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Last edited by BangShift McT; February 14, 2018, 08:05 PM.Editor-at-Large at...well, here, of course!
"Remy-Z, you've outdone yourself again, I thought a Mirada was the icing on the cake of rodding, but this Imperial is the spread of little 99-cent candy letters spelling out "EAT ME" on top of that cake."
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(In case you get the whole video, my section starts at 27:16.)
Here's the deal with that: this is after I got my degree from Embry-Riddle and was moving to Kentucky from Arizona. Haley had been following their adventure via Facebook for the trip and figured that we'd cross paths somewhere around Amarillo, so she had shot messages off asking if we could meet up. We never got a response back, so oh, well...and we stopped for the night in Oklahoma. Next morning, she goes nuts seeing the Crusher parked out just in front of the lobby doors. I go outside to start the Imperial, nothing. Not a click. I genuinely thought that I'd finally roasted the starter. Haley pretty much pinned down DF to say hi, I re-introduced myself to him (I'd met him and Chad in 2009 at Bonneville) and explained the predicament. True cause was a loose wire in the firewall bundle that was working it's way out, but DF and Finnegan did some cleanup work with butt connectors on some of the underhood hackery. And it was hacked...a lot of it was shit I had thrown together just to get the car to start that I never bothered to go back and fix.Last edited by BangShift McT; February 17, 2018, 09:42 PM.Editor-at-Large at...well, here, of course!
"Remy-Z, you've outdone yourself again, I thought a Mirada was the icing on the cake of rodding, but this Imperial is the spread of little 99-cent candy letters spelling out "EAT ME" on top of that cake."
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whoever designed the engine wiring loom in a 1981-83 Imperial has a special place in hell reserved. that is all...Editor-at-Large at...well, here, of course!
"Remy-Z, you've outdone yourself again, I thought a Mirada was the icing on the cake of rodding, but this Imperial is the spread of little 99-cent candy letters spelling out "EAT ME" on top of that cake."
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Originally posted by BangShift McT View Postwhoever designed the engine wiring loom in a 1981-83 Imperial has a special place in hell reserved. that is all...Doing it all wrong since 1966
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Well...even after I got the 360 down to nothing and started putting shit back together, it seems that this engine has plenty of surprises left for me. After finding a snapped piston ring, I've decided on new rings. Except that after going down the rabbit hole to make sure that I've got everything in order, it appears that I've got an enlarged engine. My calipers are reading 4.036. Stock 360 is 4.000. Will be heading to a shop tomorrow to get a solid answer.Editor-at-Large at...well, here, of course!
"Remy-Z, you've outdone yourself again, I thought a Mirada was the icing on the cake of rodding, but this Imperial is the spread of little 99-cent candy letters spelling out "EAT ME" on top of that cake."
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We have a winner! 4.040" pistons...that means that the 360 is really a 367ci mill! Score! Piston rings and oil priming tool have been ordered...Editor-at-Large at...well, here, of course!
"Remy-Z, you've outdone yourself again, I thought a Mirada was the icing on the cake of rodding, but this Imperial is the spread of little 99-cent candy letters spelling out "EAT ME" on top of that cake."
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Ok, time to start picking brains. This is one of the weird multi-layer wire joins that is on the Imperial's underhood wiring...in this case, this is from the positive battery connection to the bulkhead connector with two branch wires running off of it. The line from the battery, the line from the bulkhead connector, and a line that goes to a series of inline-fused power wires form a T-junction. I can tin up the fused wire join just fine, but the battery-bulkhead connection looks like the wires were folded on top of each other and compressed and heated until sections melted together. The solder refuses to attach to it at all...it beads up and rolls off. I'd prefer to find some kind of T-junction connector that eliminates this clamp system (it'll come in handy for another spot underhood) but maybe I'm missing something here. Any ideas?1 PhotoEditor-at-Large at...well, here, of course!
"Remy-Z, you've outdone yourself again, I thought a Mirada was the icing on the cake of rodding, but this Imperial is the spread of little 99-cent candy letters spelling out "EAT ME" on top of that cake."
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Are you attempting to solder with that clamp holding the wires together? If so, then they may be acting like a heat sink not letting stuff get hot enough for the solder to flow into the wires. I forget who it was but someone on here showed a neat little trick using wooden clothespins to hold wires together while soldering.
As to your actual question. I use insulated power distribution blocks like these
Last edited by cstmwgn; March 27, 2018, 07:26 AM.
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Originally posted by cstmwgn View PostAre you attempting to solder with that clamp holding the wires together? If so, then they may be acting like a heat sink not letting stuff get hot enough for the solder to flow into the wires. I forget who it was but someone on here showed a neat little trick using wooden clothespins to hold wires together while soldering.
As to your actual question. I use insulated power distribution blocks like these
Dan
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