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1982 244 GL High MPG - daughter's first car

302ftw? said:
Keeping me in suspense man, hope the work is worth it
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hopefully tomorrow I'll know

brendon_ak said:
Did you convert it to lh2.2 yet?
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No plans for doing this

I had to make a fuel line using some stock line I had, heated it up and got it on.
It's mostly putback together, it's a lot of work being stubborn with sausages for fingers
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Started to wax it
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brendon_ak said:
Nice work, way to keep at it!
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There are no elfs that come in and do it for me:cries:


Came home from work put it back together and.... replacement line is fucked! God damn it Well Im going to get this done today
I decided to pull the intake like a real boy. I hope this guy doesnt find me https://x.com/IfindRetards

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Made another fuel line. This time routed it the right way. I originally had it routed along the side of the engine. Once you pull the intake you can see what a dumb idea that is
"new line"
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started right up with NO fuel leaking. Go fucking figure... The throttle is much smoother even with no load revving. It drops in rpms quickly like I didnt do before. I did not take it on a test drive because it was time to pee, told myself I couldn't go pee until I had it running.

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Great news @Jack . Interested to see how the test drive goes but it looks like this is a win. How did you polish the valve? 1000 grit or something fancier?
 
302ftw? said:
Great news @Jack . Interested to see how the test drive goes but it looks like this is a win. How did you polish the valve? 1000 grit or something fancier?
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Most of it came off with spinning the valve in a t shirt, then I did about 5 seconds in a “fine” scotch pad. I also put the valve into the distributor and spun it inside for like 5 seconds
toms_elleck said:
That doesn’t look like a good time at all.

Great you got it sorted out and found smoother operation. Hopefully the test drive goes well with no more hanging RPMs.


Might be easier to work on it if you take off that baseball mitt.
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It’s a mess under the intake and it only goes one way

These sausages make it hard to pick my nose most of the time
 
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came home and reinstalled air intake hose, refilled the PS pump and took it for a test dive. Car no longer has a weird constant jerking and feels way better, I do still have a an issue of "high idle" but it's a bit different - the rpms take a while to come down, but before they would just stay high randomly. I think I have to redo all my base settings, fuel pressure, idle etc. Im thinking it's more than likely that the fuel pressure is set too high

video of said issue. I wont have time until Monday to get back to this. (I press on the gas once and let off in video)
https://imgur.com/Hdaq9hS

and because I never really took any good pictures of it, from todays drive
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Things still to sort out
OD does not come on - i have not looked into this other than swapped a relay
speedo reads high - it calls for black gear (there are two) I must be using the wrong one
blower fan sometimes screeches like crazy - IDK if there's a way to somehow lube it without a major PITA
 
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You found a location so far out in the sticks that you can actually park in the driving lane and wander off for a photograph??

That's nowhere near the Bay Area, fer sure... I'm envious.
 
Toybox said:
You found a location so far out in the sticks that you can actually park in the driving lane and wander off for a photograph??

That's nowhere near the Bay Area, fer sure... I'm envious.
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I can park and suntan there without anyone passing through

There's a lot of that around here this is just ~5 miles from me
https://maps.app.goo.gl/FPdWfgQ5rfhpcny77 (maps shows summer time when the cows are gone)

lots of very different geography/scenery around here
 
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There's only 1 black M46 speedo gear. It works for both 3.91 and 3.31 rear end gears. The difference is the metal gear in the overdrive. For 3.31 the metal gear has 7 teeth and for 3.91 it has 6 teeth. Look at the housing near the output flange. There should be a 6 or 7 stamped into the housing to indicate which gear was installed.
 
hiperfauto said:
There's only 1 black M46 speedo gear. It works for both 3.91 and 3.31 rear end gears. The difference is the metal gear in the overdrive. For 3.31 the metal gear has 7 teeth and for 3.91 it has 6 teeth. Look at the housing near the output flange. There should be a 6 or 7 stamped into the housing to indicate which gear was installed.
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had to go way back... what diff would have come on the 84/85 turbo ?
all signs point to internal gear
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I think they had 3.73's.The 'New Car Features' greenbook after '81 or so shows what gears came in which models. I gave you some of them but I don't think I had one from '84. Either that or ask John242Ti.
 
hiperfauto said:
I think they had 3.73's.The 'New Car Features' greenbook after '81 or so shows what gears came in which models. I gave you some of them but I don't think I had one from '84. Either that or ask John242Ti.
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I think they had 3.73s also, will look it up but also @pinguin what’s the diff ratio on that 242 you got?

Something doesn’t add up in my equation, I seem to recall that the 242 Speedo was reading fine

This is good help. I know what to check
 
My '85 Owner's Manual says:
turbo manual 3.73 / turbo automatic 3.91 (the non-turbo versions are 3.31 / 3.73)

I should have a 3.91 automatic (AW-71) speedo drive gear in the garage, but I don't think it's the same as the manual one (I changed to a 3.73 rear axle due to the 3.91 whining).
 
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