Better, still ain’t right, YET,,,

Thanks must go out to commentor Fred Lewers: That EGR thing was biting me,,, Got her running after I went through and adjusted the valve lash again,,, running like complete shit,,,

Unplugged the EGR and VRROOOOMMMM,,, Her Idle shot up, and she smoothed out quite a bit. Still have a miss, and could be in the timing gears still, BUT BETTER,,, Stayed that way after I plugged the EGR back in.

Fact is, I ran out of daylight,,, I DID get a chance to hook the OBDII up to her and get some live data points. Her timing at idle is hovering around 10 degrees advanced. I wanted to unplug the distro, but damned if I can get to it with all that stuff on top,,, Need to pull the cap off to get to the terminals.

She popped a code for “High Sensor Value” in the MAP,,, but was showing 25″ mercury on the live feed,,, I am going to install a vacuum port sometime soon, as I would prefer an analog reading as well,,, one that reads in REAL TIME, and that I can watch and see whats going on. (the computer will smooth out the signal for ITS benefit, so won’t show those little dips and spikes that tell when you have a sticky valve and the like.) (I used to use a vac gauge to tune my Fiats. Was FAR more accurate than a timing light in those “Fix it again Tony’s”_)(anudder fact,,, I don’t even OWN a timing light anymore. Haven’t used one in ages because most of what I work on, the point is nearly useless as the computers control it all.)

Gonna have to wait at this point.

And Da was sayin’ ‘just pull it in and work on it here’ UNhUh!!!! The stinks she is pumping out while not running right,,, She’d drop us in Carbon Monoxide with a quickness!!!! No, quite happy to be outside working in this case: safer on the health, and possibly property (if she decided to self-immolate or something.) I’ll deal with the limitations of daylight (actually, flashlight in tonights case, as it was getting QUITE dark by the time I hit the keyswitch to ‘Run’.)

I’ll get this yet. Dusting off long un-used knowledge again,,, Some of it has to be dug for at that. Been babied by my absence from the wrenchs,,,,

more tomorrow,,, after that, if she ain’t running well, she sits: we have a massive strom expected over the weekend. A real shitter of a storm from what the weather liars are saying. Willl see of course, but Even if the temps get to thier expectations, I won’t want to be out there under hood chasing gremlins and Tribbles.

LLLLL! (, ‘)