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Generation Specific => 2nd Generation Specific => 2nd Generation Build Thread => : ~Groll69~ June 20, 2011, 09:41:26 AM

: Groll's Baby!!!!
: ~Groll69~ June 20, 2011, 09:41:26 AM
Well as many of you know I own a 1987 Red GXL NA.  This car is my baby and I have talked about it many times.  No one has actually seen the car over the years, including myself.  This baby of mine go back a long ways.  I purchased it in Aug 1997, It was the first car i purchased on my own and the first Stick shift I owned. 

Over the summer working for American Rentals I saw it for sale on the side of the road.  I watched it sit there all summer long as i saved up the money to allow me to purchase it.  When I had enough saved up I called the number and went to look at the car in person.  I found out the engine was a rotary, and fell in love.  I loved the styling, I loved the fact that it was not a piston engine, but I really had no clue what a rotary was other then it was different.  I wanted it and i didn't care, that little red sports car was going to be mine. 

At the time i beleive it had around 95,000 on the odometer.  It was a beautiful summer august day when i met the gentleman again for the second time.  This time we discussed price and upon settling on the price we drove to Felpuasch in Grand Ledge.  At the time my bank had a branch located inside the grocery store there.  I pulled out the money and he signed over the title.  About that time, we heard sirens go racing by north on M-100. 

That day had more significance to me then just a car, about the same time i was purchasing my car from him, a good friend of mine and my wife was in a very very serious car accident and she did not survive.  I know JJ would have loved seeing my little red sports car.  She would have loved riding in it too.  I did not learn of her accident until later in the evening.  On the way to a friends house, the clutch actually went out.  This was the beginning of the storied history of my Baby.

This car has always been around, though not always on the road.  It has been a ton of fun too.  I taught my wife how to drive a stick shift in it.  Not sure why i did that, now she drives the rx-7s like she stole them.  I will upload pics of the car and its progress.  This car is about to undergo the biggest transformation in its life and has been 14yrs in the making.  Stop by as i update the forum on the process of my Baby which i had named "The Rex!"
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: pjr June 21, 2011, 08:12:20 PM

Wow. Sounds like a tribute vehicle in the making. Looking forward to updates.

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: ITSWILL June 16, 2012, 07:40:08 AM
It's almost a year later but there should be much more to come very soon...
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: ~Groll69~ June 16, 2012, 07:58:16 AM
If there is anyone that wants to help, we will be installing the engine into it tomorrow.  The more hands the faster this effort will be accomplished.  Itswill will be providing the garage space.
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: ITSWILL June 16, 2012, 09:20:20 PM
Some pics form today. First we dragged his car over to my house.  Andrew was very excited!!!.  So far we got the engine stripped down and cleaned up a bit.

(http://i1134.photobucket.com/albums/m617/WPhilippin/Rich%20Kreiner%20RX7/IMAG0456.jpg)

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: ~Groll69~ June 16, 2012, 09:57:41 PM
Thanks for providing the garage space and extra hands to help me get this car running again.  I am hoping tomorrow to hear it come to life, assuming all goes well.
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: ~Groll69~ June 17, 2012, 09:12:24 PM
The engine is not in the car yet,but we made great progressgetting it cleaned up and sorting through the rest of the parts, getting the best stuff installed.  Tueday the plan is to clean up the engine bay.  The rats nest has been removed and things have been simplified.  This is some much needed progress.
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: ITSWILL June 18, 2012, 11:55:11 AM
(http://i1134.photobucket.com/albums/m617/WPhilippin/Rich%20Kreiner%20RX7/IMAG0468.jpg)

(http://i1134.photobucket.com/albums/m617/WPhilippin/Rich%20Kreiner%20RX7/IMAG0469.jpg)
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: ~Groll69~ June 18, 2012, 12:03:02 PM
It's hard to beleive that is the same engine in both pics.  That thing cleaned up so well.  It is making me drool just looking aat it right now.  I can't wait till we can try to get it running.  Tonight i will pick up the pilot bearing that i put on order.  I am hoping it is the right part that arrives, becuase the picture was distorted and overly enlarged to look right at advanced auto parts.
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: toplessFC3Sman June 18, 2012, 01:00:12 PM
Oh yea, the first picture of it in the bed of a truck makes it look about paper-weight grade, but it cleans up well.  When does it move into its new home?
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: ITSWILL June 18, 2012, 02:45:49 PM
once the engine bay is clean!
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: ~Groll69~ June 20, 2012, 06:39:45 AM
Last night we cleaned up the engine bay some.  Also will and andrew started buffing the car, and bringing back some amazing looking life to the faded red paint.  The pilot bearing ordered turned out to be the wrong part.  I got another one on order and hoping it will arrive tomorrow.  Then hopefully friday we can install the engine and turn it over and see if we get enough compression to run.
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: ~Groll69~ June 25, 2012, 08:16:11 AM
I have yet to post the pictures, but we have gotten the car to run breifly.  It is not starting all of the time as it should.  We have been checking sensors messing with the crank angle sensor and trying to hunt down the culprit to this entire issue.  We will get it solved, hopefully it wont take to much more.
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: ITSWILL June 25, 2012, 07:28:48 PM
So Andrew came home and started it a few times and then it flooded.  Afterwards I had an epiphany and realized that we didn't connect the vacuum hose to the map sensor (duh).  Anyway it's wicked flooded so we will wait until tomorrow to mess with it some more. 
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: ~Groll69~ June 27, 2012, 12:40:51 PM
I beleive the engine has to low of compression to be able to start reguarly and reliably.  Everything else checks out as it should.  Now onto the longer aspect of doing a rebuild.  I beleive i already have all of the parts that i need to rebuild an NA engine, minus two side seals.  I will have to inventory what i have and start from there.
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: awfc3s June 27, 2012, 07:55:47 PM
It sucks that we couldn't get that thing to work. I think we all were hoping that it was gonna just be a weekend project. Well at least you can help yourself in the long run by building a somewhat more reliable engine. Those 3mm seals will be way better for the "you know what."

Keep your head up.
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: ~Groll69~ November 04, 2012, 08:45:42 PM
The car is back at my house for the winter.  Hopefully we will get a new engine together so that we can install in early spring.  Until then it will sit in my driveway waiting patiently for its next chapter in life.
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: ~Groll69~ August 23, 2013, 09:57:09 AM
Its amazing how Woodward gets your ass motivated to work on a car.  I have started cleaning the housings somewhat, trying to ensure all major gunk is removed.  I will be inventorying my rebuild parts soon.  I know there are a few parts iI have to buy, but have not bothered purchasing them yet.  The important aspect is I have finally started in the rebuild of the original engine to my baby.
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: murz September 12, 2013, 11:28:47 AM
Amazing story! Can't wait to hear more
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: ~Groll69~ March 13, 2014, 05:54:23 AM
Well Things have finally began to move again on my mythical beast.  The original engine i have for the car has been in peices for many many years.  As a birthday gift from Will an Andrew, they bought me coolant seals that i have needed.  so on sunday Marcth 9th, I took my engine over to Will's place to begin the assembly process.  We checked the clearances and they are appearing to be in spec.  I had cleaned the housings and irons at the end of the summer, but we still media blasted one iron and one housing and painted them.  The Iron got a nice Red coat and the housing didnt shine up as expected for a clear coat so instead it got painted and alluminium color.  They are looking super sharp and I couldn't be happier.  I will post some pictures later, but since the last used engine i installed didnt cut it, the new one should.  I had the rotors milled out to 3mm many many years ago.  I am looking to eventually put a supercharger on it.  We will see on how the build progresses.
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: ~Groll69~ March 14, 2014, 07:51:20 AM
Well last night did some more media blasting a painting.  Here is the results of the work.  Ther two irons and housing on the right we painted last night.  The iron and housing on the left we did last sunday.
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: ~Groll69~ March 14, 2014, 01:46:10 PM
I just placed an order for a few missing internal parts from the dealership.  I hate ordering from their but i figured it was my best bet and I dont have to worry about shipping.  I can take my pieces in and compare them to ensure they are correct.  I should get them in about a week.
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: ~Groll69~ March 24, 2014, 08:07:30 AM
Saturday, I went to the dealership to pick up the parts that i ordered.  Everything was correct except the the Apex seal spring.  I needed the 3mm 13B apex seal spring and they ordered in the 12A 3 mm seal spring.  I have to wait a few more days for that peice to come in.  As soon as i get my coolant seals then i can begine assembling the engine with Will.
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: ITSWILL July 14, 2014, 03:42:06 PM
Come fix your engine! 
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: ~Groll69~ July 16, 2014, 09:17:08 AM
Need to plan a couple of days to get the keg together.  Maybe we can do this sunday
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: murz July 20, 2014, 04:18:05 PM
Last night's rotary madness. Progress was made, would have finished the keg if it wasn't for a cracked corner seal.

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: ~Groll69~ July 21, 2014, 07:58:12 AM
Thanks for uploading a couple of the pics of our progress.  Also, thank you for coming out and helping.  I will get that corner seal on order so that we can get it finished. 
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: ~Groll69~ July 29, 2014, 11:59:54 AM
Quick update, i got the 3mm corner seals in and the engine mostly together.  I have the tension bolts hand tight while i awaite for the tension bolt washers to come in.  the ones i had were looking really ugly and the rubber on them wasnt any good.  Atkins had the set for a fair price.  Then the wife decided to order the rotor cake pan and two of the larger cookie cutters at the same time.  That way when its running, we can celebrate with cake!!!!
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: murz August 07, 2014, 01:16:25 PM
(http://i1295.photobucket.com/albums/b627/marcusoo71/IMG_1326_zpse9315fb9.jpg) (http://s1295.photobucket.com/user/marcusoo71/media/IMG_1326_zpse9315fb9.jpg.html)

It's best to somehow label the top of the bolts, just makes it so much easier and harder to get confused. I torqued them down to 10ftlbs in the pattern before i finished them off.

(http://i1295.photobucket.com/albums/b627/marcusoo71/IMG_1324_zpsde1f0e4e.jpg) (http://s1295.photobucket.com/user/marcusoo71/media/IMG_1324_zpsde1f0e4e.jpg.html)

Bolt #17 is different. Also, make sure the ends of the bolts are clean and oiled.

(http://i1295.photobucket.com/albums/b627/marcusoo71/IMG_1325_zpsf2505221.jpg) (http://s1295.photobucket.com/user/marcusoo71/media/IMG_1325_zpsf2505221.jpg.html)

Torque specs! 23-29ftlbs for the tension bolts.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=ijJeUk_GqiI#t=2219 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=ijJeUk_GqiI#t=2219) This will come in handy from here on, I also have a dial indicator and pilot bearing puller, which will make life easy.
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: ~Groll69~ August 17, 2014, 09:17:35 PM
Today Will came over and with some help from my neighbors, and my daughter steering the car, we moved it out of my back yard and onto Will's Trailer.  From there, Will and I unloaded it at his house where my half assembled engine is currently located.  We proceeded to remove the radiator, engine and transmission out of the car.   I have attached some pics of the new engine and the last attempt of making my car run.

On a sad note, I looked at the last expiration tag on my license plate which expired on March of 2006 and realized that the last time my Red car has been driven on the road was in August of 2005.  It has been at least 9 years that I have not been able to drive my baby.
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: ~Groll69~ August 17, 2014, 09:21:27 PM
The last pic is my car parked in Will's half finished pole barn.  When I was up there in the Vert, that made a total of 6 Rx7s at his house.  That is a little more then half the number of RX7s that made it out to dream cruise.  The sad part is of those 6 cars.  Only two of them were actually running and registered to drive on the road.
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: ITSWILL August 19, 2014, 07:03:11 PM
Good point.

As soon as your car is done and I get rid of the 91 the 20B is rolling in to get worked on.
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: ~Groll69~ August 20, 2014, 08:29:21 AM
Last night i removed the parts that i need from the other engine.  I will be cleaning and preping them for paint tonight.  I have to go pick up some cleaner and scrub brush after work today. 

I would love to have things going back together by sunday, but i know that would be really pushing everything. 
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: ~Groll69~ August 26, 2014, 12:08:03 PM
Last night i started painting some of the intake parts along with the oil pan and a few other misc. parts.  I have some more painting and parts cleaning to do.  Its looking good.  I should be able to start assembling the last pieces soon.
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: ~Groll69~ August 29, 2014, 08:04:57 AM
Assembly of components onto the engine has officially begun.  I took pictures last night of where i left off.  I will post them when i get home today.  I even painted the transmission and mounting bracket.  Mostly to reduce corrosion and make easier to clean and service in the future.  I am making progress, though it is slower then i would like.
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: ~Groll69~ August 30, 2014, 10:06:50 PM
Today a lot of progress has been made.  Murz came over to help me.  Without his extra hand, I wouldn't have made as much progress.  We mated the engine to the transmission.  Pushed the beats from its resting spot into the garage.  Installed the engine and trans.  Finally installed the upper intake.  I started making all of the connections before calling it a night.  Murz did take pics for me. 
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: ITSWILL August 31, 2014, 07:04:14 AM
Looks good. Keep up the momentum!
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: murz August 31, 2014, 11:46:05 AM
Here's the pictures I took, progress has been made! Pushing the car up the hill took a bit of momentum haha.
(http://i1295.photobucket.com/albums/b627/marcusoo71/IMG_1418_zps1ee6446e.jpg) (http://s1295.photobucket.com/user/marcusoo71/media/IMG_1418_zps1ee6446e.jpg.html)
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: ~Groll69~ September 02, 2014, 05:45:25 AM
Wish i could have worked on the car past two days, but since My wife hadnt seen me for over a week, she told me i was not allowed to do any work for the last two days of labor day weekend.  I am looking forward to getting back into the garage and buttoning things up to get it running.

Murz, thanks for the pictures. 

I added a couple of pictures i took of the work i had gotten done after Murz left for the evening.  The biggest problem is trying to identify all of the right bolts or nuts, since removal was done quickly without tracking those items.
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: ~Groll69~ September 03, 2014, 06:29:47 AM
No new pictures from last nights work.  It doesn't look like we did much, but we spent the evening attching vaccumn lines, coolant hoses, re-routing some wirng i had done before since we beleived i had connected the fuel injectors in the wrong order.  Murz brought by a missing exhuast piece i needed in order to complete the exhuast.  Thursday I will go on a little shopping spree to the parts store to get all of the things that i know i need.  I also need to dig through my parts in my shed to pull out a couple of things that i have been forgetting to grab, such as the Mass air flow sensor and the connecting tub for it.  The biggest reason for the slow up in work has been trying to locate all of the right bolts and nuts to go back on the car.  At least there is another engine that I was able to start pilfering from.  I try to use it as a last resort when my searches for 10+ minutes yield nothing usable.  Thursday we should be able to fire it up.  There isn't much left to do.  My list of to-do items has certainly shrunk.  My stuff is in Blue on the left side of the pic.
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: ~Groll69~ September 03, 2014, 06:41:24 AM
I came across some old school pics of when i first put this same engine into the car (first re-build), before we blew out the side seals that then turned this from a regular toy to a long running multi-year project with two other engine attempts.  I did not do the first rebuild.  My little brother tore the engine down for me and my dad finished the rebuild after it sat at his house for a couple of years and my little brother wasnt going to touch it any more.
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: ~Groll69~ September 06, 2014, 09:45:41 PM
Progress has been made!!!!  I got the car to fire up for the first time in 9 years.  Managed to get it running briefly 4 different times today.  For some reason it seems to be just dumping fuel in.  So I am getting way to much fuel and just not enough compression to keep it from firing up reliably every time. 

Here are a couple of pics from this evening and an updated to do list.  I am hoping to get the fuel issue solved soon.    If anyone has any ideas, please let me know
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: ~Groll69~ September 07, 2014, 08:55:34 PM
It's ALIVE!!!!!  Cant seem to get the idle to hold lower then 1200 rpm, but finally got it running.  it is starting on its own.  I reconnected a solenoid into the vacumn line for the fuel pressure regulator.  3 of the four solenoids for the rats nest seemed not to be working.  Good thing I took that out.  Now have to figure out how to get the idle down and start buttoning everything up and a test drive is in order.

It is a happy evening.
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: murz September 07, 2014, 09:20:31 PM
Congratulations man this is awesome news! Is it the Idle adjust screw turned open? Maybe a vacuum leak? Glad you got it running man!
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: ~Groll69~ September 09, 2014, 06:21:27 AM
Last night, Will and I took it around the block for the first time.  It was great to drive that car.  Oh how i have missed it.  It was a little hard to start, but it ran very smoothly.  We had to make a minor adjustment to the idle when we got back into the driveway.

What is left is bleeding the brakes adding an oil catch can, drilling and tapping the coolant bleed off, swapping tires onto the new rims and adding coolant resivour along with washing and waxing and many other minor things.

The nice thing is Will was able to get his garage back to park his Rx7 in again. 
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: ~Groll69~ September 11, 2014, 07:53:50 AM
Now that i have it running, though it takes a trick with the fuel pump to get going some of the time, I am left with working on little stuff for my car.  It does seem to be burning a lot of oil right now.  After some driving i still get white smoke pouring out of my exhuast.  I am not sure if it is from initialy starting it or not, I dumped alot of oil into it to get the compression up.  The other thing i can think of is maybe an OMP line is stuck open.  Maybe during the camping trip, we can get a few heads on it and get it solved.
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: ~Groll69~ September 14, 2014, 06:02:26 PM
Took the car on its first road trip and overall it ran well.  The oil pressure was through the roof, which caused me to run through 5 quarts of oil to go from Pontiac to Grand Haven campground.  I provided the smoke screen for the getaway. After getting to the camp ground, we removed the Atkins oil thermal modification from the eccentric shat and it brought the oil level back down to normal.  After running for a little while, the smoke cleared up and the car is running great.  Overall I am happy with my baby (Jenny).
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: toplessFC3Sman September 15, 2014, 10:37:44 AM
So this is what I had done for the fuel tank repair on the celica, as we talked about this past weekend.

The tank had rusted through along the rear seam & was leaking fuel anywhere over 1/2 tank. To repair it, I pulled the tank and wire-brushed the area around the leaking seam off down to bare metal, then covered that in JB Weld to create some sort of structure & strength there, and then coated that in a rust-inhibiting primer and then underbody coating.  For the inside of the tank, I went with Caswell Gas Tank Sealer (http://www.caswellplating.com/restoration-aids/epoxy-gas-tank-sealer.html?gclid=CjwKEAjwnNqgBRDdgOitrZPj6yYSJACM86tDDr2Z_69wSF7Ciol39wG27zE1hqp--11m1De2XdyjcxoCtILw_wcB).  Its basically a 2-part epoxy-type product, comes with good directions for how to prep, clean & coat the tank, and makes a nice, thick, durable seal.  The sealer requires a pretty thorough cleaning (which you'll want to do on the inside of a 20+ year old tank anyway), and recommended sloshing acetone or lacquer thinner around inside the tank after plugging/taping over the various holes for sending units, lines etc.  I did this a couple times, and then once more with some mildly soapy water, then clean water.  Then I stuck a hair dryer in each of the holes big enough to help dry everything out.

Since the sealer is basically an epoxy, you need to be careful how you block off holes and lines.  With access plates like the fuel pump/evap & return lines, just taping over the hole works since you can cut away anything that hardens over the hole, but if there are small ports that would be hard to open back up (with a drill, knife etc), then threading something through that you can blow air through to keep them clear is useful.

Then, just mix up the epoxy, pour it in, seal off the hole that you poured through, and rotate the tank around to be sure you're coating all the surfaces.

It's been about 3 years now, and the repair is holding fine. I'd also try to replace or make new gaskets for any connections to the tank, and I had re-made the fuel and rear brake lines at the same time, since they were looking a bit rusty.
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: ITSWILL September 16, 2014, 01:32:11 PM
  
Took the car on its first road trip and overall it ran well.  The oil pressure was through the roof, which caused me to run through 5 quarts of oil to go from Pontiac to Grand Haven campground.  I provided the smoke screen for the getaway. After getting to the camp ground, we removed the Atkins oil thermal modification from the eccentric shat and it brought the oil level back down to normal.  After running for a little while, the smoke cleared up and the car is running great.  Overall I am happy with my baby (Jenny).


Come on Rich, we all know you just put the wrong fuel in it!

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: ~Groll69~ September 16, 2014, 03:10:15 PM
I thought that was the right fuel for it!!!!!! lol  I am glad it finally stopped burning lots of oil.
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: fidelity101 September 17, 2014, 12:57:44 PM
I just love those 91 5 spoke wheels.
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: ~Groll69~ September 17, 2014, 01:08:16 PM
I went to make my power steering work last night and after installing the belt and putting fluid in and working it through the system, I sprank a leak through the hard cooler lines in two spots.  I need to replace those now.  Will did point out they looked like they could fail at anytime.  I agreed with him, so the failure wasnt totally unexpected.
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: murz September 17, 2014, 02:14:34 PM
Ouch, seems like a common problem with these, I have the same issue on the vert.
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: toplessFC3Sman September 18, 2014, 08:54:43 AM
The power steering is the one subsystem of my 'vert that I haven't had to touch... I guess the continuously leaking oil has protected those lines from rust?
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: ~Groll69~ September 18, 2014, 01:54:50 PM
The oil tends to fend of the water and salt which would cuase it to rust fairly quickly.  My car sitting for so long didnt help the oil stay on it to protect it.  Also it was not garaged the whole time either.  Now i need to find a replacement.  I don't know if i have one sitting with my parts at all.  I have to go digging in my shed tomorrow.
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: fidelity101 September 19, 2014, 01:17:54 PM
de power the manual rack!
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: ITSWILL September 19, 2014, 03:14:17 PM
Agreed, don't be a pussy de power it.  But if you want to be a wimp I have one you can have.   ;)
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: murz November 11, 2014, 06:54:59 PM
Thought I'd post this here... So, Rich swung over my place and we decided to take advantage of Veterans day with a free movie and a free meal somewhere RX7 style!  Fury is an excellent film, it was free, but I would have definitely paid to watch it, oh and Hooters food is good. So anways Rich's starter wasn't disengaging... took a bit of getting to speed and popping the clutch until it finally disengaged. Figured it wouldn't fix it self, so off to my place we went, where I happened to have a spare S5 starter. We looked it up, and the NA S5 is compatible with the NA S4, so quick and easy swap, and no more sticking starter issues. We drove to Royal Oak in both of our GXLs and swung back around to Hooters where we eventually went our ways. Here are some terrible pictures that my terrible camera on my terrible iphone took terribly.
(http://i1295.photobucket.com/albums/b627/marcusoo71/IMG_1616_zps465e0f30.jpg) (http://s1295.photobucket.com/user/marcusoo71/media/IMG_1616_zps465e0f30.jpg.html)

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Oh and I forgot this from the cruise, you can see a slight blue smokey haze!

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: ~Groll69~ November 12, 2014, 09:03:56 AM
Jenny loves her new starter, thanks Marcus.  I enjoyed veterns day.  It was great to get out and do something during the day that I generally don't get to do.  The movie Fury was exceptionally good too.
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: ~Groll69~ December 11, 2014, 08:26:34 AM
Well I have been forced to drive my baby for the past week after the wife flattened a tire on the Mazda 6.  Today i found it leaking coolant from the drain plug of the radiator.  I can not tighten it anymore.  it can turn by hand but will not tighten up.  Looks like i will have to get this car put up for the winter and get a new radiator for it along with the many other fixes that have been on hold.
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: ~Groll69~ April 01, 2015, 07:01:20 AM
Last weekend I had pulled my car out of storage and was prepping it so that my wife could drive it to lansing and back.  After getting the dash put back together and everything working as i t should, i decided to drive it to the gas station and fill it up.  as i took off out of my driveway and got two blocks away, i went to turn on the major road there and the drivers side lower ball joint broke loose.  It damaged my front orginal fender some.  The good thing is Murz was coming by to help with the 84 that i have, so he was able to help my load the car onto my car dolly and tow it two blocks back to my house along with get it pushed into the garage.

I have never replaced the ball joints in my car for the 18 years that i have owned it.  I am sure they are original.  I decided to replace both.  The parts just arrived Monday.  Hopefully i can get them on soon and enjoy my car again.  Murz has some pics of my car.  Hopefully he can upload them.
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: murz April 01, 2015, 08:25:50 AM
Here she is, the good thing is that this happened near by, rather than on a trip to lansing haha. (http://i1295.photobucket.com/albums/b627/marcusoo71/IMG_2020_zpsoabwtiuf.jpg) (http://s1295.photobucket.com/user/marcusoo71/media/IMG_2020_zpsoabwtiuf.jpg.html)
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: fidelity101 April 06, 2015, 12:42:33 PM
Hope it doesn't rain this week either :(
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: ~Groll69~ April 08, 2015, 05:46:56 AM
It did sprinkle a little bit, last night but with Murz's help we got the ball joints replaced on the Jenny.  the bolt for the drivers side was not cooperating very well and kept wanting to round out.  managed pounding a smaller size socket on it and getting it off that way.  I also found that the bolts holding the sway bar in place had some horrible corrosion, so we replaced those also. At least she is up and running now.  After i bleed the clutch line then it will be all good for the road.
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: ~Groll69~ April 13, 2015, 05:51:54 AM
I have been doing lots of little work to the car.  I gave it a redneck front end alignment, which was needed after replacing the lower ball joints.  The car really needs a profesional alignment done to it.  I modified the cruise control bracket to eliminate the cold start assist mount since i have an oil blow off catch can there.  Painted the steel of the cruise control unit and painted the bracket too.  I created a mounting bracket and painted it to install switches just under the dash.  The purpose is to install a fuel pump interrupt switch for when the car floods.  Unfortunatly the interrupt switch i picked up at Autozone works in completly the opposite manner.  It is off and completes the circuit when pressed.  I found the right type last night and ordered 4 of them so that i have extra switches that are on hand.  It operates by breaking the circuit when pressed. Unfourtunatly, the nice hole i created will probaly not work for it, but its a large enough bracket that i can create a new hole and utilize the original hole for something else.

I re-connected my SAFC II that i had in my car.  Now i need to re-learn how to use it.  I got power running to my external 6 disc cd player that puts out a RF signal.  That just leaves me to test everything out on my car.  after i install the new switch and learn my SAFC II.

I will try to get pictures later.
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: ~Groll69~ April 23, 2015, 08:50:18 AM
My momentary switches finally arrived.  I installed them the same day.  got the wires tucked away and hidden.  You cant see the switch, but you can reach it and push it in while de-flooding the car.  Then release the button for the fuel pump to kick on automatically once it fires up.  I am very happy with the result and plan to use in on our convertible.  Plus, i can hide additional switches for lights and other features in the same place. 

Now i need to verify what is cuasing my idle to have a little bit of a bounce.  I am not sure if it is the thermowax or the BAC.  If i can get the bounce taken care of, then we will be golden.  Any ideas are appreciated.
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: ~Groll69~ April 26, 2015, 09:17:34 PM
Here is a picture of the bracket i installed with the momentary switch for the fuel pump.  I had painted it aluminum.

I drove the car to indiana and back this weekend.  It run very well.  For 9 total hours of driving it did burn through a half of a quart of oil.  That is a definite improvement over the very first trip during engine break in when it went through 5 quarts in 3.5 hours of driving. 

The cruise control was working wonderfully too During my trip this weekend.  The wiper control the itswill fixed for me worked great.  I hadnt had intermitent wipers since i bought the car 19 years ago.  I needed it too since the whole time i was driving it was raining on and off fri and sat. 

I still need to really work on tuning the car with the SAFC II that i have. I did some preliminary settings, but need to really fine tune it.
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: ITSWILL April 26, 2015, 09:32:55 PM
What characteristic of you car do you need to tune with the SAFC?
I can't rememember, does it have stock rate injectors in it?  Are the 6th ports functioning or just wired open?

The engine is very stock and you have no way to measure air fuel ratio.  You better be careful not to lean it out and pop your seals.
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: ~Groll69~ April 26, 2015, 09:43:04 PM
The six ports are wide open (actually removed) and stock ecu, and stock injectors.  I think i may need a new bac or thermo pellet to elimiinate the bouce in the idle.  Right now once warmed up the idle will sit anywhere from 850 to 1100 with some bounce to it.  It changes on where it wants to sit.  Most times its mid 900s. I Want to insure it transitions right and is not. set to rich and definitly not to lean.  Its little stuff trying to weed out at the moment.  Still want to add a supercharger so thats when the safc will really be handy.  Till then trying to properly learn what can do with it.
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: ITSWILL April 26, 2015, 10:08:17 PM
You might be able to do something about the idle with the SAFC.  Maybe you can richen the fuel in the low RPMs to help out with the idle and the lack of 6th ports.  I would only add fuel and I wouldnt touch anything above 1500 RPM to start.

Unfortunately it will not be up to the task if you decide to add a supercharger. 
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: ~Groll69~ April 30, 2015, 05:56:47 AM
Last night with the help of Fidelity and his car hoist, we swapped out the gas tank.  I think something did not get connectected properly in the upper part of the fill hose.  I am unable to properly fill the tank while at a gas pump.  Since it was late, we didnt investigate the annomaly when putting gas in the first time.  Other then that.  I am happy to have a new tank that doesnt leak.

Service warning
When the low fuel light comes on, it means get gas immediatly.  The tank doesnt have much of a reserve to really drive far.  Lucky if you get 3 miles.
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: ITSWILL May 01, 2015, 07:19:54 PM
Sounds like a vent is clogged up some where.  Or the pump you filled up at was bad...
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: ~Groll69~ May 01, 2015, 09:17:11 PM
I had a theory of what the issue was.  When we disconnected the upper rubber from the pass through for the frame rail tube, there was an inner sleeve we removed. My theory was that it did not seat around the fill spout.  That theory was parially correct.  There is actually two inner sleeves.  They connect on either end of the upper fill hose.  The lower inner sleeve must seat around the upper inner sleeve. 

I had to dissasemble the upper hose and reset the inner sleeves properly.  Then re assemble.  It took an entire evening to complete, but now i can once again fill the tank properly. 
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: ~Groll69~ May 02, 2015, 01:00:30 PM
This nice weather has had me outside wrenching on a car and enjoying it.  Todays task was to install my power steering ccooling line.  The previous one had rusted through and developed a couple of holes.  I havent used it for so loong, its nice to have that feature back.  May be my toy car, but it do want to enjoy it and keep it.  Now i had long ago eliminated the ac and i have no plans of reinstalling ac into the car.

I took her to woodward cruising with murz, unfortunatly i had my running lights blow a fuse twice on me.  No need to see if i can find the cuase.....
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: ~Groll69~ May 03, 2015, 08:08:41 PM
After messing with some of the light wires, i found one of the side marker lights had some broken sheathing.  I taped it up.  Hopefully that was the issue.  I couldnt get the car to repeat the issue in the driveway.   
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: ~Groll69~ August 24, 2015, 07:33:35 AM
I have been trying to get my idle to set right.  After messing around with it Saturday, looked like some of the issue was corrosion at the connector for the tps.  some scraping and die-electric grease and i think that is taken care of.  I am not sure how to get the 3k warm up to work again.  Is that the thermo wax that is suppose to do that?  That car will not hold idle until its warmed up a little bit.  I am not as worried about the 3k, just want it to hold idle steady.  I have been geting some bounce to the idle at times.  That just comes and goes.  I am wondering if my BAC is giving me some issues.  I will have to try to check it out tonight.
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: ~Groll69~ August 25, 2015, 10:46:53 AM
i am getting a weird bouncy idle. sometimes it settles and other times it bounces. this is after finding out the tps connection had some corrsosion that wasnt helping the signal.

i need to try to check the BAC and figure out what circuits blew last night in my emergency avoidance manuver (See krazykreiners post below).  Somehow my radio circuit blew and my door light was flashing randomly on and off.  I just need to correct these two things.  Along with keeping an eye on my oil levels.

Here is Krazykreiner's facebook post:
"My husband is a amazing driver. Tonight on our way home from the mall some stupid girl pulled out into our lane. He quickly went to move into the next lane and she kept coming. He maneuvered over onto the median and was able to keep from getting hit. Thank God nobody was next to us. And of course the woman kept going. And of course we were in his RX7 (his baby). Needless to say I tensed up so bad my body now hurts. But I will take that over being in a accident. I Love You Richard Kreiner"
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: pjr August 25, 2015, 08:09:47 PM

Way to go Rich!  There's too much good karma in the red rocket for anyone to take it off the road!!
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: ~Groll69~ August 26, 2015, 06:41:31 AM
Thanks PJR.

Last night i started to mess with the idle to see if i could get it figured out.  I removed the BAC.  the resistance checked out at 12.3 with is the upper limit of good.  Applying a 12v source to it and it clicks.  there is power going to it from the car.  One test it failed was upon engine warm up, it should have cuased the engine idle to drop or stall when power is disconnected from it.  (that test was done prior to removing and idle adjustment of the car)  I beleive the BAC is on the verge of being bad.  Another thought is my thermowax is bad too (still need to test).  I was able to get the car to run the 3k warm up a couple of times, but it would not do it this morning.  After messing with the idle last night i had it dialed into around 840-860rpms.  There were a few times i had it holding idle within a 5pm range like 1041-1046 as an example.

This morning it didnt want to hold idle and when it did, it was around 960-990rpm.  When it held idle still cold it was at 1050-1060. 

I am still burning through a lot of oil.  I think i may have to crack the engine back open this winter to check all of the seals.  I want to change a couple of things with it anyways like put in the new fd corner springs and go to a solid 3mm corner seal.  I think the 3mm two peice corner seals were to weak.  I may have some side seals to tight or to loose.  I am not sure which.

As for the radio not working properly after sharp manuvering, it turns out it was the fuse, and for some reason it was the 7.5 amp room fuse in the car and not the 20amp audio fuse. 
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: ~Groll69~ April 21, 2016, 09:34:52 AM
Time to begin getting Jenny ready to run again.  The Clutch master had started leaking and required it to be replaced.  I got a new one installed.  The battery was completely dead.  I should have pulled it and put it on a battery tender for the winter.  I had to jump the battery to give it enough charge so my charger would actually charge it.  I have it now on a desulfate cycle on the battery charger.  I think I will just need to replace soon. Next step will be to check fluids and re-install the battery.  Then I should be able to start it up.  I am hoping to drive it Friday, if everything works out.
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: murz April 21, 2016, 12:51:06 PM
Glad to hear she's fixed. I try to store my batteries during the cold months, sometimes I forget though. Any plans for Jenny this year?
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: ~Groll69~ April 21, 2016, 12:55:03 PM
yes.  I would like to begin applying the body kit I have.  I also want to pick up front and rear fenders too

step one will be trying to get the oiling issue straightened out
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: ~Groll69~ April 22, 2016, 06:15:25 AM
It turned out that I needed a new battery too.  The other battery did not last the winter and a desulfate cycle did not correct it either.  Now she starts up beautifully.  I love it.  Just need to correct the oil usage issue.
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: ~Groll69~ May 23, 2016, 07:07:35 AM
Over the weekend I decided to try and figure out my idling issue.  I could never get the idle below 1000.  The idle would also bounce bad.  I decided to try and switch the throttle bodies with another one I had laying around.  As I pulled the throttle body off, I found where there was a bad vacuum leak through the plastic spacer seal.  there was damaged that went all of the way across allowing additional air into the engine.  The orginal throttle body was not holding vacuum across the secondary plates too and it was not even adjusted against the coolant expansion device properly. 

The new throttle body that I installed was adjusted properly against the coolant expansion on the back side of the throttle body.  The vacuum leak was even worse to the secondary plates (so I capped that vacuum line and I am not using the secondary plates ate all).  The OMP lever seems to be operating better and not holding an oil line open.  (So hopefully that solves my oiling issue I have been having)  We managed to set the idle to hold between 760 and 830.  It still gets a little bouncy, but not nearly as bad as it was. 

Fixed just in time for some regular driving until I can get our mazda 6 clutch replaced.  Over all I am very happy.
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: murz May 23, 2016, 08:57:01 AM
Glad to hear it's working better. I think we should re-adjust the TPS again, that may fix the remaining bounces. Next time we meet up I'll bring my tester with me.
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: ~Groll69~ June 13, 2016, 05:44:31 PM
Well my car kept skipping on every little bump.  Pulled off my rear passenger side shock and there is zero resistance to it.  Time for new rear shocks.
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: ~Groll69~ June 13, 2016, 05:45:28 PM
The problem is I want to keep the adjustable suspension.
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: ITSWILL June 15, 2016, 03:27:09 PM
Just go spend a lot of money, problem solved.
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: Senketsu June 16, 2016, 06:18:50 AM
I don't know if my rear shocks are any good, but I kinda want to go to some good regular shocks on my car to avoid the cost of AAS. If they look good and you want them, you're welcome to my shocks when I pull them off.
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: ~Groll69~ June 20, 2016, 05:57:03 AM
Jenny's reear has definitely been neglected.  The nice thing is the rear brakes have operated properly.  The slides are in phenomenal condition pn the passenger side.  The parking brake portion though has rusted a long time ago in place.  Upon seeing that, I decided new calipers are in my immediate future.  I started to try to remove the caliper hardware and the bolts are so seized that they busted on me.  Anyone care to help me finish getting these things off?  I still need to replace the wheel studs too. 

I did remove the shock from the driver's side and that is better.  I can push it down and it will slowly return back up to full extension.  Anyone have a whole rear subframe/control arms etc I can throw on?  Make the effort easier and faster.
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: ~Groll69~ June 20, 2016, 06:13:15 AM
If yours are good, I would be happy to have them.  save me a few dollars as Jenny keeps identifying new things for me to spend my money on.  Not to mention to give me huge amounts of hassle and trouble. 

  
I don't know if my rear shocks are any good, but I kinda want to go to some good regular shocks on my car to avoid the cost of AAS. If they look good and you want them, you're welcome to my shocks when I pull them off.
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: ~Groll69~ June 21, 2016, 05:24:07 AM
I finally got the caliper bracket off last night.  Luckily I only had to cut through a single bolt, rather then both.  I was able to pry the bracket up and break the upper bolt free from its rusted prison.
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: ITSWILL June 22, 2016, 05:13:53 AM
Now you just have to get the bolt out of the caliper! Good luck!
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: ITSWILL June 24, 2016, 08:12:29 PM
Do you have this back together yet?
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: ~Groll69~ June 26, 2016, 02:54:47 PM
No.  Its going to be down a while until I get parts.  Matter of money right now.  I need to get it swapped with the vert in the garage so I can finish tear down to rebuild right.  Its pretty bad and rusty.  I need to attack that now.
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: ~Groll69~ August 11, 2016, 07:07:37 AM
I managed to pick up some used aas suspension from a car that had 67k miles on it.  I also picked up front and rear calipers.  All for the low price of $150.  Next step is I am cleaning up the rear aas with a wire brush and tjen painting them. 
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: ~Groll69~ August 12, 2016, 03:18:41 PM
I just finished painting the rear suspension.  Next step is installing them for dream cruise.
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: ~Groll69~ August 16, 2016, 07:42:57 AM
I got the rear suspension installed, except that I accidentally broke the passenger rear rubber brake line.  Now awaiting for that to arrive.  In the mean time I decided to begin replacement of some of my bushings. I started with removing and cleaning up the control arm.  I include befor and after pics.  I also found out rubber bushing in my sway bar link disappeared.  Looks like I am ordering new sway bar links very very soon.
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: ~Groll69~ August 29, 2016, 07:23:49 AM
Well the rear shocks were actually blown out pretty badly.  I was able to exchange them with another set that was good.  Now I need to find a place that can rebuild shocks and see if they can rebuild them for me.
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: ~Groll69~ September 02, 2016, 12:51:32 PM
I installed a hidden powered antenna in Jenny yesterday.  I have it located just above glove box towards center of the dash. 
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: ~Groll69~ April 17, 2017, 07:48:02 AM
Well back on March 7th, I went to pull out Jenny and drive her for my birthday on March 8th.  I found out that I had no brakes.  Upon closure inspection and more brake fluid later, I found that the master cylinder had failed.  I went and picked up a bunch of parts for both Jenny and Bella and the used master I got, turned out to be the wrong one.  Mine has a brake pressure switch for the Auto Adjusting Suspension.  I find this out after I get the part all cleaned up and looking nice.  Now I ended up ordering a new one from RockAuto with our discount of course.  I need to clean up my brake booster and paint it.  Then I can install the new master on it.
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: ~Groll69~ April 28, 2017, 06:57:42 AM
I really need to take more pics.  I have finished painting the booster and installed the new master on Jenny.  I then began the initial brake bleed of the system.  As I got three of the calipers bled with new Dot 5 brake fluid, the fourth caliper decided to give me some problems.  It is the front drivers side.  I loosened the bleeder screw and stared bleeding it.  However when I tightened the screw, It wouldn't tighten down.  Turns out the threading decided to stay in the bleeder screw threads. 

The good thing is I had another caliper, with better brake pads on it and so I did a quick replacement of the caliper without having to re-bleed the system.  So I realized I need new pads  all around and new front rotors.  I will be ordering those from rock auto soon. 

I decided to drive her the next morning to work, I figured I had enough brakes for a day of driving.  On my way to work, the radio would start cutting out after I got on the highway.  After the 5th time, it didn't come back on, I decided to look at my voltage gauge and I only was running on 8.3 volts.  I managed to get the car off at the next exit which was Crooks rd and I75 and found a parking spot to park it at.  As soon as I got to a stop, the car died. 

Later that evening Murz came over to help me, we pulled the alternator off of the vert and went to where I left Jenny at.  We installed it into Jenny and jumped the battery.  After she fired up, the voltage was only reading at its highest was 12.6.  With the lights on, it was around 12.2 volts.  I managed to make it home.  The voltage fluctuated from 12.0 to 12.3 volts and was mostly at 12.2 volts.  I looked up the issue and I need to check the wires for corrosion.  I know there is a bare exposed spot near the connector for the back of the alternator.  I will fix that  and see if I can get better results from the alternator.
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: toplessFC3Sman April 28, 2017, 07:36:27 AM
You should definitely check the grounding, especially the thick wire that usually bolts to the nut-side of the starter bolt (that passes through the trans bellhousing & rear iron). Also, did the car keep running if you disconnected the battery? The dead battery itself could be dragging the voltage down as it charges.
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: ~Groll69~ May 01, 2017, 01:35:24 PM
I will have to get under the car and check that.  I will let you know what I find.  The battery is fairly new, but I did run it down quite a ways driving on it. 
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: murz May 04, 2017, 10:13:57 AM
Hmm, this could also explain why it takes a while to start up sometimes.
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: ~Groll69~ May 05, 2017, 06:15:57 AM
There appears to be a significant voltage drop from the alternator post to the battery.  Now I just need to find where the resistance is.  I have not crawled under the car yet to clean the connections and check them.  I should buy a couple of grounding straps and improve the grounding from the engine to the body at least.  Maybe run a new wire from the alternator to the starter too.  The alternator is only putting out 12.8 to 13.2 volts so I think that should be replaced in the near future too.  I did redo the connector to the back of the alternator.  As you can see in the pic, one of the wires is exposed and bare.
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: ~Groll69~ May 22, 2017, 06:37:47 AM
Friday evening 5/19/2017 was not a fun evening for me.  I was taking tables and chairs to gabby and Martin house to use for their wedding on sat.  I exited the highway at 14 mile rd and turned at microcenter to head south.  As I turned, a lady in a white 4 door sedan decided to pull across two lanes of traffic and a center turn lane right out in front of me.  I hit my brakes and tried stopping, but I was unable to avoid her.  Her passenger side front door hit my drivers side front corner.  Needless to say this was not what I needed.

She received the ticket, and now I am stuck repairing my baby.  Good thing is that I have some spare parts.  The other good thing is it was still drivable, so I will be driving it home tonight in order to begin re-assessing the damage and figure out path to get her repaired.  No one was hurt in the accident.  I am hoping that the frame isn't tweaked.  We will find out.
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: murz May 22, 2017, 08:05:40 AM
That sucks man, I hate that area, it's designed poorly, I've almost got hit several times from terrible drivers.

Glad no one was hurt and glad it still runs, hopefully the frame is OK.
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: ~Groll69~ June 01, 2021, 10:10:42 AM
A lot has happened since i last posted on my baby.  A divorce, buying new house, getting married to my awesome wife etc along with purchasing a beautiful 1980 SA ten anniversary edition and dream 1993 FD.

I have finally moved Jenny into the barn do i can begin working on her.  Start will be removing the engine and transmission.  Then i can begin the much dreaded bodywork.  Hopefully i can get her together and on the road.