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xt 6 has some wire ihsues the wire harness is so long that they get voltage drop on ecu check that you have better than 12 volts at ecu last one i had trubble with was only geting 8.5 volts by the time it goto ecu and have seen some burt ecus cause of thiss add a ground to engine to firewall ground from body to ecu check power distrbution undr hood i doubt you have any sensor problems i have two xt6 engines on the ground if need somting oh and check alt voltage cant be more than 14.20 any more than that alt is overcharging
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distributor gos in on o mark on flywheel at #one spot on distributor if backfires turn distributor 180 and reinstall try agian commen to have it 180 out can go in two ways one is exhaust stroke one is compreshion stroke
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when they came loose the lifters pumped up to max hight when you titend them up they held the valves open till they beld down takes a bitt the lifter has a one way check valve in it so the pump up very easy and bleed down very slowly shouldent hurt anything torque those bolts to 35lbs
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the rod berings are to small and very weak replacing them whould be a very good idea i do a oil preshure check must be above 10 psi hot at idle or it gets berrings normal is 30-20 psi ten is absulute lowest and yes this moter is a problem moter
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mainshaft rear berring if noise gos away when clutch is pushed in [ berring is weak ]
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check grounds grounds grounds they like to ground trouhg the pump bushings and have a main ground on top righthand intake manifold have never seen a bad solinoid in over a 100 trans ever the electroinics are very good and rare to fail i see more broke wire harness had on was broke about an inch from conector on trans is a week point the wires are set in pairs and one wire was work hardened and just barly vissable break when car is not runinng key on you should hear the solinoids buzz when you push the gas peadal indacating there working dont know if thiss helps but be carfull could make a can of worms ps i do have a bunch of theese tranys apart here if you whant me to meshure a solinoid to see what the ohms should be
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i'm on filler tube # 12 or 13 thiss year lots of dirt on roads here remove the plastic sheilds as they trap dirt upagainst the pipe and rub trough it
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reverse or 4wd light hook it up and c what light comes on think the oring is about 15 mm gess is a thin oring if the pump sticks dont force it can brake easy the pump never wheres out just leaks there is anuther oring inbetween the pump halfs could change to theese halfs have to be glued together when done with tiny bitt of grey sillacon
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i have the exact brat i put tbi on mine and toyata 4x4 truck 15 in rims the stock crome ones are the best the tbi fixed all the carb problems instantly and has been running problem free for years now the problem with your carb could be fixed or i have put the carb from a ea82 engine on theese older cars it takes some enginering have to move the holddown bolts but is bigger carb and works realy good i have one on a 77 1.6 ea71 works realy good could get some pics of it if you like boy i love my 81 gen one brat ea81 and high low best year ever 12 years of reliabilaty
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do so many 10/1.25 hili coils the parts guys cant keep them in stock part of my headgasket jobs i heli coil them all i have found that a tap on size bigger fits i use a 11/1.25 tap for 10/1.25 hili coil make shure you buy the kitt with meatal insert tool the plastic ones are crapy i end up hili coiling alot of head bolts to mostly 2.5 d s and ea 81 /ea82 they are 11/1.25 insert also put a bitt of antisize on the coil when you install will save greif sometimes there a bitt tight to put in
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i have a 100 of those things about ten differnt kinds and coulors
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dont let the dealer gess on your car find somone on here that actualy knows dealer sucks at diagnostics and like to just throw parts at it on your dime if you look here long enuff you will find answers dealer you will just spend money and cerate problems
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over full remember your dipstik is your vent pluged somhow ? stake that rear seal in make sure right way round and all 4 speeds leak a bitt check that detent plugs are tight like to leak there to
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they leak from where the oil pump joins the block has a paper gasket and a small orig yo can make the gasket from a paper gasket materal and a generic oring will do make shure you use a sealer on paper gasket tip if you lossen the front engine block bolts a bitt the pump comes out easier if need parts i have 8 of theese engines all good
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head gasket head gasket head gasket head gasket and mabe the headgasket two
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thank god i live in the land of no smog testing going to try a remote egr valve just for fun comon ford fix are subaru egrs please lol
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mainshaft end berring noisy when idling goes away when you push clutch in ? do alot of theese berrings they are weak or piled up awd clutch pack or broke front axle
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the rearmost mainshaft berrig take all the load and is a weak berring is identifyed by a growl when car is idling and gos away when you push clutch have had to do two thiss year teardown change berring and reinstall cost about 1500 $ i have a used 3.9 ratio five speed from a 96 legacy rollover here with diff and axles and driveshaft 600$ 235000kms on it
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my freind regan in kelowna bc makes them and i uhsaly bolt the ej flywheel to the ea flywheel drill out the bolt holes rotate the holes and drill the other two holes just did one 91 turbo legacy engine in a 88 gl wagon high low wrked well do not use ej flywheel unless willing to modify starter mount
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get this problem when i plane the blocks gets to close to the heads its only the 96-98 twin cam 2.5s that have potruding pistons i take the factory 2.5 headgasket apart to get indavidual shims to set head hight to compansate for planing carfull have bent rods from piston to close to head if its a 2.5 d core save some greif and put rod berrings in it before you start they were to small for app some they are always bad even low miles takes abit of work but will last way better
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TBI TBI TBI pich dem carbs in the dirt my TBI ea81 runs like a champ and gets milage and the power is better than the webber im shure need on of you webber guys quickly drive up here and race the tbi brat and we can c shure works good night and day from the carb it had
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i'm restoring one right now must have over 80-120 hour in it and it had no rust right from the front bumper to the rear all gone through crazy amount of work one down two more to go
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have seen a few different configureations of heads now what i can tell you [ do not mixup cams roller cam to roller cam non roler to non roller cam dont run so good if you get it switched i put the newer roller cam train on to the 2.2 turbo heads to get the better valves with roller train first time we just changed the valvetrian and not the cam dident run so happy but did run
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runup the old 81 brat hasent run in over a year hit the key boom running tbi works good can sit for long periods and not gum carb had to tap sender unit to get return line gets very good mpg and little better power has anyone got a tbi to work on a 1.6 ea71 whould like to know was going to shorten a ea82 intake to fit i know the rest will work tierd of old carbs that are just plain worn out
I hate sensors!!
in Old Gen.: 80's GL/DL/XT/Loyales...
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dose anyone actualy meshure anything or just gess ? voltage drop dose not lie trust your multi meter gessing cerates more problems