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My midlife crisis, (rebuilding engine, sort of) |
mobymutt |
Jan 19 2014, 12:47 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 550 Joined: 16-December 13 From: Kingston, Ontario, Canada Member No.: 16,770 Region Association: Canada |
I just picked up a 1974 1.8 (carb conversion). It has been parked in an unheated garage for about 3 years, and was supposedly running fine before that, although it wont' fire up now.
My plan is to get it running, drive it on nice summer weekends, and use the other 9 months of the year to fix it up. Never worked on a car before, so looking forward to joining the fun! I'll post some pictures as soon as I figure out how... |
Dave_Darling |
May 2 2014, 09:09 AM
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914 Idiot Group: Members Posts: 14,985 Joined: 9-January 03 From: Silicon Valley / Kailua-Kona Member No.: 121 Region Association: Northern California |
Not normal. Sounds like someone else has been trying to "fix" it already.
The heater blower is most often a problem with the electrical contact under the handle on the center tunnel. There's a wire that goes to there which gets grounded when the handle gets pulled up high enough. That triggers the blower relay on the relay board, sending power to the blower. The relay can also be a problem, as can the connections from the wiring harnesses to the relay board. Back-up lights are triggered by the sender in the side of the transmission. When reverse is selected, a pin sticks out into the sender, which causes the two wires plugged into it to be shorted together. That sends power to the back-up lights. The wipers get power from the fuse block up under the dash. There's at least one relay involved in the works as well. I don't see a single point of failure for all of those, so it is likely multiple separate issues. --DD |
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