual said, or the pump may be shot. If there was any water in the tank in that time, it would have all settled to the bottom and rusted up the pump.

1986 capri RS * now with pics* huge pics sorry

Reply #7 – March 27, 2006, 07:30:49 PM

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I'd start with a fuel filter change

yeah but wouldnt the fuel pump still kick on ? my dad thinks its electrical . what should we be checking ?

thanks
Z

1986 capri RS * now with pics* huge pics sorry

Reply #8 – March 27, 2006, 07:46:13 PM

Look for the schrader valve (looks like a the thing that lets you put air in your tires) on the fuel rail, turn the key on and stick something in there and see if it sprayes fuel eveywhere. If it does, it's probably something else.

1986 capri RS * now with pics* huge pics sorry

Reply #9 – March 27, 2006, 07:46:39 PM

I dunno if this'll help, but the 86 Capri I had, had a problem where the fuel pump would just quit, and it wasn't the safety shutoff switch either. After being stranded a coupla times, and dragging it back home with the tractor, I finally found that the harness on top of the tank was dirty up inside the contact points...a good cleaning, and some electrical grease had it fixed...
But do like the others have said, and you may want to drop the tank, new fuel pump, and filter, and while you have the tank down, un-hook the fuel lines on the engine end, and take compressed air to blow them out, before you change the filter, and after you take the old filter off.

Good luck, not many 1986 Capris around anymore...btw, Mine was an ASC/McLaren :flip:

1986 capri RS * now with pics* huge pics sorry

Reply #10 – March 27, 2006, 07:54:30 PM

You might wanna run some fuel injector cleaner through it as well (or even have the injectors professionally cleaned). I don't know what it is that happens to gas after 7 years, but I do know it ain't gas anymore and will almost certainly plug those injectors solid...

BTW, anyone see the Capri in MM&FF magazine this month? They actually covered a non-Ford, non-Mustang! And to top it off, they have an '85.5 SVO project car now!

1986 capri RS * now with pics* huge pics sorry

Reply #11 – March 27, 2006, 08:09:29 PM

yeah dropin the tank is gunna be a pain in the arse job because we dont have a hoist (sp?) well we wont do anything till the weekend just because the old man works afternoons and he dont trust me with keys . somebody wouldnt happen to know where all the relays and everything electrical that has to do with the fuel pump / system are? i have a shop manual for it but it dosent have to much about the '86 fuel injected motor in it . just because it was the first year for the efi and last year for the capri .

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btw, Mine was an ASC/McLaren

NICE ..did you buy yours brand new ? and i bet its not as nice as mine:flip: only a bit of surface rust and its the orignal owner ...story time.... lol i was 10 weeks old and went over 260kph in it . we raced my uncle on his interceptor 500 his speedo said 260khp and we were pulling away . car was loaded with camping stuff my mom, dad and me (with a car seat that matched the interor)

1986 capri RS * now with pics* huge pics sorry

Reply #12 – March 27, 2006, 08:54:02 PM

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I dunno if this'll help, but the 86 Capri I had, had a problem where the fuel pump would just quit, and it wasn't the safety shutoff switch either. After being stranded a coupla times, and dragging it back home with the tractor, I finally found that the harness on top of the tank was dirty up inside the contact points...a good cleaning, and some electrical grease had it fixed...

this sounds good will try it . but we have to find out whats wrong before puting any kind of money into it. anyways here some pics (i hope)

Z

1986 capri RS * now with pics* huge pics sorry

Reply #13 – March 27, 2006, 09:06:00 PM

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NICE ..did you buy yours brand new ? and i bet its not as nice as mine:flip: only a bit of surface rust and its the orignal owner ...story time.... lol i was 10 weeks old and went over 260kph in it . we raced my uncle on his interceptor 500 his speedo said 260khp and we were pulling away . car was loaded with camping stuff my mom, dad and me (with a car seat that matched the interor)

No, actually I bought it from my guitar playin' buddy, who got bored with it, after he had bought it from somebody who didn't come off the title, he decided he didn't want it, so he let me buy it...
Yeah, your Capri IS better than the ASC is/was, mine was beat to shiznit, cause the guy that had before my buddy got it outran the cops in it...
4 times, ripped off all the GFX stuff...
Only good thing about it was the T5, wish I'd kept it, but I got more than what I paid for it, in the stuff I got as a trade for it. I paid 700 bucks for it...no title, it wasn't doing me any good, and sooner or later I'd have gotten in serious trouble with it...all the cops knew it, guy I got it from took it to a car wash one sunday afternoon, nearly got arrested for it...

1986 capri RS * now with pics* huge pics sorry

Reply #14 – March 27, 2006, 10:28:44 PM

looks like the pics didnt work .... attempet # 2

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