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Have been starting to trouble shoot the vacuum system with thehandy info from the forum. Found some low hanging fruit right off the bat. 2nd picture above can see the Y connector for the cruise control and vacuum reservoir unplugged. Also found the lines to the flappy valve solenoid backwards, which also seems like many have run into the forum as well. Most of the HVAC works now, heat no longer stuck on. I know the flappy actuator works but still have to verify that it is opening when. It should. Will go through the rest of the vacuum system next.
If it's a 33 year old fuel line, yes. I'd be more afraid of the rear crossover hose due to the cooking that it gets but at this point all underhood fuel hoses should be changed out.
If it's a 33 year old fuel line, yes. I'd be more afraid of the rear crossover hose due to the cooking that it gets but at this point all underhood fuel hoses should be changed out.
thanks, I sort of sensed this reply coming but figure I get more info if I asked a dumb question. Appreciate you pointing it out, I'm still working to get familiar with the car so another set of eyes always helps
Absolutely! It's a nice example, plus it has Larry Webster provenance. Definitely a keeper.
thanks! Agree. The funny thing about the Larry Webster effect is that it's quite ironic. I think apart from the fact that he wrote an article about the car, it was the "low point" of the cars existence. He documented buying it for $3500. And after buying it it got parked at the lot of road and track outside and didn't use it at all. Pretty funny how life can change when jobs change. It seems Larry went from thinking he could do his own Ferrari maintenance to, I can't even touch my 928, now that im busy being chief editor of a magazine. I think all of our lives with our cars can go this way. The other funny thing is that this car has a crap ton of documentation all the way back to the original owner, but there is no documentation that I got that shows Larry had it, other than the article, and that the keys match and the sticker that was sitting on the center tunnel in the picture is still in the cassette tape compartment of the car. So it went from at first glance like, cool Larry Webster owned it! To oh, Larry Webster left it to rot, lol. Good news is that PO got to it quick enough and did all the big stuff that it was saved before anything very difficult got too bad. Paint and interior are still quite good.
a couple updates on my work, ive been slowly chipping away in the little spare time i have.
installed a new K1 spring to eliminate the 23 shift flare. while i was in there i repainted the trans oil pan and replated the fasteners. i also repainted the shield for the reservoir, and then one day later realized it should have been plated, dope!
I took out the wheel liners to get a better look at the turn signal wiring, as I thought I had an issue there, and found a surprise! Random wire had been piggybacked onto one of the turn signal wires, and the other end was just hanging loose. Maybe aftermarket alarm that later was taken out. strange..........
turns out all the wiring for the turn signal was still functioning, and i just needed to replace the fuse... dope!
also I found these two wires bundled up near the vacuum accumulator on the drivers side. I was told these are unused on US cars, but cant remember what the person who told me that said the wires were intended for.
I have to give kudos to this forum, it makes it so easy to fix things on these cars! I went to adjust the Bowden and throttle cables as my car was shifting early and harsh from med to high pedal. Not sure if I did it, or it was off, but the throttle cable was off of the pulley under the intake. After 30 minutes of trying to understand why the cables were so out of whack, I went back to the forum and found a post with the explanation right away! 20 more minutes in the garage and all of a sudden i have a smooth shifting trans at the proper speeds. Thank you!
next thing, more electrical silliness. Definitely someone installed, then hastily removed an alarm from this car. I found 3 more added wires that had been spliced in to the brake light switch, hood switch, and driver door switch, some using the blue connectors to leach into other wires. Fixed those up.
While I was in yhe drivers footwell I also found this strange wiring setup. Two white wires coming out of the same insulation but connected together in the pic below. Is this an OEM connection? Anyone have any idea what it does?
next was that I had no interior lights or hatch release with the doors open, but interior lights worked with the hatch open. Door chimes also worked so I went to the relay, per the forum info. Found the lights worked if I jumped pin 31 and to of the relay, so I took apart the relay. I started by testing the relay pins. The ground pin had lost continuity to the plate that is soldered to the chip due to what looked like light corrosion where the point went into the plate. Bottom pond on the picture. Cleaned and soldered that connection and now hatch releases and the interior lights work with the doors open, FOR FREE! no need to buy a $200 connector. I owe Alan in the electrical threads some beers......
Some more pictures that may be entertaining. When I first bought the car, if I opened the sunroof with closed windows on the highway, cottonwood sees would blow into the interior from the shifter boot. Now, as I have been disassembling the center console, I found a bunch more cottonwood packed into all the harnesses. No surprise really then when I looked into the cavity below the shifter, and finally found the mouse that put it all there. Dead. At least he was still whole enough to pull out in one piece and didn't smell up the car. Luckily he only chewed a couple wires that go to the clock. The rest were ok. Time to finish on the hvac refresh now.
06-07-2020, 06:02 PM
