Cabin fever caused little to get accomplished this past weekend when the temperatures in Chicago topped 60 degrees and taking advantage of the unusually warm weather took precedence. The result is that things remained the same until I got back from the weekend trip to New York. Tuesday morning started with the realization that the engine and wire loom now off the chassis, our electrical system does not have a return ground path for many of the active circuits necessary to get the engine running. We took care of this by supplementing the wire loom with additional ground wires tied directly to the negative battery connection. Each sub loom and many splices had an exposed ground wire (ring tongue connectors) we could connect to. David joined in the fun and took charge connecting up the transmission, and getting the fuel pump wire loom with fuel pump driver computer connected to the electrical system. Our goal is to start the engine on the ground with the full wire loom, fuel tank, transmission, shifter and PATS system working, then we can see as we remove parts of the electrical wiring, will the engine start and stay running? We don't fully understand the PATS security system and think that even if we can start the engine, there might be a 5-15 min timeout circuit which will shut the engine down, so this will be a lot of trial and error. Good news is having the trans and wire loom hooked up we were able to get the engine to turn over. We didn't try running it since the battery was weak (we have it on a charger) and we quit for the day without getting the fuel tank or radiator hooked up so we can let it run for a few minutes. We also need to find out if we need a foot on the brake signal for ignition - something we might be able to enable always on. Good progress and this coming weekend, when Jake can help out, we are planning on putting the wiring on a diet.
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| David attaching the torque converter to the flywheel |
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