no start after swap Options

[rave2n]

Cool, no problem.

Double check the injectors seating and seals when you swap out.

[wvuguy]

I rented the fuel pressure testing kit from autozone but the brass fittting snapped when I was trying to tighten it up, so could not test the fuel pressure. By the way the fuel looks almost orange color so it definately needs to be changed out.
As far as the swapping the intake, since I had the old one a apart, I decided to clean it up since it was full of carbon. Got it assembled back together but didn't get a chance to swap it yet.

[wvuguy]

Found some time to take the intake out. While at it, I found the ground above starter coming from the wiring harness loose. It was hardly touching the block. That could explain the weird electric behavior. Gonna put every thing back after work and see what happens.

This post has been edited by wvuguy: Apr 8, 2011 - 1:30 PM

[wvuguy]

Fixed! Had to take the starter out to tighten up the gound wire. Put manifold from the old engine and she started right up. When I turned the key to on position, one thing I noticed right away was that the temperature gage was all the way to cold instead of a little up it used to be even when the car was cold. In reverse, transmission used to move forward. Engine would turn off in drive. Now if the manifold fixed the start up problem or the ground fixed it, that I am not sure about but a missing ground connection was causing some weird things to happen.Thanks for the help.

This post has been edited by wvuguy: Apr 8, 2011 - 8:12 PM

[rave2n]

Combo of both in my opinion.

I don't think a bad ground could do all that, but certainly contributed to the problem. All those damn controls on the manifold, important!

Glad it works, good work!

If it helps any, your my first start to finish troubleshoot thats worked in the end!

This post has been edited by rave2n: Apr 8, 2011 - 10:52 PM

[wvuguy]

lol thats awesome. Learn some thing every day.