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Originally Posted by GregWeld
Not if it's raining buddy! If we go - which means we're getting up and leaving the hotel at 6 AM IF it's not spritzin.... if it's spritzin' we'll decide if we all want to pile into my Nomad and just take it --- and if it's really raining - we're heading to VEGAS.....
The car drives great - but I have many other stories to tell when this saga plays out. This morning at 6 AM I adjusted the valves out in the IHOP parking lot... I have intermittent brake lights - I can't get into the trunk half the time - I have water leaks - I have gear grease puking onto the fancy friggin' exhaust... sometimes it starts - sometimes not. I've had to have it towed off HWY 101 (thanks for AAA) and back to the trailer parking so I could repair the wire that came off (terminal broke off because the wire was too tight) the alternator... and I've had to rewire the MSD and get that wiring all away from the ECU bundle. Funny -- I told SAR -- "DO NOT" place the MSD anywhere near the ECU. Great! They put the ECU under the dash - and the MSD under the seat... fine.... then they BUNDLED all the wiring in one loom. The car wouldn't run - it crapped and backfired and did all manor of ill mannered things. NOTE TO FUTURE EFI PEOPLE.... DO NOT RUN THE COIL LEADS FROM THE MSD ANYWHERE NEAR THE ECU OR IT'S WIRING!! How stupid.... Why would you relocate the brain boxes only to bundle their associated wiring.
I now know why I have a shop in my own backyard... because (sorry "pros") most of the supposed "shops" don't know diddly about nuttin'!
Can you tell I'm pissed? 
I'm a greaser - not a waxer.... all the fancy chrome in the world doesn't mean squat to me if the car is dead on the side of the road! Take your chrome and shove it! Give me a dead solid reliable car any day. My Nomad has far more extensive electronics and systems in it - I did it ALL myself - and thank god - because it's down here (brother in law drug it down) and it's been the parts chase car... and the come get me off the freeway car... and it starts - drives great - runs better - the brake lights work - the headlights work... it doesn't rattle... and I'd drive the POS to NYC and back tomorrow. It was BUILT RIGHT! Attention to "circuits" in electricity - grounds - and +'s are EQUALLY important... Don't even get me started about the nightmare wiring in the '32 that was just "done" and then "Re-done" because I bitched about what I saw. Guess what... I'm not sure they'll get the chance to re-do the re-do. |
this whole deal is a "character builder"........... and you are definitely a "character".
Typical new car bugs, they all have them. Glad you're getting it all sorted out, sorry there's so many, but I think it'll be a great car once sorted. I need to figure out if I can actually fit in one, because I love the look.