January 17, 2012 Wednesday
Matt had finished the tank, got the new fuel pump installed, added a vent to the tank. Before he got everything installed he cleaned the inside of the tank and there was about a 1/2" of crap that came out of the tank.
Have no clue where all that came from but it is clean now. At least I know there is no rusted items or dirt in the tank........Just a dumb question for myself about that....How does rust end up in an aluminum tank....Aluminum doesn't rust does it?
We finished up soldering the wires in the cab, inserted the wires into the bulkhead for the rear harness and ran it along the frame rail. Drilled holes for the kill switch and mounted it.
Installed the wire connectors on the passenger side door.
New starter arrived as well. So the rear of the truck is completely wired, soldered, connectors etc......Only have two sets of lights to run....back up lights and tag light......Just waiting on me to decide on which ones I like but that will be easy to install. So the cab rearward is finished. Only wiring left to do is to wire up the front headlights, park lamps and horn and that is about 7 wires so that aint bad.
The only exception is to wire up the passenger side power window switch and when I get the lights for the door to install them but I have to pick those lights.
Worked on making a template for the tank filler neck so that one can be made at the right angles etc......maybe this time I can fill it up in less than 20minutes and not have it splash back out of the filler neck.
Things are looking up and hopefully in a couple of days we will see if it will run.
We did take the computer chip out and Matt tried to read it to check on the tune but it was locked. Called Street and Performance and they said that they do not lock their tunes.............
So Street and Performacne sent us another tune for the motor.
So we think what happened was that when the shop tried to make it run that the computer was shutting it down because the O2 sensor was reading rich. So to make it quit shutting off they raised the fuel pressure to max
to make it run half way decent they went in and changed the tune parameters and then locked it.
Instead of finding out why it wouldn't run correctly they just jack-legged the tune and fuel pressure to get it to run. Luckily the truck had not been driven but 6 miles and in all honesty I don't think it was 6 miles since the speedometer was so far off.
So hopefully by putting the correct size vacuum lines on the MAP sensor, sealing the other vacuum ports on the intake, replacing the burnt spark plug wire, changing the foulded out plugs, properly grounding the computer unit and fuel injection system, properly grounding the entire truck, fixing the burnt main power wire, changing the oil that had water in it and ensuring that the computer wiring harness was ran correctly that it will run like it is supposed to............Hopefully soon we will know or sure.
Once we getting it running properly I will be able to take it to get the paint estimates and have the transmission rebuilt.