Resurrecting the 48

[michaelmosty]

That is awesome you are getting this car back on track, it is going to be great to get to see it again at Cresson!!

On the brakes I would think the old pads would be fine. Once you have the fluid flushed and good pressure I would think the pads would be able to clean off any light surface junk from the rotors.

Yes, a fire bottle will be sufficient this year for Tech. The fire system will be required next year.

One other preventative thing I can think to change would be the fuel pump. My fuel pump showed bad pressure on the dyno at Houston and when we tried swapping it out with spare pumps that Marshall had we found two that didn't even work due to the old fuel that had gunked up and restricted the flow. Finally went with a brand new O'Reilly pump and filter and it fixed the issue.

[ShadowBolt]

I have a pressure tester and I can bring it to Cresson if you can wait that long. Or I can send it to you on UPS.


Jerry

[Fbody383]

Not WD-40 but some spray lubricant on the solid joints is a decent idea. Check any remaining rubber bushings. Fuel pump not bad idea. You can pull the injectors and clean them up. Be careful if you order different ones - we ordered a set that was allegedly OEM but they had too much flow even at idle and the thing ran really rich.

http://fbodytech.com/eehack-2/eehack-features/
http://www.tunerpro.net/

I have a bench top set up to program these if you get to a point and think you need to use it.

[AllZWay]

I doubt you have to do much... just change oil and brake fluid and Send IT.

[BryanL]

That's funny James.

Update: I hate fuel injector filters. Well who knew there were even filters in fuel injectors? Anyway I pulled the injectors to check them. Some don't seem to be in great shape and now haven't found any filters locally-bummer. Probably a better idea to have them professionally cleaned? Or even better is to just replace them.

Thanks to 39/88 for helping I've been able to scan the car and it doesn't have any codes. Fuel pump and filter replaced. Drove it around the neighborhood a little but nothing like a track session. Fluids will all be fresh but not the hoses which I worry about and water pump. New serpentine belt at least.

Should receive all the safety gear needed this week-helmet, net, fire extinguisher and mount. Belt's have been swapped and finishing up the rollbar padding from white car.

If anyone has some Fuel Injectors let me know. Also, I believe there could be some Ford injectors that work the same so if anyone knows I'm guessing with all the Ford's coming that there might be a set of injectors laying around somewhere. I messaged a guy on Facebook parting an 96 LT Camaro which when I saw the location in Cresson I thought that's a sign but haven't heard back from him.

[BryanL]

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[Gerno]

There is a guy with a bunch of 3rd gens always on FB selling parts, not sure if he'd have LT stuff. I had mine cleaned when I was chasing issues and it was done in 1 day. If I was you i'd head down that route. I'll also check around to see if I can find anything else

[BryanL]

Thanks. Another night another issue. Went to flush brakes with the one man vacuum bleeder on the caliper. Rears went well. Fronts just create air bubbles and vacuum bleeds before opening bleeder. When I do open the bleeder the vacuum is gone so quick it won’t flush.
Switch to other side and fitting is stripped. Replace it but same thing so replaced other bleeder with a spare. Same thing.

Pedal feels fine and no leaks when pumping but under vacuum the fronts won’t bleed or flush.