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Congrats, nice find but she looks too klean so go getsome mud on it!!

There are 3 ways to check the FPR that I know of; the first one is to disconect the vacum line of the FPR and look at the line, if it is wet iside the FPR is bad. The secon is to hook a presure gauge to the fuel rail,start the vehicle and whatch the presure when you rev up the engine(acording to my manual, the presure should read 34 PSI at idle and 43 PSI the moment the throttle plate is fully open(same as having the key on with the engine off). The third way is to pull the FPR out and use a vacum pump to aply vacum to the diafram and see if the plunger moves. The FPR is a "normally closed" valve so it should be closed at rest and open when vacum is aplied. PS. My factory service manual has this other test to diagnose the problem: With the engine running, disconect the injector plugs one at a time; the engine should have a momentary drop in speed with each one. If any of the cylinders doesn't ; pull the distributor out (don't forget to TDC piston #1 First :-) keeping the small plug connected(unplug the coil to prevent detonations), then turn the ignition switch on and slowly rotate the gear on the distributor (Doesn't matter wich way ) each injector should make a sound. If any of them doesn't then the problem is with the injector or with the crank angle sensor (inside the distributor) If all above checks out good then the book recomend checking the ECU harness conector and the pin terminals for damage or poor conection then check the ecu power and ground and if all checks ok then try a known good ECU. To adjust the TPS on a KA24E Loosen the mounting bolts,start the engine and let it warm up to operating temperature; then use a voltmeter to check the output voltage. set the ouput voltage to .4 - .6 volts by rotating the body of the TPS when you get it right shut off the engine and tigten the mounting bolts then disconect the TPS for a few seconds and reconect it and you are done. I hope this helps

Have you checked the TPS (Throtle Position Sensor) and/or the fuel presure regulator? I had an oldsmovile once that was doing the same thing and it was a dead spot in the TPSjust off the idle position. If the fuel presure regulator is stuck open the fuel presure will drop when you accelerate and stall the engine.

Hey Kittamaru, I used to own a body shop back in the day when the only afordable option was oxifuel, I would recomend that you learn all you can with the oxifuel (specialy puddle control) before you go into Mig or Tig trust me it will be allot easier to produce profecional looking beads and there will be less chance of blowing holes or warping the quarter panels. I will also recomend that (unless you are verry proficient with the oxigass) you wait untill you are comfortable with the MIG. With oxigass it is a pain in the but to keep your puddle on a vertical surface while holding the torch and the filler rod not to mention the posibility of spending too much time in one spot and warping the panel or catching something on fire. Talking about fires, I used to keep a 2 liter botle full of water with a small hole in the cap to put fires out (no mater how well you clear the area, someting allways catches fire ) Good luck and lots of Patience PS. Have you cosidered replasing the hole quarte panell skin?

Welcome to the family!!

Thanks for the info. The most notisiable gas inproving mod I have made is to install Bosch dual electrode sparkplugs My pathy went form 11 MPG to 17MPG city by just doing that change. I just installed headers and havent noticed a great deal of improvment on the mpg but I have noticed better hi end power, the tranny doesn't down shift as often and it will keep speed going uphill without having to give it more gas. Next mod will be a better flowing muffler and larger sise pipes, we will see how it works. but thanks again for the info, every little bit helps.

I agree, but ther is someting to be said about simpaty and been kind to our fellow man. I was tryng to "be nice" and prehaps deflate the argument that seems to be building on this tread. What he said was wrong and he sould had stoped and give his answer some thougt before he posted but I dont feel it's ok to keep beating the guy, two wrongs dont make a right.

Are you wanting to make it beter/stronger or repair it? Hablas Espanol?

Are you talking about the gears iside of the diferential ball, or the shaft's that transfer power to the weels?

If you still have the auto hubs you might want to check that they are not locked on.

Welcome

Dude, Its looking good but it seems to me that you have a long way to go. It is OK to be proud of what you have done so far but dont get so defensive.

Welcome friend, how's gulfport theese days?

Mine is black on the sides and clearcoat peeling off grey on the hood and top And plenty of trail "character" all over.

Looks Great, and thank you for using an x pipe I hate those guys that pipe their v6's straight out and when they take off it sounds like two lawnmowers drag racing Anyways, how about making a video so we can hear how it sounds.

Finaly figured ou the problem, it was the damed PCV valve hose,(the one that conects the valve with the tube that runs under the intake) it had hardened and cracked and I guess it was shrinking when it got hot and creating a vacum leak. the mestup thing is that it looked perfecly good and if i had not lost my balance and grabed the damed thing I probably still be looking for the cause. Thanks to all of you that gave me sugestions.

Welcome! Bienbenido! Willcomen!

My first offroading experience was on a 2 1/2 ton WW2 Army truck douring a field training exersise in South Korea. I got stuck a couple of times and had to have a tank recovery vehicle pull me out but from that point forward I was hooked.

Have you checked for junk traped between the condenser and the radiator? If you do allot of hiway driving the cooling fins can get pluged up with bug chunks and other hiway garbage.

Carma is real, he got what he deserved and you didn't have to sink to his level. Cudos to you

Title: Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance Author: Robert M. Pirsing I is hard for me to describe it, it is about a motorcycle trip acros the us, motorcycle repair and life philosophy; and it is one of the best books I have read so far. I usualy go for fantasy and SF but my wife gave me this one so I had to try it and I'm glad I did .

Sweeeeeeet Love the flex the SAS gives your truck (what was that thing that comes flyng out at the end? looks like a puley hope everything's OK

How about making some sheet metal skirts to fit under the lights? that way you wont have to cut the grille. you obiously have the metal fabrication thing prety much mastered.

Congatulations! welcome to the club! I've been maried fr 14 years and the best advice I can give you is to wait a coupe of years before having babys so you wlill be able to do all the things you always dreamed of doing togeter; trust me on this, once you have little ones you won't even have time to scratch your butt. (and if you find the time you will be to tired to do it)

Welcome to the group.