Resurgence of a F100
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6speedsd
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I need to do something about that steering wheel too. Interior needs the seat redone, and new vinyl for the floor, and I think it'll be complete for the most part. Realized last night that my reverse lights aren't working, so I'll have to figure that out at some point.
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Well, she left me stranded for the first time today. Drove it to church and lunch afterwards. We loaded back up and got ready to head home, hit the key and got nothing. Not even a click of the solenoid. I'm thinking the battery crapped out or something so put a set of cables on it and still got nothing. Headlights wouldn't even turn on. Wiggled the key and got dash lights, but when you try to crank it, all I got was a click of the solenoid then no power again. Tried jumping the starter directly, but again nothing. Finally called my brother to come tow us home, which was fortunately less than 10 miles. Had somewhere else to be so I didn't fool with it until we got back home a bit ago. Put a new starter solenoid on it just because it's cheap and looked old. Same thing. Wiggle the key and you'll eventually get power in the on position, and if you turn the key backwards to ACC, you get power nearly every time. So apparently something let go in the ignition switch. Weird that it just happened all at once though, and you'd think it when you do get power, it would fire off and not just click once and go back to nothing. I'll get another one at some point this week and swap them out.
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dsberman94
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Could be worse. Tapatalk showed me the first couple lines of your post and I assumed worse.
6speedsd
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Yeah I could have been half way home, or at some point when none was available to help. There are bound to be a few bugs here and there to work out over time like this.
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bluedge8
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Don't rule out fuseable link in the wiring harness
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6speedsd
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I thought about that, but if one of those was bad, it wouldn't work intermittently....I don't think so anyways.
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Got the issue sorted out this afternoon. All that headache over a bad ground. Swapped on a new ignition switch, and then would get power, but as soon as you did anything power related....cut the key on, turned the headlights on....you lost all power. I'm no electrician, but that screamed ground to me. Had the dash torn half way apart chasing wires, checking all fusible links I could find, finally made my way to the engine compartment checking everything I could think of. Finally I grabbed the negative battery cable and saw the dome light flicker. Bingo! Unbolted it from the block, stripped the rubber back, recrimped and taped the terminal, cleaned up the mating surface on the block and bolted it back in place. Tadah...problem solved. Everything works as it should again. I really do hate chasing electrical gremlins though.
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lincolnlocker
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NICE!! but yeah, its simple things like that, that will drive you bonkers then its like wah lah!! problem solved.. all that for this tiny lil 10 min fix!
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dsberman94
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Especially when you seem to be fixing some else's messes. It's not like you bought that truck one owner, never been touched. I still find stuff I have to fix from the PO of my truck. Aggravates the chit out of me sometimes.
6speedsd
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I never expected to have a trouble free truck for a while, but that one threw me for a loop. I wasn't expecting that at all.
Drove it a little today and it wants to idle high for some reason. Like 1100 rpms in park or neutral. Wasn't doing that a week ago, and it's a bit annoying in traffic trying to stand on the brakes. Has a bad hesitation off idle too. Seems really odd that it's a coincidence after sitting all week. Hoping this wiring short didn't eff with my ignition components.
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Drove it a little today and it wants to idle high for some reason. Like 1100 rpms in park or neutral. Wasn't doing that a week ago, and it's a bit annoying in traffic trying to stand on the brakes. Has a bad hesitation off idle too. Seems really odd that it's a coincidence after sitting all week. Hoping this wiring short didn't eff with my ignition components.
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lincolnlocker
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set screw for idle fuel maybe?.. hesitation means to much fuel not enough air or spark or both.. might need to adjust the pump shot on the carb too.... unless you mean when you just slightly tip into it and not stab it?
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Stab it...I still haven't gotten a regulator on the fuel feed yet....still running like 9psi, which may be part of the issue. Just wasn't as pronounced a week ago as it was today. It's seemed to run a bit rich from day one, but supposedly it's already set for ideal running conditions out of the box. I really don't want to start fooling with jets.
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bluedge8
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Get a regulator asap, you are probably pushing fuel past the needle and seat
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That would explain the rich condition. I'll get it ordered this week. Probably go on and order an electric pump too while I'm at it...had intentions of going electric all along and was just waiting to do it all at once.
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lincolnlocker
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possible that the throttle cable/linkage is sticky?
but yeah, get a regulator too
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6speedsd
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I've fooled with all that. It all seems normal.
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Opinions on what these rims would look like gloss black? I've been debating with myself over plastidipping one to see how it'd look.
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