Recent content by Bird Horse

That all sound really cool! It's just the SHO club, won't be sticking around long enough to do much on my own but I'll leave some time on the way to and fro. I've used the TW bug stuff before and thought it was awfully slimy. Guess I never tried to wipe it dry but a power washer really doesn't...

SHO and I are getting set to road trip from Pittsburgh-ish to Denver for an event, and I'm dead set on getting our first gold plaque this year. I've spent so much time working on the mechanical and electrical aspects over the past years that I've always neglected the visual detail. Hecc, we went...

So...there's a metal disc of sorts that goes on the crankshaft, has three 'veins' for the sensor to pickup. What would cause one of those to bend and chew up the sensor? It's been sealed behind a timing cover this whole time, and there's no debris in there

Erm...was checking that with the voltmeter and got nothing, so I checked the power. Long story short...if I'm getting continutiy between positive and ground, that's bad. right? Like, red probe on positive, black probe on, lets say, alternator? random bolt? "BEEEEP"

Thanks, What kinda voltage should I see from the crank?

Seems to be no output from the DIS to the coil, at least not according to my incandescent test probe. I had the DIS tested on a bench machine tho and it passed. Now what do I look for?

No spark on any of the coils

Well, doing a sanity/resistance check on the new wires I got, a few were as high as 55kOhm. It's maybe 3 foot at best. That's...not good, right?

Yeah...can't buy *jack* for this motor. Some parts you can't even get new aftermarket lol. There is like, one specialty SHO supplier and his stuff looks just like my CarQuest junk, but he's at least well respected by the SHO community so I'll still trust his selection first (even at double the...

Oh, i guess I havn't. I how do that?

Hello, in a time cruch but I'll get yall up to speed. Fixing a 1994 Taurus SHO MTX, car uses a Low Data Rate ODB-I compliant EEC-IV computer with a waste-spark distributorless ignition. And she don't run. Sometimes get some detonation while trying to crank, sometimes at WOT I can get her going...

Thanks, is that a genuine Ford article? Kinda looks like it. So, say my PS belt, is 50 3/4th inch. Now, that is the outside, but most belts seem to be measure by "effective length" at the cord line. ELI5, plz.

Hi, two part question. Getting new serpentine belts for the '94 SHO MTX. First, I would like an opinion on brand, since Ford/Motorcrafts are long discontinued. The engine was actually built by Yamaha in Japan, and since I'm spiffing her up for the annual car SHOw, looks are just as important as...

How long does it last? How well can it be polised to not look like spray paint? While we're at it, good recomendation for gluing the lens to the housing? Butyl seems to be the go-to, but can you get that in a grayish color to match the factory? Or is there a better suggestion.

Just how hard is applying the Glasweld? I've heard a few have had trouble with it streaking, and the alignment bumps might make it hard to apply correctly. But I havn't heard much bad otherwise. The Cerakote, i've heard is pretty good for that category of product, but not a long term solution...