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10/20/2018 3:43 PM  #1


Even when they're "done"...they get issues

It's been a good week for findin' and fixin'.  My friend with the 64 Falcon was telling me at dinner last week that it was running rich and idling rough.  I was telling him about the constant "click" in the heap that was driving Jean nutzer.  Apparently we've had a constant click since I put the car back on the road in Aug of '15 only I couldn't hear it due to poor hearing aids.  Got new aids a year ago and man, I can hear what she's been complaining about.
So a few days ago I took the 66 over to my friend's place and we went "click huntin" for about the tenth time.  This time I had him listen under the hood as I loaded the brakes and brought the rpm up in gear to around 1100.  Sure enough he could here it there and I could hear it in the cabin.  We soon discovered that it was the canister purge solenoid valve which explained why it didn't change with speed or rpm and came on just off idle...around 1000 rpm.  Some research told me that this is a very common problem with the late model cars with EFI and EVAP systems.  I won't get into why the Heap has an EVAP system except to say that it is a result of having a new fuel tank swell up like a beach ball back in '11 when we went to the Kallispell Bash.   Anyway, I isolated the valve from it's solid mount on the inner fender and while it's still clicking, the screechy noise from the passenger seat has been fixed.
Then this morning I went back over and we ran diagnostics on the Falcon and got codes indicating that the O2 sensors were not switching and the mixture was hard lean.  A little poking around turned up a crappy piece of 3/8 vac hose between the PCV valve and the manifold and a huge vac leak...max lean and the computer was trying to get it rich enough to make the HEGOs happy.  Fixed and fixed. 
Tomorrow we're running over to Moab, UT for brunch, about 300 miles round trip.  Hope nothing else turns up.


"you get what you pay for, good work isn't cheap, and there are NO free lunches...PERIOD!"
 

10/20/2018 4:50 PM  #2


Re: Even when they're "done"...they get issues

Carbajeeters don't get them Clicks!
 Moab you say, we drove through there today. The place is a virtual nut house full of atv's four wheelers and off road jeeps, couldn't wait to get away from the place.  Tried to get into Canyon lands national park and it was just as crazy, had to turn around and beat it.
  We are staying in Eagle tonight headed to denver tomorrow.


Good work ain't cheap, Cheap work ain't good!   Simple Man
 

10/20/2018 9:54 PM  #3


Re: Even when they're "done"...they get issues

Rudi wrote:

Carbajeeters don't get them Clicks!
 Moab you say, we drove through there today. The place is a virtual nut house full of atv's four wheelers and off road jeeps, couldn't wait to get away from the place.  Tried to get into Canyon lands national park and it was just as crazy, had to turn around and beat it.
  We are staying in Eagle tonight headed to denver tomorrow.

No.  pots don't do clicks...but they do stink when parked in the garage hot. 

BB
 


"you get what you pay for, good work isn't cheap, and there are NO free lunches...PERIOD!"
     Thread Starter
 

10/21/2018 5:28 AM  #4


Re: Even when they're "done"...they get issues

Yep, and I wouldn't have it any other way.  That smell, more than anything, takes me back to my youth.  Smell is the sense most linked to memory after all.

 

10/21/2018 8:21 AM  #5


Re: Even when they're "done"...they get issues

yea, and that is why i am going to EFi, because the wife won't ride with me, because of the smell on her clothes when she gets out.
 


67 Coupe, 5.0 EEC IV Fuel injected. T5, 3:70 rear
 

10/21/2018 8:42 AM  #6


Re: Even when they're "done"...they get issues

Yeah but the new gas smells way worser than the old stuff. Don't like it any more.


70, ragtop 351W/416 stroker Edel Performer heads w pro flow 4, Comp roller 35-421-8. T5
 

10/21/2018 3:45 PM  #7


Re: Even when they're "done"...they get issues

I can remember as a kid riding in my dads madel "A". it had a dash monted gauge cluster with a fuel level indicator that was attatched to the cowl mounted tank. It always wept a bit and i would take a swipe from it with my finger and give it a good sniff, great memories.

 If you can smell gas inside your Mustang the carb is way out of whack!
 

 


Good work ain't cheap, Cheap work ain't good!   Simple Man
 

10/22/2018 6:04 AM  #8


Re: Even when they're "done"...they get issues

Alan wrote:

yea, and that is why i am going to EFi, because the wife won't ride with me, because of the smell on her clothes when she gets out.
 

Problem solved...

 

10/22/2018 7:33 PM  #9


Re: Even when they're "done"...they get issues

Take out the hearing aids...;)  

 

10/23/2018 1:24 PM  #10


Re: Even when they're "done"...they get issues

Steve69 wrote:

Take out the hearing aids...;)  

That is my solution to most noise. The world is real quiet when the hearing aids come out.
 


Gary Zilik - Pine Junction, Colorado - 67 Coupe, 289-4V, T5
 

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